It's the last home league game before Christmas on Tuesday evening, which seems ridiculous as the fat guy in the red suit will still be over a month away from visiting!
The visitors will be the latest in the series of "teams you never thought we'd play except in the FA Cup" - Maidenhead United who sit one place above us in the league.
The Magpies are managed by former West Ham player, Alan Devonshire - now aged 65, who is there for his second spell as manager. They're not in great form, particularly defensively, and have let in an amazing 18 goals in their last 4 games!
The have a trio of ex-shrimpers in their side, last year's fall guy Emile Acquah, Sam Barratt and Kane Ferdinand who has fallen a long way down the pyramid since we sold him to Posh for £200,000 as a 19-year old just over 9 years ago. He started for them in the 4-0 defeat at Boreham Wood, Acquah was on the bench and Barratt not involved. They also had centre back Jamie Sendles-White making his debut for them in that game - he was on trial with us last month.
Blues will be hoping that King Kev gets his second win as head coach, and this would seem an ideal game to get us back on track and a chance also to leapfrog Maidenhead in the table as they are 3 points and +1 goal difference ahead of us.
Of course, he'll be without long term injury victims Jack Bridge and Simeon Akinola again, whether any of the other injured players (Ralph, Ogogo, Clifford, Coulson) will return remains to be seen. We switched to a back 4 against Grimsby, but the two full-backs had a combined age of 69, which is not perfect if the opposition have a nippy young winger. However, that said, apart from the shocking defending in the first 3 minutes our goal was not breached away at 3rd place Grimsby and the team had a bit more about it in defence. Going forward however, we remain woefully shot-shy so what can be done to pep things up in attack?
Anyway, I'm sure the Shrimpers faithful will be out in the force that performances on the pitch scarcely deserve.
Let's hope that the players give us something to cheer!
You know the drill by now...
The visitors will be the latest in the series of "teams you never thought we'd play except in the FA Cup" - Maidenhead United who sit one place above us in the league.
The Magpies are managed by former West Ham player, Alan Devonshire - now aged 65, who is there for his second spell as manager. They're not in great form, particularly defensively, and have let in an amazing 18 goals in their last 4 games!
The have a trio of ex-shrimpers in their side, last year's fall guy Emile Acquah, Sam Barratt and Kane Ferdinand who has fallen a long way down the pyramid since we sold him to Posh for £200,000 as a 19-year old just over 9 years ago. He started for them in the 4-0 defeat at Boreham Wood, Acquah was on the bench and Barratt not involved. They also had centre back Jamie Sendles-White making his debut for them in that game - he was on trial with us last month.
Blues will be hoping that King Kev gets his second win as head coach, and this would seem an ideal game to get us back on track and a chance also to leapfrog Maidenhead in the table as they are 3 points and +1 goal difference ahead of us.
Of course, he'll be without long term injury victims Jack Bridge and Simeon Akinola again, whether any of the other injured players (Ralph, Ogogo, Clifford, Coulson) will return remains to be seen. We switched to a back 4 against Grimsby, but the two full-backs had a combined age of 69, which is not perfect if the opposition have a nippy young winger. However, that said, apart from the shocking defending in the first 3 minutes our goal was not breached away at 3rd place Grimsby and the team had a bit more about it in defence. Going forward however, we remain woefully shot-shy so what can be done to pep things up in attack?
Anyway, I'm sure the Shrimpers faithful will be out in the force that performances on the pitch scarcely deserve.
Let's hope that the players give us something to cheer!
You know the drill by now...