A quick and early set of musings this week, as I am off to the States in a few days for a rearranged baseball trip that we had originally planned for May (after the league season had finished of course!), but as so often seems to happen, life conspired to get in the way. While […]
So for the third season in a row the O’s got off to a losing start. As optimistic as I was trying to be going into Saturday’s match at Huddersfield, at the same time deep down I was also a little bit concerned that the sheer turnover of players and the relatively short turnaround after […]
Where has the summer break gone? With the 2025/26 season getting underway tomorrow with the O’s away at Huddersfield (where we ended the last league campaign), let’s take stock of how the O’s are shaping up ahead of the big kick-off. Departures and Arrivals When the club (finally) released the retained list at the beginning […]
As a relatively new recruit to the Orient cause, up until this season I hadn’t as yet had the experience of watching the O’s take on one of the top division teams in the FA Cup. I was at the Valley back in 2006 when Orient unluckily lost to Premier League Charlton, although that was […]
We ended last week’s post (Orient Nerd Season Review 2024/25 – Part 3: February 2025 (Part 2) to March 2025) when we had just beaten Stevenage 1-0 in a largely uneventful match at Brisbane Road. Although rather concerningly I had done something to my back which would put a halt to me doing one of the […]
We ended Part 2 (Orient Nerd Season Review 2024/25 – Part 2: December 2024 to February 2025) of our Season Review having just done ourselves proud, not only competing against, but actually challenging one of the greatest squads ever assembled in the shape of Pep Guardiola’s Manchester City. That however wasn’t the end of the story […]
By means of a recap from Part 1 of this Season Review (Orient Nerd Season Review 2024/25 – Part 1: July to November 2024, it’s fair to say that for the first four months of the 2024/25 campaign, the O’s had been somewhat (largely?) underwhelming. They had just however, somehow, managed to squeeze through in the […]
As the dust settles on Orient’s 2024/25 campaign, it is probably fair to say that after a difficult start to the season, it was one of further establishment in League 1, although we came very close to a hugely unexpected promotion to the Championship. To call the season just gone a rollercoaster would be an […]
As I limped my way out of Wembley on Sunday afternoon, I was a bundle of mixed emotions. I was disappointed, totally gutted in fact, that the O’s hadn’t really tested Charlton and ultimately not been able to realise our dream of an unexpected return to the second tier for the first time in 43 […]
I had originally started writing this piece on Thursday morning last week after Orient’s brave and resolute performance up at Edgeley Park, which saw them hold their nerve and win through on penalties against a very good Stockport side. However as tends to happen from time to time, life conspired to get in the way […]
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