"It seems like déjà vu all over again" is a quote attributed to US baseball coach Yogi Berra (who was evidently smarter than the average Berra!) and it is indeed another pre-match thread for the home game against Maidenhead, rearranged from a couple of weeks ago.
It's (still!) the last home league game before Christmas on Tuesday evening, but now a lot closer to the visit of the bearded chap in the red suit than the original game was meant to be.
The visitors will be the latest in the series of "teams you never thought we'd play except in the FA Cup" - Maidenhead United who sit (at the time of writing) one place above us in the league.
The Magpies are managed by former West Ham player, Alan Devonshire - now aged 65, who is there for his second spell as manager. They're not in great form, particularly defensively, and have let in an amazing 18 goals in their last 4 games (this being written before their game at Barnet).
The have a trio of ex-shrimpers in their side, last year's fall guy Emile Acquah, Sam Barratt and Kane Ferdinand who has fallen a long way down the pyramid since we sold him to Posh for £200,000 as a 19-year old just over 9 years ago. He started for them in the 4-0 defeat at Boreham Wood, Acquah was on the bench and Barratt not involved. They also had centre back Jamie Sendles-White making his debut for them in that game - he was on trial with us last month.
Blues will be hoping that King Kev gets his second home win as head coach, and this would seem an ideal game to get us back on track and a chance also to leapfrog Maidenhead in the table - whatever their result at Barnet (in fact if they lose we'll do that without kicking a ball as we're currently level on points and goal difference).
Of course, he'll be without long term injury victims Jack Bridge and Simeon Akinola again, whether any of the other injured players (Ralph, Ogogo, Clifford, Coulson) will return remains to be seen. We switched to a back 4 against Grimsby and Altincham, and having Ralph at left back was certainly an upgrade on the Grimsby game.
We'll have had a long lay off since the Altrincham win and I'm sure Kev will have eyes at the Barnet v Maidenhead game today to suss out the opposition.
I'm sure the Shrimpers faithful will again be out in the force that performances on the pitch scarcely deserve.
Let's hope that the players give us some pre-Christmas cheer!
You know the drill by now...
It's (still!) the last home league game before Christmas on Tuesday evening, but now a lot closer to the visit of the bearded chap in the red suit than the original game was meant to be.
The visitors will be the latest in the series of "teams you never thought we'd play except in the FA Cup" - Maidenhead United who sit (at the time of writing) one place above us in the league.
The Magpies are managed by former West Ham player, Alan Devonshire - now aged 65, who is there for his second spell as manager. They're not in great form, particularly defensively, and have let in an amazing 18 goals in their last 4 games (this being written before their game at Barnet).
The have a trio of ex-shrimpers in their side, last year's fall guy Emile Acquah, Sam Barratt and Kane Ferdinand who has fallen a long way down the pyramid since we sold him to Posh for £200,000 as a 19-year old just over 9 years ago. He started for them in the 4-0 defeat at Boreham Wood, Acquah was on the bench and Barratt not involved. They also had centre back Jamie Sendles-White making his debut for them in that game - he was on trial with us last month.
Blues will be hoping that King Kev gets his second home win as head coach, and this would seem an ideal game to get us back on track and a chance also to leapfrog Maidenhead in the table - whatever their result at Barnet (in fact if they lose we'll do that without kicking a ball as we're currently level on points and goal difference).
Of course, he'll be without long term injury victims Jack Bridge and Simeon Akinola again, whether any of the other injured players (Ralph, Ogogo, Clifford, Coulson) will return remains to be seen. We switched to a back 4 against Grimsby and Altincham, and having Ralph at left back was certainly an upgrade on the Grimsby game.
We'll have had a long lay off since the Altrincham win and I'm sure Kev will have eyes at the Barnet v Maidenhead game today to suss out the opposition.
I'm sure the Shrimpers faithful will again be out in the force that performances on the pitch scarcely deserve.
Let's hope that the players give us some pre-Christmas cheer!
You know the drill by now...