Courtesy of Mr PIA.
5 to 7 start, 3 and a half hours later parked up in Southend, how did that happen, and had I gone deaf 
Then I was reminded that the chief navigator and football pundit Francis what's his face wasn't with us, oh well I wasn't gonna go back and pick him up.
Leaves us with plenty of room to take the 3 points back, against a team shot on confidence and goals.
No Austin was a blow, but we should still have enough to trouble them especially if we get an early goal, cos then we'll change our shape, shut up shop and make it difficult for the home team to break us down, then the home crowd will get on the players backs, the confidence will be at rock bottom, then we'll pick em off and kill the game with a 2nd.
Right on cue, after withstanding 5 minutes of early pressure a long ball into the Sothend area and the loose ball falls to Boydie on edge of the box, sweet shot placed rather than power goalie no chance 1 up "oh I do like to be beside the seaside" Now for the easy bit, we've had it done to us numerous times, CT has mentioned it numerous times so we should be well versed in how to do it.
But things were not quite going to plan, there number 26 was causing havoc everytime he got the ball, poor Hartley never got close to him and we were under severe pressure, bit like the Exeter debacle this, we can all see the danger, wonder why someone doesn't decide to tell someone to either stop him getting the ball or try to stop him running
But then after another loose ball bounced about on edge of Southends box, fell to Monkhouse, his weak effort was deflected past the goalie off there number 7 who had already been booked, did not return the ball to us after a crunching tackle by Humphs on the 26 (it was accidental) and had been lucky to have still been on the pitch as the ref decided more than once not to give him a 2nd yellow, justice was done we thought, "oh I do like to be beside the seaside"
Now then cue plan B, you know, that one every away team does to us after going in front undesevedly, you know, the one I keep telling the Pools fans about, the one that makes it really difficult for the home team to break down, you know, the one that frustrates the fans and destroys the confidence.
Oh well alright, don't bother with that, maybe CT forgot to tell the players about it and assumed they would read it in the paper cos he's told us about it plenty of times, instead we'll just let poor Hartley get terrorised at every opportunity, we'll just let them knock ball after ball into our box, and eventually Flinders will catch one of the crosses and calm everything down and eventually they'll stop knocking the crosses in, trouble was that didn't happen, Flinders never caught one all day and it was us that was looking the confused demoralised team
Phew we held out, now we'll see a different game.
Right then we've got 2 options, plan A is we can either remove Bjornsson, (i think he was still on) and stick an extra midfield player on someone young and keen, who can get about the pitch and can also play a bit, someone like Rowell, then we can double up on that number 26 and help Hartley, cos it's really not fair on him, then the crosses will dry up, cos we are looking solid with anything down the middle, and we don't need to score anymore to win, or plan B we can do nothing and all run around in the 2nd half with our fingers crossed, a bit like Flinders has been doing lately.
Let's go for plan B and keep it as is and we'll try the old crossing the fingers routine, because we haven't got anyone on the bench like Rowell ???
Anyhow, more of the same ensued, Flinders failed to catch a cross, we headed it off the line, they won a disputable free kick from the clearance, and the scored from the cross.
We failed to clear our lines, Liddle passed it short to Humphs instead of clearing it, Humphs passed it short to Hartley instead of clearing it, Hartley got caught in possesion instead of clearing it, Liddle didn't go in hard eough with the loose ball and it's all square.
Right lads enough of the fingers crossed routine let's try plan A but with someone who's tried and failed in that position to do it before, at least he'll put the tackles in, but instead of taking a front man off we'll take Monkhouse off who doesn't look as though he's having a very good game or enjoying it much stuck out there on the right wing.
True to form Clark gets booked within 30 seconds without touching the ball, so that nullifies the effect of that meaningless and far too late substitution.
Another cross from Hartleys side another goal. no-one was surprised.
It's the last throw of the dice now cue the next master stroke, let's put Freddie on and take off McSweeney cos he doesn't look as though he's having a very good game or enjoying it much stuck out there on the left wing .(notice the common denominator)
Needless to say the game was lost, thankfully only by 3-2 cos it could have been more, so i guess we should be thankfull for that, because Southend are a massive club with a dead long pier and they sell cockles and mussels so we can't expect much after going all the way down there can we.
We missed Austin, but Sweeney did ok at right back, Collins and Liddle coped with everything that came at them through the middle, Hartley got absolutely tortured but got no support at all, Humphs and Jones had there moments but got over run, Monkhouse and McSweeney enjoyed there best spells in the game when in there correct positions, Boydie took his goal well but did little else, Bjornsson was non existant and Flinders reluctance to catch anything is worrying and teams are playing on it now, wonder if we ever watch the opposition
As for CT's comments that we didn't deserve anything I don't think will go down too well with the players, because the team did NOT lack effort, they lacked guidance, another 3 points handed to us on a plate that we decided not to take.
Ah well back to the car, our journeys are obviously not as long as those that the players have to take, it certainly didn't feel that long without the chief navigator, unfortunately tho' I now have no-one to blame for getting stuck in the wrong lane on the M25 and missing the M11 turn off and as a result not getting home till half 9
Then I was reminded that the chief navigator and football pundit Francis what's his face wasn't with us, oh well I wasn't gonna go back and pick him up.
Leaves us with plenty of room to take the 3 points back, against a team shot on confidence and goals.
No Austin was a blow, but we should still have enough to trouble them especially if we get an early goal, cos then we'll change our shape, shut up shop and make it difficult for the home team to break us down, then the home crowd will get on the players backs, the confidence will be at rock bottom, then we'll pick em off and kill the game with a 2nd.
Right on cue, after withstanding 5 minutes of early pressure a long ball into the Sothend area and the loose ball falls to Boydie on edge of the box, sweet shot placed rather than power goalie no chance 1 up "oh I do like to be beside the seaside" Now for the easy bit, we've had it done to us numerous times, CT has mentioned it numerous times so we should be well versed in how to do it.
But things were not quite going to plan, there number 26 was causing havoc everytime he got the ball, poor Hartley never got close to him and we were under severe pressure, bit like the Exeter debacle this, we can all see the danger, wonder why someone doesn't decide to tell someone to either stop him getting the ball or try to stop him running
But then after another loose ball bounced about on edge of Southends box, fell to Monkhouse, his weak effort was deflected past the goalie off there number 7 who had already been booked, did not return the ball to us after a crunching tackle by Humphs on the 26 (it was accidental) and had been lucky to have still been on the pitch as the ref decided more than once not to give him a 2nd yellow, justice was done we thought, "oh I do like to be beside the seaside"
Now then cue plan B, you know, that one every away team does to us after going in front undesevedly, you know, the one I keep telling the Pools fans about, the one that makes it really difficult for the home team to break down, you know, the one that frustrates the fans and destroys the confidence.
Oh well alright, don't bother with that, maybe CT forgot to tell the players about it and assumed they would read it in the paper cos he's told us about it plenty of times, instead we'll just let poor Hartley get terrorised at every opportunity, we'll just let them knock ball after ball into our box, and eventually Flinders will catch one of the crosses and calm everything down and eventually they'll stop knocking the crosses in, trouble was that didn't happen, Flinders never caught one all day and it was us that was looking the confused demoralised team
Phew we held out, now we'll see a different game.
Right then we've got 2 options, plan A is we can either remove Bjornsson, (i think he was still on
) and stick an extra midfield player on someone young and keen, who can get about the pitch and can also play a bit, someone like Rowell, then we can double up on that number 26 and help Hartley, cos it's really not fair on him, then the crosses will dry up, cos we are looking solid with anything down the middle, and we don't need to score anymore to win, or plan B we can do nothing and all run around in the 2nd half with our fingers crossed, a bit like Flinders has been doing lately.Let's go for plan B and keep it as is and we'll try the old crossing the fingers routine, because we haven't got anyone on the bench like Rowell ???
Anyhow, more of the same ensued, Flinders failed to catch a cross, we headed it off the line, they won a disputable free kick from the clearance, and the scored from the cross.
We failed to clear our lines, Liddle passed it short to Humphs instead of clearing it, Humphs passed it short to Hartley instead of clearing it, Hartley got caught in possesion instead of clearing it, Liddle didn't go in hard eough with the loose ball and it's all square.
Right lads enough of the fingers crossed routine let's try plan A but with someone who's tried and failed in that position to do it before, at least he'll put the tackles in, but instead of taking a front man off we'll take Monkhouse off who doesn't look as though he's having a very good game or enjoying it much stuck out there on the right wing.
True to form Clark gets booked within 30 seconds without touching the ball, so that nullifies the effect of that meaningless and far too late substitution.
Another cross from Hartleys side another goal. no-one was surprised.
It's the last throw of the dice now cue the next master stroke, let's put Freddie on and take off McSweeney cos he doesn't look as though he's having a very good game or enjoying it much stuck out there on the left wing .(notice the common denominator)
Needless to say the game was lost, thankfully only by 3-2 cos it could have been more, so i guess we should be thankfull for that, because Southend are a massive club with a dead long pier and they sell cockles and mussels so we can't expect much after going all the way down there can we.
We missed Austin, but Sweeney did ok at right back, Collins and Liddle coped with everything that came at them through the middle, Hartley got absolutely tortured but got no support at all, Humphs and Jones had there moments but got over run, Monkhouse and McSweeney enjoyed there best spells in the game when in there correct positions, Boydie took his goal well but did little else, Bjornsson was non existant and Flinders reluctance to catch anything is worrying and teams are playing on it now, wonder if we ever watch the opposition
As for CT's comments that we didn't deserve anything I don't think will go down too well with the players, because the team did NOT lack effort, they lacked guidance, another 3 points handed to us on a plate that we decided not to take.
Ah well back to the car, our journeys are obviously not as long as those that the players have to take, it certainly didn't feel that long without the chief navigator, unfortunately tho' I now have no-one to blame for getting stuck in the wrong lane on the M25 and missing the M11 turn off and as a result not getting home till half 9
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