Independent Leyton Orient Forum

Dame Maggie Smith has died at the age of 89. R.I.P, always so watchable.

There’s an old saying that things not only have to be fair but to be seen to be fair, and with all the hypocrisy allegations flying about currently, Starmer and other high profile Labour figures have failed that test, it looks too much like one rule for them and another for the rest and that is not ...

Thought it was a good interview.
Was fortunate enough to have a week in Rome last week, our club and the mood of us all is transformed since before I went away, credit to all.

Tricky one. I’m loyal & proud to be in English/ British; I am not instinctively a monarchist; yet I accept our system of democracy is much better than many countries have and gives stability; most royals at the top of the tree are hard-working and I wouldn’t want their job. I don’t sing the nati...

In his interview Richie said he's give Clare a 7 out of 10, the implication being he was our best player.

It’s been said above and it feels like we’re having to pull out all the stops in the loans and free transfers market to stay a L1 club, and we have an excellent manager. Average home attendances have us firmly in L1, and think last season’s average was our highest for about thirty years. I guess it ...

Richie says Howes wants first team football and will try to get him out on loan next few days, so the two loanees will compete for the number one spot. Feels a very odd situation, but Richie also said the cost of a good L1 keeper in terms of wages is beyond us, same with the other loanees, they work...

Keeley was at Barnet on loan second half of last season

I think we'll win this one - Shrews 0 O's 2.

I think for the goalkeeping position especially, once the confidence is gone – defence feels shaky, crowd nervous – it’s very difficult to get out of it. Who remembers Adam Legzdins? May well have been a decent keeper for others, think we got him from Derby, but he was no good for us, lasted a few g...

If Howes – a second choice keeper - is preferred to Hemming, then clearly we need to ship Hemming back to Boro and get in a first choice keeper. We neither need a loanee second choice keeper or two second choice keepers.

Nigel Travis is pretty straight and it’s clear there is a lot of mutual respect between him and Richie, so I don’t think there is any deliberate deception going on. But it feels like we are over-reliant on youngsters and loanees, and too many young loanees are simply not up to it, the two Premier le...

No malice in Clare's tackle and that probably saved the straight red, but I too thought he was lucky to escape it.

Got some buffering ahead of kick-off, went out then back in again and it's been ok since.

I don’t have Sky, and we used to rely on Now TV for the odd day pay for something particularly big like the US Masters Golf, streamed the available O’s games via our own club service, catch-up TV, YouTube, etc, seemed a good set up with wifi keyboard and mouse. But there is no way I know that I can ...

Starmer condemns the thuggery and rightly so. He also said anyone who is protesting because of the colour of people’s skin or their religion are far right racialists. What he didn’t address is the valid concerns of millions of people, some of whom demonstrate peacefully. They are not thugs, but are ...

Good success in the Triathlon today, someone at work said our swimmers are more used to swimming in the brown stuff so have an unfair advantage, and Thames Water can claim their part in our success

From BBC site …….. Helen, a neighbour of the suspect's family while they lived in Cardiff, has spoken of her shock at hearing the news from Southport. "They were a lovely young couple. They were little boys, they were boisterous. Mum was a stay-at-home mum, Dad was nice, he went to work every d...

Witness how ordinary men and women of the armed services used to be held in respect as to what personal sacrifices they had made in order to protect this Country. Nowadays if they leave the barracks wearing their service uniform, chances are they will end up being attacked by certain members of the...

On the one hand we have a former President who refused to believe he lost last election, despite the democracy of the vote. And against him now the Vice-President, who was willing to deceive the American public and back the existing President for the job for another four years, despite the fact she ...

The over-reliance on IT can be dangerous – and I work in IT myself. I always carry cash, generally pay by card these days but have been a number of occasions when there has been a card paying issue, people stuck at petrol stations with only cards, and I’ve just popped out the cash and am soon on my ...

Looks extremely likely to be Harris as the nominee now. As said above the campaign donation money she can access, others can’t. Anyone else getting the nomination could potentially look undemocratic too, given all the primaries have gone. Republicans are calling on Biden to go now. That’s a tricky o...

His record in four tournaments has surpassed any previous manager, except for Sir Alf’s World Cup win in ’66, and that speaks for itself. I like him as a person, he brought respect to the role. Felt he was often too reactive and not proactive enough, no more so than in the recent Euros, when we were...

We’ve had two MPs murdered over here in recent years, others attacked, Farage had things thrown at him during the election campaign. We’ve all got to be democrats above everything else, regardless of whether one likes or agrees with a politician. no attack on democracy is funny, glad he survived, gr...