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Post by dealgas on Mar 1, 2017 16:28:40 GMT
Not Bristol Rovers related but Orient have been given a winding-up order. Sad to see and another great club ruined by idiotic owners
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Post by richmace on Mar 1, 2017 16:31:23 GMT
Yep. Very sad. Hopefully they can find a buyer and soon. Sounds like they have until the 20th March to sort it out.
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Post by irishrover on Mar 1, 2017 16:36:50 GMT
Very upset about this. My girlfriend is an Orient fan and the first game her family took me to was their League 1 playoff final at Wembley against Rotherham (which was less than 3 years ago) which was a massive high point in their recent history. I can pinpoint the moment it all went wrong. They went in at half time 2-0 up and it's all been relentlessly downhill ever since. You have to ask how much culpability Barry Hearn has for selling up to this bunch of charlatans.
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Post by o2o2bo2ba on Mar 1, 2017 16:49:21 GMT
Sad to hear as this must be one club that has no rival?!
We've enjoyed some good games v Leyton Orient.
It could so easily have been us with previous encumbrance, and I wonder, just wonder, would anyone in east London really give a flying fig ?
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 17:09:34 GMT
They used to be (may still be) known as 'everyone's second favourite London club' - though a friend of mine is an actual Os fan. I think they have a bit of a thing with Southend and a disdain for D&R, but other than that, doesn't everyone like Orient? What's been going on there is ridiculous. They've been getting through about 5 managers a season, but I didn't know they were financially inept as well. Hopefully this will bounce a resolution to the mess.
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Post by Peter Parker on Mar 1, 2017 17:16:49 GMT
They used to be (may still be) known as 'everyone's second favourite London club' - though a friend of mine is an actual Os fan. I think they have a bit of a thing with Southend and a disdain for D&R, but other than that, doesn't everyone like Orient? What's been going on there is ridiculous. They've been getting through about 5 managers a season, but I didn't know they were financially inept as well. Hopefully this will bounce a resolution to the mess. Makes you wonder. They seemed to be pretty well run (at least from the outside looking in) under Barry Hearn, with the redevelopment of the ground and everything. Don't know much about the people that took over. I don't whther they are meddlers in the Cellino mould or not, but nothing much seems to have gone right since the takeover there |
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Post by bloogas on Mar 1, 2017 17:34:46 GMT
Sad to hear this. Hope they survive & get better owners.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 17:45:03 GMT
They'll be fine, although they might need to go down to come back. If the worst happens, and it won't, AFC Wimbledon have shown what's possible.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 18:01:12 GMT
They'll be fine, although they might need to go down to come back. If the worst happens, and it won't, AFC Wimbledon have shown what's possible. The trouble is they're owned by someone who might politely be described as 'eccentric'. Other adjectives are available. They need to get him to sell up and shove off. I think he's said he will, but the guy's impossible to call. Ideally they'd avoid the AFC route. I'd have thought Orient might be better placed than most to find (a) white knight(s), but they'd still have to reach agreement with the man. Needless to add, the FA and FL seem to think the whole sorry saga is nothing to do with them. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 18:03:06 GMT
They used to be (may still be) known as 'everyone's second favourite London club' - though a friend of mine is an actual Os fan. I think they have a bit of a thing with Southend and a disdain for D&R, but other than that, doesn't everyone like Orient? What's been going on there is ridiculous. They've been getting through about 5 managers a season, but I didn't know they were financially inept as well. Hopefully this will bounce a resolution to the mess. Makes you wonder. They seemed to be pretty well run (at least from the outside looking in) under Barry Hearn, with the redevelopment of the ground and everything. Don't know much about the people that took over. I don't whther they are meddlers in the Cellino mould or not, but nothing much seems to have gone right since the takeover there Have a bit of a google, Sprout. It's extreme - and all in 2.5 years flat. |
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Post by Gas Since 1957 on Mar 1, 2017 18:17:38 GMT
They're not helped by West Ham playing in their catchment area - shame really.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 20:19:03 GMT
They're not helped by West Ham Utd playing in their catchment area - shame really. In the Olympic Stadium given to them (for the same price they paid for Andy Carroll) by the taxpayers of both Greater London and the UK, making West Ham effectively a nationalised football club. West Ham's presence in 'London Stadium' (as they've tackily rebranded it) has ruined Olympic Park and Stratford. It cannot have helped little Leyton O either. A victory for 'might is right' and for 'bent is best'. |
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Post by chelt_gas on Mar 1, 2017 20:38:26 GMT
They're not helped by West Ham Utd playing in their catchment area - shame really. In the Olympic Stadium given to them (for the same price they paid for Andy Carroll) by the taxpayers of both Greater London and the UK, making West Ham effectively a nationalised football club. West Ham's presence in 'London Stadium' (as they've tackily rebranded it) has ruined Olympic Park and Stratford. It cannot have helped little Leyton O either. A victory for 'might is right' and for 'bent is best'. The FA should share liability if any new owner passed the 'Fit and Proper' test then, after two years, the owners were both unfit and improper and evidence of misgivings prior to the transaction were reasonably obtainable. The FA are guardians but they are the ones that are unfit and improper. There should also be legislation or policy (or both) whereby no owners of a football club can divest the property assets from the club and then capitalise on selling said property separately from the club without a motion passed by fan trustees, local politicians or some body with a community interest. Finally, the idiot who owns Orient wants to dispose of the club recouping the sum he original paid to Barry Hearn. This is about 3-4 million. Given that West Ham received grants of 27 million and the rest to inherit the right to play at the London Stadium (funded by the tax payer) then I think the porn brothers should show good will and help Orient out and put back to the new community which they have moved into. |
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Post by catmando on Mar 1, 2017 20:48:42 GMT
A customer of mine is a programme seller for the Os. They are in a real bad way there. Their squad last night contained 11 Academy players under 20. The owner Bechetti hasn't been seenn around the club for a while now and they really don't know if he wants to sell the club or just let it go into oblivion.
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Post by Igitur on Mar 2, 2017 11:49:55 GMT
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Post by shakes on Mar 2, 2017 12:20:07 GMT
The FA, Barry Hearn and the Italian should hang their head in shame. Is money so important that you'll happily be forever known as a thief and a slime ball. Disgusting behaviour.
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Post by basel on Mar 2, 2017 16:54:17 GMT
Tom Parkes gets selected for them most weeks.
I rated 'Big Tom',on his day he won every tackle,header and could pass the ball.
Consistency being his problem it seemed.
I hope the O's get through all this.
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Post by nit3owl64 on Mar 2, 2017 19:26:35 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2017 20:00:45 GMT
Did they do one for us when our crazy owner took us out of the League?
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Post by Peter Parker on Mar 2, 2017 20:21:52 GMT
Did they do one for us when our crazy owner took us out of the League? Yeah but Nick Higgs was a Rovers fan doing his best, so that made it alright |
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