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Here's the a link that proves he's not cuptied, anyway : http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/fa_cup/8340964.stm Didn't play as Southend lost 3-0 to Gillingham in FA Cup Round 1. Have to say I wouldn't object to us resting Lambert tomorrow, I don't really care if we win or not.

I'd say he looked like a genuine threat until he scored (albeit with some strange decisions and indecisions, and a couple of useless crosses), but after the goal he went a bit quiet, at least in terms of getting into dangerous positions and beating his man. He nevertheless spent a good 20 minutes slaughtering Lewington (their captain) from every attack, just as he did at St Mary's in the second half when we stuffed them in the League.

Dunno why you'd narrow it down to crosses onto people's heads when he was effective in many other ways, but yes, I should think so, and he was also the only person on the pitch who scored, if you want to broaden the debate to "where's his end product ?".

Both got an airing. Pay Up first.

To be fair to Hasselbaink he at least scored a fair few goals there.

No, no and more no. Was a total washout at Cardiff 2 years ago, barely played for them as he was always injured and will only get more injured more often. Plus blah blah property portfolio etc.

Even if he was mascot, that doesn't mean the club knows he's the kid that keeps running on the bloody pitch, does it ?

Nothing made up, all provable evidence. And what does it tell you when Southend don't move that but DO move us ? Nice half use of story btw, unlucky for you I checked. They moved Leeds, Millwall, Saints, Charlton and Leyton Orient, and the Colchester match was a 1pm kick off on Boxing Day. So we're in the same category as two clubs with a violent history and 4 local rivals where the likelihood of violence is greater. EDIT : here's the link, with "all matches moved on Police Advice" on Southend's official website http://www.southendunited.co.uk/page/NewsDetail/0,,10444~1703328,00.html Villa's pitch invasion was totally free of malice, and the Blackburn fans were in the top tier of a stand, and under no threat. There is some difference between that and mongish pitch invasions for 1) no good reason and 2) where public order offences are a significant likelihood. Last season's pathetic Burnley pitch invasion with malice will be exactly what most of last night's invaders have in mind if they get the excuse to do it again in February, yet when they brought out the dogs last time you could hear the Northam yobs whining from the Itchen Bridge. You keep on apologising for it if you like, but it's exactly that kind of childish neanderthal crap that makes it so much like hard work for the rest of us to enjoy ourselves at matches without being herded, penned or subjected to abuse as a result of previous confrontations.

I'm guessing that we already have offered that, but only half of that piece of news has been reported (by Sky Sports).

Nice MK "fan" quote, but given that they basically kicked the sh111t out of us for the first 15 minutes they've got a cheek complaining about us being "physical". Oh, and I thought that Fonte was, um, not a ball playing defender, anyway. Wayne Thomas showed more finesse. And Stevo, no, Antonio is good enough for us at the moment, his crossing was very hit and miss, and he should have done something when he got into the box early on and Lallana was unmarked, but he (again) murdered them down their left and was always an outlet for our mostly ugly sometimes long ball football. What he can't do is defend, and I was saying Waigo should have come on about 5 minutes before he did, as Antonio was caught in two minds about closing down or tracking the runner a couple of times with 10 men - Waigo's no Nemanja Vidic but he usually gets back and knows what's expected of him.

Been saying this for months. Including in last weekend's team thread, when met with the comment "Thomas ? We want to WIN this game you know..." Having said that, when they broke against us and we backed off he was too central and the left sided attacker was given too much room to put the ball across, and the one that hit the post also came from Thomas' side - but generally I thought he did very well.

I was stood next to the loudest person in the ground, as most of the people in the back half of the left corner will attest. And it was not by any stretch of the imagination "loud" elsewhere for most of the second half. The strangest thing about that ground was how well it magnified sound. The home fans started maybe 3 songs all match but they carried very well considering how little activity there was amongst their fans, though they did sound like they were coming from somewhere near McDonalds behind us. I was only half-joking when I suggested they were piping in crowd noise from the speakers, I wouldn't put it past them.

Oh yes you did. Well, any songs anyone else was going to join in with, anyway. I thought starting the "Morgan Schneiderlin Football Genius" song about half a second before the red card was nice timing, btw.

I did enjoy the win, up until the point where 30-odd morons trying to show off decided to take the pleasure out of the evening for me. Southend's game was moved due to police concerns, whilst Brighton may have said that, but they wouldn't want away fans there on a bank holiday (still a legacy of Leeds fans in Bournemouth at Easter in the 80s and mentioned as a consideration in the BBC's fixtures article at the start of the season), especially not ones getting a reputation for acting like ***s.

It was practically silent all over the away support from about 50 minutes til the sending off, when it picked up again. Hell, I could even hear their fan (sic) at one point. It was poor support in the main, a lot of people, few actually actively supporting the team for the vast majority of the match.

It was the same kid at Northampton, the same kid who interrupted the penalties v Norwich, and I'd seen him do it at least once prior to that too. What happened last night was he did it, got on, and that put the idea into the heads of a bunch of thickoes to get on the pitch. There was also a swell of yobs trying to get on just to the left of the goal, just to p1ss off the stewards, and it was mostly them who ended up going on. All credit to Wayne Thomas, he indulged the kid and then told the rest of them to get off. It basically ruined the chance to show our appreciation for the result, as any applauding of the team was interspersed with the need to boo the nobbers to show we aren't all planks like those few. Hopefully the brown/gingerish bloke in the brown jacket gets banned, as he jumped the barrier just in order to swing a few punches at a steward who until then was 5 yards away on the edge of the pitch and just doing his job. A couple of police with a couple of cameras got some good footage, and the guy in the brown jacket was very distinctive.

It is his most famous moment.

Doesn't everyone already know this ? Isn't that one of the main reasons this thread exists ? Cos we like to have a go at the plastics and their plastic club ? My boss is an AFC Wimbledon committee member, luckily I didn't buy last night's tickets directly, but he hasn't actually spoken to me yet today...

Thing was, the ref didn't even see the tackle, he only started looking at the incident when Morgan went back to their player (presumbly to help him up or tell him to get up) afterwards. If he hadn't done that, play would have continued, he didn't stop play until the shove. ----- The penalty was appalling by both officials - the linesman furiously flagged, while the ball was still on the pitch (so wasn't giving the throw), but then failed to put his flag across his chest to indicate that he knew it was in the box. The ref then decided he had a better view of the incident (he was behind the collision/tackle/foul) but from where he was must have known it was in the box even if he hadn't seen the foul from a decent angle. He (rightly) went over to speak to the lino, and based on the lino's testimony - which can only have been "I saw a foul" but almost certainly involved "um, er, why haven't you already given it, I flagged and you couldn't see from there", decided to overrule the linesman and give a throw (I'm not even sure it didn't go out for a corner). I think if the lino had known it was in the box the ref would have given it - but because the lino didn't know it was in the box (and he was looking square on to the incident) it gave the ref the get-out to claim he had the better view - which he didn't. Whatever, it was a penalty.

Actually, he did a no-look pass down the left wing Ronaldinho style at one point that I thought was awesome. God knows how I could see it from the other end of the ground, but he did seem to make a point of deliberately looking the other way as he did it, made me laugh. The one true moment of class in a turgid drag of a game (followed by some plankness).

Pitch invasion by d1ckheads and that little kid and his mate again, one bloke decided to try punching a steward a few times. Police were about 5 yards from us filming the whole thing, hopefully there will be a few banning orders handed out, we can do without those kind of nobbers.

The little kid's slightly bigger mate was getting some steward attention that I don't think he was expecting... it's a start. Totally embarrassed by our morons last night, I wouldn't mind if they actually contributed to the atmosphere, but 3,000 or not, 75% of the time it was like a morgue, us included. And when they get shepherded straight to and from the ground and can't stop where they like for a beer they'll be the first ones to complain. Anyone still wondering why Southend and Brighton were such stupid away kick off times this season ? There's your answer.

Well, apart from the bloke in the brown jacket that threw at least 3 punches at a steward... and the fact that the first two kids aside (and they're tedious enough now, doing it at every bloody Cup game) it was all nob-end "adults" trying to be "hard".

He worked his ar5e off last night, and made a couple of vital tackles by running 20 yards - it can't all be backheels, Cruyff turns and, erm, scuffed shots into the corner. I though Holmes did ok too, other than his stupid booking for kicking the ball away (though it wasn't a foul).

You're not looking in the right threads on here then either. Last season's Southern Area Final finished 0-0 and 1-1 and went straight to penalties at the end of the 90 minutes of the second leg without away goals factoring into the equation at all. It was no coincidence that we spent most of last night casually ambling around subtly timewasting as we had no reason to have the ball on the pitch at 1-0 up and away from home. Bonus points to Antonio for the genius "cramp" injury with 1 minute of added time left, wasted 45 seconds (including the sub) and the ref only added 30. About bloody time we did it to someone else.