Worst moments as Shrimpers

[Swiss Tony]

I think i've hit rock bottom today,i was numb walking out of the ground, nearly 500 Shrimpers couldn't barely witness a shot on target,we deserve better,it's just all very sad.

 

[Boreham Shrimper]

It was last week for me, going to Halifax and wondering how we somebody managed to rob a goal back in a disgusting display where quality and most disappointingly, the desire and attitude was lacking.

However that has somehow been beaten today. I was expecting a late goal, especially when Brown shut up shop in taking off Jack Bridge, and could only laugh when it happened. I’m disgusted at myself for doing so but that’s what these mugs are doing to me. Just **** off. ?

 

[northlincsshrimper1]

I think i've hit rock bottom today,i was numb walking out of the ground, nearly 500 Shrimpers couldn't barely witness a shot on target,we deserve better,it's just all very sad.

Was this the correct number of away fans? If so this is a wonderful turn out. and what are they watching. Utter dross. They deserve better that this shambles

 

[Boreham Shrimper]

Was this the correct number of away fans? If so this is a wonderful turn out. and what are they watching. Utter dross. They deserve better that this shambles

466 of us absolute head cases witnessed that “performance” today. I fear we won’t be so well supported for much longer with the way we’re going.

 

[BALDY]

After 53 years, Torquay 1 Southend 0.

Bloody hell that was a long game lol

 

[RobM]

Bloody hell that was a long game lol

...and we still kept taking short corners!

 

[Big Bad Barry Corr]

Morecambe 2015

Very quiet coach back

Bloody right. Such a disappointing day, losing like that in the ****ing down of rain and the coach journey back will haunt me for the rest of my life. Seemed to last for years and I was stuck next to a radiator sweating my arse off for five to six hours all the way home to RH as I remember. ?

 

[rlb999]

Carlisle away sometime in the early 90s. We were going around shipping 4 goals each week - I think we managed 5 at Carlisle. I think it was under Alvin Martin. I remember being more disillusioned with the team then than I am now (because generally now I think they try).

 

[lombard]

Tonight.We are a club, rotten to the core.

 

[RobM]

Bloody hell that was a long game lol

...and we still kept taking short corners!

Bloody right. Such a disappointing day, losing like that in the ****ing down of rain and the coach journey back will haunt me for the rest of my life. Seemed to last for years and I was stuck next to a radiator sweating my arse off for five to six hours all the way home to RH as I remember. ?

At least you're not moaning about it.

 

[WestyReturns]

Carlisle away sometime in the early 90s. We were going around shipping 4 goals each week - I think we managed 5 at Carlisle. I think it was under Alvin Martin. I remember being more disillusioned with the team then than I am now (because generally now I think they try).

Your memory plays tricks on you with time. A) It was the late 90s. B) It's far worse now!

 

[Suffolk Shrimper In Dorset]

I suppose it could be worse ...... but not much

Waiting for my when I got back from the match yesterday was the Southend v Bradford City prog of 1958. I've obtained it from eBay to send it on as a SUEPA thing to Alan Dicks as a surprise, one of our oldest SUEPA members, as a momento of his first game as a Shrimper.

Anyway, a scan thro it led me to the back page tables and in the current climate the question 'who is currently in a better position than us of the teams shown?'

Well, the answer becomes more straightforward if you re-phrase it to identify those worse off now, and the answer is not many. OK, Accrington blew up, but have re-formed and are now bobbling along ok, and some of the others have had a few hairy moments over the past few decades, but currently it's just three.

Bury certainly are in a dire state, and perhaps for those that think we'd be better off going kaput and re-forming they might make you think again.

Aldershot are a point below us in the NL, but they of course beat us last week and by next weekend we might be able to strike them off this short list

So that just leaves Bexleyheath, and their position (only in the SE Counties League) ultimately fell away and as far as I can tell the club (which got as high as the Southern League (so the NL now) folded as Bexley United in 1976 tho there is a team under the Bexleyheath name with a Twitter account who have the strapline "Ragtag football team full of heroes. We have a laugh, but will put our bodies on the line for each other."

I'd better get this posted, not sure it's doing me any good

 

[Mick]

I suppose it could be worse ...... but not much

Waiting for my when I got back from the match yesterday was the Southend v Bradford City prog of 1958. I've obtained it from eBay to send it on as a SUEPA thing to Alan Dicks as a surprise, one of our oldest SUEPA members, as a momento of his first game as a Shrimper.

Anyway, a scan thro it led me to the back page tables and in the current climate the question 'who is currently in a better position than us of the teams shown?'

Well, the answer becomes more straightforward if you re-phrase it to identify those worse off now, and the answer is not many. OK, Accrington blew up, but have re-formed and are now bobbling along ok, and some of the others have had a few hairy moments over the past few decades, but currently it's just three.

Bury certainly are in a dire state, and perhaps for those that think we'd be better off going kaput and re-forming they might make you think again.

Aldershot are a point below us in the NL, but they of course beat us last week and by next weekend we might be able to strike them off this short list

So that just leaves Bexleyheath, and their position (only in the SE Counties League) ultimately fell away and as far as I can tell the club (which got as high as the Southern League (so the NL now) folded as Bexley United in 1976 tho there is a team under the Bexleyheath name with a Twitter account who have the strapline "Ragtag football team full of heroes. We have a laugh, but will put our bodies on the line for each other."

I'd better get this posted, not sure it's doing me any good


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The South East Counties League in those days was youth matches played at Priory Park so not really worth including in comparisons. So there is only ONE team in that division of 63 years ago that is in a more parlous state than us at the moment.

 

[Mick]

So that just leaves Bexleyheath, and their position (only in the SE Counties League) ultimately fell away and as far as I can tell the club (which got as high as the Southern League (so the NL now) folded as Bexley United in 1976 tho there is a team under the Bexleyheath name with a Twitter account who have the strapline "Ragtag football team full of heroes. We have a laugh, but will put our bodies on the line for each other."

I'd better get this posted, not sure it's doing me any good

Their full name at that time was Bexleyheath and Welling. Bexley United have gone but their ground lives on, much improved obviously, as the home of Welling United.

 

[Up the Shrimpers]

Is this it........ No probably not yet

 

[ColinMorrisWalksOnWater]

Worst day as a Shrimper? Our next match!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Big Dady]

There have been so many of them over the last 2+ years, I do not know were to being. or more importantly when it will end, we could end up with 3 relegations on the trot.

 

[LBBlue]

4 National League defeats in a row - gets worse every week ..............

 

[Mad Cyril]

League one family club of the year feels like something from past life regression hypnosis.

 

[Lord Football]

The day our Chairman came into the away end, incited a near riot and then after being ushered away by plod tried to come back for seconds.

Followed up by a member of the management team offering out a couple of fans after the game.