For 20 minutes or so on Saturday we had hope. For the first time in as long as probably any of us can remember, Orient looked like a team with a purpose. At long last we started a match with impetus, quickness, and slicker movement when we had the ball, supported by aggressive pressure on […]
Two defeats in quick succession have all but ended any pretensions Orient had of being in the play-off mix come the end of the season. It is of course mathematically possible to climb the table, but barring something completely unexpected and spectacular, it is hard to see how a team that has won just 7 […]
2 points from a possible 18, 2 goals scored only one of which was by an Orient player, 6 new players in with 1 leaving for pastures new higher up the league, and 4 matches postponed. That in a nutshell is how Orient’s record reads over the last 2 months since that stunning and largely […]
I have to say that an insipid goalless draw and a lacklustre defeat thanks to a late winner from the opposition, aren’t exactly the type of performances and results I was hoping for when I suggested last week that: “if we are serious about rekindling our promotion tilt then we are going to need to […]
So, dare we possibly believe that as of tomorrow we might actually get to see our beloved O’s in league action for the first time in 5 very long weeks? If you are anything like me, you will have checked the relevant websites and social media feeds countless times in the last few days, each […]
At the start of this week when I sat down to start work on this week’s blog post, I had it in my head that while I was beyond annoyed that Orient, through no fault of our own I hasten to add, hadn’t played a league game for 4 full weeks, in a funny way […]
First and foremost – Happy New Year to you all! Let’s hope that the O’s can carry on (this horrendous ongoing pandemic allowing) and make 2022 a year for us all to truly remember! It is probably fair to say that when I posted my final piece of 2021 just before Christmas, none of us […]
I had intended to post last week considering whether the defeat at home to Crawley could be consigned to just being a bad day at the office, or whether we should start to worry about our hopes for the season. However, my birthday and associated trip to Merseyside for the visit to Prenton Park meant […]
In last week’s post (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Orient given a reality check at Ice Station Sixfields) I aired my growing concern that Orient’s stuttering form, culminating in the defeat at arctic-like Northampton, could mean that they started to fall further off the promotion race pace. For a while now I have felt that apart from […]
The problem with drawing just over half of our 19 league games so far, or to put it another way (well this is an Orient Nerd piece after all!) picking up just 49% (28) of the 57 points available so far this season, is that when we face the higher-placed teams, especially away from home, […]
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