Phil Brown: My work rate as Southend United manager cannot be questioned

LCBB · Oct 31, 2014

Since Phil has been here has he signed anyone who has scored more than ten goals :unsure:

chapperzUK · Oct 31, 2014

LCBB said:
Since Phil has been here has he signed anyone who has scored more than ten goals :unsure:

Not really sure if that is relevant or what point you are trying to make. The front 3 last season was Corr, Hurst and Straker (all of them Sturrock signings - 2 of them got more than 10 last season) and the midfield 3 being Atkinson, Timlin and Leonard (only Atkinson being his signing).

As for Brown not being there, just seems another stick to bash him with. If he was there then I'm sure there would be calls saying there's no point in having Coughlan or Penney as "he doesn't trust them".

EastStandBlue · Oct 31, 2014

chapperzUK said:
If he was there then I'm sure there would be calls saying there's no point in having Coughlan or Penney as "he doesn't trust them".

Nonsense...

Trucking shrimper · Nov 1, 2014

Christ people, if your not careful there won't be any toys left in your prams!

fbm said:
Absolutely.

I think people are overlooking the fact that there was nothing that Brown was going to learn from the game v Harlow by being there. If we had won and the fringe players performed well, then shock horror he would have realised that some professional fringe players could turn it on against opposition 3 or 4 levels below us. As it was, then they didn't perform which was disappointing and it confirmed what he already knew; that these fringe players aren't currently up to it.

He didn't need to be in attendance to come to either of those conclusions. As for how it looks, it's not a big deal and people are only making it so because of our poor league form and it's another criticism they can level at PB.

i agree with that.