Roger Cross

[Napster]

Must be the luckiest employee at the club. Keeps his job under Bond, then because Johnson doesnt want to come here, is still here! Will he keep his job even longer despite being responsibe for some real humdingers!

 

[ESG]

Well said that man. Humdingers being very polite if i may say so.

 

[South Bank Hank]

Must be the luckiest employee at the club. Keeps his job under Bond, then because Johnson doesnt want to come here, is still here! Will he keep his job even longer despite being responsibe for some real humdingers!

Undoubtedly poor recruitment. Is it the limitations of the man or the process or the packages on offer or the pool we're dipping into without agents willing to work with us? Genuine question as there's definitely culpability... but it would be a shame to be looking for a solution to the wrong problem if we're giving RC impossible conditions to succeed.

 

[Medway Blue]

Bit harsh. Nobody occupying 1st-3rd or 4th choice on the club’s list of targets for each position wants to come here/do business with RM. A scouting/recruitment team’s job is to identify targets together with the management team and a priority list is usually drawn up for needed positions. Once that list has been passed up the chain it is out of their hands.

 

[blue pilot]

Should of been fired a year ago, can anyone name a Decent acquisition we've made since Powell came in, apart from maybe Hopper and Humphries?

 

[rigsby]

Undoubtedly poor recruitment. Is it the limitations of the man or the process or the packages on offer or the pool we're dipping into without agents willing to work with us? Genuine question as there's definitely culpability... but it would be a shame to be looking for a solution to the wrong problem if we're giving RC impossible conditions to succeed.

We were targeting decent players like Sonny Bradley and Lyle Taylor. Had Hopper, Humphrys, Barratt, McL and Dru not been injured then the centre 'all the same'midfield players would have not been under the fans unforgiving microscope.

The loans of Moore and Hart were very important for us.

 

[Mr Browns Ghost]

famous for being the only Blind scout in the profession game ....

 

[SheldonW65]

Jesus anyone else we want to hang out to dry ? If Humphrys starts passing a bit more and Hopper stays fit we could have two of our best signings for decades on our hands. Of course we could wait to see how the others perform under a new manager and /or system. Don't we have enough to worry about right now ?

 

[cerbera45]

I recall similar things being said about Brian Horton.

 

[lombard]

Chris Powell,not good enough for Southend,but ok for England !!

 

[BriggBlue]

Chris Powell,not good enough for Southend,but ok for England !!

He's doing a different job.

Kevin bond was a good enough coach for Spurs, he wasn't a great manager though was he

 

[Jay_SUFC]

Like to see any of you lot do a better job

WE ARE SOUTHEND UNITED!!

We will not be many players first choice, and we have a cr*p ground.

I always felt PB made some decent signings consider and when people use to moan over his signings I mentioned at the time, no-one will find it easy signing players for us.

 

[geoffmundo]

As the saying goes “it’s always easier to criticise than praise”

 

[rigsby]

Chris Powell,not good enough for Southend,but ok for England !!

England understand what happens if you have 14 injuries to your squad......For some reason for which I still cant work out why.....Many Southend fans don't.

 

[GBJ]

England understand what happens if you have 14 injuries to your squad......For some reason for which I still cant work out why.....Many Southend fans don't.

It’s not limited to the England setup. Most of the Footballing World would recognise & understand that problem, if it was presented to them.

 

[rigsby]

It’s not limited to the England setup. Most of the Footballing World would recognise & understand that problem, if it was presented to them.

Anybody from any sport should understand the problem. If you lost half your Morris dancing team results would suffer.

 

[GBJ]

Anybody from any sport should understand the problem. If you lost half your Morris dancing team results would suffer.

Depends on if the manager was training them too hard though, right? Or maybe he wasn’t training them hard enough? Or maybe he just wasn’t cut out for Morris dance coaching in the first place? I’m sure if they replaced him with....literally anyone..... then it would all change.

 

[Mad Cyril]

As the saying goes “it’s always easier to criticise than praise”

It's more fun as well.

 

[rigsby]

Depends on if the manager was training them too hard though, right? Or maybe he wasn’t training them hard enough? Or maybe he just wasn’t cut out for Morris dance coaching in the first place? I’m sure if they replaced him with....literally anyone..... then it would all change.

All good points but you have to go back to preseason. The mistake was being start struck by a couple of big names.....Looking for one last jingle.

 

[GBJ]

All good points but you have to go back to preseason. The mistake was being start struck by a couple of big names.....Looking for one last jingle.

Yeah but I’m sure they must have someone in charge of recruiting these big-name jinglers?

Someone who’s competent enough to spot these, one-last-payday-chancers, from a mile off, and send them, their high wages and their bells packing?