Pre-Match Thread Walsall FC vs Southend Utd 19 April 15:00 ko

[Harry Bullocks]

Anyone got any update on the approximate numbers of roughty toughty Shrimpers, (delusional optimists), including me and my son, are making the journey....club says "over 350".....
500+ IMO would be good numbers

 

[TCR]

Bishop
Elvis Moore White Hart
McLaughlin Mantom Yearwood Bunn
Cox Humphreys

 

[Willis]

bishop
moore-kiernan-lennon
demi-hyam-dru-hart
bunn-cox
hymphrys

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

bishop
moore-kiernan-lennon
demi-hyam-dru-hart
bunn-cox
hymphrys

I think Demi and Hyam are unlikly still, due to injury, according to the latest. Bunn and Hart are shaking off slight injuries, but should be fit.

 

[Yorkshire Blue]

I think it'll be

Bishop
Bwomono White Kiernan Lennon Hart
Mantom Dieng Kightly
Cox Humphrys

Bond switched to a back 5 at 2-0 down, which I can only assume was him giving up on that match and planning ahead for Walsall.

 

[KiwiRob]

I think it'll be

Bishop
Bwomono White Kiernan Lennon Hart
Mantom Dieng Kightly
Cox Humphrys

Bond switched to a back 5 at 2-0 down, which I can only assume was him giving up on that match and planning ahead for Walsall.

If Bond picks that side, I think Walsall will win.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

If Bond picks that side, I think Walsall will win.

Can't see Bishop retaining his place after the two howlers he let in against WW.

 

[BILLERICAY BLUE]

I think it'll be

Bishop
Bwomono White Kiernan Lennon Hart
Mantom Dieng Kightly
Cox Humphrys

Bond switched to a back 5 at 2-0 down, which I can only assume was him giving up on that match and planning ahead for Walsall.

Wrong, he went to a 3-4-3, Cox playing wide right and Macca wide left

 

[wakes123]

Oxley
Bwomono Kiernan Moore Hart
McLaughlin Yearwood Hyam Hutchinson
Cox Humphrys

I've got a feeling we might win this one to give everyone a false sense of hope, then lose at home to Burton.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

Oxley
Bwomono Kiernan Moore Hart
McLaughlin Yearwood Hyam Hutchinson
Cox Humphrys

I've got a feeling we might win this one to give everyone a false sense of hope, then lose at home to Burton.

Fair team, okay for next season too.

 

[Oakley1]

team line up

11 players who need to give it everything on Friday and again on Monday......get 3 or 4 points and maybe we have a chance........get beat on Friday and it looks even harder

 

[LBBlue]

Chris Phillips has just tweeted that Demetriou wont play again this season - needs an operation on his knee, and Lennon has a groin strain so is doubtful.

 

[Evening Echo]

ELVIS Bwomono feels Southend United must start to deal with pressure if they are to stay up this season.

More...

 

[Ayrshire Blue]

Lennon and Hyam are embarrassing at this stage. I honestly don’t think either have played without getting some kind of knock

 

[LBBlue]

Have we all forgotten that Sam Mantom would be going home on Friday - a black country boy.

He appeared over 150 times for Walsall between Mar 2012 and July 2016 scoring 19 goals. I think he should play - I think the burden of carrying the rest of midfield wore him down.

If Lennon is out I reckon Turner will play - now he has had a bit of a rest.

We know how bad we are at playing 2 games in 4 days.

 

[Thundersley Blue]

In Lennon's defence you firstly can't play with a broken toe. Impossible to play with a broken leg. Probably selected again before being fit, thanks to the injury crisis. Hyam well no different to his time at Ipswich.

 

[LBBlue]

An article from January 2018 on his injuries at Ipswich

https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich-town-midfielder-luke-hyam-on-his-injury-nightmare-1-5343162

Knee ligaments before that, a nerve in the knee and ankle ligaments. he had 7 starts and 11 sub appearances between January and the end of the season - which is more league appearances than he has had for us all season (10+5s).

Does beg the question how we keep our players fit avoiding strains, pulls etc

 

[They Call It Madness!!!]

For me...

Oxley

White RB
Kiernan CB
Moore CB
Hart LB

Bunn RM
Yearwood CM
Klass CM
Mcglaughin LM

Humprhrys AT
Cox AT

 

[mattytheshrimper]

Lennon and Hyam are embarrassing at this stage. I honestly don’t think either have played without getting some kind of knock

This is the exact same as when they were at Charlton & Ipswich. Always injured and injury prone. Something Powell must have know about and yet still signed them and effectively a waste of wages on the pair of them this season based on the limited time on the pitch we've managed to get out of them. More evidence of the shocking recruitment that got us in to this mess.

 

[Danshrimper]

This is the exact same as when they were at Charlton & Ipswich. Always injured and injury prone. Something Powell must have know about and yet still signed them and effectively a waste of wages on the pair of them this season based on the limited time on the pitch we've managed to get out of them. More evidence of the shocking recruitment that got us in to this mess.

Can’t believe Powell signed Lennon before looking into the future and seeing he’d get a broken toe and a broken leg.