Pre-Match Thread Southend United v Leyton Orient!!

[BrettieAngell]

Right I've had enough of talking and reading about a certain Frenchman we have a massive game tomorrow, so lets gets our minds focused on that! Bring it on!!

 

[sealion]

Do you know if you can buy a ticket on the night? Checked the website and not sure its just for the Orient end?

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

The lads need no other incentive. Yes, we're depleted but to be in touching distance of a Wembley final doesn't come around very often and for some of these players it could well be their last chance to grace the home of football.

We're not going to have 11 men out there Wednesday night, we're going to have almost 6,000 and every single one of us needs to stand up and be counted.

These boys are pulling on our shirt, our badge so lets get behind them from the first whistle to the last.

 

[BrettieAngell]

Yeah lets make sure the Orient fans can't be heard on TV (shouldn't be too difficult), from the first whistle we need to be 100% behind the lads!

 

[ace]

Lets get some noisy chants going to get behind the team, and not just the endless anti Borient chant which reflects more about the fans feelings than spurring on the players. By all means now and again but not all the time please.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Come on you Blue boys, do it for us, do it for yourselves, do it for Sturrock, do it for Timmo! 4 good reasons to be heroes, every one of them :smile:

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

Lets get some noisy chants going to get behind the team, and not just the endless anti Borient chant which reflects more about the fans feelings than spurring on the players. By all means now and again but not all the time please.

This.

I'm all for a quick chorus of 'We hate Orient' but it's not exactly what our boys want and need to be hearing.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Park 10 men in front of the goal for 90 mins. :hilarious:

 

[Beefy]

Smith

Clohessy
Straker
Corr
Prosser

Hurst
Mayor
Lund
Leonard

Reeves

Assombalonga

Cannot believe we're going into the biggest game of the last 15 years (IMO) with Barry Corr at centre-half.

 

[OldBlueLady]

Smith

Clohessy
Straker
Corr
Prosser

Hurst
Mayor
Lund
Leonard

Reeves

Assombalonga

Cannot believe we're going into the biggest game of the last 15 years (IMO) with Barry Corr at centre-half.

I'd go for that too except Freddy to start and Britt on bench. Cometh the hour, cometh the man, and I can't help but feel this has got Fred's name written all over it.

 

[Beefy]

It would be a huge call for Sturrock to drop Britt for Eastwood now. I'll believe it when I see it.

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

It would be a huge call for Sturrock to drop Britt for Eastwood now. I'll believe it when I see it.

I don't think it's that much of a stretch. Britt isn't looking the same man since his injury.

 

[OldBlueLady]

I don't think it's that much of a stretch. Britt isn't looking the same man since his injury.

Indeed, Freddy definitely looked hungrier on Saturday. Plus there's Harris as well, might it be time to allow one of the more experienced players to try and carry the game? I honestly think Reeves will start, and for me, he needs someone to play off....and that's not Britt.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Do you know if you can buy a ticket on the night? Checked the website and not sure its just for the Orient end?

Yep we have about 3,000 tickets left in the home stands. Can't see all those selling out. Mind you I bet most of the East Stand is sold out and the better seats in the South Upper and West Stands.

 

[Clinton Baptiste]

It would be a huge call for Sturrock to drop Britt for Eastwood now. I'll believe it when I see it.

Dropped Britt against Cheltenham though didnt he?

 

[Jam_Man]

Dropped Britt against Cheltenham though didnt he?

Wasnt fit though?

Id be surprised if Britt was dropped, but he hasnt scored in 11, going back a fair way before his injury so does seem to have lost his edge, possibly because he isnt with Tomlin.

 

[Beefy]

Dropped Britt against Cheltenham though didnt he?

Not for Freddy. Even when Sturrock seemed to be looking to squeeze Eastwood into the side earlier in the season it was along with Britt & Tomlin not instead of one of them.

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

Not for Freddy. Even when Sturrock seemed to be looking to squeeze Eastwood into the side earlier in the season it was along with Britt & Tomlin not instead of one of them.

That's when they were looking good, it's a different story now sadly as Britt is totally out of sorts.

 

[danburyshrimper]

Brit up front for me , with Reeves tucked in the hole behind him.

Despite what that maggot Cook is blurting about on the bbc website , all the pressure is on Orient. We dont have to score , in fact we can even lose the game + still get through ( on pens again ) Orient need to score more than once to knock us straight out , the clock will be ticking down + they will get increasingly desperate. Then we'll see how failed premiershite players like Cook deal with pressure!

Come on Southend , we can do this !!!!!!!!:loyalsupporter:

 

[C C Csiders]

8,356 in attendance to watch the most embarrassing thing on TV since Keith Chegwin presented that naked game show. Southend 0 Leyton Orient 7