BraisingsteakRoyal Off to the Silverlake for Eastleigh vs Southend Utd tonight.
There's been a bit of an exodus over the last couple of weeks - first the manager and then maybe 4/5 of the younger/better players have been picked up by lower league sides - with loanees being brought in to replace them til the end of the season.
Either the club has just written the season off, or there is some deeper financial concern and its a fire sale.
Good game last night - finished 1-1 between two sides who wanted to play football and get forward. Honestly, the quality is not actually that far off watching Reading these last couple of years.
Attendance was over 3k apparently - including maybe 800-100 travelling Southend fans - both sets of supporters making plenty of noise for 90 mins.
Eastleigh had a couple of real quality full backs - Brennan Camp (RB) who joined on loan last week from Bournemouth - who got forward well - and got an assist for the Eastleigh goal after 6 mins with a good run and decent delivery. Strong in the tackle too. Played the second half as a CB after Andrew Boyce was booked and taken off as a precaution.
They then brought on LB Vince Harper - who looks far too good for this level - quick, beats players and gets the ball in early.