First and foremost – Happy New Year to you all! Let’s hope that the O’s can carry on (this horrendous ongoing pandemic allowing) and make 2022 a year for us all to truly remember! It is probably fair to say that when I posted my final piece of 2021 just before Christmas, none of us […]
I had intended to post last week considering whether the defeat at home to Crawley could be consigned to just being a bad day at the office, or whether we should start to worry about our hopes for the season. However, my birthday and associated trip to Merseyside for the visit to Prenton Park meant […]
In last week’s post (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Orient given a reality check at Ice Station Sixfields) I aired my growing concern that Orient’s stuttering form, culminating in the defeat at arctic-like Northampton, could mean that they started to fall further off the promotion race pace. For a while now I have felt that apart from […]
The problem with drawing just over half of our 19 league games so far, or to put it another way (well this is an Orient Nerd piece after all!) picking up just 49% (28) of the 57 points available so far this season, is that when we face the higher-placed teams, especially away from home, […]
As the legendary baseball player and manager Jogi Berra once famously said: “It’s like déjà vu all over again!”, once again in the space of just 4 days Orient went from winning comfortably at home, at least in the end, to being frustrated by a team lower down the league on our travels. In last […]
Stop me if you heard this one before…Orient go into a game looking like favourites but somehow end up settling for a draw in a match that they seemed more than capable of winning. In many ways this has been the story of the O’s season, at least in the league. The draw at Rochdale […]
After the O’s stunning bounce back to league form with the brilliant 5-0 win over Hartlepool, the fixture list dictated that it would be a brief cup sojourn for the O’s before we head off to Rochdale on our league travels once again. Much has been written and spoken about how the FA Cup has […]
For those of you who read last week’s piece (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings – More frustration for the O’s, how do we spark ourselves back into form?) you may have picked up on the frustration that I was feeling at the O’s ongoing winless run, in fairness it wasn’t hard as I didn’t exactly disguise it […]
After the positive draw against league leaders Forest Green, I can’t have been alone amongst the Orient faithful in hoping that our trip to Stevenage offered an ideal opportunity to get our first win on the board since the victory at Bristol Rovers more than a month ago. However, the fact that we didn’t win, […]
It is one of those things with football that depending on the context a similar result can either feel frustrating and negative or it can feel like a positive result and a step in the right direction. The last two Orient home displays being very much a case in point. Saturday’s goalless draw at home […]
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