Following the club winning the hospitality award last year for our under 18 and under 16 Alliance league sides, we are delighted to announce that our First team has won the Essex Senior League Fair play award.

This award is based on a combination of disciplinary points from cautions and dismissals across the whole league during the entire league campaign.

Well done to Stroyan, Russell and the entire first team squad on acheiving this award and for playing in a sporting and exciting manner on their way to a creditable fourth spot finish.

Southend Manor held their annual presentation evening on Saturday 2 May.

Following a successful first campaign under the new management team of Stroyan Nelson and Russell Faulkener, the first team acheieved their best Essex Senior League finish for several years with a Top 4 finish.

With several stand out performers throughout the season, it was Skipper Jason Jay who picked up the Player of the year award with Jon Wheatstone collecting the Players player award.

Colin Higgs picked up the Clubman of the year award and Dave Tubbs also collected a Special award for his loyalty to the first team throughout the campaign.

Awards:

Player of the Year - Jason Jay

Players player of the Year - Jon Wheatstone

Clubman of the Year - Colin Higgs

Special Award - Dave Tubbs

Roots Hall, Sunday 10 May 2009

Congratulations to the Southend Manor Youth Under 14 Squad who have completed the double of League Winners and, as a result of their exploits on 10th May, winning the Southend Junior League Cup Final. Congratulations also to our under 15 Squad who won the Premier League Championship at their age group, although they were losing finalists at the above Cup Finals.

With reference to the report in the Evening Echo on Tuesday 13th May which covered events following the Under 15 Cup Final and headlined "Spectators disgust over youth cup brawl", the Club would wish readers to understand that it is the view of the Club that the report was, unbalanced, sensationalist and biased against Southend Manor Football Club.

Southend United's CCTV coverage of events shows no evidence of "vicious brawl", or of any Southend Manor player "raining blows to the poor (Deaneswood) player's face", or of "Southend Manor players attempting to fight Deaneswood players".

Further, as the report headlines "Police called as fight breaks out after game" we should be aware that whilst the police did attend it was in fact at the request of a Southend Manor player who alleged that he was assaulted by an official of the opposing team.

Southend Manor Football Club will respond appropriately to the Referee's report of the circumstances which led to the Southend Manor player being sent off as well as cooperating with the Southend Junior League in any report which they may feel necessary in connection with this event. Consequently, the Club will not engage in any further correspondence other than to the above two authorities.

Bob Westley,

Chairman

 

The Manor photo gallery has been updated with new pictures from the recent league victories over Eton Manor and Romford.

Photos from the Barking game at the weekend are now available in The Gallery.

After a short holiday, the latest Groyney column is available.

He will also be doing a sponsored walk on Tuesday, 3rd March from Basildon United FC to the Manor in aid of St Lukes hospice. Please support him and use the Contact Us button on the left if you are interested in donating.

Finally, we have couple of great photos from the Clapton game in the gallery.

We've released the new Southend Manor mobile website. Point your phone browser to www.southendmanor.co.uk/mobile! On there, you'll find first team and under 18 results and fixtures along with some Groyney's column - the latest of which is now available both on the mobile site and here.

With some spare time on his hands after fun and games at Roots Hall on Tuesday night, we've got a bonus article from Groyney this week. In addition to the Essex Non League round up, find the English League and European Round up here.

We have introduced a new section for our website to give our visitors something different. Groyne Strain's column round up will summarise the week in Essex Non-League Football. Find the latest one here. If you have any feedback, please use the Contact Us form.

With the first team frustratingly suffering a few gameless match days recently, the club acted quickly to arrange a couple of friendlies to enable the squad to get some much needed game time. Several games were recently postponed due to the wintery conditions.

Southend Manor visited Ryman North side Concord Rangers last Thursday (15th Jan). A superb Chris Badderley hat-trick gave Manor a victory against a strong Concord side featuring a mixture of first team players, fringe players and trialists.

Tonight (Tuesday 20th) Manor hosted our friends from Leigh Town who play in the Premier league of the Borough Combination. On a boggy pitch, Manor ran out comfortable 3-0 winners and were thwarted on numerous occaions by the visiting keeper. Chris Badderley finally broke the deadlock in the second half and a brace from Clint Foorde sealed the victory.

 

Southend Manor are pleased to announce the double signing of Dan Wornham and Jay Smith. The signing of these player's proves a timely boost to the Manor squad going into the new year.

Dan is a highly rated defender and is best known for his years at Burnham Ramblers whilst Jay returns to Manor from Gt Wakering Rovers, Jay of course played for the Manor first team when in the U/18 side back in 2003.

The current squad have made a good start to the campaign and these signings will provide healthy competition within the squad.

Manor would like to welcome both Dan and Jay to the club!

Southend Manor have sneaked into the two legged Quarter Finals of the league cup thanks to a 1-1 draw between Barking and Hullbridge. Manor qualify from group 'C' as runners up and now face group 'D' winners Sawbridgeworth. The first leg is away and will be played this Saturday (22 November). The vital second leg will be played at the Arena in December.

The first team match reports and player profiles are now up and running on the site. You can visit the fixture & results section of the site for all of the first team match reports.The player profiles inclusive of stats, profiles and photo's are visible in the players section.

The club is saddened to announce the recent death of Dave Kittle.

Dave was a long serving member of Southend Manor Football Club and was of course a former Club Secretary, a role in which he once won the honour of being named 'League club secretary of the year'.

He was a good and wise friend to our chairman and a familiar face during his years within the club. Following a long illness which he bore with great courage, David recently passed away. David's funeral took place on Friday 7th November.

He will be greatly missed by everybody at the club as well as in the wider football community. Our deepest thoughts and sympathies go out to his friends and to his family.

Essex Senior Cup:- The draw for the County's most prestigious Cup competition was recently made at Essex HQ by Essex Cricket Start Graham Napier. The 4-2 home success over Barkingside means that Manor now have a glamour tie away to Conference South league leaders Chelmsford City. The match will take place at Chelmsford's Melbourne Park on Monday 3 November, 7.30pm Kick off.

Gordon Brasted Trophy:- Southend Manor's reward for recently beating Clapton, is an away tie in the Quarter Finals against Burnham Ramblers.

Finally, in the Essex Senior League Cup:- Should Manor secure the runners up spot ahead of Barking in group 'C', they will meet the Winners of group 'D' in a two legged Quarter Final. This will be against either Sawbridgeworth or Barkingside.

The club photo gallery is now available on this website. Please select Photo Gallery from the menu on the left and then select the category of photos you wish to view.

If you have any photos that we could put on the site, please contact us.

Our under 18 side will now have their results and match reports in the Fixtures & Results section of our website. Go to the Fixtures & Results page and then select the Under 18s in the team dropdown.

The FA Vase match against Royston Town will now be played away.

Following Manor's first qualifiying round victory against Harpenden Town, we'll face Royston Town at home on 20th September in the second qualifying round.

All the Essex Senior League fixtures for the forthcoming season are now available on the fixtures page.

The first team get their season properly underway this weekend with their FA Cup tie against AFC Kempston Rovers. The pre season has seen plenty of goals and several clean sheets so signs are promising for the first game.

The first few league matches of the season have also been arranged. Please see the fixtures page for full details.

The new Southend Manor website has been put together. At the moment, you will not notice a lot of difference from the old one however, over the next few months, we will be opening new areas of the site giving you more information about the players not only in the Senior team but from the Under 16s and Under 18s.

The Preliminary rounds of the FA Vase and FA Cup have been drawn with Southend Manor playing at home to Harpenden Town and AFC Kempston Rovers respectively. The FA Cup match will be played on Saturday, 16th August while the FA Vase match will be played on Saturday, 6th September.