Independent Leyton Orient Forum

What a player Alan Comfort was. He was worth the entrance fee alone. The number of times he drifted in from the left and drilled in shots with his right was frightening and he terrorised defences in his position on the left wing. Scored more goals than Kevin Campbell apparently. Now, i'm not an exp...

What surprised me was Embleton saying Wright asked why he was dropped so he was given an explanation of tiredness, then brings him back and he’s as poor as he’s been all season. Complete non entity again. I could have done better then him today. Embarrassing. I've watched Wright since he was a kid ...

Confused as to why everyone wants Angol in the side. Wilkinson is a far better footballer and Sotiriou has been scoring goals. Angol is reasonably talented but is devoid of application and his attitude/temperament is appalling when things don’t go his way. After Saturday's performance I'd bench Wil...

Two good crosses in 90+minutes of a home game against absolute poo poo where we had nearly all the ball says it all. We are playing narrow without wingers, therefore it’s his job t get on and get balls in. Or at the very least show for the ball and try a forward pass once in a while. Look what Brop...

I was furious. I'm sure Ross would have been too.

Brophy all day was MOM.
Clay worked hard - as usual. Sloppy passing and being scared to shoot, when he's in decent positions to, let's him down.

He's our manager until the board decide otherwise . People showing their support for their manager and team is never embarrassing . Bizarre thing to say . However what I will agree with is Ross has to change his tactics and learn fast by his mistakes . Disappointing performance today but a quick ch...

I agree with most of that RedO, but I though Marsh did much better. He provided a couple of good crosses. Two good crosses in 90+minutes of a home game against absolute poo poo where we had nearly all the ball says it all. We are playing narrow without wingers, therefore it’s his job t get on and g...

There must have been an initial reluctance to put the kid in a struggling team. Whoever recalled him from Dover well done.

Huxley wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:47 pm

faith1234 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:46 pmWhat position

Player position is irrelevant to Embleton. He’ll play you where he wants.

Hopefully he can shoot on target.

Probably our best all round performance of the season if you ignore the Sergeant howler and Embleton's decision to go five up top on 75 minutes, decimating a midfield that bossed Crewe all game. Sergeant - 5 - felt for the kid, needs to be stood down for a few games to get his confidence back Broph...

For anyone who wants to relive today’s excitement. Sorry to have to say this, I’ve defended him all season, and I’m not saying he’s the main reason for any of them. But Coulson should have done better in all 4 of those goals. :cry: https://www.skysports.com/efl/championship/video/11868641/leyton-or...

OyinbO wrote: ↑Thu Oct 24, 2019 1:01 pm What about Lundstram? He provoked a bit of whinging while he was here, even though he looked a class player for the third tier (in fact, I remember one particularly assured performance in a midfield five at Bramall Lane). Now look at him.

Some players just develop late. Good luck to him.

Why was he taken off today? If we had another target man to replace him; fine. But he ran off when he was substituted and didn`t look that tired to me. Also very stange that we kept playing long balls to our strikers after he was taken off. I agree that this wasn`t his best game over the last coupl...

Kent Teague's plan is for us to be in league one in 3 to 4 years. In which case this squad will be very different when that time comes. This squad has shown how good they can be and how bad they can be in just two games. I'm not surprised by that as the key difference between the levels of football ...

Spurs need to get shot of their right back. Absolute liability and he cost Spurs at least 3 of those 7 goals.
I wouldn't have him in the O's team.

Does anyone know if we (under the past owner) remembered to put in a sell-on clause? I hope there was a clause for additional payments to us when he made the Brighton first team and further payments based on appearances. I would think a decent young Championship or Premier League midfield prospect ...

We should be aiming higher than that. We've played some of the top sides in succession. Apart from the Swindon game we haven't been far off. My concern is our we lack of creativity to make decent goal scoring chances and lack of shots on target. If we can't improve our goal opportunities from open p...

I'd pair him with Wilkinson. He we will have to make the runs in behind the opposition's defence though. If he doesn't put in the work rate then I'd put Soteriou in that position.

I think we have the strong characters but we have too many similar players in attack and midfield which restricts our capabilities as an attacking force.. All our central midfield are holding types with little attacking instinct. Up top, only Angol is different because of his skill , pace and presen...

Honestly,our players are in serious need of shooting practice!! They’ve been abysmal Our shooting is truly abysmal. Don't think it helps when we have the pre match shooting practice using the temporary goals on the wings. We should use the real goals then maybe the players will be more relaxed when...

Thought Ling had a decent game. Our problem was after Angol went off we weren't really a threat going forward.
Dennis and JMD both way off the pace today

Orient 1 Rochdale 4 - 20/8/05 - Lambert had a brilliant game, scoring twice Along with Grant Holt? That game? What a duo they were - tore us TWO new ones that day. I'll go along with that with that. They were both outstanding at our level. Then both went on to play in the Premier League.

We are totally anonymous in central midfield and allowing Swindon to put on a passing exhibition. Angol looks sharp but has absolutely no support.

Time to get Marsh on. Hopefully he's the midfield warrior we are sorely missing.