What A Joke of a Decision by the FA

[simac21]

after seeing the attendance of last nights England under 21's i dont think our near by neighbours will be getting any future England matches. If Southend had been given the opportunity to hold an under 21's i could guarantee we'd fill the whole ground.

ONE TEAM IN ESSEX

 

[Streaky]

What was the attendance?

 

[shrimperman]

7240, which to be fair is substantially higher than their average attendance.

 

[canveyshrimper]

To be fair a 4pm kick off on a work / school day wouldn't have helped.

 

[loftus]

Well so far they have given us an U17 game, a women's international and now an U21 game so they can't be too unhappy. Plus considering it was a 4.00 pm kick-off time, when kids will have only just got out of school and many people will still be at work, it wasn't that bad really.

Happy to see you've made a good start and seem to have put many of your problems behind you. See you anon.

 

[Cricko]

To be fair a 4pm kick off on a work / school day wouldn't have helped.

True H and I doubt if we would of got many more if it had been held at RH.

 

[Pubey]

True H and I doubt if we would of got many more if it had been held at RH.

rubbish, we would have filled it. There are 10,000 unemployed Wet Spam fans in Southend alone I'm sure.

 

[Tommy2holes]

I think we would have sold out for sure. Who did the u21's play?

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

I think we would have sold out for sure. Who did the u21's play?

They played the under 21 Sheep shagg ing sheep shearers.
Apparently, most Col ewe fans went for the half time entertainment.

 

[adwebb16]

Me and my missus are both primary school teachers, I work about 15mins from Colchester and she 25mins and both our schools got phone calls in the morning on Tues offering our schools 50 free tickets! Sounds like they couldn't give them away quick enough! Think it was down to the 4pm KO tbh, why would they do that?

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

after seeing the attendance of last nights England under 21's i dont think our near by neighbours will be getting any future England matches. If Southend had been given the opportunity to hold an under 21's i could guarantee we'd fill the whole ground.

ONE TEAM IN ESSEX

Why did the F.A. give them the game in the first place?. Did they put themselves in the frame for it?. Did we?. I've got no idea so any answers would be beneficial.

 

[Exiled Shrimper]

To be fair to The FA, they had no choice in the kick-off time; all of the final Under-21 group fixtures were scheduled to kick-off at the same time so, with matches taking place in the likes of Latvia and Russia, UEFA decreed that all games would start at 17:00 Central European Time, which equated to 4:00pm here in the UK.

 

[Mick]

Why did the F.A. give them the game in the first place?. Did they put themselves in the frame for it?. Did we?. I've got no idea so any answers would be beneficial.

Well, for a start, at the time the fixture was awarded we were facing a winding up order, they weren't. The FA are often very foolish but even they would not award an U21 fixture to a club which might have ceased to exist by the time the match came around.

 

[Mick]

I think we would have sold out for sure. Who did the u21's play?

Chances of our ticket office coping with a full house are non-existent even if there were 11,000+ people who wanted to see Lithuania U21s at 4pm on a work/school day. Under the circumstances the crowd was pretty reasonable.