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It sounds very much like goodbye to me. He’s been great for us and in all honesty he’s probably deserving of a chance at a higher level and I’m fairly sure that he’ll be looking at his options elsewhere. I don’t blame him at all if that’s the case.

Sid Bishop wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 3:14 pm

Petrov788 wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 2:29 pm Both players outstanding and we have to build around them. Looking forward to seeing Jordan Graham play in the same starting lineup as them.

Graham is a good winger but has a past history of being rather injury prone.

Whatever gave you that impression?

I expect DuvB will blame Sadiq Khan for this.

Proud of it? It was largely a shithole when I was growing up, nothing to be proud of

Nah. Switched off and nearly let a back pass in first half. At fault for the goal. At fault for the far post cross where he took out one of our players. Spilled one straight forward shot into the danger zone (but did get up and done well with the rebound). Let’s not get carried away. We’re not. But...

I wouldn't particularly want Wellens to go chiefly because I wouldn't really know who to replace him. I think he is overrated though. He’s the best manager we’ve had in my 40+ years. I’m not sure what people expect someone to achieve in a little over 2 years. Yes, I think he's overrated, not so muc...

Wellens is an odd one. He’s done a job here for sure, but it does seem like he’s never really been content with it here. I don’t think he’s very likeable and has a knack for rubbing people up the wrong way, including his employers.

I wouldn’t be at all surprised if he he left in the summer, tbh.

Isn’t it about time every club outside the PL got together and forced a vote of no confidence in the FA? They’re clearly not fit for purpose any longer.

My favourite part of that Boston story was when HMRC raided the club, an employee was spotted running from the offices
across the pitch carrying a desktop PC.

Hoover Attack wrote: ↑Sat Apr 13, 2024 8:43 pm Edwards had by far his best game for us today. A couple of half decent touches/headers. Still totally out of his depth and no goal threat whatsoever tho.

Not exactly a high bar, is it?

Zahra Maeve ******, my first granddaughter, born to my son Joe (named for the great Joe Mayo) and his partner Yas on April 1st. She’s got her first Orient baby outfit and is destined for a lifetime of mostly disappointment. Welcome to your Orient family, Zahra.

She’s taking the same tack as Serkier did during Currygate. She knows she’s in the clear so can offer to resign all she likes, while making the Tories look bad. It’s a good move.

They’ve missed the Bravo logo off, the clowns.

I never saw anything about him at all, tbh. He was largely hopeless in his time with us.

Pigott - I don’t think I’ve even seen anyone with such a knack for being in the right place at the wrong time. Poor sod didn’t have the ball drop for him once all evening, I don’t think he touched the ball more than a dozen times all night. A very odd game overall. Our first goal was a fluke, the se...

Ally Pally is awful. The floor is flat, the stage is low so you can’t see s**t if you’re average height, unless you get right to the front 90 minutes before the band come on. And the sound is abysmal. There’s no baffling at all, so if you turn your head 90° to the stage you can hear the sound once a...

I went to the O2 Docklands a few years ago to see Massive Attack, it was the worst gig experience of my life. Queues were enormous, we waited for around an hour and when we got to the gate we were told we couldn’t bring our bags in and had to go all the way back around the other side of the venue to...

Grow up and move on. Boring You and some others might be satisfied with a PR “I’m really sorry” video, but some of us aren’t so easily won over by the club signing a bloke who racially abused a young teammate in front of his peers. It’s incredibly nasty stuff. Thankfully the very lacklustre “welcom...

Constanza wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:16 pm These days you can go to a Stewart Lee live comedy gig and he doesn't even do any jokes.

He can do jokes. He just chooses not to.

Just this week I tried to find a rare bike part as I couldn’t find anyone who had it in the UK. I finally found one in Germany, so I placed an order. The following day I get an apologetic email saying that due to all the paperwork and fees involved, they no longer ship to the UK because it’s too muc...

Sad news indeed. He wasn’t on here over the last few years but we’d still catch up on occasions. I shall miss him.

RIP mate.

It’ll be gingers next. Madness.

Neptune's Spear wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2024 2:18 pm It sure is a beautiful game right now West Ham are beating Newcastle 3 - 1

This aged well

“The blatant lack of signing a decent striker in the summer”.

We signed Agyei. In the summer. Which part of that don’t you get? It wasn’t anyone’s fault that he got injured.

That goal and lack of of a decent striker sums up the team this season. I agree but you can't fault the effort of all the players this season . I would have definitely taken a 10th place finish at the beginning of the season . Yes it has been a good season and some good performances however the bla...