Sturrock: 'I'm going to try and come up with something that might help us'
Blues boss Paul Sturrock is desperate to work out why we've stopped gaining three points in front of the faithful with the last success two and half long months ago against er, Rotherham.
Saturday's surprise 2-1 win at the Don Valley Stadium was Southend's fifth league win away from Roots Hall this season, this compares to just three victories at the home of football, that's 11 points to 18, though we have played three more games outside south-east Essex.
So what's going on?
Sturrock told BBC Essex: "I've been watching tape after tape to see if there's anything in what we're doing. I'm not going to promise anything but I'm going to try and come up with something that might help us."
The Shrimpers now have a great chance to turn this form around as they face back-to-back home fixtures against Bury and Macclesfield and, due to rearranged matches, seven of the next ten games up to the end of February are on the hallowed turf.
Luggy concluded: "If we could just turn our home form. If we start winning our home games on a regular occurrence we'll be shooting up this league. I've told the players that. We've got two home games on the bounce and it's vitally important we take six points."
Many believe that in a team with it's fair share of players from non-league clubs the way a section of the crowd can turn on the side when it goes behind, usually quite early, is the main reason for the turnaround.
The travelling support, a couple of hundred regulars, are 100% behind the Blues, and the players know it and respond accordingly.
Too easy for me, there's the odd splattering of experience in the starting eleven, Graham Coughlan must have heard the odd booing in his long career, and it might have something to do with the way Luggy gets his side to approach the game, especially at the start, no wonder he'd like to have a big enough squad to choose two different sides.
However, that analysis is for another column, for now let's hope the manager discovers the magic formula to gain victory at the Hall, because if he and the team can turn it around the play-offs are not a laughing matter.