Sturrock: 'Our fans were fantastic'
The Shrimpers were always in control of Tuesday evening's Johnson's Paint Trophy second round tie at the Daggers Victoria Road stadium, but made harder work of it than maybe they should have done, allowing the homeside to equalise before moving up another gear and finishing them off.
Still, five consequtive wins and in the hat for the last eight of the JPT Southern Section, the draw on Sky Sport's Soccer AM Saturday morning, and only three steps from Wembley!
Speaking to Echoman Chris Phillips after the game Blues boss Paul Sturrock said: 'I'm very pleased by the way the players battled through. We did well in difficult circumstances and our fans were fantastic'
Quite true, with getting up to a half of the gate coming from the south-east of Essex, 915 in an attendence of 2,393.
Meanwhile, brilliant brace goalscorer Ryan Hall, they were both sublime finishes, said: 'It was great to get two goals but I'm not too sure what happened with the penalty. Main thing was we won.'
Oh we're forgive you Ryan, and still waiting on something from Neil Harris, that's three in three now for the former Millwall scoring legend who is starting to find his feet in a Shrimpers shirt, even when coming on a second half substitute for injured Anthony Grant whose right foot was seen in a protective boot after the game, no news there as well.
Still, the game did well to start on time as there was a mad rush for midfielder Jean-Paul Kalala and left-back peter Gilbert to get to the ground as they were caught in traffic!
Gilbert said: 'JP had to become a rally driver to get us there in time. It took us 3 hours from Southend, but thankfully we got the result.'
Hope you didn't get on the Road to Hell!
Finally, Phillips himself requested: 'Does anyone know the fan who was hit by Neil Harris' shot in the warm up yesterday? Keen to do a story about Neil giving them a shirt.'
Now that is worth a follow-up, a shirt from the Bomber, get in touch!
Source: FOOTYMAD
