Is anyone else getting eerie flashbacks to last season? Having now played a quarter of our league games, we sit on exactly the same number of points as we were after 12 games last year, and we all know how that campaign played out! The latest capitulation, on a wet and windy Saturday afternoon at […]
At the risk of repeating myself from previous posts, it is really difficult to work out what this incarnation of Orient is, and how it is trying to play. Over our last two games: we have won a match in which the other team dominated possession and had more touches in our penalty area than […]
On the face of it, a draw away at the second placed team in the league, one that had won 5 of its opening 8 matches, and with a new manager taking charging for the first time, is hardly a disgrace. In fact, a draw was probably more than most of us had anticipated going […]
Well, that didn’t go quite how we hoped! I ended last week’s post (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Taking Stock of Orient’s Start to 2026/27.) suggesting that our next four matches were tough games, but if we could pick up a decent number of points “then there is reason to be optimistic that this could be […]
Thankfully, that is the international break interruption out of the way, for us at least, and we can now go back to focusing on all things Orient. Until the next one in November that is! With only seven league matches in the books, it is probably a tad early to conduct any meaningful analysis of […]
We needed that! It certainly wasn’t pretty, nor was it a game of scintillating free-flowing football, but the fact that we ground out a win against Stevenage last Saturday was very welcome indeed. Having lost all three of our opening home league games this season, while demonstrating a very evident susceptibility to balls into our […]
177 days! That is how long it has been since we last heard “Rockin’ All Over the World” over the Tannoy at Brisbane Road after a league game. Since that 2-0 victory, ironically over Saturday’s opposition Wycombe Wanderers on the 21st of March, we have lost to Huddersfield, Rotherham, Sheffield Wednesday, Barnsley and now Wycombe, and […]
It has been another week of mixed results for Orient: a hard-fought point away at Luton followed by a capitulation in the League Cup at home to Bradford. If I am completely honest, I wasn’t expecting too much from the trip to Kenilworth Road last Saturday. However, credit where it is due, the O’s gritted […]
It is really difficult to know what to make of Orient so far this season. A disappointing defeat is followed by an encouraging performance, only for us to then lose again and then bounce back with a resounding victory. At times the squad looks like it is building its understanding, at others it almost seems […]
After the frustration of the opening match of the league season at home to Sheffield Wednesday, it was vital that the players showed a response. They certainly did that in the trip to Wigan last Saturday with another encouraging performance, this time with the positive result that our efforts merited. Scoring first, and early, felt […]
