It was a busy and ultimately pretty successful festive period both for the playing squad and Orient fans, however the missus’ and mine got off to the worst possible start. Standing on the concourse at London Euston 10 mins before our scheduled departure, we got the news that our train to Manchester Piccadilly had been […]
Football eh? Even nearly a full week later I am still trying to get my head round what happened at Whaddon Road last Saturday. For the first hour plus of the match against Cheltenham Orient were utterly abysmal. If we thought the performance against Chesterfield in the FA Cup was bad, this was even worse, […]
Well that was a humbling experience wasn’t it? While I don’t think any of us really expected to beat Derby County, to throw away any chance of getting back into the game through our own ill-discipline was annoying to say the very least. In fairness I thought we started the encounter with a much more […]
I know I was far from alone, but I had the right hump when the final whistle went up at Chesterfield on Sunday afternoon. It wasn’t just the fact that we had exited the FA Cup, I realise in the grand scheme of the 2023/24 season that while a run in the cup would have […]
Last week we pondered two differing home defeats (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Two contrasting defeats but plenty of food for thought for Richie Wellens.), this week we’ve got two slightly contrasting draws to consider, one at Brisbane Road and the other on our travels on a cold night in Bristol. Starting with the draw at home […]
It’s been a slightly strange couple of weeks with the postponement of the scheduled fixture at Port Vale due to international call-ups, and then us playing the rearranged Lincoln match at Brisbane Road last Tuesday evening. Thinking back to the Oxford United match, I am sure I wasn’t alone in fearing the worst when the […]
It’s been a week of contrasting cup fortunes for the O’s: first up we secured passage to the second round of the FA Cup for only the second time in the last eight years with a 3-1 win over Carlisle United. Then we “sadly” exited the Pizza Cup Bristol Street Motors Trophy (catchy eh?), with […]
Having pondered Orient fans’ slight frustration at two draws in succession last week (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Is our slight frustration a sign of how far the O’s have come in such a short space of time?), I guess I should probably blame myself for the goalless draw that played out at the Pirelli Stadium last […]
Two draws in four days on the one hand represents a further step towards consolidating our position in League One; but on the other it feels, the result at Northampton in particular, like an opportunity to push further up the table squandered. Being totally honest, I went into the Barnsley game with a slight nagging […]
There seemed to be something a little bit different about the O’s performance up at Carlisle last Saturday. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but it looked from our vantage point that, perhaps mindful of the way that Carlisle had had such success with a counter-attacking approach in their previous league match at […]
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