Independent Leyton Orient Forum

Yellow warning for rain tonight and tomorrow.

I don’t think the game should be in any doubt hopefully, in fact I can’t remember the last time a home game was off for a waterlogged pitch.

Isn’t our pitch now supposed to be some sort of hybrid where it can sustain lots of water?

Obviously not hugely nearby but has anyone tried the very highly rated Thai on Leytonstone High Road, Singburi?

Just wondered if it’s worth all the hype

Giving him the benefit of the doubt here, think there’s a decent player in there but it was a strange signing because our style of football is completely unsuitable for his game and you could see that from the first minute of last season. He’s a poacher / target man and we tend to play with more dim...

I could see it. Would be an incredible signing and kickstart our transfer window. Easy to forget we’re only a division apart and he would’ve likely had a relegation clause in his contract reducing his wage, probably around 25%. If we agree to pay 50%, surely it’s not outside the realms of possibility?

Hadn’t realised we were doing a documentary. Anyone know anything further on that?

Don’t say this lightly but for me O’Neill last night was a 10. Absolutely outstanding performance, the best on field performance from an Os player since a couple of Smyth cameos last year. Ran them absolutely ragged all night and capped it off with a goal and I’m giving him 2 assists. I thought Edwa...

Well if he has a phenomenal season next year, we could get a good fee for him as he’s signed a 2.5 yr contract and would still be a good age.

Wouldn’t massively shock me if Swansea have a buy back clause / first option as a lot their fans are surprised they let him go. Which is always a good sign.

I think the signing makes sense on many levels. Whatever fee we paid, it would not have been significant. Good age and sell on value. Will improve you’d think. A solid league 1 player. Sure the Derby red card was incredibly foolish but you have to think he’d have learned from that and hopefully out ...

Said this after the Cambridge game, are we a better side without Ruel in the team?

Sanders seems to shore us up whilst also being able offer attacking output and frankly despite seeing very little of him this year, we always seem to look a better side with him in the team instead.

faith1234 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 04, 2024 6:22 pm tshimanga Kano

Agree with the above, I think we’re a better side away from home without Ruel as Sanders made us more solid. Overall a pretty comfortable win. Cements the view we are a pretty decent mid table side in this league. I make RW right that we do tend to struggle against the bigger boys but hardly lose ag...

The thing with Graham for me is that, yes it may not always come off, but he offers that creative guile, flair and trickery that we don’t have at all in this current side. Case in point at Northampton away where he was a menace all night but his delivery was poor. However he is capable of unlocking ...

Agree with most of the ratings. Brown again, excellent. Backline were mostly strong and Theo never stopped running, trying to get something going for us. Two main stand out points. 1) It’s blindingly obvious how badly we miss Jordan Graham. I had a feeling at the time with his injury it could derail...

Entertaining game, fair result. In fairness to the team and Wellens as poor as we were on Tuesday, we did get a response yesterday. Real positive seeing Ageyi get minutes and you'd hope it's not too long before we can start him as we desperately need a bit of flair and creativity in the front line t...

Sorry if this has been covered elsewhere but can’t find any reference to it on the forum yet. A lot of talk that Lincoln were going to let us walk the ball in from kick off, but that seems to have gone very quiet. I’m expecting that won’t happen now to be honest but will be interesting to see, putti...

I thought the govt was supposed to be releasing an app/website to check nearest up to date fuel prices to combat this blatant profiteering.

I use Waze which is quite good for nearest fuel prices, although it relies on individual users updating it and therefore is often a few days old

When does the loan window open? Jan?

Thought we were poor overall and frankly 3-2 flattered us. My major concern about this side is is our lack of creativity with Graham out injured. I felt at the time his injury was a massive blow as he offered genuine width, a great delivery and took players on. You'd have thought with over 30 mins t...

Our 1-0 win there in league 2 near the end of Kevin Nolan’s stint as manager - with a goal from Jobi - was one of my favourite ever away games. The Os fans sang ‘we made you cry’ almost continuously through the match. I feel that game did a lot to reinforce Oxford fans antipathy towards us Great sc...

Strange game in parts. We were clearly the better side but lacked impetus and the crowd was flat. Last 10-15 mins seemed to wake up as did the crowd and got a deserved winner, great scenes at the end! Ratings- Saw it a bit different to Beradogs: Brynn: 7- Kicking was wayward at times but made a coup...

Just my opinion, but the best method of playing the last 10 mins of Tuesday’s game would be to play the 10 mins before our away fixture at Lincoln later in the season. There’s no perfect solution of course, but this seems the fairest way to me. I think this is actually a very fair suggestion. I don...

I’m pretty sure the EFL statement read that there could be an agreement between the teams to let the result stand. In which case, obviously the ball is in Lincoln’s court. I don’t think them just agreeing to settle for the 1-0 defeat is completely out of the question, partly out of respect for the s...

I meant common sense prevailing with the agreement of both clubs, which the EFL tweeted out last night was an option. It would be very sporting of Lincoln to agree to this. Personally I would’ve thought that would be the common sense approach considering the seriousness of the situation and the fact...

A strange and really sad evening. Obviously thoughts and prayers go to the individual involved. If I may, with respects to the footballing side, I thought we looked solid and restricted them to very little despite not having a lot of the ball second half. Sanders outstanding, covered every blade- po...

He’s got a song?