Tommy2holes
Life President⭐
- Joined
- Jan 21, 2007
- Messages
- 11,492
Not sure what season it was but it was probably under Newman when Ron Martin announced that in order for the club to move foward we needed 8k through the gate every week and get back to championship football.
Now at the time we were bottom division had a conveyer belt of cack managers and the town couldnt give two watsits about southend united.
I have to be honest i thought we would never ever achieve that and i doubt even the most die hard fan at the time would have agreed that it was possible.
I have and always will love this football club , but i resigned myself that SUFC would always be a league two or at best a league 1 club.
I would just like to say to all the people who have only been coming since Tilly arrived that you have had it easy as previously the club had been a bit of a joke nationally and locally.
Ron martin had a dream a dream that southend united would play attractive football attract atleast 8k fans every week, and that our beloved club would receive backing for a new stadium from our notoriously unfriendly council.
That was just 5 seasons ago and he we are . We do get 8k through the gate and we do have a shiny new stadium to look foward to and we have played championship football (albiet briefly).
What Ron Martin has done for our club is nothing short of miraculous and if Ron was to say tomorrow that he wanted to be in the prem in 5 years i would be straight down the bookies to place a bet.
Ron Martin came to us a business man and like all of us has fell in love with our wonderful football club and we should all be proud to have a chairman like that at SUFC.
Former players as managers and a chairman who is quite simply a breath of fresh air at our club and in football in general.
Alot has been said about how the players have blown it this season and how we should sign this player for 350k etc , but we should be safe in the knowledge that we have never had it so good and that those in charge will never ever do anything to put the club at risk. Yes the management have signed some rubbish and paid over the odds , but they are still learning and still improving and have had and will continue to have the support of us the fans and more importantly the finances of Ron.
Lets stop player bashin Tilly bashing listening to stupid rumours and trust that Tilly Brushy and Ron Martin have deliverd at every opportunity and next year will be another remarkably exciting year for our club, a club that is viewed with envious eyes from the majority of league 1 and league 2.
How lucky are we?
Come on you blues
Now at the time we were bottom division had a conveyer belt of cack managers and the town couldnt give two watsits about southend united.
I have to be honest i thought we would never ever achieve that and i doubt even the most die hard fan at the time would have agreed that it was possible.
I have and always will love this football club , but i resigned myself that SUFC would always be a league two or at best a league 1 club.
I would just like to say to all the people who have only been coming since Tilly arrived that you have had it easy as previously the club had been a bit of a joke nationally and locally.
Ron martin had a dream a dream that southend united would play attractive football attract atleast 8k fans every week, and that our beloved club would receive backing for a new stadium from our notoriously unfriendly council.
That was just 5 seasons ago and he we are . We do get 8k through the gate and we do have a shiny new stadium to look foward to and we have played championship football (albiet briefly).
What Ron Martin has done for our club is nothing short of miraculous and if Ron was to say tomorrow that he wanted to be in the prem in 5 years i would be straight down the bookies to place a bet.
Ron Martin came to us a business man and like all of us has fell in love with our wonderful football club and we should all be proud to have a chairman like that at SUFC.
Former players as managers and a chairman who is quite simply a breath of fresh air at our club and in football in general.
Alot has been said about how the players have blown it this season and how we should sign this player for 350k etc , but we should be safe in the knowledge that we have never had it so good and that those in charge will never ever do anything to put the club at risk. Yes the management have signed some rubbish and paid over the odds , but they are still learning and still improving and have had and will continue to have the support of us the fans and more importantly the finances of Ron.
Lets stop player bashin Tilly bashing listening to stupid rumours and trust that Tilly Brushy and Ron Martin have deliverd at every opportunity and next year will be another remarkably exciting year for our club, a club that is viewed with envious eyes from the majority of league 1 and league 2.
How lucky are we?
Come on you blues
Last edited:
