Worst moments as Shrimpers

[jassyfa1]

October 7th 1992.
Picked up my new XR2 the day before, drove to Derby to see us lose 7-0 in a league cup game. Got verbally abused for 90 minutes by the Derby fans. Car problems on the way home and watched the players coach drive past with the players all in high spirits.

 

[Joolz]

I would go with this BUT I was at C Palace in 1990 when we lost 8-0

At least we got promoted that season.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I’d say Southend 1 Doncaster 7 but history may show we’re still trapped in the same extended moment.

Ha! Rob Noxious came up from Cornwall to see that.Still looked shellshocked when I saw him for the Ipswich game.

FWIW, I think my worst memory would have to be a (8-0) league cup defeat at Palace.Running it close would be another heavy defeat in the league at Gillingham back in the 80's when Steve Phillips scored our only goal.

 

[WESTY_SUFC]

Missing out on the L1 playoffs by 15 minutes, it gave many fans and some within the club the expectation that we should be at that level leading to over-reaching and spending too much on players who weren't interested in playing here and only after one last payday.

There is a direct line from that point to the situation we now find ourselves in due the instability that has been present at the club ever since

Ron over spending was long before that. Try when we come down from the Championship. He gambled with money he didnt have to get back there.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Ha! Rob Noxious came up from Cornwall to see that.Still looked shellshocked when I saw him for the Ipswich game.

FWIW, I think my worst memory would have to be a (8-0) league cup defeat at Palace.Running it close would be another heavy defeat in the league at Gillingham back in the 80's when Steve Phillips scored our only goal.

I believe I was at that Gills game, 5 or 6 to 1, and a last minute 1 at that. Horrible dark, cold night but before the scaffold stand iirc.

 

[LCBB72]

Friday night, 15 January 1971
Newport County 3 Southend United 0.

It was Newport’s first win of the season.

Things picked up after that as Arthur Rowley dumped Brian Lloyd and Owen Simpson and brought in John Roberts, Terry Johnson and Dave Elliot and threw in Peter Taylor.

Five of the players who played that night were gone by the start of the next season , Lindsey only played half a dozen games in the next season . Arthur Rowley was starting to cull players and bring in players that would be one of the greatest team to wear the shirt and get us promoted the next season .

 

[gazza]

Think that was the result, yes. It was just a really inept performance. Looked like he had won a competition to play for Southend. In fairness, though, probably not one of the worst moments. For some reason it's always stayed with me.

Think it was Boxing Day rather than New Years but still a bad game in a long list of bad games.

 

[Rob Noxious]

I believe I was at that Gills game, 5 or 6 to 1, and a last minute 1 at that. Horrible dark, cold night but before the scaffold stand iirc.

The one I'm thinking that Phil is thinking of occurred just after Christmas in '83, an afternoon game which Roy McDonough noted was a particularly tough one for him (in 'Red Card Roy') as he was marked by a young Steve Bruce. I think Terry Cochrane was our chief tormentor that day.

 

[Rob Noxious]

The 8-1 at the Priestfield in August '87 was pretty dismal too.

 

[LCBB72]

September 13th 1975 , Southend 3 Port Vale 3 . After following Southend for 55 years this game was the worst game I have ever watched , 3-0 up at half time and completly over run in the 2nd half . Coming out the ground at the end of the game I had never seen so many supporters who looked like they had been hit in the head by a sack of potatoes , no one spoke the only noise you could hear was peoples feet walking down the road .

 

[LBBlue]

The 8-1 at the Priestfield in August '87 was pretty dismal too.

And the 5-0 two years later....not the best of places for us in the 80s

 

[Tommy2holes]

Away at Carlisle. Got done 5-0 and it was freezing and snowing. In the pub with an ex pre match and some maniac said he was gonna cut me up. The train took forever to get home.

Not the best away day

 

[RobM]

Wycombe 2 Blues 3 when I parked in the drive. Open back door, switch on radio - Wycombe 4 Southend 3.

 

[Dave Smiths Love Child]

Grimsby away last game of the season, when we drew 1.1 and rumours had gone around we were promoted and the rumours false, think Swansea pipped us

The goading of both sets of fans on the pitch was embarrassing, and if I recall one of the coaches had broken down on the way and we had to distribute the fans in the other coaches, some standing or sitting on the walk way

 

[hlane17]

Wycombe 2 Blues 3 when I parked in the drive. Open back door, switch on radio - Wycombe 4 Southend 3.

I was out playing football with mates. Checked the score, we were 3-1 up. Checked it again at full time and it was 4-3. Couldn't believe it

 

[tallboyblue]

The 8-1 at the Priestfield in August '87 was pretty dismal too.

Certainly was just to make it worse we were given tickets to sit in their Directors Box .Never forgotten that day for sure.

 

[LBBlue]

Can anyone remember a preseason friendly on 20th August 1984?
We lost 6-0 at home to West Ham. I think we had a trialist goalkeeper Jeff Wood who had played a lot of games for Charlton and then moved to Finland. Needless to say he didn’t get the job. I know it was only a friendly - but 6-0! Before I googled it I was convinced it was 7-0!

 

[fredheim_holm]

This has to be about as low as it's gotten in our history so far, though I can see that record being beaten as we continue on over the next few months.

 

[Tommy2holes]

This has to be about as low as it's gotten in our history so far, though I can see that record being beaten as we continue on over the next few months.

Agreed. Today is the day when I genuinely feel the club I love is lost.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Today must be up there. I think this is the longest we have ever been bottom of the football league.