Southend United's pre-season friendly against Wivenhoe Town has been cancelled.

The Blues were due to travel to Broad Lane on Wednesday, July 15 (7.45pm) to face the Dragons.

However, the match has now postponed and will be played at a later date.

"After due consideration with the current size of the squad we have agreed with Wivenhoe Town to put back our friendly," said assistant manger Paul Brush.

"We will send a side down to play an evening game in the autumn against them instead.

"Some players might now have the option of playing more at Canvey Island next week than the 45 minutes we had planned.

"But we felt on reflection that four games in six days was too much too soon.

"We are very impressed with the attitude and team spirit in pre-season training so far and we will continue our gradual build-up to the start of the season."

United's full pre-season fixture list can be found here.