southend united v swindon town official matchday thread

[Panda Paws]

southend deserved a point

How...? They were so bad, particularly first half, and were incredibly lucky

[Boeta]

How...? They were so bad, particularly first half, and were incredibly lucky

second half we offered very little

[Doore]

How...? They were so bad, particularly first half, and were incredibly lucky

They scored as many goals as we did - I reckon that's worth a point.

[Arriba]

we were the better team second half as well as the first.we had a fair few chances to put the game to bed before they scored.they were very lucky to get a point

[jimmy_onions]

I didn't hear that either, we were cheering BP. I thought the support was excellent today, Southends however was appalling, quietest home fans i've ever heard. The only noise was that god awful amplified bontempi drum that randomly started up in an empty part of the ground. I'd be well embarrased if anything like that was at the CG. Been there before but only at night, and thought in cold light of day the ground was shocking, less said about catering and toilets the better. They did let me out for a half time fag though. The game, 1st half Brazil, 2nd half brassieres, not too down though, point on the board yadda yadda.

"yadda yadda"?

Keep the SATC cosmopolitan sloane jibber jabber to yourself sutton!

;-)

[Iffy's Onion Bhaji]

Saw both of their goals on the FLS and I thought both were poor. Very scrappy goals. Perhaps one or 2 of our players could have thrown bodies in the way. Cuthbert kind of hesistated for the second one and allowed the bloke to get the ball across the box.

[Langers]

Most other teams around us in the play off race dropped points aswell (bar Huddersfield) and we also have games in hand over most of them, we do definatley need a couple of players before monday though. Not players that will come straight into the first team because our 1st team is perfectly strong but good backup players because our bench isnt strong enough and with a few injuries imo it would decrease the strength of the team.

[nochee]

Most other teams around us in the play off race dropped points aswell (bar Huddersfield) and we also have games in hand over most of them, we do definatley need a couple of players before monday though. Not players that will come straight into the first team because our 1st team is perfectly strong but good backup players because our bench isnt strong enough and with a few injuries imo it would decrease the strength of the team.

Our 1st team is strong but if they play 90mins week in week out they will definately start to pick up injuries. We do need to bring in some cover, not just to sit on the bench to to prevent injuries by resting some of our key players.

[pauld]

we do definatley need a couple of players before monday though.

No we don't. Or not before Monday anyway. Monday 5pm is the deadline for permanent signings, but it seems the ones Wilson has been after and may have missed out on because they're now getting time in their own first teams are loan signings, which we can make any time (until late March anyway). So there is no need to panic and about the worst thing we could do is make some panic signings. I was reassured to hear Wilson say he's not prepared to sign players just for the sake of it - panic signings tend to have more impact on the balance sheet (downwards) than they do on the team sheet

[wheretherealredsare]

oh and me starting official matchday threads still yet to have a loss

But if you had got it right at the beginning I am convinced we would have scored a winner. Your omission cost us 2 points, please don't let this happen again.

[leefer]

@leefer Brock beat Christchurch 2-1 Friday night

Pleased with that....come on you badgers!....ta for that.

As for Town,Smith is a good keeper but makes bad gaffs and always looks like hes just about to be shot by a firing squad...dosnt really inspire the team with confidence and was piss poor on that first goal.

[Langers]

No we don't. Or not before Monday anyway. Monday 5pm is the deadline for permanent signings, but it seems the ones Wilson has been after and may have missed out on because they're now getting time in their own first teams are loan signings, which we can make any time (until late March anyway). So there is no need to panic and about the worst thing we could do is make some panic signings. I was reassured to hear Wilson say he's not prepared to sign players just for the sake of it - panic signings tend to have more impact on the balance sheet (downwards) than they do on the team sheet

I never realised that, so its possible to bring in loans after Monday, which means there is no need, as you say, to waste money on permenant signings.

[adje]

May have been mentioned but is the guy who scored their first the guy we had on trial pre-season?

[Rich Pullen]

Yeah.

[suttonred]

Been talking to my brother today and anylysing why we drew. I said to him we seemed to be less effective after manky took that whack early in the second half, certainly dont remember him getting forward again, and both of their goals came from down that side. Wonder if he should have gone off, guess with only Thomspon who hasn't played to my knowledge DW thought that might have been too risky?