The Evening Echo with journalist Chris Phillips has done a far better job in reporting the Blues than in my day of grabbing a copy at Fenchurch Street on the way home from work.
The Southend chairman Ron Martin at least posts a blog now and again, they might be full of stuff that spinmeister Alastair Campbell would be proud to call his own, but it's great he takes the time.
The trouble is, on one point, and it's quite important, one side keeps going on about it, while the other remains silent. The Shrimpers squad not getting their dosh placed into their bank accounts on a monthly basis.
As players can't take the club to the High Court, well I suppose they can but how do they pay the lawyers, they've remained silent on the subject.
That is if you take out Macca and Johnny Herd supposedly joining a Facebook group 'we like being paid' or some such title. (Sorry, can't confirm, avoid those sites like the plague, but I've asked the daughter to look into it!)
Even so, is the paper just trying to continually resurrect a story that has no basis in truth to flog a few extra papers, or has Uncle Ron got something to hide?
Printed amongst the latest Echo 'Problems mount for Southend United' story is; 'And the Echo also understands that the players have still not been paid their wages for January.'
Says who?
If your among the 37 of us who catch Charlie Brooker's excellent Newswipe on BBCFour you're be aware of how reporters in the UK can receive a quote left on their voicemail by a person not leaving a name, or just make it up, and just add 'from a source close to' or in the case of the Echo and the line above not even bother with that, 'understands', who is this understand?
If Chris Phillips is just trying to make a few quotes from Tilly that have been on various sites since Saturday afternoon a bit more spicey and justify a headline that he knows will get a few more hits, then a public flogging outside Ron's office at Roots Hall is too good for the boy.
(Not that we all haven't tried that one before, but I repeat this is a touch more serious than the usual 'we must stick together', 'will try harder' type of headlines.)
If true, and Uncle Ron owns up, we might grow to love him, well respect you a bit more anyway. The faithful are well aware of the financial problems at the club, trying to make it sound rosy all the time just makes the situation worse.
The fact is on the pitch, though results are not going the clubs way, and we are only one point outside the bottom four, we are continuing to play football and create chances that eventually, hopefully, will start to bring home some points.
The Echo is doing itself no favours trying to create more drama than necessary when we have enough to concern us as supporters as it is.
Chairman Ron needs to tell us the facts so the local paper can stop chucking the 'no pay' story out on the web whenever they get bored.
Get your act together folks.