Official Match Thread Southend United v Mansfield Town

[Jay_SUFC]

Not with no midfield we can’t.

We didn't have a midfield today anyway

 

[Barling Magna]

A 1-0 defeat against a good, confident side who had won their previous four games is actually not a terrible result for us. We have to keep our heads up and beat Bradford and Port Vale.

 

[MisterStubbs]

Akinola not the saviour then.

Works harder than anyone else we have but can't do it all by himself.

 

[Danshrimper]

We didn't have a midfield today anyway

Exactly, so it’s going to be even worse on Tuesday. Heavy defeat on the cards I think.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

At the risk of stating the obvious,our lack of firepower is going to cost us this season.Unless we can sign a decent target man before the end of the month we'll be in a relegation dogfight all season and even risk relegation to the NL for the first time in our history.

 

[Strykr]

Very much back to the drawing board for MM, halford should never be in the first team, impact sub at best.
We need a couple of good players in this window.

What we have isnt good enough.

Story of our last 3 years.

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

I think we did well to keep it to 1-0.
Mansfield are a side comfortable on the ball, wiling to run at players and go round them.
If the Blues game plan was to hoof the ball forward on to a Mansfield head, they mostly succeeded.
BTW, the subs did nothing to make a telling difference.

 

[Petejames]

We look like we did at the start of the season.......rubish

 

[GrumpyBlue]

Disappointed - as Clarky said on the commentary our forwards should be made to look at the work the Mansfield front three put in

 

[Barling Magna]

Would love to know our misplaced/ completed passes % today

54% accurate passes. Surprisingly Mansfield weren't much better with 57%.

 

[superblue24]

FT - We're poor and MM should responsibility here. I don't think we have a sub-league 2 set of players (except perhaps up top), but he's not getting the best out of them.

 

[Shrimp and two veg]

Like watching paint dry, rubbish game, great if youre a Mansfield fan cos they over-run us and got the goal.
But if we cant make chances against Mansfield, no disrespect but its screams relegation to me. Only because we absolutely need points now.

 

[Jcd]

I know we aren't but after that performance it very much feels like we are back at square one. Lots and lots of work to do to get us out of this relegation zone.

December form was a flash in the pan - need to put in some serious work and remember where we are and why we are here.

 

[rhrussell]

I have message for MM **** to weymouth and take all your signing with you, total rubbish

 

[ms brush]

Well, same old problem. We won't stand a chance if we can't score!

Mansfield look a decent side, but we weren't good. Worried about injuries to Elvis and Macca, and it was a very preventable sending off.

 

[sufc4life21]

God this team ****! Reinforcements are needed!

 

[Joolz]

Instead of people blaming the ref and Mansfield players re Dieng, how about digging him out about even giving the ref a decision to make. Brainless.

 

[Holy Joe]

We look like we did at the start of the season.......rubish

Nah - we're much better defensively than at the start of the season. The lack of goal scorer remains

 

[Danshrimper]

Instead of people blaming the ref and Mansfield players re Dieng, how about digging him out about even giving the ref a decision to make. Brainless.

The Mansfield players gave the ref the decision to make by getting in his face, he clearly didn’t even see it, otherwise the ‘stamp’ would have been a straight red.

 

[Holy Joe]

There were a few positives for me - Taylor I thought played well. Defensively we looked ok against a good attack. I like Sim, he has good build up play. But we need a finisher - had a couple of good chances again today that went begging.