I am not going to lie; I was genuinely fearful going into Saturday’s trip to Edgeley Park to take on Stockport. Orient’s inability to find any semblance of consistency, combined with the fact that we were facing a team with genuine promotion aspirations, and who undoubtedly felt that they owed us one after we put […]
It is really difficult to know what to make of Leyton Orient in 2025/26 so far. Just when we had put in a solid performance to secure a convincing win away at Burton which suggested we may have turned a corner form-wise (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Positive Signs.), we follow it up with two abject cup […]
I guess probably the best thing we can say about Orient’s win at Tamworth in the first round of the FA Cup, is that we (just about) got through it. Thankfully we didn’t fall victim to another giant-killing in the ilk of Maldon & Tiptree at home (yes I am still bitter, if not downright […]
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 […]
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 […]
Go on then, be honest, how many times have you watched it? I am of course referring to Jamie Donley’s wonder strike/ Stefan Ortega’s own goal (please delete according to your preference/ taste!), which was pretty much on a loop in the Orient Nerd household on Sunday morning and has had a fair few watches […]
Well that was all a bit depressing wasn’t it? After the thumping win at Exeter just four days previously, Orient’s performance in the 1-0 defeat at home to Stockport on Saturday just felt very flat. It was far from being the “absolute humdinger of a match” that I was anticipating in last week’s post (Orient […]
So how was your Tuesday evening? Sometimes, just once in a while, this magical game of football throws up one of those matches that reminds us all why we fell in love with the game in the first place. To come out of a ground absolutely buzzing, physically shaking from the pure emotion and excitement […]
I guess it was kind of inevitable that after a very busy and hectic run of five matches in three weeks, fatigue, both physical and mental, was going to catch up with the squad and we would have to grit our way through a match. There were signs of that at Bristol Rovers on New […]
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