“Letting goals in, and cheaply, is proving to be a real Achilles heel for us, and in many ways is undoing the good work we are putting in to try to develop our attacking cohesion.” (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: No Case for the Defence) When I wrote those words last week, I was hopeful that ongoing […]
3-0-2-0-4-1-2-1-2-3 The above isn’t some kind of clever mathematical code, instead it is the goals conceded by Orient in their 10 league matches so far. To put it another way, that is 18 league goals conceded (at a rate of 1.8 goals against per match) and ranks as the equal worst record in the division […]
In sitting down to write this post, I really struggled to know how to start. The overwhelming feeling that I had on the way home from Reading last Saturday was one of frustration. Once again the O’s looked fairly blunt from an attacking perspective and succumbed to two sloppy goals, something that has been all […]
On the face of it a 1-1 draw at home against Bolton Wanderers, a team who we have struggled against in recent seasons and who will likely be challenging for the play-off places again this season, is far from disastrous. So why does it feel a tad frustrating? Once again we struggled to look truly […]
Since my last post a couple of weeks ago (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Reflections on Orient’s Mixed Start to the Season.), Orient’s up and down start to the campaign has very much continued. The performance and result at home to Northampton was frustrating to say the least. If we were hoping to bounce back after the […]
Having just returned from the other side of the “Pond” on a baseball trip that saw us take in four games in four different ballparks in two cities, it is time to focus back in on all things Orient. So what have I missed? The League Cup tie at home to Wycombe was the very […]
A quick and early set of musings this week, as I am off to the States in a few days for a rearranged baseball trip that we had originally planned for May (after the league season had finished of course!), but as so often seems to happen, life conspired to get in the way. While […]
So for the third season in a row the O’s got off to a losing start. As optimistic as I was trying to be going into Saturday’s match at Huddersfield, at the same time deep down I was also a little bit concerned that the sheer turnover of players and the relatively short turnaround after […]
Where has the summer break gone? With the 2025/26 season getting underway tomorrow with the O’s away at Huddersfield (where we ended the last league campaign), let’s take stock of how the O’s are shaping up ahead of the big kick-off. Departures and Arrivals When the club (finally) released the retained list at the beginning […]
As a relatively new recruit to the Orient cause, up until this season I hadn’t as yet had the experience of watching the O’s take on one of the top division teams in the FA Cup. I was at the Valley back in 2006 when Orient unluckily lost to Premier League Charlton, although that was […]
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