after failing to beat a nine man Northampton team , town continue to do it the hard way , Bury pulling off a draw has not helped with a better goal difference and only one point behind , meanwhile Bolton seem to be losing there way after only picking up one point out of a possible 9. Bolton face Val let us hope Bolton rediscover there scoring boots.if Bolton draw and fleetwood win fleetwood will go to second place on goal difference. to keep ahead of the pack nothing less than a win will do , this will be a very tough game as Southend are only only one point out of the last play off place they also must win to keep there hopes alive . so both teams know they must get a valuable three points and hope the teams around them lose . Swindon face a tough test against Scunthorpe we have to hope Scunthorpe beat swindon as that will mean they cant catch us, Bury play Northampton unless Northampton dramatically improve this will go as three points to Bury ,things could not be tighter.
Southend have recently beaten ,Coventry, chesterfield , oldham and walsall .in contrast town drew against all three .the form of Southend is nearly as good on there travels as at home.
if we were not battling relegation i would say town would do well to get a draw.
Simon cox is the clubs top scorer with 16 goals and next is anthony Wordsworth with 12 . if you wont to see how dangerous Cox is then watch this you tube!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nw7BlZsObA
i hope Hurst shows this to our defense Cox has the ability to time with perfection the diagonal run , he also seems to just sit by a defender and find space,and any lose ball in the box and he will pounce on it, he also drifts to the far post and nails goals on an angle .he has a good football brain, good ball control ,he can also shoot anything in from 20 yards area plus he he scores from free kicks!! ,any errors and he will score.essentially every area our defense have consistently failed to get right all season is where cox excels .let us hope we dont have to endure his naff post goal celebrations!
i only hope Hurst get a designated player to mark the far post from corners .i have lost count how many times town have conceded the first goal this make town vulnerable to conceding the second from a counter attack, the stats show the team who score first tend to win.so town score two goals play Southend off the park to give town the best chance to stay up(simple)