Crikey. How did the team that was crucified on Good Friday rise again on Easter Monday....?
Eggsactly.
53 points.
That should see us safe now! :cool:
Crikey. How did the team that was crucified on Good Friday rise again on Easter Monday....?
Crikey. How did the team that was crucified on Good Friday rise again on Easter Monday....?
:hilarious: - quite possibly the most perfectly timed comment I have ever read on here!
I'm loving this, 5 more would be great , as I was at the 8-1 drubbing we took after going one nil up. My must win game for bragging rights, it's fantastic, if they could go down to 8 men , even more stick I can dish out for years to come, cmon you blues, regards to all from Kyoto
I was at that game too. I thought we were a few down before we got our Dean Neal/OG on that awful day. I think Gills' Manager, Steve Lovell, got four goals himself. And then, the week after, we shipped six at Notts County.
Spot on as usual.
Our 'goal' arrived during the second half iirc.
My recollection is that we were winning at Meadow Lane at one stage of that game - possibly 1-0 after a Super Roy penalty although it could have been 2-1.
Adrian Burrows looked like Bobby Moore when he was brought in at Mansfield to shore up the defence.
Fantastic management skills from Clarkey to avoid relegation after Bate went when we had amassed 2 points from the first 8 (eight) games.
Strangely, we played well in the opening 2-2 draw at Gigg Lane and had accumulated our second point and final point under Bate after the first 2 games.
I remember the Blackpool one. It was the first Southend game I'd watched for a couple of years. My Dad used to take me to games when I was little but, after senior school started and homework and travel to school starting eating more time, we went less and less often.What was that run-in to keep us up - 5 wins in 7 games? Astonishing. Clarkey even played himself in midfield in that last game at home to Blackpool (4-0) alongside Peter Butler - which worked a treat.
I remember the Blackpool one. It was the first Southend game I'd watched for a couple of years. My Dad used to take me to games when I was little but, after senior school started and homework and travel to school starting eating more time, we went less and less often.
One of my school friends had an older sister whose boyfriend went to Southend games. I got talking to about Southend and I went with him to that match. 4-0! It was another couple of years until I started going a bit more regularly*, when I had a job and could afford it, but that was when I got the Roots Hall bug again.
That bug has never left me even though there was a good decade from the 2000s until a few years ago when I didn't go. I've renewed my season ticket for a fourth season in a row.
That game. I fell in love with Roots Hall again. It's crumbling, it's not as pretty as it once was and it doesn't seem as big and amazing as it did to me when I was a little kid. But I still love it and I always will.
Shameless admission time - it's evening kickoffs that take me right back to when my Dad took me to games when I was a kid. When I walk up the road, seeing the other fans growing in numbers, that moment when I first catch sight of the floodlights above the rooftops? It always makes me want to cry.
God, you just bought me a ticket for a massive nostalgia trip.
* I seem to remember some bloke called Powell being quite popular back then.