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 […]
One of the things that I have noticed about the O’s astonishing start to the season, is it feels like the stakes are higher for every match we play. In many ways, as I touched on in last week’s post (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings – Orient back in action and looking to keep up the […]
Even though it has only been two weeks, doesn’t it feel like quite some time since our beloved O’s were in action with that stunning comeback win up at Stockport? Of course, the small matters of a month made up entirely of away fixtures, and a highly controversial autumn/ winter World Cup have only made […]
After the disappointment of the non-performance and defeat at Wimbledon the preceding Tuesday evening, we were all hoping that the O’s got back on track at Harrogate in the next league game. As I alluded to in last week’s post (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings – A disappointing week for the Orient, but with some very […]
Another autumn and another early exit from the FA Cup for Leyton Orient. How annoyed you personally feel about our elimination from the world’s oldest cup competition last weekend, may well depend on where you see the club’s priorities going forward for the rest of the season. It might also be influenced somewhat by the […]
Hands up if you thought Paul Smyth was man of the match in Orient’s 1-0 win over Salford last Saturday? Yep, just as I thought, that’s unanimous! Seriously just when you think the mercurial Northern Ireland forward couldn’t improve on his magical strikes, he goes and produces another one that simply had to be seen […]
In an interview on Sky TV’s Soccer AM back in 2004, Iain Dowie coined the term “bouncebackability” while he was manager at Crystal Palace. Dowie used the phrase to describe how his team had gone from the fringes of relegation in December to winning promotion via the play-offs in May. Since he first said it, […]
Last Saturday’s goalless draw against Northampton was frustrating from a number of perspectives. Firstly, after being held to a draw up in Doncaster the previous weekend thanks to an equalizer 15 minutes from time, not being able to find a breakthrough after playing almost the entire second half against 10 men, felt like an opportunity […]
Going into the game away at Doncaster, a team sitting just outside the top 7 who were only relegated last season and should surely be amongst the teams involved in any potential promotion/play-off conversations, most Orient fans would have probably considered a point to be a decent return. Especially having lost at home to end […]
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