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  1. The Jobson Years

    Hi everyone I've been reading this forum with interest. I'm now ready to make my debut. Firstly, a big thank you to everyone associated with running Shrimperzone. One thing that strikes me is that most people's views on here are so black and white. So, I'm going to present a balanced view on...
  2. Slipperduke

    Sleeping Through The Dawn of Capello

    There’s something very special about setting your alarm to go off a couple of hours early and slipping out of bed to watch the sun come up. It’s uplifting to watch a new dawn break, with a mug of coffee in your hand. To think about the possibilities and the opportunities, to convince yourself...
  3. The Transfer Window Rules

    Just to remind you of the Rules, Ladies and Gents:
  4. * ORM *

    Ok - I'm stupid !

    Sitting here on the train as I am mulling over life, love and SZFC it has just dawned on me how Benji91 got his username (and I was at the game !) :p Coming from the same person that only realised a few years ago that the tide doesn't go out to Kent and back that's hardly surprising. :D will...
  5. Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset

    A New Dawn

    I wake early. The early morning mist of a Summer’s day is readily burnt by the glowing yellow sun rising over south Suffolk’s gently rolling fields. Next doors much despised cockerel, 300 yards away and out of rifle range, announces the event with gusto. I amble downstairs and let out Shrimper...
  6. NZamba Legend

    Our Defending Is Poop- discuss

    SERIOUS POST ALERT I am optimistic about the new season and am especially looking forward to hopefully beating Orient and mounting a decent challenge for promotion. Yet it dawned on me this morning that unless we score 3 or 4 goals tomorrow we wont win. Why? Because we are bound to let in 2...
  7. bomma77

    Potential Hillsborough at the Hall?

    It just dawned on me, the other day in respect of my Season Ticket and Southend's wonderfool ticket offices decision not to re-issue cards every year, I've had mine since the introduction of this system. Well anyway, last year there were 6,500 aprox season card holders, this year only 4,500...
  8. DTS

    Are women ever "really funny"?

    Today is a bit slow in the cut and thrust world of mortgage broking. Ben in the office is my normal port of call for a chat but having only just come back to work he is playing catchup. Sandie and Mandi the other two in the office today are just talking about a load of old womans rubbish. It...
  9. Napster

    Big Suze off Peep Show

    Bad news for fans of Peep Show's Big Suze Lord Freddie is going steddie 'Calming down' ... Freddie By THOMAS WHITAKER Showbiz Reporter June 04, 2007 ROYAL rebel Lord Freddie Windsor is dating Peep Show star Sophie Winkleman — and has whisked her away for a romantic holiday. Pals say...
  10. C C Csiders

    People you hated but now admire

    Responding to a post in another thread it dawned on me that I used to really hate Roy Keane, but now find him admirable. Others I used to dislike, but now like, albeit grudgingly in some cases are: Michael Portillo Shane Warne (along with Rolf Harris the only Australian I can bestow such an...
  11. England squad for 1st Test

    England squad: Andrew Strauss (captain), Alastair Cook, Ian Bell, Kevin Pietersen, Paul Collingwood, Andrew Flintoff, Matt Prior, Liam Plunkett, Steve Harmison, Matthew Hoggard, Monty Panesar, Owais Shah. Prior gets the nod as wicketkeeper. Not sure if Moores is being biased towards Prior...
  12. DTS

    Which "striker" has been the biggest let down.

    Sitting in the rafters at St Marys yesterday the one thing that dawned on me was how terrible our options upfront without the god that is Freddy really are. I can honestly say ithnk I had more confidence in the division two striker force of Fred, Tes, Wayne Gray and Dudders than I do this...
  13. Napster

    Lancaster

    The Dolly Blues avoided ending the season on zero points after scraping a draw last Saturday in the last game of the season. Also, "due to it's inability to meet it's debts as and when they fall due, Edwin Kirkwood of EJK Associates Limited in Leeds was appointed Administrator of the Club...
  14. Che's Left Foot

    Ron: The day my family home was raided by the police

    Apologies if it's already been posted, but Ron's article on the echo website makes for interesting reading... Link: http://www.echo-news.co.uk/display.var.1263579.0.the_day_my_family_home_was_raided_by_the_police.php
  15. Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset

    A bright new day dawns in Suffolk

    There is not a breath in the air, all is still as the sun starts its journey up into an expectant crystal clear blue sky only streaked with early plane trails off to foriegn lands (and Cole Ewe). An early morning frost is quickly burnt away - the chill dawn will soon warm up, and the first...
  16. fbm

    Todays Echo - Scandal latest 2nd March

    Front page headline BLUES BOSS IN FRAUD PROBE Story covered on pages 1,2 and 3. Here are the bits we don't already know. The Councillor Sean Connors who has been arrested served on the Tewkesbury planning committee from 1995 until 1998 and again from 2003 - 2005. He resigned last year after...
  17. CC51DAS

    Song For Wiggy - We Don't Need Jose Mourihno

    After all those abusive remarks towards Tilly , thought it would be nice to rewind 12/24 months and re-live an old favourite--- to the tune of Amarillo WHEN THE DAY IS DAWNING, I'M WAKING UP AND ITS SATURDAY MORNING AND HOW I LONG TO BE THERE, TO WATCH THE TEAM THAT'S PLAYING FOR...
  18. Mature Brunettes ( . Y . )

    So as DtS has failed to come up with a poll on the ladee front I have this little question for you. Me and my mate were talking in the office the other day about the older ladies on the telly and I said I would snake Davina Mccal as she still blatently wants it and would still get it IMO...
  19. Favourite TV theme tune

    well, work is draging somewhat this afternoon and it dawned on me that i've had this tune in my head for about an hour. its also comes from my fave 90's sit com. "game on" with sam janus, and its called when i find my heaven. so, i'll throw it out there, Favourite TV theme tune...?
  20. Xàbia Shrimper

    Southend United - How far have we come? Part 5

    “Southend United Football Club needs new energy and direction. With careful financial planning and professional management there is no doubt in our minds that the club is geared for greater things.” So read a statement released by Martin Dawn plc in November 1998 just after they had secured a...
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