Another Surrey Shrimper
Life President
I mainly go to away matches and I still love it. The football we are playing is a fairly good watch I'd say. And it's Southend United so will always hold my interest.
Certainly not enjoying it very much anymore and am choosing to work a lot of Saturdays. 8 wins in the last 28 home games probably isn't helping but the general feeling that we're dying a slow death under Ron means there is literally no way to be optimistic about the future. About 50 per cent of my mates who were regulars a few seasons ago have stopped going for one reason or another.
How unfortunate for you that the Club have decided for themselves to move most of our Saturday games to a Friday night then!
Who would you have expected to make this decision, then ?
Anyway most of the games are still Saturdays, we're just in the middle of a clutch of Friday games.
I don't go to football to watch Ron Martin be Chairman
I don't stay away because Ron Martin is Chairman
I don't sit in the stand thinking about the clubs finances
I don't begrudge the players a mistake as they are playing in league two for a reason
I love it when we win
It gives me the hump when we lose
I don't care whether we won or lost the last game, the next one starts at 0-0
I don't care whether we are championship, league one or league two - we can still just as easily beat Man Utd or lose to Accrington Stanley
I don't care whether we are playing at Roots Hall or Fossetts Farm
Football is my release from the daily grind of work. There are good days, there are bad ones. Always have been, always will be. There have been ups & downs from when I first went back in 1978 (in a dreadful home game against Grimsby of all teams)
If I can afford it then I go, If i can't then I don't.
To me, football really is a simple as that. Its only a game. Players, Chairmen, heroes and villians will come and go but I've made friends for life watching Southend.
My son started going just as we got bogged down for a long spell in division 4 around the end of the nineties. We've had some great times travelling all over the country meeting fantastic people following Southend.
Sometimes you just need to step back and enjoy it (or not) for what it is (or isn't).
I don't go to football to watch Ron Martin be Chairman
I don't stay away because Ron Martin is Chairman
I don't sit in the stand thinking about the clubs finances
I don't begrudge the players a mistake as they are playing in league two for a reason
I love it when we win
It gives me the hump when we lose
I don't care whether we won or lost the last game, the next one starts at 0-0
I don't care whether we are championship, league one or league two - we can still just as easily beat Man Utd or lose to Accrington Stanley
I don't care whether we are playing at Roots Hall or Fossetts Farm
Football is my release from the daily grind of work. There are good days, there are bad ones. Always have been, always will be. There have been ups & downs from when I first went back in 1978 (in a dreadful home game against Grimsby of all teams)
If I can afford it then I go, If i can't then I don't.
To me, football really is a simple as that. Its only a game. Players, Chairmen, heroes and villians will come and go but I've made friends for life watching Southend.
My son started going just as we got bogged down for a long spell in division 4 around the end of the nineties. We've had some great times travelling all over the country meeting fantastic people following Southend.
Sometimes you just need to step back and enjoy it (or not) for what it is (or isn't).
I don't go to football to watch Ron Martin be Chairman
I don't stay away because Ron Martin is Chairman
I don't sit in the stand thinking about the clubs finances
I don't begrudge the players a mistake as they are playing in league two for a reason
I love it when we win
It gives me the hump when we lose
I don't care whether we won or lost the last game, the next one starts at 0-0
I don't care whether we are championship, league one or league two - we can still just as easily beat Man Utd or lose to Accrington Stanley
I don't care whether we are playing at Roots Hall or Fossetts Farm
Football is my release from the daily grind of work. There are good days, there are bad ones. Always have been, always will be. There have been ups & downs from when I first went back in 1978 (in a dreadful home game against Grimsby of all teams)
If I can afford it then I go, If i can't then I don't.
To me, football really is a simple as that. Its only a game. Players, Chairmen, heroes and villians will come and go but I've made friends for life watching Southend.
My son started going just as we got bogged down for a long spell in division 4 around the end of the nineties. We've had some great times travelling all over the country meeting fantastic people following Southend.
Sometimes you just need to step back and enjoy it (or not) for what it is (or isn't).
Who would you have expected to make this decision, then ?
Anyway most of the games are still Saturdays, we're just in the middle of a clutch of Friday games.
I find it sad that people choose not to go because of Martin.
Sad because it is cutting your nose off to spite your face. It's been a tough few years but those Orient games last season were up there with my favourite memories of SUFC.
Sad because it's another Southend fan drifting away. Another £300 a season the club has to find elsewhere. We need every supporter we can get.
Incidentally, I live abroad and have only been to the Plymouth game. My next is Mansfield at home. I know they're a dull hoofball team, and we seem to have played the same home game every time for the past 3 seasons (fail to score, go 1-0 down, huff and puff, draw the game at best), but I'm still really looking forward to it.
This is a fantastic post! Well said
Its in the blood. Ive been going for 62 years and would still go if we were in the piggin Rymans league. My 4 children are fans too, they will be going long after Ron Martin is no longer with us and no doubt my grandchildren. I used to travel on my own aged eleven, walk from Home a mile or so to Chatham station, get the train to Gravesend, get the ferry across to Tilbury, train down to ground, walk to match, get pushed down the front by dads. Repeat journey Home, stagger in about 11.30pm! Keep going people, Cmon you Shrimpers!