Hands up if you thought Paul Smyth was man of the match in Orient’s 1-0 win over Salford last Saturday? Yep, just as I thought, that’s unanimous! Seriously just when you think the mercurial Northern Ireland forward couldn’t improve on his magical strikes, he goes and produces another one that simply had to be seen […]
In an interview on Sky TV’s Soccer AM back in 2004, Iain Dowie coined the term “bouncebackability” while he was manager at Crystal Palace. Dowie used the phrase to describe how his team had gone from the fringes of relegation in December to winning promotion via the play-offs in May. Since he first said it, […]
Last Saturday’s goalless draw against Northampton was frustrating from a number of perspectives. Firstly, after being held to a draw up in Doncaster the previous weekend thanks to an equalizer 15 minutes from time, not being able to find a breakthrough after playing almost the entire second half against 10 men, felt like an opportunity […]
Going into the game away at Doncaster, a team sitting just outside the top 7 who were only relegated last season and should surely be amongst the teams involved in any potential promotion/play-off conversations, most Orient fans would have probably considered a point to be a decent return. Especially having lost at home to end […]
Well that’ll teach me! I have been following Orient long enough to know that optimism is an incredibly dangerous trait. No sooner had I finished reviewing Orient’s League 2 record-breaking start to the season in last week’s post, than we were brought back down to earth with a resounding bump. Saturday’s defeat by Newport County […]
Ahead of last Saturday’s trip to Holker Street to face Barrow in a largely unexpected top of the table clash, the general feeling amongst the Orient faithful seemed to be that this match was going to be the toughest the O’s had faced in the opening 10 games of the campaign. As I said in […]
Another match, another hard-fought win, and Orient stay top of the table with a lead that has stretched to 4 points. Far too early to get in any way carried away, but I for one could get used to this. In truth the match at home to Walsall wasn’t too much a of spectacle save […]
The one thing that I think we have all learnt from both an Orient-supporting and worldwide perspective over the last few years is to expect the unexpected. The last time I penned (keyed?) these musings the missus and I were off to New York City on a baseball-related adventure to see if the New York […]
Some earlier than usual musings this week, as the missus and I are off on a (baseball-related) jaunt to our favourite city for the first time since Coronavirus changed the world, New York. It does mean that we aren’t available for the short away trip to Wimbledon, but any of you who know us can […]
I don’t know about you, but I could really get used to this: another match, another win and Orient stay top of the table for the second week in succession. Thanks to our old friends Salford beating Stevenage, we now even have a lead at the summit, albeit just the one point over Barrow. Once […]
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