A bit of a shorter (and earlier) post this week, as I am off on my annual football travels with my Dad and Our Kid this weekend. This year we are off to Marseille to watch the mighty L’OM. Watch this space in the coming weeks for a full write-up of our adventures in the […]
Following on from the somewhat mysterious departure of club captain Omar Beckles, then the unexpected sacking of first team coach Alan McCormack, the news broke on Friday evening that Director of Football Martin Ling was leaving his role with the club. The fact that all three departures came very much out of the blue, has […]
Last Saturday’s defeat at home to Barnsley really summed up Orient’s 2025/26 season. Just when we needed to kick on after a hard-fought win at Northampton seven days previously, instead we fell to our third consecutive home defeat. While the first half was fairly evenly matched, the second half was once again lacking in any […]
At the end of last week’s post, I suggested that: “with just 15 games remaining, we are bang in trouble and need to find a way to start grinding out results and getting points on the board, and quickly.” (Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Make No Mistake Orient are in Real Trouble, but are They Capable […]
*Note to self: Have you not learnt never to feel that Orient version 2025/26 have turned a corner form-wise! (Exhibit A:Orient Nerd Weekly Ramblings: Orient’s Reset Gets Off to an Encouraging Start). Before we (yet again!) get stuck into what has gone so horribly wrong for Orient this season, here are some facts (with apologies for […]
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 […]
So another week and another disappointing defeat to discuss! On Sunday afternoon as we were conducting our usual post-mortem of Orient’s defeat at home to bottom-of-the-table Port Vale, I told the missus that I was so sick of writing the same thing week in week out, so she suggested we ask AI what is wrong […]
After we got back from the debacle at Doncaster, the missus thought it would be interesting to put a poll on the Leyton Orient Supporters Chat page on Facebook. The question she posed was: “Who is responsible for the sh*t show Orient are in?”, with the possible responses covering: the players, Richie Wellens, Martin Ling, […]
Wow I didn’t see that one coming at all! Given how Orient have struggled for consistency all season, and that Reading, now free of the clutches of their previous malevolent owner, are seemingly a club on the rise; I don’t mind admitting that going into the match I honestly thought a draw would be a […]
Sometimes in football to try to snap a team out of a poor run of form, a manager just needs to change things up and try something a bit different. To an extent that is what we saw in Leyton Orient’s 1-1 draw with league leaders Cardiff last Saturday. Obviously our ongoing extensive injury absences […]
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