I’m hopeful that we will win tomorrow and this will give us confidence to beat Wycombe on Monday. We will then just need one more win to stay up. I reckon O’Connor has been told that the job is his if he keeps us up.
I’d tell Osborne to get in the box and get on the end of crosses at the back post, with Cook attacking the near post. Oteh could run the channels and help the fullbacks get crosses in. It’s worth a try as sod all else has worked this season.
You know when you watch a film, where the underdog is under the cosh for most of the film, and you are just waiting for the bit where they come out fighting and win the day?, well i just keep hoping for that moment, and it just hasn’t come? and i don’t think it will, maybe we need a new director
Southend are basically a unerring catalogue of defeats, punctuated by the odd draw where they score first and can’t hold the lead.
With the exception of Bradford, these represent the best chance we could have chosen for a stab at three points. Basically a 2 foot putt. But can we do it? Are the players still in the mood?
Well, in our current position, some might say it would be like using the wrong end of the club, blindfolded and having just drunk 8 pints of Special Brew. You never know though! Certainly do or die today.
To just ensure the analogy is tortured a little more I’d say we are trying to navigate the course with only three clubs in our bag and they are all mid range irons.
Our putter threw itself in the lake at the last hole, a hole affectionately known as the “Stanley” which will be mostly remembered for a fist fight with our caddy as we walked towards the next.
An atrocity on the next green - as it looks like a collection of boisterous adolescent miscreants have taken a dump near the hole. It’s a disgrace. And another hazard to avoid.
