Depending on your point of view, last Saturday’s 2-2 draw away at Grimsby was either a case of us dropping two points as a result of some lax and sloppy play at the start of the second half, or a hard-fought battle and a point gained. The match itself was something of a roller coaster […]
In the end Orient got the job done against Crawley Town last Saturday thanks to a strike early in the second half from the continually impressive Idris El Mizouni, although in a familiar refrain we definitely should have scored more. With Stevenage losing away at Stockport, we extended our lead at the top of the […]
It struck me as I was coming out of Brisbane Road last Tuesday evening that things are starting to get serious for the Orient faithful. I always go into our matches hoping for a decent performance and a good result, but the level of nervous tension has really ramped up over the last couple of […]
Well let’s be honest about it: 2 wins on the bounce, with 3 goals scored, and 2 more clean sheets to take our total to a scarcely credible 19 out of 30 matches, was a stunning way for the O’s to break out of their recent doldrums. With the teams chasing immediately behind us all […]
Orient headed up to the Wirral last Saturday very much in need of a positive result to give us all a boost. Instead, what we got was another inhibited performance in which we failed to register so much as a single shot on target for the second match in succession. The current seven match run […]
We probably all knew that going to Stevenage and getting a result against a team very much in form and closing the gap behind us was going to be a big ask. However, the meek manner in which we slipped to a 3-0 loss, which could and possibly should have been even more comprehensive, wasn’t […]
As I said at the end of last week’s post (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Orient get back to winning ways at a “tropical” Brisbane Road.), now that we are past the halfway mark and entering the run-in to the season, it feels as if we are very much in one game at a time territory as […]
Well that was intense wasn’t it? Doncaster proved to be a tough nut to crack at Brisbane Road last Saturday, but most importantly we got there in the end thanks to a wonder strike, and another contender in the increasingly crowded list of nominations for Orient’s goal of the season, from Archie. As we are […]
Looking at the pure facts: three matches played, no goals scored, two points picked up and a potential seven dropped; suggests that the festive period has been a bit of a slump for our beloved O’s. It has been our second run of “poor” form this season matching the spell in early October when we […]
Apologies for the missing musings last week, but with the match at Crewe having been called off due to a frozen pitch, and my “celebrating” a landmark birthday at the end of the week, I felt it probably best to try to pull some logical/coherent thoughts together for this week. This time we start with […]
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