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The Southend autopsy

Discussion in 'City Talk' started by RonnieBrown, Aug 18, 2018.

  1. Tyneside

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    We were abysmal last week, didn’t have enough to beat Macclesfield midweek and from what I’ve read / heard we’ve been awful today. We had a pathetic preseason and now we’ve got a serious issue with Robinson. Yes, we won at Shrewsbury but I fully expect them to struggle this season.

    My own feeling as that whilst it might be nice for Collins to have these lovely coaching certificates and whatever they mean feck all if you have a bunch of players that have zero respect for you and likely think your completely out of their depth. He achieved absolutely nothing as a player and has zero coaching experience. Managing people in any business is tricky, but if would be like expecting a trolley pusher in Morrisons car park to suddenly be the store manager because he’s got a certificate in shelf stacking. I don’t blame Collins, sounds like this position was dropped on him in desperation rather than him being keen to have it.

    15 months ago we should have won the play off final by half time. Fast forward to present day and we’ve managed to completely dismantle a strong side, piss off 2 experienced managers in Stuart and Grayson, destroy the optimism of the fan base and have had the vast majority of admin / bavkroom staff leave the club.....who is the one constant in all this this shitfest?? Yes, Edin, it’s you.

    Collins may be out of his depth, but in comparison Edin is as sunk as the Titanic.
     
  2. Inner City Sumo

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    It seems the club has gone backwards so much in so little time all because one despot thinks he knows best. I don't blame Collins, although it appears he is out of his depth, sadly. I can't think of one positive thing the current owners have done since taking over. The dev squad is a waste of resources, the only player of which that looked saleable is currently under arrest! (Not the club's fault!) They let good players leave and replaced them with much worse. They waived the compo for Parky then shafted Stuart (IMO). Players downing tools in the new year. Whoever is at fault there, it destroyed last season and suggests cohesion at the club is poor. Staff leaving in droves. Rumours. Counter-rumours. I'm sure some of which are wrong or blown out of proportion but it just seems like a massive omnishambles from the top down since last summer and I fear it's going to get worse before it gets better.
    Saying that if we win the next two I'll be eating my words but right now we need two positives; one to cancel out the negative and one.... just so we can have a positive!
     
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  3. Briggus

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    I think they call organisations like this are called a " circus" because at the moment that's the impressions that is given to what is going on.
     
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  4. How

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    Edin leaning over into the dugout during the game?

    What’s all that about?
     
  5. punk bantam

    punk bantam Breakthrough Prospect

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    I miss Lawn and Parky.
     
  6. Bronco

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  7. JonButterfield

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    Excellent post.

    We have given three teams their first taste of success this season. Now we face a poor Burton side.

    We have to compete, surely?

    But the fact we are desperate to turn performances around already tells the story clearly enough to the vast majority of City fans.
     
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  8. Faithful Bantam

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    It’s hard to know how to dissect today.

    My overriding take on the whole thing is that we were a shambles from start to finish. We looked every inch a side full of individuals who didn’t have a clue what system they were supposed to be playing, and didn’t look fit. No urgency, no desire, no aggression.

    Off the ball we were a mess. Full backs exposed, the whole side 10 yards too deep, we gave Southend so much time and space it was untrue. Riley was badly exposed and had a nightmare. Akpan and Wright were far too cautious - Wright in particular; what I’ve seen so far leads me to question why the hell we signed him, let alone made him captain. He’s garbage.
    Scannell on the left is bizarre and nonsensical. Doyle is isolated and shouldn’t be played alone up front.

    The system looks totally confused. I don’t think they know what they’re supposed to be doing and it certainly isn’t setting us up to get the best out of what we’ve got.

    A decent summer of recruitment but a shambolic preseason and a shambolic selection of manager/coach is setting the tone for a relegation dogfight unless changes are made fairly soon. A couple more games to see how we go, but similar performances this week will see things turn toxic.
     
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    Sums it up for me as well. The whole shape of the squad is confusing, not only to the players but the fans as well. Neither one formation or the other, a back four and two holding midfielders yet no one is picking up players in and around the box, the two headed goals a clear case in point. Doyle completely isolated. Oh for a Josh Cullen or Gary Jones in central midfielder to give some organisation and bite.
     
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  10. JonButterfield

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    The defending for those goals... Dear God...
     
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    I’ve only seen Wright once but have to agree he is garbage
     
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  12. Tyneside

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    Now if we go into home games versus Burton and Wycombe playing just one up front in a system that nobody understands I think we’ll reach breaking point already with an increasingly agitated supporter base. Collins should rip up his Barcelona tactics book, realise he’s at Bradford City and this is real rather than a classroom and go 4-4-2 and direct of needs be. If some fecking idiot upstairs doesn’t like it he should tell him to concentrate on paying off Bruekner and Patrick and bringing in a proper centre forward
     
  13. Ulysses S Grant

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    We need another striker simples innit. Doyle must be tearing his hair out, if he had any
     
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    Begs to question what the coaching team do with the players all week during training as we appear to struggle to do the simple things.
     
  15. JonButterfield

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    Judging by the defending today, focusing on individuals is pointless.
     
  16. How

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    Seen goals and almost a carbon copy of each other.

    Easy cross into box with no pressure and an easy header into the net.

    Not sure on keeper on first one either, seems to dive in installments. Maybe harsh as can only see one angle.

    Defence for both is atrocious. 2 of our players around Hopper and he still wins the header easily and we are claiming for a push? Weak.

    Second goal.... Not a player within 5 yards of Cox for an easy header. Both crosses from byline and its all to easy.

    Burton will beat us Tuesday
     
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  17. Handoftod

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    I thought O’Donnell was good. As good as if not better than Doyle.

    The young lad Colville looks to have something about him although that could be because he was next to the completely ineffective Wright and Akpan.
     
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  19. Mike Hunt

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    Go 442 with the current squad and you’ve got Miller and Doyle up front. You’ve then got a choice of Patrick, Clare, Jones and Bruenker on the bench. Two of those are absolutely not up to the standard of League one football, one is perennially injured and the other one is a kid. The squad is thin and unbalanced.
     
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  20. Botswana Bantam

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    Yes. O'Donnell looks good. Probably a step up on Doyle for me. I'm struggling aside from that.
     
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