Spot on, I remember last pre season where people kept saying results and performances don’t matter, then look how we started the season. Whilst fitness plays a huge part so does building patterns of play etc, let’s hope we hit the ground running.

So many issues they run through brick walls for him and got their silly little club in the play offs, sour grapes indeed. Glad to hear we’re not throwing silly money at players and certainly those ones with injury issues, long may it continue. Hearing Noah Coppin from Salisbury will be one of the ...

A really good mix of young hungry players mixed in with a sprinkle of experience. Lacking at left back and also up top, not an injury prone player amongst them all.

GNB wrote: Tue May 26, 2026 9:13 pm Not looking good for Dieng and Marsh.

What a shame, said nobody.

Been told he has nothing to do with his dad anymore and as others said and Archie himself said let’s judge him on the pitch. The tears from Chelmsford fans suggest with got a good one here.

Ashmore and Beautyman have bags of experience and if we do actually get promoted they’ll be about next season too to help hopefully some of the others we bring in this season that need handholding.

Need some centre backs and a couple of strikers, very good ones that will push us on.

Most will end up at Chelmsford, they like paying silly money to players on their way down just like us, but that is all changing for us now.

There was been no officially confirmed signings so far.

I reckon we can see some movement this week.

Harry Beautyman one of them.

Great appointment, with only 1 automatic promotion place you have to be looking at a minimum of play offs next seasons and we have someone who has done that before. Clear he was the target and we acted professionally and did it once their season was done, unlike their chairman who chucked his toys ...

Cheek left as we were going bust at the time.

Same old.

He was very well paid by all of the clubs he managed, reported salary at Luton was over £100k plus a promotion bonus of the same value, jumped ship from us when the gravy boat of money run dry despite him claiming he loves the club.

Facts are Southend didn’t see any value in paying him handsomely ...

Most of his scouts were older than him, guess the world moves on. Bromley got promoted with help from a guy who played football manager turned analytics for the club, you don’t need old dudes sitting in a stand anymore.

Because he wants paying well as per usual, you’d think at his age he would have earned enough not to put up silly wage demands. Go retire John as you can’t take your fortune with you.

Yes credit to the young lad he did very well, did nothing wrong all game bar that early issue. Other than that it was absolutely awful, how mad were Weston and from the two games I’ve seen against them it’s ever more a disappointment we’re not challenging at the top of the league, if they beat us ...