Being totally honest, while I was hopeful that the O’s would get the result they needed away at Huddersfield last Saturday, I didn’t, even in my most wildly optimistic moments, expect it to be quite so straightforward. Even writing those words reflects just how well Orient have developed through the 2024-25 campaign. In the end […]

Having successfully negotiated the penultimate match of the league programme by producing a thoroughly professional win over Wycombe, Orient now stand just one more game away from a return to the League 1 play-offs for the first time in just over a decade. In the end a goal from an unlikely source: the head of […]

Despite my back injury confining me to barracks for the entire Easter weekend, Orient did their best to make sure it was an interesting one (to say the very least!), by coming from behind to win both matches they played. The 6 points secured and our superior goal difference to Reading’s served to put us […]

Isn’t it curious that different people can watch a football match and draw completely opposite conclusions from what they have seen? Unfortunately after managing to completely bugger up my back during the week, common sense (not something that usually comes to the fore in football-watching matters for me!) had to intervene, and I surrendered myself […]

After doing our job and picking up the win against Stevenage the preceding Thursday, last weekend’s League 1 results were relatively kind to Orient. Huddersfield got thumped 4-0 by a resurgent Charlton, Bolton lost 2-1 away at Blackpool, and even though Reading won 3-1 at home to Peterborough, we went into Tuesday’s match at Burton […]

In a season of too many lunchtime kick-offs and several matches rearranged due to international breaks, often at ridiculously short notice, last night we got our first taste of Thursday night football. Quite what the logic behind this decision is, is anyone’s guess? Especially given the fact that our scheduled game last Saturday was called […]

This is likely to be a relatively short post given that there is only one match to review, and Orient (thanks again to the football powers that be!) don’t have another match until next week, as the result of yet another international break. Going into the game at Blackpool last Saturday on the back of […]

Doesn’t the 2-1 victory at Wrexham seem like a long time ago? In actuality it was just three and a half weeks ago. I don’t need to remind any Orient fans that at that point we had just stretched our impressive run from the end of November to a single loss in 15 league matches […]

I should have known shouldn’t I? The risk of titling a blog post “Still no halting the Orient Express…” (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Still No Halting the Orient Express and Some Intriguing Investment News) tempts fate to see things go off the rails (pun very much intended!) in the next two matches. Joking aside though, should […]