Evening Echo
The News
- Joined
- Jun 14, 2011
- Messages
- 12,642
For me, when you are at home, you have to attack with a high tempo, if you don't start positive you allow the opposition, (irrespective of whether you are a Luton or a Bristol Rovers/Plymouth) to get the upper hand and dictate.
I wonder how we will treat some of these pretenders that played today in the future.Right, lets try and find a positive from yesterday. SUEPA have the answer.
From first to last yesterday Drewe Broughton proved to be a top ambassador for the club, signing autographs, having pics taken, meeting old friends and new, and generally just proved to be what a top bloke he is.
And he has just tweeted the following which I think the club will like:
[B]Drewe Broughton[/B] @[B]DreweBroughton[/B] 10m10 minutes ago
More
Drewe Broughton Retweeted Southend United Ex-Players Association
I must say the welcome I was greeted with and the professionalism of Andy from the first email about the set up for the day was top class. I think it’s amazing a club treats it’s ex players so well. Thanks all... see you soon
So, onwards and upwards.
There is quite a bit more to come from SUEPA this season too, with a BIG event planned in partic for 30 March (news on that when I get things a little more sorted), we just need to capitalise on it more. Please keep supporting SUEPA in all that we do, something which you can easily do if not done so already by liking our Facebook page (loads of pics up from yesterday on that: https://www.facebook.com/SUEPAssoc/
... and/or following us on Twitter
UTB
Interesting bit of information - my son was travelling by train to meet friends in London after the game on Saturday. He was changing trains in South London and got on with and sat opposite a guy with a Bristol Rovers top on and so asked him if he was at the game. It turns out it was their Right Back, Joe Partington!
They had a good chat for about 10 minutes and my son asked him about what prep. they had done on Southend. He said they'd been told to stop us scoring for the first half hour and the crowd would really get on the player's backs. My son said wasn't it like that everywhere and he said, no you could feel it much more on Saturday than at the Memorial Stadium when Rovers failed to score.
He also said that it gave them all sorts of problems when we switched formations in the second half , but their players couldn't understand why we didn't keep trying to play it down the wings and reverted to lumping over the top! Safe to say they were relieved that we stopped doing what seemed to be working for us!
Therefore it wasn't Coughlan making any tactical changes to counteract it, we just stopped playing that way,
If it wasn't the formation, why change it at half time?!
Ahh so its the fans fault thenInteresting bit of information - my son was travelling by train to meet friends in London after the game on Saturday. He was changing trains in South London and got on with and sat opposite a guy with a Bristol Rovers top on and so asked him if he was at the game. It turns out it was their Right Back, Joe Partington!
They had a good chat for about 10 minutes and my son asked him about what prep. they had done on Southend. He said they'd been told to stop us scoring for the first half hour and the crowd would really get on the player's backs. My son said wasn't it like that everywhere and he said, no you could feel it much more on Saturday than at the Memorial Stadium when Rovers failed to score.
He also said that it gave them all sorts of problems when we switched formations in the second half , but their players couldn't understand why we didn't keep trying to play it down the wings and reverted to lumping over the top! Safe to say they were relieved that we stopped doing what seemed to be working for us!
Therefore it wasn't Coughlan making any tactical changes to counteract it, we just stopped playing that way,
How long before CP all Kloppy on us and blames the conditions instead of putting any of the blame on himself?
I've never really understood why people don't think conditions have an impact on a match, it's pretty clear they do. If the wind is with you for example then your shots are going to have a lot more power behind them so long shots become a much more viable strategy. It's about using tactics that suit the conditions instead of assuming they'll work in all conditions.How long before CP all Kloppy on us and blames the conditions instead of putting any of the blame on himself?