Hands up, who thought we would go to Southend, win comfortably and potentially relegate the Shrimpers to the National League last Saturday? Anyone who thought so was in good company as it looked for all the world as if the Orient players felt the same. Southend were very much in the last chance saloon going […]
Well what a nice and quiet news week it’s been in world football then! Thankfully last night’s Orient game provided not only a welcome distraction from the whole European Super League power and money grab by the Dirty Half-dozen, but also a timely reminder of what real football looks like. The result may not have […]
Going to second-placed Cheltenham looking to extend our seven game unbeaten run was always going to be a tough test, given that our hosts had been knocked out in the play-offs by Northampton last season and for most of this campaign they have been in and around the automatic promotions spots. The fact that coming […]
Hands up who feels disappointed after Easter Monday’s draw with lowly Walsall? As frustrating as our level of performance was after a recent run of four wins in a row capped off by a lively and energetic display at Mansfield just three days previously, might the disappointment that we are feeling at the boys not […]
Three wins in a row, nine points in eight days and up to ninth in the table just four points off play-off qualification, albeit having played a game more than Newport and Exeter who sit above us. What a turnaround it has been for interim manager Jobi McAnuff and the Orient squad. While we can’t […]
“Personally, I hold out little hope for our trips to Cardiff this weekend to face Newport County or to Carlisle on Tuesday night.” Those were the fateful words of your author in last week’s post, goes to show what I know hey! (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings- Yet more frustration on the pitch but reassuring words […]
“I’ve got a group of players that are underperforming and underachieving so I have to look at ways to turn that around.” That was the way that Orient’s interim manager Jobi McAnuff chose to sum up his thoughts speaking after the 1-1 draw with Scunthorpe last Saturday, the second in a mere matter of days against […]
Thankfully (not a word I often use when missing out on a football match!) the bringing forward of Orient’s kick off away at Exeter City last Saturday meant that it got underway half an hour into Arsenal’s match at Burnley. As bad as the Gunners performed in surrendering an early lead, it did mean that […]
In last week’s post I suggested ahead of the visit of Tranmere Rovers that if Ross didn’t try something new to spark the team and squad back into life, then he was running the real risk of not being able to withstand the loudening calls for his head if it all went wrong (Orient Nerd […]
Well hasn’t it been a thoroughly humbling if not completely depressing return to action for the O’s? I had literally just finished gathering my thoughts for my latest contribution to the Orientear and (spoiler alert coming ahead of Saturday’s publication!) wondering whether with eighteen games still to play, including an intense run of nine games […]
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