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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2017 14:10:30 GMT
www.leytonorient.com/news/2017/ ... -article3/ Orient saved! Very pleased for them and will be down to Brisbane Road at some stage if I can't get to the Gas. I heard about this while I was away - great news. Do you have any more information? Are these guys for real? Are they investing in the squad etc? Very happy for Orient fans. A lot of Orient fans I know are excited but wary still, he's making the right moves though with a fans rep on the board, getting Ling back in as well. The general consensus is it'll be at least two seasons in the Conference but with 6 teams now entering the playoffs I really think they have a chance in year one. |
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Post by irishrover on Jul 10, 2017 16:26:26 GMT
I heard about this while I was away - great news. Do you have any more information? Are these guys for real? Are they investing in the squad etc? Very happy for Orient fans. A lot of Orient fans I know are excited but wary still, he's making the right moves though with a fans rep on the board, getting Ling back in as well. The general consensus is it'll be at least two seasons in the Conference but with 6 teams now entering the playoffs I really think they have a chance in year one. I feel like you shouldn't underestimate the value of 'good vibes' - quite a turnaround there. A month ago they were looking like the next Hereford. |
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Post by eppinggas on Jul 11, 2017 17:01:32 GMT
The appointment of Steve Davies (ex-Crewe, not snooker loopy) as Head Coach hasn't gone down too well. As Chewy says - Ling is popular, but has had health issues. The new owners are still in the honeymoon period. Looks like they are scrambling to cobble together a squad of under 21's and over 30's.
I think most of them would be very happy with mid-table. Talk of a promotion push is very unrealistic (IMHO).
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Post by irishrover on Jul 11, 2017 22:37:28 GMT
The appointment of Steve Davies (ex-Crewe, not snooker loopy) as Head Coach hasn't gone down too well. As Chewy says - Ling is popular, but has had health issues. The new owners are still in the honeymoon period. Looks like they are scrambling to cobble together a squad of under 21's and over 30's. I think most of them would be very happy with mid-table. Talk of a promotion push is very unrealistic (IMHO). Thanks - that's interesting. What's the issue with Davies? On the face of it sounds like a reasonable appointment or do I remember some kind of scandal attached to him? |
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Post by irishrover on Jul 12, 2017 13:20:43 GMT
That's interesting - you can see where they are coming from now. But if Ling's behind him then it may be OK. I can remember a time when he was relatively highly rated. |
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Post by eppinggas on Aug 17, 2017 15:10:44 GMT
15/08/2017. Bromley 6 Leyton Orient 1. Well that was a quick honeymoon period for the new owners.
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Post by eppinggas on Oct 5, 2017 13:46:37 GMT
Predictably out-fought at Tranmere last night in pretty awful conditions. Ex-Rovers Oliver Norburn, Jeff Hughes & Matt Harrold on display.
O's now 1 point out of the last 6 games and the natives are getting very restless indeed.
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Post by eppinggas on Oct 25, 2017 18:52:49 GMT
After a decent 1-0 win against Daggers in the FA Cup final qualifying round replay - there was just a sniff of optimism. They lost (by all accounts) quite unluckily against league leaders Macclesfield at the weekend. But then last night. A clueless, gutless, pitiful and embarrassing display against Gateshead (who hadn't won away all season). If ever Gasheads are a bit down and there is a negativity around the Club - then have a read of this: leytonorientforum.co.uk/topic23291.html |
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Post by eppinggas on Nov 14, 2017 18:12:45 GMT
Steve Davis predictably sacked after a run of 11 games without a win. Including losses to those giants of non-league football AFC Fylde, Gateshead, Ebbsfleet and Boreham Wood.
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Post by eppinggas on Nov 28, 2017 12:19:40 GMT
Still managerless and 5 points (all draws) out of a possible 42. 14 games without a win. Most recent shambles a 3-0 away defeat to Torquay (who were 23rd).
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Post by irishrover on Nov 28, 2017 12:51:41 GMT
Still managerless and 5 points (all draws) out of a possible 42. 14 games without a win. Most recent shambles a 3-0 away defeat to Torquay (who were 23rd). Not looking good - the new Stockport County? |
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Post by eppinggas on Nov 28, 2017 15:36:50 GMT
Still managerless and 5 points (all draws) out of a possible 42. 14 games without a win. Most recent shambles a 3-0 away defeat to Torquay (who were 23rd). Not looking good - the new Stockport County? I don't know what the financial situation was at Stockport - but in theory Orient should be OK. Average gates of 4,200 (though beginning to dip). New owners were welcomed as saviours only 5 months ago. Travis (of Dunkin' Donuts and lifelong Orient fan) and Teague (US Investor) spent quite a bit of money on a blend of young and old players. A desperate attempt to build a decent squad in the 6 weeks in between the take-over and the start of the season. The blend does not work. I've seen them play quite well - but also seen some gutless capitulations. Steve Davis was an unmitigated disaster - the disgruntled Alex fans had it absolutely right. The next Head Coach appointment is absolutely key. Justin Edinburgh and Gary Waddock are the two favourites. They're away to Solihull at the weekend and a loss there will see them in the really brown stuff. Bookies still have them at a longish 11/4 to go down. Lose at Solihull and those odds will collapse. |
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Post by eppinggas on Apr 30, 2018 11:01:37 GMT
Justin Edinburgh was appointed and did a great job. He put the goal-keeping coach (Dean Brill) between the sticks and the two young "rabbits in the headlights" keepers didn't play another game between them. Players played in their natural positions and no tinkering with the formation. Not exactly rocket science. CB's Elokobi and Coulson came back from injury and the defence has been pretty watertight since then. After flirting with relegation around Christmas - Orient edged up the table to a creditable 13th finish. Macauley Bonne ended up on 22 goals which is a great performance in a team that was just awful for half a season. Quick, good in the air, gives it 100%, player of the season by a country mile. If Ellis goes in the summer then he would make a good replacement... and 'probably' not a huge amount of money - though his goal-scoring exploits obviously haven't gone unnoticed. Ebou Adams is on loan from Norwich is quality - and adds a bit of steel in mid-field and he is really good prospect for the future. O's fans are desperate to keep both. Ended up watching the Gas 17 times (including Sarfend on Saturday) and Orient 13...
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Post by irishrover on Apr 30, 2018 19:08:58 GMT
Justin Edinburgh was appointed and did a great job. He put the goal-keeping coach (Dean Brill) between the sticks and the two young "rabbits in the headlights" keepers didn't play another game between them. Players played in their natural positions and no tinkering with the formation. Not exactly rocket science. CB's Elokobi and Coulson came back from injury and the defence has been pretty watertight since then. After flirting with relegation around Christmas - Orient edged up the table to a creditable 13th finish. Macauley Bonne ended up on 22 goals which is a great performance in a team that was just awful for half a season. Quick, good in the air, gives it 100%, player of the season by a country mile. If Ellis goes in the summer then he would make a good replacement... and 'probably' not a huge amount of money - though his goal-scoring exploits obviously haven't gone unnoticed. Ebou Adams is on loan from Norwich is quality - and adds a bit of steel in mid-field and he is really good prospect for the future. O's fans are desperate to keep both. Ended up watching the Gas 17 times (including Sarfend on Saturday) and Orient 13... Yes the Orient fans I speak to finally seem to have come back off the ledge - seem quite optimistic about their future now. |
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Post by eppinggas on Apr 30, 2018 21:23:05 GMT
Justin Edinburgh was appointed and did a great job. He put the goal-keeping coach (Dean Brill) between the sticks and the two young "rabbits in the headlights" keepers didn't play another game between them. Players played in their natural positions and no tinkering with the formation. Not exactly rocket science. CB's Elokobi and Coulson came back from injury and the defence has been pretty watertight since then. After flirting with relegation around Christmas - Orient edged up the table to a creditable 13th finish. Macauley Bonne ended up on 22 goals which is a great performance in a team that was just awful for half a season. Quick, good in the air, gives it 100%, player of the season by a country mile. If Ellis goes in the summer then he would make a good replacement... and 'probably' not a huge amount of money - though his goal-scoring exploits obviously haven't gone unnoticed. Ebou Adams is on loan from Norwich is quality - and adds a bit of steel in mid-field and he is really good prospect for the future. O's fans are desperate to keep both. Ended up watching the Gas 17 times (including Sarfend on Saturday) and Orient 13... Yes the Orient fans I speak to finally seem to have come back off the ledge - seem quite optimistic about their future now. Steady on - "optimistic" is still a bit of a stretch for most of them! There's not as many suicidal as there were a year ago - I'll give you that. A lot of them feel like the Club's been cursed. Been an odd sort of season. I'm underwhelmed with Rovers. I know another season of consolidation is generally a 'good thing'. But the owners didn't take the opportunity to really push on (on and off the pitch) and a lot of my comment on here has been pretty cynical. I then go on to the Orient forum as a bit of a cheerleader - looking for positives and generally trying to rally the troops... They're a proper football Club, proper (long-suffering) fans... |
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Post by mangogas15 on May 9, 2018 21:17:18 GMT
Yes the Orient fans I speak to finally seem to have come back off the ledge - seem quite optimistic about their future now. Steady on - "optimistic" is still a bit of a stretch for most of them! There's not as many suicidal as there were a year ago - I'll give you that. A lot of them feel like the Club's been cursed. Been an odd sort of season. I'm underwhelmed with Rovers. I know another season of consolidation is generally a 'good thing'. But the owners didn't take the opportunity to really push on (on and off the pitch) and a lot of my comment on here has been pretty cynical. I then go on to the Orient forum as a bit of a cheerleader - looking for positives and generally trying to rally the troops... They're a proper football Club, proper (long-suffering) fans... I met a Leyton O fan on holiday last summer just after the relegation and he said they were fearing the worst for going down again. Looking at div 6 there's a few old league teams and some coming down this season. Its just somewhere we never want to be anywhere near again. They did enough this season and may be bouncing back in a year or to. Fear for Hartlepool though. Nice to see Barnet back down there especially after beating us to the title |
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Post by irishrover on May 10, 2018 15:44:19 GMT
Steady on - "optimistic" is still a bit of a stretch for most of them! There's not as many suicidal as there were a year ago - I'll give you that. A lot of them feel like the Club's been cursed. Been an odd sort of season. I'm underwhelmed with Rovers. I know another season of consolidation is generally a 'good thing'. But the owners didn't take the opportunity to really push on (on and off the pitch) and a lot of my comment on here has been pretty cynical. I then go on to the Orient forum as a bit of a cheerleader - looking for positives and generally trying to rally the troops... They're a proper football Club, proper (long-suffering) fans... I met a Leyton O fan on holiday last summer just after the relegation and he said they were fearing the worst for going down again. Looking at div 6 there's a few old league teams and some coming down this season. Its just somewhere we never want to be anywhere near again. They did enough this season and may be bouncing back in a year or to. Fear for Hartlepool though. Nice to see Barnet back down there especially after beating us to the title I go and watch FC United regularly and it's amazing how many ex-league clubs you come across. Stockport are the big name in that regard given that they a)have a pretty decent league quality ground with a large catchment ares (Stockport is pretty big place) and b)were playing the League Cup Semi-Final not that long ago. But there's also been Halifax, York and Darlington who I think of as historic league clubs. Not to mention Kidderminster and Boston who must have both had nearly 10 years in the Football League. There's Bradford Park Avenue as well but that's something of a stretch given the timescale and small size of that club (mind you they are giving it a crack at getting into the Conference which would be amazing). The reformed Scarborough still haven't even managed to get that far back up the pyramid. There's every reason to fear dropping out the league particularly if you are like Orient and have little else going for you anyway. So I'm pleased that they've been given a kind of resuscitation because it was really going only one way this time last year. For all the incompetence attached to Rovers Conference relegation our situation was relatively rosey compared with many who end up there. |
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Post by mangogas15 on May 10, 2018 20:21:25 GMT
I met a Leyton O fan on holiday last summer just after the relegation and he said they were fearing the worst for going down again. Looking at div 6 there's a few old league teams and some coming down this season. Its just somewhere we never want to be anywhere near again. They did enough this season and may be bouncing back in a year or to. Fear for Hartlepool though. Nice to see Barnet back down there especially after beating us to the title I go and watch FC United regularly and it's amazing how many ex-league clubs you come across. Stockport are the big name in that regard given that they a)have a pretty decent league quality ground with a large catchment ares (Stockport is pretty big place) and b)were playing the League Cup Semi-Final not that long ago. But there's also been Halifax, York and Darlington who I think of as historic league clubs. Not to mention Kidderminster and Boston who must have both had nearly 10 years in the Football League. There's Bradford Park Avenue as well but that's something of a stretch given the timescale and small size of that club (mind you they are giving it a crack at getting into the Conference which would be amazing). The reformed Scarborough still haven't even managed to get that far back up the pyramid. There's every reason to fear dropping out the league particularly if you are like Orient and have little else going for you anyway. So I'm pleased that they've been given a kind of resuscitation because it was really going only one way this time last year. For all the incompetence attached to Rovers Conference relegation our situation was relatively rosey compared with many who end up there. We stuck with DC and bought hungry non league players. Add a bit of experience like Mansell and eventually Lines. We also got the biggest home and away crowds that season. We also went down with 50 pts which no one has before or since. Shows we probably should have stayed but ultimately was it a bad thing |
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Post by mangogas15 on May 12, 2018 23:38:46 GMT
I go and watch FC United regularly and it's amazing how many ex-league clubs you come across. Stockport are the big name in that regard given that they a)have a pretty decent league quality ground with a large catchment ares (Stockport is pretty big place) and b)were playing the League Cup Semi-Final not that long ago. But there's also been Halifax, York and Darlington who I think of as historic league clubs. Not to mention Kidderminster and Boston who must have both had nearly 10 years in the Football League. There's Bradford Park Avenue as well but that's something of a stretch given the timescale and small size of that club (mind you they are giving it a crack at getting into the Conference which would be amazing). The reformed Scarborough still haven't even managed to get that far back up the pyramid. There's every reason to fear dropping out the league particularly if you are like Orient and have little else going for you anyway. So I'm pleased that they've been given a kind of resuscitation because it was really going only one way this time last year. For all the incompetence attached to Rovers Conference relegation our situation was relatively rosey compared with many who end up there. We stuck with DC and bought hungry non league players. Add a bit of experience like Mansell and eventually Lines. We also got the biggest home and away crowds that season. We also went down with 50 pts which no one has before or since. Shows we probably should have stayed but ultimately was it a bad thing Watching the conference final today reminded me how far we've come and how far ahead of that we are now. Poor standard that meant a lot to the winners |
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