Timlin delight as Southend United show teeth

But the on-loan Swindon Town midfielder insisted it was the 3-1 victory which gave him most pleasure.

Timlin, who had gone 44 games without a goal, curled home a fantastic second half free-kick to fire Paul Sturrock’s side in to the lead.

And he was pleased that it enabled Blues to pick up all three points.

“I’m delighted I got a goal but the most important thing is that we won,” said Timlin, 27.

“You always like to score and whether they bobble in or it’s a spectacular goal it doesn’t matter, because it’s just all about making sure you win the game.

“But I’ve only scored a couple of goals in the first team at Swindon and nothing like that before, so I’m delighted.”

Timlin’s goal came after Barry Corr had cancelled out James McQuilkin’s early opener for Hereford.

And it came courtesy of a twice-taken free-kick which had been worked on during training.

“After last week, Tommy (Widdrington) had a chat with us and he wasn’t happy with us taking free-kicks when the ball was still,” said Timlin, who was joined on the score-sheet by Blair Sturrock.

“We worked on a few of them and originally it was going to be the one that Granty struck but Fleetwood for them read it well.

“Luckily enough the referee helped us out by giving us the free-kick again though and it was great to see it go in because there wasn’t much room there.”

The win saw Southend bounce back to winning ways following two successive defeats and pushed them up to 12th in the League Two table, just one point outside a place in the play-offs.

Blues will now want to pick up another positive and more points at Gillingham tomorrow night and Timlin is targeting another triumph on the road.

“It would be a lot of hard work undone if we don’t go there and get a result now,” said Timlin.

“We need to be positive and have the right fighting spirit but it’s clear we’re growing in confidence now and if we can cut out the errors then we’ll definitely move up the table.”