SOUTHEND United manager Phil Brown has selected an unchanged starting line-up for this afternoon’s game with Blackpool at Roots Hall.

Adam Thompson, Adam Barrett, Ben Coker, Ryan Leonard and David Mooney all shook off slight knocks to keep their place in the side as Brown sticks with the same 11 who started at Sheffield United last weekend.

As a result, Jack Payne again starts in an attacking midfield role but there is no place in the squad for Michael Timlin who misses out with a foot problem.

Southend United: Bentley, White, Thompson, Barrett, Coker, Hurst, Leonard, Atkinson, Worrall, Payne, Mooney

Substitutes: T Smith, Prosser, Bolger, Rea, Pigott, O’Neill & Williams