Congratulations from sunny Colchester

[jonestones]

Colchester fan here. Would just like to congratulate you on your new ground being approved. The plans look pretty impressive. Would be amazing for your club if you managed to fill it. Do you think you will?

A stadium of that size can only be a good thing for Essex. I just hope that we are in the same division in 2010 so that it can witiness the mighty Essex derby.

P.S. On a purley selfish note it's good to see you doing well in the league, but please stay down next year so that we can continue the Essex derby games. It would be a shame if we passed each other at the end of the season and we went with out this fixture for another season!;)

 

[KrustyTheKray]

Would love to stay down to play you again, but the lure of Championship football is all too great, sorry!

As for filling the new stadium, i have my doubts. Dont know where we're going to find all these new fans to fill it.

Always nice to have the open space in a big ground though, can pick and choose your seat on a match day and it wont be too cramped.

 

[Lester Bangs]

As for filling the new stadium, i have my doubts. Dont know where we're going to find all these new fans to fill it.

Always nice to have the open space in a big ground though, can pick and choose your seat on a match day and it wont be too cramped.

You need to be signed up to 'The Vision'. Once we're located in the new stadium Uncle Ron expects Southend United to be an established Championship team at the absolute minimum, ideally a team vying for the Premiership.

We will be able to lure a better calibre of player and be a serious 'draw' team (as in we draw the home and away support, not that we draw games). This in turn will generate greater crowds and revenues and so the circle is complete, simple innit!!

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Colchester fan here. Would just like to congratulate you on your new ground being approved. The plans look pretty impressive. Would be amazing for your club if you managed to fill it. Do you think you will?

Good first post, welcome.

I doubt we will get near to filling it for most normal games, just look at some of the Championship crowds yesterday Stoke 18,000; Sheff Weds 18,000; Crystal Palace 14,000. Most of those grounds were no where near full.

We would be looking at crowds of 10 to 12,000 maybe more depending on what league we are in.

But for the odd game here and there 20,000 may be possible. Looking back over the past few seasons we would have had about 10 games which if we were in the new ground would have been very close to 18,000 and a least 1 would have been 22,000.

 

[J]

Scummer...

 

[Seaside Sailor]

no offence but I would like nothing more jonestones than southend playing in the championship in front of 15K plus and col u **** playing in league 1 in front of 4K at cukkoo farm

 

[Seaside Sailor]

**** it major offence hope col u go down and southend go up and we dont play each other for years. bored of playing you at a siht ground in front of no fans

 

[Boreham Shrimper]

I for what it's worth would love to play Col U in 2010 at Fossetts Farm and hopefully to christen the new ground with its first derby win in its first season. It would make up for my first derby game, the home game last year that was one of my most depressing games as a Southend fan. :'(

 

[Seaside Sailor]

mate last year they had there day, and took the **** out of us but we did the same the year before. the sooner people realise that col u are just some little club up the road who had a good season last year which wont be repeated for a long time the better. dont get me wrong i hate them as much as the next man but they arnt a danger to us really. they will struggle i l1 next year and even if we dont go up this year we will do much better than them next year.

 

[Boreham Shrimper]

I don't believe they are irrelevant. Surely the very fact we are mentioning them and slagging them off means that a win against them is extra special to us? I know it is for me and Duguid will surely get stick from us Southend fans for as long as he continues playing!

 

[Seaside Sailor]

forget him by slaging him off he has done what he set out for to wind us up. the best thing we could ever do to wind him up is ignore him that would really get his back up plus we know they got relegated, lovely.

 

[The Late One]

Have Col Ewe got the permission for the access road that will link the stadium to the A12 yet ??

 

[Sherif H]

Have Col Ewe got the permission for the access road that will link the stadium to the A12 yet ??

Probably won't happen for a few years yet.

 

[sufcintheprem]

forget him by slaging him off he has done what he set out for to wind us up. the best thing we could ever do to wind him up is ignore him that would really get his back up plus we know they got relegated, lovely.

To be honest, I think his goal was to win games which was much easier when the other team fall for your little games. We have every reason to hate him but ignoring him definitely won't be the answer.

I'm sure I've exchanged messages with jonestones somewhere before but can't remember where or anything about them.

 

[TrueBlue]

As for filling the new stadium, i have my doubts. Dont know where we're going to find all these new fans to fill it.

But Tony where did MK Dons find all there fans? from nothing?

 

[C C Csiders]

Probably won't happen for a few years yet.

There's just a dirt track isn't there? Fine if you have a tractor, but how otherwise will you be able to access Cloud Cuckoo Farm by road?

 

[Cricko]

There's just a dirt track isn't there? Fine if you have a tractor, but how otherwise will you be able to access Cloud Cuckoo Farm by road?

I don't see there being a problem...;)

 

[Sussex Shrimper]

It would suit me fine if we never have the mispleasure of encountering them again. Of seven competitive matches in my time, five have finished favourably, twice sending us on our way to Cardiff at their expense and twice en route to a championship - that'll do me.

As far as I'm concerned the pleasure to be had from beating a nondescript, small town club is far outweighed by the risk that this board will become unusable again like last season. I can only go on my personal experience but they seem to me to be second only to West Ham in terms of the proportion of their support that are pure scum.

 

[jonestones]

Good first post, welcome.



Why I thank you. Always good to talk to another football fan.

Is it true your new stadium is supposed to look like a shrimp form the air?

 

[jonestones]

Scummer...

I would rather be a 'scummer' as you so politely put it, than a small minded fat bloke.