Post-Match Thread and Ratings Canvey Island 0-1 Southend United, pre-season friendly

[tottenham541]

3 hour drive from Suffolk to Canvey but it was good to see us play. Thought Canvey were alright actually.

That’s hardcore, well done.

 

[It'sGrimUpNorth]

Thanks, but I just sat there drinking Heineken. Another Shrimper did the driving!

 

[WestyReturns]

We were really rusty last night as you'd expect with our pre season interruptions. I hope we get another friendly arranged. Can see us really struggling for the first month with what we have available to us now.

 

[Richard Hearn]

Welcome to the trials and tribulations of living in Benfleet and having to travel to Canvey at peak times! With Vicarage Hill closed and temporary traffic lights in several places on the High Road as well as Kiln Road and Kents Hill Road, last night the traffic was queued up everywhere. What should have been a 15 minute journey for us was closer to three times that and I know people were still coming in at half time.

It's a surreptitious plan to create a "fifteen-minute ghetto" by the back door.

A couple more road closures and no one will be able to get in or get out of Benfleet. Job done.

Most of you should just be thankful you aren't imprisoned, sorry, living here.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Glad to have set out early ! Crawling down Essex Way, wondered whether Vicarage Road was closed because of armed attacks on someone’s house !

They're replacing lots of the mains gas pipes across Benfleet at the same time as they're replacing lots of the water works pipes - great planning!

 

[SUFCGoals]

3 hour drive from Suffolk to Canvey but it was good to see us play. Thought Canvey were alright actually.

Murky?

 

[It'sGrimUpNorth]

No thanks, just eaten.


Oh sorry…..I read ‘Turkey’

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

They're replacing lots of the mains gas pipes across Benfleet at the same time as they're replacing lots of the water works pipes - great planning!

Sad thing is, it doesn't surprise me anymore. Inter communication between major company's is in the distant past. No one seems to give a damn anymore, about anything?.

 

[overseas shrimper]

Murky?

Nah, definitely not Murkey.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Sad thing is, it doesn't surprise me anymore. Inter communication between major company's is in the distant past. No one seems to give a damn anymore, about anything?.

I know it's off topic here, but don't the councils have to grant licences for this kind of work so people there should know the chaos that's going to happen?

 

[Richard Hearn]

I know it's off-topic here, but don't the councils have to grant licences for this kind of work so people there should know the chaos that's going to happen?

Yes, but it's Essex County Council, not local councillors that make these decisions. I have been in email conversation with my local Boyce Ward councillors and they are actually as frustrated and astonished as I, and many others are, at the seeming lack of forethought or planning that decides when and where these works take place.

To give them their due they have engaged really well and are doing what they can but these decisions are rubber-stamped by people (or troupes of chimps with pins) who don't live in the area, don't care about it and probably don't even know where it is. And I seriously suspect that these decisions are also primarily made for the convenience of Cadent and the like, rather than local residents.

Anyway, back on topic, Ron Martin is a ****!