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Rumours from the papers in southend seem to indicate that striker Alex Revell is set for a loan move to us with view to a perm deal????

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/theblues/4573745.Revell_closing_in_on_loan_switch_to_Swindon/?ref=rss

he looked ok on saturday but didn't set the world on fire, and had problems with injurys.

Not sure what to make of that - he's hardly been prolific has he? They seem gutted that he's leaving so he must have some good qualities, I'm just worried we might be signing another player in the Billy Paynter mould

adver have obviously read your post

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/headlines/4573951.Town_to_sign_striker_Revell_on_loan/

Exatly what I was thinking, if we are going to sign someone that is proven that at least sign someone with a decent goal scoring record, why all these loans though surely it would be better to sign someone permanent to leave a few of the loan spaces available in case of injuries and the need to strengthen

The old damned if you do scenario, Not many people willing to sell, and if we'd got to 5pm with nothing, everyone would be saying we should have got a loan. At least this gives us some breathing space. FWIW i reckon this might be a smart move. Get BP and Revell causing mayhem up top, and use the pace we have in the team to run through. Not many teams are going to like playing us, it's all good i tell thee.

I think what's taken people by surprise is the type of striker that we've gone for in Revell.Most of us expected a pacy
striker who would offer something different, to what we already have.You must admit with the mentality of lower league
players, the hoof ball will be seen as an easy option to Paynter and Revell.At least he's very hard working and has a
good attitude by all accounts.

Like Parkin at Northampton/Wycombe before we signed him?

I'm with sutton, but the area I do have some concern about this deal - I don't know if I could stand the Adver headlines about "Revelling in it" "Let the Revells begin" etc etc

I don't know if this was a specific response to something I or somebody else said, or a general statement, but either way I think I should point out I wasn't complaining. I do trust Wilson in his signings as he's done well so far. If we went with 2 up front then Paynter and Revell would work defenders into the ground and allow our midfielders to get forward, and if we stick with a lone striker then Revell could do that job as a back up for Paynter.

Hopefully this will all work out nicely and we'll end up getting him in permanently. I didn't realise Southend were in such a financial mess, but it's certainly nice to finally be the club taking advantage of others' misfortunes

Just a general comment, my glass is 9/10th's full at the moment!

With a statement like that,Pets must be giving you a very easy time!

He's been a bit quiet recently, I get the feeling he may have accidentally banned himself, or he's spending all day on ebay looking for jackboots and a golden throne. Suppose i'd better check really.

Presumably so Paynter doesn't have to play every game and we seem quite well set-up with the 4-3-2-1 we are using right now.  Don't forget we also have 2 other strikers who are very different to these two - if not universally liked!  I certainly see this as an options signing and would not be suprised to see the starting eleven from Saturday being our first choice team in coming months.

Yes, the Sam Parkin who had scored 4 goals in 7 games for Millwall on loan. and 3 goals in 7 games on loan at Oldham.

I'll admit I've not seen much of Revell dont think he even touched the ball saturday.

Not convinced with him just yet but I'll give him a chance. I know is all huge ifs and buts and all that crap but I think i'd still rather have Barry Corr than the strikers we've bought in.

But Corr was fragile......I'd rather have a player who could play more than 5 minutes a game.

Revell seems a bit of a strange signing if it does indeed go ahead. Saying that, i thought he did fairly well against us on Saturday.

i asked brighton fans what revell was like for them these were the responses:

Technically not the best player, but he will run solidly and chase every ball for 90 minutes. He certainly cannot be faulted for his workrate.



runs around alot

not much else you can say really


If you like a genuine trier you will love Revell. He will make a few and score a few without being anything like prolific. Just an honest old fashioned footballer who gives everything every game


As already said he is a trier. Not a goal scorer really, but could be a good partner to an out and out goalscorer. Good in the air, average on the deck, but runs and runs. Not a bad acquisition, but doubt he will change your season.


Do you go to the gym? If so, think about the instructors. You know, the guys who stand around not doing a lot, but due to the practise they obviously get on the machines have rock hard bodies and look like they could run for three days without stopping. Now imagine putting one of them on a football pitch.....


 I think he could do alright along side Paynter. He is tall and skinny with little strength. He is quite mobile and works his knackers off every game. He is quite good in the air and is at his best running the channels.

He is no replacement for Cox and he is no cover for Paynter. He could, however, be a 10 goal a season man alongside Paynter and do all Paynter's running for him. Not sure that the pair of them would score enough goals together.

He was a real marmite player on here - the fans either loved him or hated him.

Southend fans view:

"He's a very industrious player, gives all for the team, which makes me wonder why we're letting him go

http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk...evell_on_loan/ states financial difficulties. I know we're a bit top heavy with strikers but I'd rather sacrifice Walker or Betsy in midfield "


Clearly we are selling Paynter to Orient and getting this guy as a replacement :)

would have been so much better if craigs mum had been manager instead of this wilson bloke.

I've always really liked Alex Revell, very impressed with this signing if it happens.

Will we pay him in M & M's?

"Alex is a Revellation for Town"

I think the Adver will come up with far worse headlines than that: Alex(is) sale(d) to swindon and is Reved up to go. Or some diabolical rubbish, that only amused and made sense to the writer. I swear there's some painfully awful puns hidden in every players name if you work at the Adver.

I really think we should have a create an Adver worst headline competition, one for each players name would be fun.

Good signing I reckon. I can't see Tope staying now. When does his loan run out? Next week?

Tope is gone after one more week i think.

3 hours to go to find out who signs for sure, hopefully its more than one, maybe a forward with pace as well or is that asking for too much?

Certainly seems that with the build of forward we are going for that the one up front will be played a lot this season.

Yes it is.

Yer we only sign lanky, cart horses. No nippy strikers.

Not sure about this one - heard he's a bit of a mixed bag!  ::)

Terrible.

If he comes, hopefully he'll be a Revell-ation !!


I'll get my coat.

I got mine 7 posts ago.

squad number 31. he's some big boots to fill

Nice send off from Southend's Chief Exec:

http://www.southendunited.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10444~1783946,00.html

"Alex Revell has failed to live up to expectations....He was signed by the football club to deliver which he has not done and that is why he is moving on." 

obviously those grapes in Southend have turned sour

Did Coxy have big feet then? ;)

so Tans said  ;)

Well, he'll be up for going back after new year then!

The CE is not going to admit they've got financial problems are they ?

But yes, sour grapes, and here's to us sending him back in January !!!

from the sounds of that it does seem as though if he preforms we can have him. least we've covered our back by having him on loan first. especially after he's been out for best part of the year with a broken leg

Wilson seems to be filling the squad with some tall and fast players, he obviously believes that to get out of L1 you need a few bruisers and a bit of pace to scare the opposition.

MY only concern now is if we get an injury to Macnamee then we have not really got any cover the the wide positions especially with AOB seemingly out for a few games, but I suppose that is what the emergency loan window is for.

We have a fair bit of cover in the wide roles Macklin, Marshall, McGovern, Obadeyi and even Timlin and Kennedy could play out there.  I am not overly concerned about a lack of wingers.

Signing of Alex Revell now completed.

I'm assuming that this is our business done now, I know that Wilson was looking for 2 more players so I wonder if they will be squeezling anyone else in before 5pm deadline

I wonder how much this will benefit Billy. I do recall him saying that he plays better when someone else is the target man and he feeds off them. I wonder if this will now be the case?

Spitting feathers on the southend board.

http://www.shrimperzone.com/vb/showthread.php?t=54155

Even more so here,I been sitting on this topic most of the afternoon,I cant see a way back for revell now going by their os.

http://www.shrimperzone.com/vb/showthread.php?t=54114&page=14 

Cant believe their chairman or whatever he is, has said that sort of stuff. Will seriously make players think twice about going there. Would imagine it wont do much for morale, as he's bound to have good mates their that will be peed off. I might have a sneaky tenner on them taking the drop now.

Reading all of their 'King out" type replies makes me all nostalgic.

That level of bitterness done that publicly makes me all the more confident in the signing rather than the opposite. Smacks of "Yeah, well I was going to dump her first anyway cos she's ugly" then running off to cry in your room all night

 ;D

The man himself thinks it is a financial decision.

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/theblues/4575115.Revell__Why_had_I_to_leave/?ref=rss


No doubt he'll Revell in shoving Kings words down his throat.

King is their Chief Executive. The Southend fans seem to hate him!

Oh, and now Revell's basically called the bloke a liar in the local press:

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/theblues/4575115.Revell__Why_had_I_to_leave/?ref=rss

Like the Southend fans are saying in those links from Russ & Co, this smacks of "done over the manager's head" and can't help their team morale. Oh dear, oh dear. I remember when we used to be a basket case club. But at least we weren't scampi in a basket :)

"Why had I to leave?"

That excellent is journalism.

Bet Billy's chuffed with Wilson's comments on the OS:

As opposed to the big tub of lard we've got at the moment :)
(No I don't think Billy's a tub of lard, before you all start)

Haha, from Southend forum.

Now this is an interesting signing. I have seen Alex Revell play many times when he was at Braintree Town. He was captain of the side, so no shrinking violet and as you would expect, their best player.

The main thing about him for me is that he works very, very hard, every game. He's quite quick but I don't see him as a Billy Paynter type at all, at least not when he was at Braintree anyway. He used to play quite deep I seem to remember, kind of in a Peter Beardsley just behind the strikers type role.

He was obviously highly rated back then (this is about 3-4 years ago) and all sorts of clubs were rumoured to be interested, the biggest one being West Ham (I never really thought he would go there). When you see players like that it is always difficult to judge if they will be able to make the step up. Braintree were in the Ryman Premier at the time (they're Blue Sq South now) which is the same league in which Jermaine Beckford was spotted and Revell seemed to do pretty well at Brighton. He scored a few goals and I think was linked for a while with a move to Ipswich but then got injured. The next thing I knew, he had gone to Southend. I lost track of how he was doing after that.

I think this could be a very nice little signing and a definite upgrade over Topol, or whatever his name is.

Fair play to them (the fans).  I'd be furious, part of me wishes we had him on better terms however if he can do a job and help Billy out then fair enough.  Heres hoping the thisis mongs don't get on his back at the first opportunity.

Having a sniff at a few of the historic bits and pieces on Alex Revell and he reminds me a little of Billy Paynter who I always remember Sturrock describing as “having lost his way a bit” and “needing a home”.

Interesting that Paynter another ex-Saaaaaaaarfend player had a short run at the club, never had an opportunity to find his feet and was booted out fairly quickly after only making five appearances.

Looking at a few stats he seems to set quite a few goals up and has a good assists tally and if his record is anything to go by with the right service if he can manage 15 goals in the current side it will be a snip.

Good luck to him and what’s all this about his cookery skills?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Revell#Swindon_Town

:)

Already edited out.

A hard worker who runs the channels well but doesn't necessarily score many goals - have we signed a lanky Blair Sturrock?

That really is disrespectful from their chief executive. Wants to be Peter Kenyon maybe? For fucks sake, as it stands he is still their player!!!!

I love the hard workers. Bit dissapointed we havnt signed him permanent if their chief exec thinks that way. Welcome Rev's!!!!

Two things strike me after reading their board. 1) Southend look like another club who cant really afford a new ground, but have to have one because the chief exec wants to see some shiny seats. 2) Thanks for signing Betsy last summer! He's on a massive wage there. A stroppy player on the take!

I think what Wilson realises that our strengths this season will be our wing play. Hopefully we can get them chipping in with a fair few goals a bit like when Scott Murray scored a rediculous number of goals for City from the wing under Danny Wilson (22 goals he scored in 02-03!). I think Wilson is being pragmatic. Weve gone for about 40 strikers this summer, searching for a new main man. This isnt perfect, but it could work nicely.  

We've got the option to make it permanent though haven't we? So if he's pretty good we'll get him signed up.

yeah and based on chairmans comments, i'd be suprised if he went back in January!

Really undecided about this. On the one hand he could fit perfectly into Wilson's team ethic. Another hard worker up front may make the pace from midfield more lethal against tired opposition.

On the other hand he could be another Blair Sturrock.

In my opinion this is the sort of player we should have got in at the start of the window and look for the exciting players after, a solid league striker which will do a decent job and perhaps do very well if they can fit into the team (like Paynter). I know this isn't always possible with player availability but there you go but the trialist fiasco was exactly that.

I guess it was always going to be a big bunch of 'meh' after Cox, I think it's unfortunate we missed out on our earlier targets.

They've also sent Betsy out on loan to Wycombe.

A good few Southend fans had ideas above their station for a while ... I'm glad they're getting brought down to earth a little bit.

Their CE King, is up their with Bob Holt.

He seemingly talks BS everytime he opens his mouth.

what rich said. fuck southend.

Southend is a good club, with decent fans.

Similar to us really, but without the glorious history.

This outburst from their chairman is very small-time though.

Anyway, Revell will supplement our squad nicely and I look forward to seeing him play here.

Thing is though they were always going to hit the buffers at some point. I mean an 80 million pound stadium? Where the hell do they have the money for that? It all seems like a pipe dream really. It's funny how a few years back it was us in their boat with them looking forward with stable finances. Just goes to show that new stadium projects aren't always the way forward and the huge price tags that come with them are not always worth it.

Southend used to give out free tickets to away games to get some support.

You get annoying Premiership 'fans' in any town (Swindon also), but a lot of people in that neck of the woods support West Ham. The mockney cunts.

They did beat Man United at home. Always going to get some extra support for that!!!

I went to the League Cup game in 2003. They had about 3000 fans and we were streets better than them (ahh Parkin and Mooney - the envy of division 2). A couple of good seasons later and they were averaging nearly 9,000.

In some ways I say fair play to them. I dont think our attendances will increase that quickly if we get a promotion.

That league cup game was the hottest day ever at football.

What about Sheff Weds at home in the same week?

It was so hot that day that Swindon actually looked different! I remmember not being able to look down Manny road because the light was just so bright (or maybe I had a hangover?).

Cant say its the most exciting signing ,but Wilson says hes a good "unit" whatever the fuck that means.

I had a 15 hour round trip from Surrey for that game. Melted rails, broken down trains etc, absolute mare.

It was ridiculously hot that day. I remember the car thermometer reading 38 degrees when we arrived in Swindon and I thought it must be broken. I then got out of the air conditioned car and it was like the Saudi desert.

i remember it well, i had betty swollocks that day!

It was about 35 degrees C..ridiculously hot..all credit to the players for keeping it going for 90 minutes..brilliant game even though we lost.

Good signing imo.  Not a replacement for Coxy, but Paynter can't carry the load all on his own.

Good signing, gives us another option upfront plus if he's decent, we have the option to take him on full time.

Nearly got it right http://www.thisisswindontownfc.co.uk/news/4575835.Striker_Alex_is_a_Revell_ation/

Their Chief Executive seems a complete prick. Have a look at this interview in the local media today...

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/theblues/4576186.King_denies_cash_crisis/

Gosh, he sounds utterly vile. At least Bob Holt was slightly amusing in his refusal to admit the obvious.

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/4575115.Updated__Revell___Why_I_had_to_leave/?ref=mr (http://www.echo-news.co.uk/sport/4575115.Updated__Revell___Why_I_had_to_leave/?ref=mr)

Revell beign very professional and ignoring the tosser here.

I'm liking what I've read on the Southend forum. They say that while he won't score 20 goals a season he makes up for it by creating chances for the other front man. Always gives 120% and runs and runs the whole match.

I'd be a little bit worried if I was a Southend Fan.

I wonder if letting a player go out on loan is like renting a house?

they are! They are going mental on their forum and alot of them are very worried about revell coming to us! The daggers are out for their chairman who very much reminds me of bob holt :)

*edit* just seen someone has made the same comparison!

Perhaps we should lend them our orange hats!

good times, still have that hat at the bottom of my cupboard

HARDLY !!!!!

You know what i meen, the sence of togetherness, marching for the same cause! We need a new hate figure at the club, there is too much love! I want to wear Orange once more! :)

If Southend want to save money, there is a Chief Executive they could get rid of.

I'm sure the fans would not mind.

Just waiting now for the Friday statement...

I see Tilson hasn't commented on any of these departures.

His hands are tied I reckon.

He may be gagged as well...

True. This would stop him screaming and shouting at the media about the mafia that is running Southend United FC.

Gotta feel sorry for Southend fans, having been in a similar position before. The interviews sound a bit Holt-esque: "There is no debt" type stuff. They have done relatively well in recent years and are perhaps now paying the price

It seems that Southend's crisis is deeper than people thought.



Edit  link already posted  :-[


King denies cash crisis
10:40am Wednesday 2nd September 2009

Comments (7) Have your say »

By Chris Phillips »


CP: Spencer Prior hasn’t been paid for his benefit match in May yet. Why is this?

GK: “We had arranged the match for the year before but we had to postpone it when we got into the play-offs.

“He [Prior] didn’t help us at all and we didn’t even know who the match was against until a week and a half before the game.

“We found ourselves short of time and because of that it was quite a poor crowd on the night.

“Spencer turned up not even dressed for the match five minutes before kick-off.”

CP: But that doesn’t explain why he hasn’t been paid.

GK: “He hasn’t been paid yet but he will be because it’s a a contractual obligation.”

CP: You must understand why it is a worry for the fans though?

GK: “No, I don’t understand the concern.”

CP: And what about the players not being paid on time as has been suggested by Spencer and other sources?

GK: That isn’t true. There was one player who didn’t get paid on time one month but he had left and was accidently deleted from the payroll too soon.”

CP: Does this not hint towards a cash-flow problem?

GK: “No.”

CP: But Spencer Prior hasn’t been paid, the players are reported to have been paid late too, there’s the winding up order, the fact we only seem to sign players on loan and now we are sending our own players out on loan who we can’t afford to keep.

GK: “Who is that?”

CP: Alex Revell.

GK: “He went out on loan because we didn’t think he had done well enough.”

CP: So there aren’t any fears that the club may go into administration?

GK: “No. It seems some people don’t have anything better to do than to start these rumours.

“It’s all well and good moaning from the outside but these people want to be in our seats and then they would realise how hard it is to run a football club.”

> SOUTHEND United were given three months to pay an unpaid £660,000 debt to HM Revenue & Customs in July. The decision was made by London’s High Court and the case was part of a winding-up order issued by HMRC. Blues have to repay the money by October 28

Yes, that's the link on the last page ;)

 :-[ Appologies should have checked first that i'll learn me.

 Fitton's strategy of prudent fiscal management, even if it doesn't produce too much on the pitch...looks quite clever on reading this stuff.

 Can anyone explain to me how Stockport managed to avoid a 10 point penalty for this season?

They took it last season.

Yes, I know, Leeds got it twice. It does seem a little inconsistent.

Good lord sounds like an utter fucking mess that draws comparisons to our very own Mike Diamandis’ flunky Bob Holt.

King’s comments for a chairman are beyond even the scope of Holt pergaps only just but he’s simply making matters ten times worse with his response.

Good luck to Southend it sounds like they’re going to need it.

Stockport was inconsistent (should have been given the deduction this season as it didn't affect them last season) but Leeds wasn't - the first points deduction was for going in to administration and the second for not coming out of administration in the correct way (a CVA). A number of other clubs have been hit by the double points deduction, the second one is solely at the discretion of the Football League and is offered as an alternative to being kicked out the league permanently.

Wasn't there some hidden small-print type clause that allowed Stockport to get away with taking the penalty last year? I can't remember what the reasoning was

Stockport got their penalty last season because, mathematically, they could still go down when 10 points were deducted.

The sequence of results that would have seen them go down was ridiculous, but it was possible.

I think they had a much more positive goal difference as well

They need a new board there.

Why should anyone be concerned about a £650,000 winding up order due in october?

For fucks sake, even I am worried for them reading that article. What a twat.

Another club who cannot afford a new ground, and should never have sold their old one.

Apparently Revell has been removed from the squad list on their Official site. Like they have said on their forum, it probably means nothing but Loaned out players are normally still included in their parent club's squad list are they not?

It must have been a strange feeling though for Revell playing against us on the Sat knowing he was likely to be moving here on the Monday

I think the chances of him knowing were slim

I wouldnt have a problem with it anyway.

Same with players who come on loan, they should always be allowed to play against their parent teams. Remmember footballers are pretty simple. They dont think about double entendre's on the pitch. Paul Gascoigne, on the pitch one of the best ever football brains, off it......?

I think he said he did know on the interview on the O.S

Revell is leaving according to today's adver which is no surprise given the fact he has not played in a month.

I'm sure he will be welcomed back with open arms by the Southend Chief Exec as well