Independent Leyton Orient Forum

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 9:17 am Promoted clubs in theory should all be a lot better than the teams we came up with.

Why?

'THe division is going to be tougher next year' is pretty standard trope wheeled out every end of season.

Always used to be within 20 seats of some old boy with a radio to his ear back in the 80s.

Blackpool was about as good as it got - it was still early days so we were pinning his lack of mobility and pressing on missing pre-season and being unfit, not a permanent state of affairs. He also went close to scoring as I recall, maybe hitting the woodwork or forcing a really good save.

Olly Murs got there first!

Richie Wellens was very happy after he signed Pigott 10 months ago: "He's a focal point in terms of his size, but he's certainly not a target man. He's great with his back to goal and a really clever footballer. In terms of goals, he had a wonderful spell at Wimbledon which got him a great mov...

Lisa Nandy spending the evening on QT arguing with the leftie journalist and trash talking Corbyn and Abbott.

Meanwhile, there's an actual Tory on the panel she's not engaging with.

Guessing it's lucky we didn't put him on a 3 year contract so as to protect our asset.....

Yes but they're all related. So technically 1 family. That's wealthy.

And one of them isn’t even trying to have a row, just repeating some gossip heard on the Braintree terraces

All I know about Braintree is from our visit there when it seemed pretty tinpot. Didn't they only bring about 20 fans for the reverse fixture, even though it was quite a big local game for them? It was probably about a 100 but a lot of those in fancy dress they had a good time and it literally was ...

Top of the JES wrote: ↑Thu May 09, 2024 5:54 pm

The Blackwell family who own TRBMC are not particularly wealthy

Not a national name but we’re talking generational family wealth.

The Sears number being bandied about on the terraces is staggering (to such an extent, I didn’t believe it). But being so in the know, I look forward to you confirming what it is.

But they only took £300k?

( I realise that's not the main story here).

RedDwarf 1881 wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 11:27 pmGet it wrong and we could be facing a relegation battle next season

You've heard how much Sears is rumoured to be on per week?

Going to take a massive effort to keep the management team because they will have the smallest budget in the league next season and will be in demand at bigger clubs. also Braintree can’t afford to put players on meaningful contracts so keeping the squad together will be very difficult. If the mana...

I wouldn't expect too much from that venture - most of the *checks Dunnem file* purple-haired, soup-throwing, motorway-gluing, pronoun-defying, loony left, cranks, tankies, yoghurt-knitting, purple-haired, perma-protest and other rag-tag mis-fit weirdos don't have much spare dosh to throw about, bei...

Who is he? Recognise the name.

The Mindsweep wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2024 3:57 pm

Not sure whether to post the laughing or crying emoji.

Watched tonight, with a fully fit team we are more than a match for both.

Oh God, his missus is going to be even more insufferable.

Hang on, why is this dyed in the wool tory featuring on the Labour Watch thread?

Even someone has happy clappy and delusional as you Go f*** yourself. I dare you to meet me outside the supporters club next home game and say that to my face. No one, and I mean no one, gets to question my miserable moaning MB persona. 😡 Name a time ‘pal’ What time do you usually meet up for your ...

Moncur isn’t young and coming off the back of a great goalscoring season, so no. Bonne was let go for an absolute pittance. There was no way we were going to give a 3 year contract to a Col Utd reject. For every Macauley Bonne that does work out, there’s a whole cast of Drinnans, Angols, Alabis and...