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 […]
With nothing much to play for, other than trying to finish the season as well as we can and to try to build some momentum to carry us through the summer and into the 2024/25 campaign, it is difficult to properly assess Orient’s last two performances. Going into the Cheltenham game on the back of […]
The Easter weekend provided two contrasting performances for the O’s, if not results. Away at Lincoln we largely matched the previously free-scoring Imps and were perhaps unlucky to lose, whereas at home to Peterborough on Monday we were our own worst enemy and essentially gifted The Posh two first half goals from which we were […]
Well that was quite a turn up for the books wasn’t it? To go to Stevenage with a squad depleted by injury, match them physically, frustrate them, and ultimately escape with all three points was not only unexpected but very welcome in the Orient camp. Like most (all?) Orient fans, I am not overly fond […]
After our fantastic run of form following the defeat up at Bolton, things just seem to have gone off the boil a little bit for our O’s. In fact since that cruel defeat at Barnsley, while we have registered three wins in our last seven matches, it is the frustrating defeats at home to Burton […]
Well wasn’t that just typically Orient? We beat two teams above us, both of whom are very much involved in the play-off push, to start the week and then follow that up with a flat performance and another frustrating defeat against a Bristol Rovers team who really didn’t do very much to trouble us. Before […]
“So just like that any vague hopes of the O’s making a push for the play-offs were handed a blow by a resolute and organised Burton Albion side.” (Orient Nerd 23rd February 2024) Well doesn’t that just show what I know about football? A week and two impressive wins against teams above us in the […]
So just like that any vague hopes of the O’s making a push for the play-offs were handed a blow by a resolute and organised Burton Albion side. The defeat felt frustrating because it seemed like the visitors had come to not be beaten rather than win the match, and despite having 75% of the […]
Football eh? What an emotional rollercoaster of a week it’s been for O’s fans. First we had the heartbreak of having what would have been a hugely impressive result at Oakwell snatched away from us having been leading going into the final two minutes; and then on Tuesday evening we were witness to what was […]
It’s been a slightly surreal football-watching week for the missus and me. First we introduced a Norwegian football obsessive associate of ours to the delights of a matchday in E10, and then we were among the reported 205 Orient fans to go to Port Vale in the pouring rain last Tuesday evening. Pleasingly both matches […]
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