Essex Senior Cup Semi-Final: Aveley v Southend United
Not a bad team that Shrimpers seconds player/coach Graham Coughlan has been given for this last four tie of the county's senior cup competition.
Apart from Lee Sawyer being saved for the tough trip to Morecambe as the first team continues to suffer injury problems, the former Shrewsbury skipper, playing consistantly well himself for the Luggy starting eleven, has been given a side of the usual suspects.
Glenn Morris will start in goal; Miguel Comminges will join defenders Johnny Herd and Luke Prosser in getting some game time; Louie Soares, Harry Crawford and Kyle Asante will make an exciting forward line at this level; then throw in a few kids who have been performing well at their usual level, and we've got a competitive team which should grab a final place.
Southend United: Morris, Comminges, Osifuwa, Prosser, Herd, Nesbitt, Soares, Woodyard, James-Lewis, Asante, Crawford.
Subs (from): Chambers, Furlonge, Stevens, Smith, Bouzid, Baucutt, Abdellah.
Result as soon as we know it, report as soon as we write it!
The winners will face Billericay Town or Heybridge Swifts in the final. That tie takes place Tuesday, March 1st, kick-off 19.45.
Essex Semi-Final Draw
Aveley v Southend United
Billericay Town v Heybridge Swifts
For the fifth time in the last nine seasons the Shrimpers seconds have reached the last four of the county's premier knock-out competition after beating Grays Athletic 2-1 earlier this month with goals from Harry Crawford and trailist David Obaze (full report below.)
Blues Two's bury the Gravelmen:
www.southendunited-mad.co.uk/sngl/ed91/essex_senior_cup_quarterfinal_
grays_athletic_1_southend_united_2_628592/index.shtml
Aveley Town official website:
www.pitchero.com/clubs/aveley
Essex Senior Cup Update
The Essex Senior Cup is a knock-out system football competition that has been running since 1884, and is the most prestigious cup competition in the county.
The competition is supported by BBC Essex 103.5.
Round One (by 11th September 2010)
1 - Halstead Town 1-2 Hullbridge Sports (Report)
Round Two (by 9th October 2010)
2 - Stansted 3-1 Stanway Rovers
3 - London APSA 3-3 Basildon United (aet, 3-1 pens) (Report)
4 - Hullbridge Sports 4-3 FC Clacton (aet)
5 - Barking 4-0 Takeley (Report)
6 - Southend Manor 2-2 Eton Manor (aet, 3-4 pens)
7 - Burnham Ramblers 2-3 Witham Town (Report)
8 - Wivenhoe Town 3-1 Saffron Walden Town (aet)
9 - Bowers & Pitsea 2-0 Barkingside
Round Three (by 6th November 2010)
10 - Romford 2-4 Stansted
11 - Heybridge Swifts 3-1 Maldon & Tiptree (aet) (Report)
12 - Wivenhoe Town 0-2 Grays Athletic
13 - Chelmsford City 2-1 Witham Town (Report)
14 - Canvey Island 4-1 Harlow Town (Report)
15 - Southend United 4-1 Barking (Report)
16 - Bowers & Pitsea 0-2 Brentwood Town
17 - Tilbury 2-5 Aveley
18 - Hullbridge Sports 2-1 Redbridge (Report)
19 - London APSA 0-1 Billericay Town (Report)
20 - Eton Manor 1-6 AFC Hornchurch (Report)
21 - East Thurrock United 3-2 Waltham Abbey
22 - Great Wakering Rovers 3-1 Waltham Forest (aet)
23 - Concord Rangers 3-1 Thurrock
24 - Dagenham & Redbridge 3-2 Colchester United (aet)
25 - Braintree Town 2-0 Ilford
Round Four (by 4th December 2010)
26 - Brentwood Town 0-2 Great Wakering Rovers
27 - Chelmsford City 1-1 Southend United (aet, 0-2 pens) (Report)
28 - Aveley 2-0 Braintree Town
29 - Billericay Town 3-0 East Thurrock United (Report)
30 - Concord Rangers 2-3 AFC Hornchurch (Report)
31 - Stansted 1-2 Grays Athletic (Report)
32 - Hullbridge Sports 0-2 Heybridge Swifts (Report)
33 - Dagenham & Redbridge 2-3 Canvey Island
Quarter-Finals (by 29th January 2011)
34 - Heybridge Swifts 2-0 AFC Hornchurch (Report)
35 - Billericay Town 2-0 Great Wakering Rovers
36 - Canvey Island 2-3 Aveley (aet)
37 - Grays Athletic 1-2 Southend United (Report)
Semi-Finals (Dates TBC)
38 - Aveley vs Southend United
39 - Billericay Town vs Heybridge Swifts
Final