Motorway miles & Differing styles – 10/11 **Season 11/12 from page 51**

[LeedsRhodesy]

Steve Williams

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1326747/Sven-Goran-Eriksson-goes-head-head-Nottingham-Forest-barber-Steve-Williams.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Any ideas of a figure? I'd sell him!!

Stfu been our best CB all season!!!

[TheChipPrince]

Steve Williams

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1326747/Sven-Goran-Eriksson-goes-head-head-Nottingham-Forest-barber-Steve-Williams.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Any ideas of a figure? I'd sell him!!

Stfu been our best CB all season!!!

Sorry missed your original question about him, but yeah he did well at Bury, played some good balls into forwards feet too which was noticable.

[Girgy85]

Steve Williams

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1326747/Sven-Goran-Eriksson-goes-head-head-Nottingham-Forest-barber-Steve-Williams.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Any ideas of a figure? I'd sell him!!

Stfu been our best CB all season!!!

I never said he hasn't been our best CB!! If the price is right tho we should sell him right??

[SammyA]

Have you ever watched Anthony Grant playa for Southend. His knows how we still have him!

Another young great player Ricky Holmes, recently joined Barnet from Chelmsford city! amazing finisher!

Pass Antibes details on to Paul Sturrock would be nice for him to actually see his son is shit!

Ta in advance

Sam

Grant having a good season I hear down there?  I probbaly have seen him a couple of times but nothing stands out from what I remember.  Blair Sturrock yeah, never rated him to much.

Havn't heard of Ricky Holmes myself, someone at the club will know him though with the geographical closeness of the teams.

Does Zaaboub still wear gloves in the summer?!  Saw him on the opening day for Swindon at Northampton, think it was start of 07/08, he had gloves on, start of Aug, hot day.

Zaaboub, Rubbish FACT! One of the worst footballlers I ave ever seen.

Granty is having an amazing season, he will be gone to Championship side in January I would guess, I know he has had Bristol City, Leicester and Norwich watching him this season.

Ricky, Amazing young fella, just missed out on getting to a big league club due to Chelmsford not being willing to let Peterborough or Leeds buy him out of his contract. His pace is amazing, plays both wings or up top. Southend United missed out on him big time. He is about 5ft 10 I think.

Also if Col "Sc*m" Ewe need a LB, Jonny Herd, over at Southend, great young player and is being mugged of by the gaffer. He should go far should of left Southend in the Summer.

Any thoughts on Franc Moussa, Daryl Flahavan, Freddy Eastwood (sigh) and Adam Barrett (some of my most loved blues from previous years)

Not as much as we are massively going to miss Steve Tilson & Paul Brush, watch Lincoln's progress over the next 3 years.

[gatso]

Ricky, Amazing young fella, just missed out on getting to a big league club due to Chelmsford not being willing to let Peterborough or Leeds buy him out of his contract. His pace is amazing, plays both wings or up top. Southend United missed out on him big time. He is about 5ft 10 I think.

really? he definitely looked short on saturday but it's not easy to judge from a distance. didn't see him do anything special but he only came on 5 mins from the end

[SammyA]

Ricky, Amazing young fella, just missed out on getting to a big league club due to Chelmsford not being willing to let Peterborough or Leeds buy him out of his contract. His pace is amazing, plays both wings or up top. Southend United missed out on him big time. He is about 5ft 10 I think.

really? he definitely looked short on saturday but it's not easy to judge from a distance. didn't see him do anything special but he only came on 5 mins from the end

I may over praise him! His a local lad! I am sure he will go far given a regular first team place!

[SammyA]

Also as he is now up birth ever watched Judas Nicky Baily, now at Middlesboroufh! Great footballer just a selfish Pratt! Everytime he has been sold he has forced the deal and told the fans it wad due to he dreamed of playing for said club who the he'll from London dreams of playing for Middlesboroufh

[TheChipPrince]

I saw Southend at Oldham, either start of May or end of April, might have been the day you got relegated.  

The team was a dead ship by then, Tilson screamed from the sideline all game, but the spirit was non-existent, a team who knew they were gone.

That is the only memory I have of them from the last 12 months, unfortunately its not a very positive 1!  

[TheChipPrince]

I went down to the Evo Stik League again on saturday, Marine FC v Halifax Town, it finished 0-6 to Halifax.  They're big fish in this league, and most of the 800 crowd where Halifax supporters I think, they had 2 sides of the ground to Marine's one anyway.  Marine play in Crosby, Liverpool, not far from Southport.

The clubs social club is called the 'Scouse House', reasonable in there too! 

[TheChipPrince]

Oh, and I went again on the train, which after getting throughly drenched walking to the station and back from the ground, and back from Chester station to my house, my love affair with trains may ended before it really begun...

[TheChipPrince]

Off to another new ground tomorrow, Colchester have been drawn against Swindon Supermarine in the FA Cup 2nd round, which a complete trip into the unknown (well, there at home but SS are unknown).  The game is not til the 27th so its a 1st look at them tomorrow.  They're playing away at Evesham, who in turn play at Worcester as (I think) they're own ground is being re-developed at the mo.  So Chester to Worcester about a 100 miles or so, furtherest I've been in a while.

Then tuesday night I'm off to Vauxhall Motors v Hartlepool FA Cup 1st round replay after the 1st game finished 0-0, which is only up the road for me outside Ellesmere Port.  I think historically all the players worked at the massive Vauxhall plant which is acorss the road from the ground, but I don't think thats the case anymore.  Colchester are playing Hartlepool the following week.

Busy few days.

[The Camel]

Sorry if this has been asked before... What percentage of matches do you go to scout upcoming opposition as opposed to looking at a specific player of interest?

[TheChipPrince]

Sorry if this has been asked before... What percentage of matches do you go to scout upcoming opposition as opposed to looking at a specific player of interest?

I think I have mentioned it before, but no problem, it'll be mixed it mire somewhere here!

This season its been around 50/50, I think its about 7 team assessments, 8 or 9 player assessments.  But this main reason for this is League 1 is Southern dominated, Brighton, Yeovil, Saints, B'mouth, Plymouth, Dag & Red, L. Orient, Charlton, Brentford, B .Rovers, even Swindon, MK Dons and probs a couple more ive missed are all 300+ round trips for me, and we have 3 other guys all closer to them grounds than me (and they took on an extra chap this season).

Previous seaons have been about 80/20 team assessments.  Player assessments are 'easier' in one way though, a lot less writing.      BUT do require a more thoughtful and in depth look at a player.  Will also involve his history if poss, on and off field, where he lives, if poss, and how open he would be to moving if it would require him moving house, so even knowing family situation, kids etc.   Pointless going to watch a homebird in Scotland if he has no intention of ever leaving there.  usually a call to agent, but this is more of a club thing, not done by me.

For the 1st 1 1/2 years I was doing this it was 100% team assessments I did at Cheltenham Town.  There was literally 2 of us then doing it, so we didn't even have chance to look at players.  

Histon (conference, not sure if there part or full time, part i think)), who are now managed by David Livermore have no scouts I heard him say in an interview, so they go into every game 'blind'.

[TightEnd]

Histon rose through the non-leagues (tiny stadium, small village) supported by wealthy businessmen. They fell out earlier this year, the money ran out and Histon are now on a shoestring and set to fall back through the leagues


Swindon Supermarine I know as they are in the Southern prem, same as my non league team

Huge team. Giant centre halfs. Direct style. Been in the lower reaches of that league since promotion a few years ago. Known as a dour attritional side 0-0,1-0 type games but in the last month have been banging goals in. No dea why!

You don't want a replay there. Small ground, poor floodlights.

[TheChipPrince]

Swindon Supermarine I know as they are in the Southern prem, same as my non league team

Huge team. Giant centre halfs. Direct style. Been in the lower reaches of that league since promotion a few years ago. Known as a dour attritional side 0-0,1-0 type games but in the last month have been banging goals in. No dea why!

You don't want a replay there. Small ground, poor floodlights.

Ok thanks, you know a lot more than me at the mo about them!