Jack goes as contract talks start for the Shrimpers

Kelvin Jack; many may have forgotten he was here in the first place

Not the most surprising news that goalkeeper Kelvin Jack is the first player to leave the club as the close season kicks-in.

Kelvin, a mate of Blues skipper Adam Barrett, was brought in as cover for Steve Mildenhall when Ian Joyce returned to the States on a non-contract basis.

However, a hamstring injury picked up in one of his few reserve outings, where the poor bloke got plenty of exercise picking the ball out of the net, meant that the under-18 shot stopper Daniel Bentley was seen more on the first team subs bench than the former Trinidad and Tobago keeper.

Meanwhile, and more important to the Roots Hall faithful, is the talks that will start soon enough with five other out-of-contract players; Franck Moussa, Damian Scannell, Johnny Herd, Osei Sankofa and Scott Spencer.

All of them, yes young Osei can do a job in League Two, are vital to; a), Southend being able to build a squad that can seriously make a promotion charge and, b), give something for the long suffering Shrimpers fan base to smile about on what could be a very long summer indeed.

Nick Clegg should have our problems, hang on if he gets a chance to look at the treasury books he may have.

UPDATE: One of the out of contract four will definitly be here next term, go here:
www.southendunited-mad.co.uk/news/tmnw/
shrimper_johnny_stays_for_a_season_tilly_to_concentrate_on_the_other_players_we_want_to_keep_525802
/index.shtml

The Jack Files

Personal information
Full name	Kelvin Kyron Jack
Date of birth	29 April 1976 (1976-04-29) (age 34)
Place of birth	Trincity, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago
Height	1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	No Current Club
Number
Youth career
1997-98	Holy Cross College Yavapai College
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994-1996 1997 1997-1998 1999 1999-2000 2000 2001-2003 2004 2004-2006 2006-2008 2010-	TrinCity United SSC Joe Public Yavapai Roughriders VCU Rams Doc's Khelwalaas W Connection San Juan Jabloteh Reading Dundee Gillingham Southend United	02 (0) 00 (0) 40 (0) 06 (0) 49 (1) 00 (0) 16 (0) 09 (0) 00 (0)
National team2
1997-2006	Trinidad and Tobago	33 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 April 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 20 June 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

(Player information supplied by Wikipedia, for the full article go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_Jack)