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Iffy Out!  :evil:

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It's gonna be a tough game, I expect Southend will bring a fair few. It's quite warm today, lets hope it stays that way  :D

Its extremely overcast and it looks like Rain will appear sometime today.

c'mon laddies!!

i've been reading a couple of forums, a few southenders think it will be easy today. We better hammer them we're due another 5-0 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Seems like we've got a Sven situation-King hasn't got the bollocks to drop one of Pook Migz or Whalley(who should be left out in my opinion)so we get left with Pook moving out of the middle where he's been our best midfielder so far.Shakes should be in with Whalley on the bench.

Just heard King on the radio-apparently" Smith has done ok on the left of midfield since he came here from Man Utd but he's really a right midfielder."Is it any wonder we dont know what were doing!

Team is in:

heaton
smith
ifil
collins
gurney
nicolau
whalley
miglioranzi
pook
fallon
cureton

subs:
jenkins
bulman
shakes
roberts
thorpe

i'd have liked to see starts for thorpe and shakes, but since my experience of this season is limited to listening over the radio I probably don't know what I am taking about. probably

sodding STFC world are being shite again - having to listen to southend commentary at the moment which keeps cutting to bloody colchester

oh fucking hell..

1 down already!

Just got in, at 3.02...and we are already losing.  :cry: Did we get a touch before they scored today?

can't get the bloody swindon commentary either. piece of shit. can't believe we're one down. Fallon just missed a good header  :(

I have got it working now by clicking on the audio commentary rather than the match live console - but it cuts out rather annoyingly for a few seconds every so often.  Still better than BBC essex though, they don't even say anything when Swindon are on the ball !

Got it now. It always keeps cutting out, you'll get used to it

Hadwin - "The few fans in the ground who are supporting Swindon are getting quite annoyed that we cant clear our lines"

I would have thought it would be a fairly large attendace today, Southend would have brought quite a few too. Sounds fairly noisy on the radio as well.

fetch the vaseline, we're getting fucked...

How many chances are we going to let them have? Luckily cows arse's and banjo's are keeping us in this match

well, I just rescued a butterfly from bashing itself to death on my office window and put him outside, so surely thats worth a goal for us just on karma.

Come on town - do it for the lesser spotted tortoiseshell !

why won't migz ever bloody well shoot !

afternoon all.

shit as usual i see

If this doesn't improbve in the first 15 minutes of the 2nd half, I'm gonna go mow the lawn...... :evil:

he has to at least bring shakes on for whalley - he sounds cack at the moment

I think I have seen Stef shoot 3/4 times in his time at Swindon. Two of them went out of the ground, so maybe its for the best. Having said that, he's not going to get any better if he doesn't try.

...ooh, saying that, sounds like whalley has just gone down injured...

Half time. Is King at the game, or is Iffy in charge? Either way, it sounds like they have got a fair bit of work to do.

yep, only fallon, pook, and heaton seem to be doing much.   Don't know why shakes doesn't start, from what I have heard he makes things happen although again, I haven't actually seen a game so far this season and may not get to so my opinion probably isn't worth much (missed a train for Yeovil, bit annoying to say the least).

Cricket is back after the rain - aus 198-1 now.  Not sure its really a problem at the moment, but if aus get 600 and leave us with 250 or so and a couple of days to bat out then we might have a problem.  Not much honour in it, but I'll be happy if it rains solidly from now on !

Shakes and Thorpe on for Whalley and Cureton. Well done Iffy/Andy.

shakes and thorpe on for whalley and cureton.   I would have started like that anyway !

all change second half

Whalley off Shakes on
Cureton off Thorpe on

COME ON TOWN FFS

Back online, just had to reset my internet connection as it was doing a passable impression of a snail

Attendance - 4785. Not many, especially considering Southend brought 500/600.

4785 - not a promising figure

Quite possible some people are staying in to watch the cricket (like me), not 1000 though. There's some nice black clouds above the pavilion at the Oval, but still looks fairly bright on the tv.

that is poor attendance isn't it - probably watching the covers at the oval instead.

sounds a bit better in this half so far, but need more if we are going to get anything out of this game

My prediction of 3-2 is looking unlikely. :roll:

It's not all bad...It's raining at the Oval!!  :D

This is driving me nuts - my internet connection is slow, the commentary is more off than on (its worse than its normal crap service) and the team are playing like tossers. The lawn is calling....5 more minutes  :x

well on the brighter side, we could have been 3 down after the first half, but at the moment not sure where the equaliser is going to come from

I really don't think its coming tbh, but I remain foolishly hopeful

Always look on the bright side of life - Shitty losing 5-0 at Swansea  :mrgreen:

Hope we ain't playing them soon - Swansea that is

Roberts for Nicolau

on the bright side - bristol city are 5 -0 down at swansea !  Plus poxford were 2-0 up , but are now drawing with rubbish and dustbins.

Roberts coming on for Nicolau - goal for super sub ?!

will you stop posting about 5 seconds befopre me please !!!

I used to live near Rat & Dogs, they used to do car boot sales on a Sunday morning which attracted a bigger crowd than the footballl team.

City could well be bottom of the league come 5pm. If Yeovil score a winner or Swansea get a sixth, I think they go bottom.  :D

Its normally me thats late - delay on the feed I think. I'll try and be more considerate.... :)

Yeovil and Swansea have both just scored  :shock:

Are you psychic STFC Chris? If so, say we're gonna score 3 in the next 5 mins please

 :shock:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:  :shock:  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

ooh, spooky prediction !  What did you say for this match ?!

I did say 3-2, looking unlikely though.

oh for fuck's sake - penalty shout turned down for handball

fucking linesman :evil:

swansea 7 - 1 bristol city


would rather  swindon 1 - 1 southend though

city 8-1 down  :shock:

Crap 2-0  :cry:  :evil:

fucking rats cocks, 2-0 down now.  holy cocking shit

2-1!!!!!

Still a chance?

oh well, 2-1

we do score when it doesn't mater !

I go make a cup of tea for the missus and two goals get scored. Missed the first too thanks to crap internet  :evil:

Come on Town !!!

Fallon just wide...

sounds like all we need to do is point out that a game is at least 90 minutes long, and not just the 5 at the end...

aus 243-1 as well now, I think that officially puts us deep in the shit.  A beer I think, looking forward to next time, well, maybe not, but you know what I mean

Sounds like a familiar story - failure to defend set pieces; conceding early goals. How many points have we thrown away over the years because of these two failures?

The sad aspect was that the performance today sounded poor, even second half, despite two relatively good away performances. Be interested to hear what the views are of someone who went.

Oh well, chores to do now after a morning spent watching F1 and listening to Town...... :(

Still off out for a curry afternoon & beer later  :mrgreen:

Bag of shite!, that summed up our performance.

i cannot believe how poor we were.

pook is poo, so playing him anywhere....especially the place one of our most dangerous players SHOULD play (shakes) is just ridiculous

ah well at least something good came out of today.... **cough** 7-1 **cough**  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

no he isn't.

pook has been one of the only shining lights in our poor team.
Obviously playing him out of position isn't going to do him any favours but he is one of our better players from what i have seen.

Thats the only + today! :)

KING OUT.

Fucking rubbish today, outplayed by Southend its fucking embarrasing. Start Shakes and Thorpe against Bournemouth, which he wont.

Someone can borrow my season ticket until King is out  :evil:

The most boring match I've ever watched I think,no fight and no passion.
As for the whole king out thing,I'm stuck in the middle and I don't know what to think!half of me thinks that king should stay because at the end of the day he is trying his hardest and I believe he is a very comitted manager.All he can do is pick the team and give them advice and support them so once those players are on the pitch its THEIR job to perform and try to win the game......other half of me is thinking that maybe we do need a new manager to get things moving again.I really don't know.I suppose as fans all we can do is have an opinion and just see what happens :|

King In/Out seems accademic. He won't resign.  The board seem unwilling/unable to fund a replacement anyway. End of discussion.

We were poor today. Fallon did OK, Thorpe looked better than Cureton by a mile and Shakes was lively when he came on but had poor control.

Wayne Gray was shite for us!

Exactly, so lets stop singing King Out and get behind the team

Those who didnt go, you didnt miss much.....

'We're even worse than England'

Fucking tire.

Enough is Enough, and its time for a change

I think what kingy needs to do to help the team is to move players around.... he needs to start fresh and say ok.... so far heaton and fallon have done well this season, those 2 get a starting place, as for the other 9 he needs to keep moving them around until they start proving they deserve a place, because at the moment, they are turning up, playing shite, taking their wages and still getting to play the next week.... he needs to say, "if you want to play, prove it" OR  :fu:

 And by the way dont satrt saying so and so has played well they deserve a place, i just used them as examples

Thing is we dont have the resource to keep telling players to fuck off, if we did tell people where to go we'd just have Miglioranzi and Fallon on the pitch

He must not be letting them get away with these disapointing performances, and he needs to work on his formations, starting teams etc.

When you see nearly all of the people in the stands get up and leave on the 90 minute mark ( I think ) then Kingy must think he's doing something wrong.

I just think he needs to say ready for bournemouth to his subs, im going to give you all a game, fill your boots, if you do well you play next week, if not you lose your chance.... then eventually they will realise if they dont perform they get dropped, and maybe replaced for a long time, was this not proved last season with Howard and Smith..... howard gets injured (ok not his fault) smith gets a chance, and is ace.... when howard finally got a chance again at the end of the season he was amazing..... i really think this will work, maybe we lose a couple of games because some players are not ready... but its better than watching todays game every week

Nice idea, shame you can't get that into Kingy's head.

surely he must realise something has to be done though.... 1 place off relegation, but worse than that, the next 3 teams below us all have a game in hand...... this is not kingys fault because its the players that play the game not the manager, but it is his job to "motivate" players to perform..... ha ha, there is a statment..... doing a job basicly every kid dreams of and they need to be "motivated" to play a game of football.  :-))(

What an absolute sack of shit.

That is all.

Not even im that desperate.

But if we lose people will complain that he didn't play our 11 strongest players. You have to remember that he is fighting against 3 or 4 different points of view here!

Yep you are basically suggesting he should do one of the main things people are moaning he does too much.

Some say keeping a balanced team is essential, some say if they don't perform drop them. You can't do both.