Post-Match Thread and Ratings Southend Utd 0-1 Bolton Wanderers

[Tangled up in Blue]

JD sounds pretty upbeat about our chances of staying up on BBC Essex."We'll be fine." Is he deluded? We're clearly in a dogfight of 3 teams to avoid the drop.

 

[Holy Joe]

The problem we have now is we have signed all these players and will also probably sign Simpson but we have a manager who is out of his depth and doesent know his strongest side and continues to play players who have failed for much of the season! Hart,aquah,demitriou to name a few!! It wont happen but I believe a change in manager would see these players flourish.And that's what we need right now! Funny how we got better and he went to a 5 at the back and lost 4 in a row and then reverts back to a back 4 and win draw and become more solid!! He has to get it right and quick because we cant rely on barrow and grimsby loosing every week although they are pretty crap too!!

Who do we get rid of to sign Simpson? We already have the max 22 players in the squad

 

[Holy Joe]

Just seen the goal, how amateur is that of the OX, should be fined for that, any other keeper would of jumped with one arm at full stretch and tapped that out for a corner b4 it hits the bar.

If you fined every player for making an error, most would owe the club after each game

 

[Whispering Bob]

He'd have to be eight feet tall to manage that.

If you suspect a hanging ball is going to hit the bar (if it skims the front of the crossbar it could drop anywhere) you have to get above it and turn the ball behind.

 

[Barling Magna]

JD sounds pretty upbeat about our chances of staying up on BBC Essex."We'll be fine." Is he deluded? We're clearly in a dogfight of 3 teams to avoid the drop.

I don't think so. But ask again at the end of March.......

 

[Barling Magna]

If you suspect a hanging ball is going to hit the bar (if it skims the front of the crossbar it could drop anywhere) you have to get above it and turn the ball behind.

I agree, but that's just it, he didn't expect it to hit the bar.

I'm not trying to defend Oxley just saying it as I see it. Either way we were unlucky but Bolton should have been ahaed at half time. If we can't score we won't stay up.

 

[tottenham541]

He'd have to be eight feet tall to manage that.

It’s simple bread and butter for a keeper that is, and it’s practiced time and time again in training, basic stuff.

 

[NZamba Legend]

Who do we get rid of to sign Simpson? We already have the max 22 players in the squad

Can we send back Reeco or the defender from Bournemouth?

 

[gatecrasher]

I'm not going to rate individually as I felt we played well throughout on the most part and look like we are more competitive now. If we can get a player to play alongside Akinola and get a few goals we will have enough im this squad to stay up...just...I think.

What is painfully obvious is Aquaduck needs to go play for the under 23's until he learns how to use his frame to be a nuisance if he's never going to score...at the moment he does nothing....at all.

Otley fluffed today but he has been very good of late so I won't judge him too harshly.

Holmes looks like he could definitely bring a bit of finesse and guile which us good.

Hobson and White seem to have struck up a very reasonable partnership and with the Addition of the very good Clifford on the left I dont think getting spanked will be a problem

 

[Chris Powell's mate]

Under normal circumstances yes, but he had assumed, as had everyone else, that the ball wasn't going to come down into play. He'd have to be eight feet tall to have successfully pushed the ball over at the last millisecond I think because he didn't have time to jump at all.

Agreed, in which case he was rooted to the spot, and let's face it, he couldn't have known either way whether it was in play or behind.
It's really poor decision making.

 

[LBBlue]

Three months ago we would have been 3-0 down by half time.

Bolton were big strong and powerful. Logically they weren’t going to dominate the second half as much as they did in the first and we got into the game.

Reeco has been disappointing of late - I don’t think he is good enough. He’s 23 now and should be much stronger. Surely Holmes should have started and taken off when he tired.

Their goal was a complete freak which we dealt with appallingly.

If anyone is to blame it’s Moseley for substituting Clifford and Ferguson together. When he did it I feared it would let Bolton back into the game as we lost our shape and Hart dithered.
He should have been experienced enough to settle with the point we deserved.

Is Akinola really a goal scorer ? I haven’t seen him have a decent shot with his feet yet.

ANG runs well with ball - but was quiet in the second half.

I’m surprised Goodship wasn’t in the squad today - he can’t do any worse than our other front players and might benefit from our more attacking play.

Just one shot in target - again - I wish I could remember it.....

 

[tottenham541]

If you fined every player for making an error, most would owe the club after each game

It’s a basic error that he wouldn’t do for another 10 years, players get fined for stuff like this all the time, except at this stage of the season its cost us more than ever and it could come down to the point we needed to stay up

 

[Medway Blue]

Who do we get rid of to sign Simpson? We already have the max 22 players in the squad

There's obviously something we're all missing with the squad size limits, because if we really had no room for him then he wouldn't still have been training with us yesterday would he?

 

[tottenham541]

I agree, but that's just it, he didn't expect it to hit the bar.

I'm not trying to defend Oxley just saying it as I see it. Either way we were unlucky but Bolton should have been ahaed at half time. If we can't score we won't stay up.

And OX had plenty of time to adjust for the situation he was in, it’s a basic goalkeeping error that you would expect a Sunday league keeper to make.

 

[Holy Joe]

Can we send back Reeco or the defender from Bournemouth?

Possibly. I think Corder is useful cover if Hobson or White get injured. RHF, has not lived up to his debut performance, and we have lots of midfielders, so if we can then I'd lose RHF I think

 

[Rayleigh boy]

with 10 minutes to go and with SUFC pushing forward and looking the most likely to get something the manager decides to have his look at me moment and make unnecessary changes ..

despite having a goal keeper who is a catastrophe the manager has done nothing to adddess this issue .... he has got no back up in.. no altternative - no hot loanee

of course it is now far too late to even think about changing manager
- of course we have to back MM
- of course we have to hope MM has learnt enough to keep us up..

The chairman is clearly throwing everything at it .... of course we should escape with all the players we have ...

Will we ?

No I am worried sick -

and most of that is down to a total lack of confidence I have in the manager

 

[Jcd]

There's obviously something we're all missing with the squad size limits, because if we really had no room for him then he wouldn't still have been training with us yesterday would he?

Honest mate at this stage has anyone got a clue what’s going on

 

[Holy Joe]

There's obviously something we're all missing with the squad size limits, because if we really had no room for him then he wouldn't still have been training with us yesterday would he?

Maybe he's trying to maintain fitness for another opportunity at another club - but who knows - Ranger and Mellis have not been named in squad yet

 

[dannypav]

Mistake by our keeper who has been good of late.
It’s done - move on.
Easy game on Wednesday, let’s add to their 5 league defeats this season ......

 

[Holy Joe]

It’s a basic error that he wouldn’t do for another 10 years, players get fined for stuff like this all the time, except at this stage of the season its cost us more than ever and it could come down to the point we needed to stay up

Players get fined for errors on the pitch (that aren't bookings) - can you refresh my memory of when that has occurred before?