The final whistle at Valley Parade on Monday brought to an end the 2022/23 season, a campaign that will live long in the memories of the Orient faithful. Before we get into reminiscing about the season we have just had, I have to say that I am a huge fan of Valley Parade and Bradford […]

Well, that was a very fun four days wasn’t it? Have we all recovered yet? Are we all ready to carry on the party at Brisbane Road tomorrow? Normally during these weekly posts, I try to analyse and understand how the O’s have been performing and to look forward to and preview upcoming matches, however […]

Going into the Easter weekend and the usual schedule of two matches in quick succession, there can’t have been too many Orient fans that wouldn’t have accepted 4 points out of 6 as being a decent return. However, the fact that we followed up the fairly comprehensive win over Salford City at their place by […]

Despite the fact that we had to rely on a very late and fortunate own goal and a crucial and even later defensive intervention from Omar Beckles, Saturday’s win over Carlisle United felt like a massive step forward for the O’s in our quest to reach the promised land of League 1. The fact that […]

Another Saturday and another two points dropped, as Orient once again failed to capitalise on a winning position. It put me in mind of that old joke about why we shouldn’t trust the squad to walk anyone’s dog as they simply cannot hold onto a lead! Once again Stevenage and Carlisle conspired to lose their […]

Probably for one of the only times this season, it is fair to say that Orient were poor against a struggling Colchester United last Saturday. To make matters worse, just when we thought we had somehow done about enough to scrape a victory, we then managed to throw it away by conceding two goals in […]

With our game at Mansfield last Saturday having fallen foul of the weather (the only one in the top five divisions of English football as far as I can gather- conspiracy theorists make of that what you will!), it left something of a gaping chasm in the life of Orient obsessives. Especially considering that we […]