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Post by Iron Webbo on Jul 10, 2013 18:53:44 GMT
6 mins 1-0 Sean Marks after excellent work on the left from Dan Sparkes and Dan Holman
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Post by Iron Webbo on Jul 10, 2013 19:12:39 GMT
26 1-1 Hemmings for Southend
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Post by Iron Webbo on Jul 10, 2013 19:43:17 GMT
HT 1-1
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Post by Iron Webbo on Jul 10, 2013 20:23:10 GMT
81 2-1 Nicky Symons screamer from 25 yards
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Post by Iron Webbo on Jul 10, 2013 20:37:23 GMT
FT 2-1
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Post by braintreeboy on Jul 10, 2013 20:56:14 GMT
Great stuff, who were the 11 that started? Any trialists that looked impressive?
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Post by jonw on Jul 10, 2013 22:12:09 GMT
From Southend Echo:
BRAINTREE TOWN 2 SOUTHEND UNITED 1
Pre-season friendly
Braintree Town delivered a message of intent as they opened their pre-season summer fixtures with a 2-1 win against Southend United at the Amlin Stadium.
While neither club will read too much into the end result, the Iron should be pleased with a decent display and won with goals by Sean Marks and Nicky Symons at either end of the game.
Southend played their part in an entertaining summer fixture and looked effective when they got the ball down and passed it around – particularly before half-time prior to the mass changes that manager Phil Brown made after the break.
Both teams had a strong turn-out of trialists in their squads available for the game as managers Alan Devonshire and Brown looked at possible new additions for the coming campaign.
However, Devonshire put out a strong side to start the game, with only summer signing Chez Isaacs and trialist Newman Carney who weren’t members of the squad that finished ninth in the Conference Premier last season.
Brown included former Colchester United left-back Ben Coker in his starting line-up and fellow trialists Martin Scott and Kain Hemmings were also involved at the start for the Blues.
Braintree had the better of the early exchanges and some classy early play down their left-hand side saw them open the scoring in the fourth minute.
Former Luton Town full-back Carney marked his first appearance in an Iron shirt with a well-weighted pass into Dan Holman, who, in turn, lifted a delightful ball into the middle where Marks was waiting to head home.
After that active start, the game settled down quickly with neither side really getting on top.
The Blues began to move the ball more fluidly and some telling crosses from the right kept the home defence on its toes, while Braintree looked threatening from set pieces when they came their way.
The impasse was broken in the 26th minute when a ball into the middle saw Southend’s Kain Hemmings putting pressure on Iron centre-half Matt Paine.
As Paine tried to clear his lines, all he succeeded in doing was lifting it over his own keeper, Nathan McDonald, and into the Braintree net to make it 1-1.
That was the way it stayed into half-time as chances dried up for both sides, but the Iron’s James Mulley crafted a superb opportunity soon after the break.
He surged forward from midfield, ghosted past several challenges and drilled in a fierce shot from 20 yards that Blues keeper Dan Bentley could only stand and admire, but it fizzed past the post.
The hour mark signalled mass changes for Southend, while the hosts brought on Alan Massey for Paine and Devonshire followed that by bringing Symons on for Isaacs and former Cambridge United player Charlie Wassmer on for skipper Kenny Davis.
Devonshire continued to make alterations, giving run-outs to several trialists in the closing 20 minutes.
Former Heybridge Swifts player Ryan Ince, ex-Brentford youngster Sam Griffiths and Gregg Akalpele were all given their chance to shine.
But it was one of last season’s players who made the biggest mark as Symons drove home a superb shot from 20 yards with five minutes on the clock to give the Iron the late advantage and the local bragging rights.
BRAINTREE TOWN: Nathan McDonald, Ryan Peters (Sam Griffiths 74), Newman Carney, Dean Wells, Matt Paine (Alan Massey 60), Chez Isaacs (Nicky Symons 68), James Mulley (Gregg Akalpele 75), Dan Sparkes (Ryan Ince 75), Kenny Davis (Char, Sean Marks, Dan Holman.
SOUTHEND UNITED: Starting line-up - Dan Bentley, John White, Ben Coker, Marc Laird, Aaron Tathan, Chris Barker, Kevan Hurst, Martin Scott, Kain Hemmings, Freddy Eastwood, Anthony Straker.
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Post by ozbrit on Jul 10, 2013 22:12:23 GMT
Excellent start to proceedings  |
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Post by 1672 on Jul 11, 2013 19:11:33 GMT
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Post by richardnott on Jul 15, 2013 8:37:07 GMT
Does anybody know what the attendance were for that southend game somebody told me it was over 360 something can somebody tell me.
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Post by 1672 on Jul 15, 2013 11:08:25 GMT
There was a decent crowd, guess at 700-800, mainly Southend fans, who weren't too pleased at us getting a late goal!
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