all our ex players that think they're great

[sufcnum1]

i do wish them luck at their new clubs, that great that none of them were willing to pay for them, but imo they are not gonna be missed, they were/seamed to be deadwood, they just wasn't upfor it.

 

[Lester Bangs]

Don't worry about it.

Look to the future not to the past.

 

[Jam_Man]

i do wish them luck at their new clubs, that great that none of them were willing to pay for them, but imo they are not gonna be missed, they were/seamed to be deadwood, they just wasn't getting paid for it.

Amended for accuracy.

Why slag off players who were for months screwed by the club ?

They wanted out of the situation and got snapped up pretty quickly, good luck to them.

 

[Fairport]

Good luck to all of them, all their new managers cannot be wrong in spotting their potential. I am sure that the vast majority of our current squad would have been off too if they waited two or three months for their pay.

 

[Rayleigh boy]

its funny how easy it is to forget that Mildenhall, Grant, Barrett, Macca, Laurent, JFC, Francis, Moussa are only half a team and thats all we had last year - thats half a back line and no forwards -

total turmoil and no pay ...

anyway good luck to the new boys - I think O'Keefe is an excellent prospect just needs a good club -

Sturrock seems a decent bloke, we have a 5 million pound credit facility, best attendances in the league, money coming in from player sales (Hooper) and RM with the fans eating out of hands .....

i hope we're top of the league with a packed RH soon - that doesn't even put us back to where we were - does it ??

 

[Jam_Man]

its funny how easy it is to forget that Mildenhall, Grant, Barrett, Macca, Laurent, JFC, Francis, Moussa are only half a team and thats all we had last year - thats half a back line and no forwards -

total turmoil and no pay ...

anyway good luck to the new boys - I think O'Keefe is an excellent prospect just needs a good club -

Sturrock seems a decent bloke, we have a 5 million pound credit facility, best attendances in the league, money coming in from player sales (Hooper) and RM with the fans eating out of hands .....

i hope we're top of the league with a packed RH soon - that doesn't even put us back to where we were - does it ??

Why use this thread off to make negative commentsregarding the current management?

We had our problems last year and I dont blame any of the players for wanting to move on, but we had a settled squad from January and Barnard for the first half of it and still went down.

I dont blame Tilson for getting us relegated under such circumstances though but we have now moved on and its time to be positive on the football side.

As for fans eating out of his hands, total nonsense. No one is praising Ron here and just because people are getting behind the team doesnt mean they are.

 

[Ailsa Road Shrimper]

i do wish them luck at their new clubs, that great that none of them were willing to pay for them, but imo they are not gonna be missed, they were/seamed to be deadwood, they just wasn't upfor it.

They were actually good players, unfortunately RM treated them like dirt.

 

[londonblue]

i do wish them luck at their new clubs, that great that none of them were willing to pay for them, but imo they are not gonna be missed, they were/seamed to be deadwood, they just wasn't upfor it.

Indeed. Their new club it would be left with a hard decision wouldn't it? The thought process would be something like, "I can have this player on a free because their contract with Southend is worthless because Southen didn't pay them, but no, I think i'll bung Southend a few hundred grand anyway."

 

[Interpol Shrimper]

best attendances in the league

Can't see Bradford dropping below 6k all season. Chesterfield might give us a run for our money too with their new stadium.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Sturrock seems a decent bloke, we have a 5 million pound credit facility, best attendances in the league, money coming in from player sales (Hooper) and RM with the fans eating out of hands .....

Early days yet, but Bradford, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Port Vale, Chesterfield & Gillingham have all had bigger League crowds than us. If you look at our home games coming up they will all be about the 5,500 mark.

 

[Rayleigh boy]

Why use this thread off to make negative commentsregarding the current management?

We had our problems last year and I dont blame any of the players for wanting to move on, but we had a settled squad from January and Barnard for the first half of it and still went down.

I dont blame Tilson for getting us relegated under such circumstances though but we have now moved on and its time to be positive on the football side.

As for fans eating out of his hands, total nonsense. No one is praising Ron here and just because people are getting behind the team doesnt mean they are.

what was negative ?? I wrote Sturrocck seems like a decent bloke ..... we have a 5 million quid credit facility .....

its unfortunate that the chairmans "strategy" has taken us into the league below Dagenham when we have better good attendances/cash flow than a lot of clubs -

but I am not knocking the team - all of whom I am sure are committed professionals proud to be playing league football for SUFC

 

[Rayleigh boy]

Early days yet, but Bradford, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Port Vale, Chesterfield & Gillingham have all had bigger League crowds than us. If you look at our home games coming up they will all be about the 5,500 mark.

whoooooooooooops - i think our average gate last years was ?? the year before ??? the year before that ?????

 

[McNasty]

whoooooooooooops - i think our average gate last years was ?? the year before ??? the year before that ?????

I would be pleasantly surprised if our crowds got anywhere near the figures from our recent history --- we might be able to pay the players for a start --- but we can't live in the past. We will struggle to get gates of 6,000 especially as visiting fans will count for not a lot this season.