Official Match Thread Southend United v Morecambe FC

[palexander]

5 consecutive defeats

feels like so much more....

 

[SeldomSeenShrimper]

Oxley 7
Bwomono 4
Hobson 5
Taylor 6
Ralph 6
Green 5
Taylor 8
Demi 7
Egbri 5
Emile 8
Goodship 6 his best game but still not good enough.

Kelman 3 bye ?

Clifford 5

Rush NA

MOTM - KT

 

[brigg blue]

The positives are we scored and Grimsby are petitioning for the season to be suspended as they have to miss the next 3 games due to covid

 

[palexander]

First half showed promising signs but after that dog**** second half, I'm not sure whether the first half was more about us being decent or Morecambe only playing in second gear.

There are far, far too many weak links in this team. The centre backs were playing simply aren't good enough - both Morecambe goals showed that. Egbri is full of energy but he has absolutely no end product - much the same can be said about Green perhaps. Bwomono looked poor again and Kelman looked half a yard off the pace again when he came on. Everything in the second half was sloppy and lazy. Misplaced passes all over the shop, wrong passes continually being chosen, sloppy loss of possession all the time. Nobody moving off the ball and offering an outlet. Just not good enough, and there are several players who played today that I just can't see improving enough to be where we need them to be.

Further deep surgery needed. We are nowhere near.

to quote Ron Martin, were a million miles away...

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

FWIW,I think Hobson and Taylor are the worst CB pairing I've ever seen play for us.

Eddie May took a lot of stick from the Roots Hall faithful when we went down in 65/6 but he turned out to be a decent enough player.............for Wrexham.

we're obviously doomed.

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

Embarrassing. It just continues. Bright spots are Taylor looks promising, hardly gave the ball away. Good to see Demi back.
Everything else was just terrible. Even the first half we were lucky to be in front after a few scrambles in our box. We only had one shot!

 

[LBBlue]

No shots on target today, one at Carlisle and two against Harrogate. We just don’t move it forward quickly enough. We stroll everywhere. Tip tap slowly slowly.

Kelman seems to have learnt from Cox and Kiernan.
Goodship well - he’s not good enough even for league 2 - everything is so laboured.
Wingers just stand on the touch line waiting for the ball.
No threat whatever.
Can’t see us scoring this season.

 

[Sussexshrimper]

Sick and tired ..easily the worst team we have ever had ..kelman you are lazy and so obviously don't want to play for sufc

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Embarrassing. It just continues. Bright spots are Taylor looks promising, hardly gave the ball away. Good to see Demi back.
Everything else was just terrible. Even the first half we were lucky to be in front after a few scrambles in our box. We only had one shot!

He can't pass the ball to anyone in a Blue shirt to save his life.

 

[Petejames]

Until Demi macca deing Lennon white and Akinola are all starting together we will continue to loose to young to lightweight and not up to it!!!

 

[LBBlue]

FWIW,I think Hobson and Taylor are the worst CB pairing I've ever seen play for us.

Eddie May took a lot of stick from the Roots Hall faithful when we went down in 65/6 but he turned out to be a decent enough player.............for Wrexham.

we're obviously doomed.

Wasn‘t down to them why we lost though.
No threat up the other end.

 

[Jonny_Stokes]

This won't be a widely shared opinion but we're not actually that far away.

You haven’t played a side that will finish in the top 10 yet.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

Unsure. I'd argue the standard of each team has been worse each week which has me worried.

We play like an academy side, which we sort of are at the moment. We look pretty on the edge of our own box but lack any real substance in the final third.

We did play some nice stuff in the first half I'm not doubting that, but I'm really unsure if I think we're improving each game at present. I honestly thought Morecambe were pretty poor in that first half rather than us dictating it

I wouldn't disagree that the standard of each team has been worse but I think Kyle Taylor would have moved the ball around well against Harrogate too and that Acquah would have given us more up front as well.

I don't think the standard is great in L2. I think there are plenty of teams like Morecambe and Carlisle.

A lot of the game at this level is about confidence. We don't have that at the moment and we need to grind out some results.

 

[Medway Blue]

Wasn‘t down to them why we lost though.
No threat up the other end.

Disagree. We were 1-0 up. Both were largely at fault for the equaliser (people can bleat about the quality of the ball in as much as they like but if your CBs are going to ball watch and let a striker ghost in between them like that then there's no hope) and partly for their 2nd goal too.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Wasn‘t down to them why we lost though.
No threat up the other end.

Morecambe's second goal was just awful.Funnily enough my wife came in at HT -she thought I'd be happy we were winning.I told her we were woeful and would still lose.

 

[palexander]

He can't pass the ball to anyone in a Blue shirt to save his life.

the new Taylor, not the awful one.

 

[East Devon Shrimper]

None of these players are good enough. End of. Fed up with all this “we played well, we’re improving” No they aint.

Absolute dog sh*t week in week out. Going under would do us all a favour the way I'm feeling right now. Sick to the back teeth of it all.

You off to Plymouth as well then?

 

[FarmdogSUFC]

I wouldn't disagree that the standard of each team has been worse but I think Kyle Taylor would have moved the ball around well against Harrogate too and that Acquah would have given us more up front as well.

I don't think the standard is great in L2. I think there are plenty of teams like Morecambe and Carlisle.

A lot of the game at this level is about confidence. We don't have that at the moment and we need to grind out some results.

I hope you're right mate

 

[Somerset Ex-TTB]

He can't pass the ball to anyone in a Blue shirt to save his life.

Errrr the new Taylor? Gave the ball away once all game.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

the new Taylor, not the awful one.

Sorry.