IdliketoRogerMoore

40 minutes ago, And Its Smith said:

Which ‘clueless’ managers are international trophy winners?  

You didn’t say international trophy you just said trophy winners!
And last I checked Southgate hasn’t won shit, probably because he’s clueless and I’m willing to bet he never wins a trophy in his managerial Career at the top level!

4 hours ago, And Its Smith said:

I’m not sure clueless managers can get to finals.  

They can and do even win them sometimes!
We got to 1 final big whoop when got there we went 1-0 up almost by accident if the rest of the game was anything to go by because Southgate set them up to sit back and defend for 120 minutes! 

He’s been lucky with the runs in tournaments and when we come up against a really good team we lose! The first World Cup we played 7 games lost 3 of them nots not the sign of a Managerial genius! 

On 31/08/2023 at 16:34, phantom said:

Our second most successful Manager in our history... Yeah awful

Jimmy Saville is one of this Countries most successful child charity ambassadors, sometimes you have to look deeper to see the evil within!

1 hour ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

Presumably they asked the ‘shithead mole’ high up within their club to fax everything off and he deliberately waited until 4 seconds after the cut off to do it.

Bastard!!

I heard that they had a retired office admin  who just wanted to keep there hand in do the paperwork but she had arthritis!

If Jay Emmanuel-Thomas married Jennison Myrie-Williams Sister and she wanted to in a form of tradition that made their own names double barrelled and made their quadruple barrelled and named their Child Bronson Emmanuel-Thomas-Myrie-Williams.

when will the double barrel quadruple barrel madness End?

10 hours ago, myol'man said:

Just as we arrived at Paddington on our way home from Millwall, just happened to bump into their new fake sheikh owner, with his kids all wearing the blue and white clowns outfit.  **** me did we give him dogs abuse!

Did you tell him to get down and that he was a bad, bad boy?

No bones for you!

That type of thing?

2 hours ago, phantom said:

Shearer in his day? 

Hasn't Kane got previous Beef with Levy mucking him around last summer? 

Shearer won the League with Blackburn!

2 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

Peterborough United have terminated BBC Cambridgeshires radio commentarys a year early and Peterborough will bring the commentarys in house from this season(2023/24)

I fear for BBC local radio football commmentaries future,taking into account that starting season 2024/25, as FIVE of the twelve Championship games over the weekend will be shown LIVE.

The bbc is failing to attract younger veiwers because it’s seen a a useless, outdated ring for peado’s by young people! 
  
Old people are dying off and the young people have so much choice than older people had when the was 3/4 channels! 

10 minutes ago, Grey Fox said:

Mehmeti, attacking midfield/ winger, Cornick, not from what I saw, best position, journeyman possibly?

Semenyo was a winger/striker who we played more as an inside forward which which is what Cornick is!
 Remember Semenyo wasn’t exactly pulling up trees in his first couple of seasons either! 
 

Honestly not sure if you’re a troll! 

On 10/07/2023 at 16:56, cidered abroad said:

I agree that the fitness of modern pros ,especially in the higher divisions, is way better than Atyeo's era and the state of pitches is so better by a million miles.

However, and I don't know if you saw him playing but he was so so good and also helped players in the team. Forget the difference in time but any player that plays 650 matches in a career over 15 years has done it because the number of poor games without their contribution can be counted on the five fingers of both hands.

ATYEO would have been a great player in any era.

No I’m afraid not as he was then players are quicker, faster reactions and they’re miles fitter! You’ve only got to look at the 100m sprint world record to see how far it’s come on, they didn’t break the 10 second barrier until after he retired! The games changed so much since then he was a great player then playing against players of his era but defenders these days wouldn’t let him have the ball! 
 

4 hours ago, Peter O Hanraha-hanrahan said:

As is so often the case, Rovers kept the information about how many actual tickets they sold for a Final close to their chest preferring instead to allow the vivid imagination of their supporters decide the final amount. 
In reality a couple of days before the final they had sold between 24k and 25k with over 42k tickets sold at that point.

It’s highly unlikely that no Grimsby fans bought tickets in those last couple of days so in reality they didn’t reach 30k and certainly nowhere near the 40k that many of their idiotic fans and management claim.

Judging by the empty seats in the top tier, 27k would be my guess.

 

I thought it was about 27k gas 14/15k Grimsby and the rest was given away and corporate! If I remember correctly!

On 30/06/2023 at 14:30, Grey Fox said:

Don’t worry Friend, I already have. 
Every bright young star will be sold at the first opportunity, the money will then be spent on a load of mediocrity , and in 57 years time we will still be in the second tier, with no doubt the occasional visit to the third in between. Mind you, our accounts will be in order, so that’s something.

How much do you think we will get for Conway next year, or should we sell him as a BOGOFF deal with Bell?

You keep stating you been a fan for 57 years but you seemed to have learned nothing about football in those 57 years!
 

All teams sell their best players to bigger clubs for money! Even Manchester United had to sell Cristiano Ronaldo, Dortmund had to sell Jude Bellingham! It’s football!

47 minutes ago, Grey Fox said:

And what would our odds be if our squad included :

g/k Heaton

Back four Ayling, Webster, Kelly , Bryan

Midfield Brownhill, Scott , Naismith, Williams 

Forwards Semenyo , Reid 

Or we can just continue to be mediocre, I know what I prefer 

 

Heaton left after we got relegated to league 9/10 years ago, Ayling was sold because the Cheltenham incident? 
Webster, Kelly, Brownhill, Bryan and Reid  would’ve have been out off contract by now and left for free all went on to play Prem football and had the ambition to do so so wouldn’t have signed new contracts what planet do you live on? 

16 hours ago, Cityboy1954 said:

Players years ago had to get a second job to durvive ask Tom Ritchie or Mike Gibson.

What’s that got to do with the price of Eggs! Are you saying if they were offered £100000 a week they would turn it down to keep their second job? 
 

Players then got paid as much as they could just like now only now there’s a lot more money floating around! 

On 08/06/2023 at 18:41, Cityboy1954 said:

Did you see Declan Rice kissing  badgeon  his shirt last night saying he loves the club turned down 200 grand a week eighteen months ago  what a load of bull shit by todays greedy players .

 

Most Players are anymore greedy today than they were 60 years ago, they get paid the going rate! 

On 30/05/2023 at 00:25, Taz said:

ADN? Both?

Taylor Moores best mate apparently!

29 minutes ago, Roe said:

We simply can't keep giving out new contracts all over the place

Even Lee Johnson's contract wouldn't have expired if he was still here

So we're still essentially paying for 3 managers at this moment in time

That’s not how football management contract law works usually if you get sacked you get paid a year or until you get a new job! That will be written into the contract as one of the clauses!

Lee Johnson won’t be getting paid by us and Sunderland and Hibs! 
we stopped paying him as soon as he took the Sunderland Job!

5-1 down diamond hat-trick 

12 hours ago, !james said:

This is very old man yells at clouds but I will never understand the culture of vlogs, reaction videos and talking into a go pro/camera during a game... Absolutely mental.  

A person with around 40000 subscribers would earn around £2000 a month! For the younger generation it’s like their pink or green un they wait for their favourite vlogger to upload. 

18 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

We all know where this is heading. 

Full time?

On 12/08/2022 at 09:14, DaveF said:

You could see the logic with Styvar, 30 goals in 57 matches for Zilina is obviously a good record. Doesn't look like he did much after leaving us tho.

I’m pretty sure he was a right back who was used as an emergency striker! And it work for whatever reason for a that season! But he was really a striker!

9 hours ago, cidered abroad said:

I would expect that the population of Southend would not be aware of the connection with certain events and people nearer home.

Perhaps it might be one for the Moderators to close it down.

@Moderator

 

I got a friend who’s claim to fame is that he got a blow job from Rose West! She was quite good at it too!

If we take a honest look at ourselves and actually be honest we just aren’t that good! We overachieved at the last 2 tournaments even with the the relatively easy runs we’ve had! So if we analyse the starting 11 from the euro final and see if and how they’ve kicked on and if we use the common thought in club football that the Champions league is the highest level you can play! 
 

Gk Pickford! (Everton) 

Whilst being quite Solid Always looks like he has a mistake in him! Also playing for Everton he defiantly gets no Champions League football, (Hasn’t kicked on)

Rwb Trippier (Newcastle) probably our strongest position depth wise but he’s gone from Athetico winning the la Liga and playing Champoins league to playing for Newcastle No Champions league (Hasn’t kicked on)

Cb Walker (Man City) plays mostly RB for Man City he’s solid but like the a formation strength at Rb/Rwb gets shoehorn into the team at cb and doesn’t usually let us down plays Champions league football

Cb Stones (Man City) been in and out of the Man City Team the past few seasons at one point looking like he was going up for sale but when given a run of games and be consistent he’s probably our most talented CB, Plays Champions League.

Cb Maguire (Man Utd) he’s a difficult one last season became a meme and a bit of a running joke! His form was terrible and he is prone to clangers but was usually solid for England! I think if you pick on club form then there’s no way he could be included and it would probably do him good to step out of the firing line to recompose himself. 
next season no Champions league football.

Lwb Shaw (Man Utd) was solid the whole tournament and scored in the final but a inconsistent season last year plus injuries means he hasn’t kicked on from then and that is likely to be his peak! No Champions league next year!

Cm Phillips (Leeds)

this is where we fall down most in terms of squad strength, Can you see him playing for the one of the best Club teams in the world? 26 years old never played European football let alone Champions league! 
 

Cm Rice (West Ham) never Played Champions league although does seem to have some ability!

Lw/lam Mount (Chelsea) he’s a funny one a bit marmite! Like a lot of players of his flits in and out of games but is young has time to work his weaknesses! Plays Champions league!

Rw/Ram Sterling (Man City) Great player probably should score more but is one of our better players! Play Champions league. 
 

Cf Kane (Tottenham) not sure I need to say much about him key player in our team! Plays champion league Football! 
 

now I’m not saying it’s the be all and end all but all the best players play champions league football and by playing the best it’s the best way to learn and improve! But you look at it objectively only 3 (Kane, Walker and Sterling) maybe Stones at a push are considered key players in regular Champions league playing teams so maybe we just ain’t as good as we think we are!

3 hours ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

Surely his main drive should be to be playing first team football 

From whose point of view you’d be surprised at the amount of players who don’t like football don’t like playing it just happened to ggo’s enough to go pro and make money! For proof you have to look no further than 3rd choice goalkeepers in the prem, never likely to play but will get paid very handsomely to train fitness eat well and be finished work at like 12:30ish everyday!