When I first sat down to write this piece on Tuesday afternoon, I was all set for a deep dive into where it had gone wrong for Orient after three consecutive league defeats to start the 2024/25 campaign. Then we had the performance and result at the Den on Tuesday evening, which not only saw […]
A slightly briefer round-up of all things Orient this week, as the missus and I have been in my “hometown” of Rotterdam this week. While unfortunately our schedule didn’t allow us to catch a Feyenoord match, it did provide an ideal tonic from the frustration at The Valley last Saturday. Thanks to another altered kick-off […]
As I walked out of Brisbane Road on Saturday evening, the one word that kept echoing round my head was “naïve”. I wasn’t disappointed per se, but former O Victor Adeboyejo’s winner for Bolton with just quarter of an hour left to play felt like something of a sucker punch. Going into the match it […]
So here we go then, it’s time to strap ourselves in and get ready for Orient’s 2024/25 adventure. I think we can all agree that while we ran out of steam a little bit towards the end, thanks in no small part to the significant injuries that we picked up throughout the campaign, last season […]
February 2024 February got underway with a comfortable 3-2 win at home over Carlisle, a late penalty for the visitors making the game seem much closer than it had been in reality. The O’s dominance was better reflected in the fact that we enjoyed 58% possession and had a total of 17 shots on goal. […]
November 2023 November was something of an unusual month in that out of the six matches that we played in all competitions, only the final one was away: at Bristol Rovers on a chilly Tuesday evening. The first of these matchups was a first round FA Cup tie against Carlisle, the team we had defeated […]
To help fill the Orient-less void in which we find ourselves, here is the first part of a look back at the season that was. A season that I think all of us can agree was more than successful in establishing ourselves back in the third tier for the first time in eight years, and […]
So jut like that another season is over, the final match of our campaign establishing ourselves back in the third tier took us to Shrewsbury. In their infinite “wisdom” the powers that be at the EFL had deigned to make all League One games kick off at 12:30pm, so it meant a very early start […]
So another end-of-season match and another lacklustre performance. In truth even though we have somehow conspired to have the double done over us by a Fleetwood Town team that had its relegation confirmed at the final whistle, I am struggling to get too annoyed about it. Obviously I want Orient to win every time we […]
When the fixtures for this season were announced back in June, I suspect I was far from alone in earmarking the away game at Derby (along with Burton, Portsmouth and Barnsley) as the standout away trips. Maybe it was the fact that our injury-addled squad really has nothing to play for, as well as another […]
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