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Top 5 Os memories

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I'm a relative newbie being in my mid fifties and only supporting the Os since the early 90s so just wondering what are the top Os moments. Mine are

Lockwood hattrick v Gillingham
Oxford 2006
Tehoue equaliser v arsenal
Peterborough playoff semi
Derby
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Rotherham away semi playoff.

Tottenham League cup first leg win at home.

Wrexham play off final
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FA Cup Chelsea 72 & 78
League Cup Spurs early 80s
Two of the three 8/0 (Rochdale? Doncaster?)
Peterborough away, late 13
Justin Edinburgh bringing us back to the league

Yes, I’ve sneaked in 7 ….
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Houghton's bum goal
Raymond the Roller sprinting across the pitch
OFF v Steve Bruce
Rhys Wilmott trying to reach the halfway line
Bill Roffey flattening Wayne Entwhistle
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Winning Div 3 1970
Beating Chelsea 3-2
Winning Play off v Wrexham
Beating Rotherham away play off
Winning National league
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Seeing Laurie C play for the O's
Middlesbro QF replay win 78
Wrexham play off final win
Rotherham play offs
Champions x 2
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Oxford away 2006 doesn’t get better
Wrexham play off final ‘89
Tehoue equaliser against Arsenal
Southend away 2007
Chris Tate goal at Millennium Stadium
FA Cup Fulham away

Ooops 6
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My top 5 - games that I've attended.
Chelsea in the FA Cup
Wrexham play off final 1989
Oxford 2006
Braintree 2019
Crewe April 23
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The Mindsweep wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:04 am Houghton's bum goal
Raymond the Roller sprinting across the pitch
OFF v Steve Bruce
Rhys Wilmott trying to reach the halfway line
Bill Roffey flattening Wayne Entwhistle
Raymond the roller was gold. Never seen before or since.

The same era as ‘boink’ from goal kicks. Haven’t seen that again either.
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Good topic!

Beating Chelsea 3-2 in the cup early 70s.
Play off final win v Wrexham
Knocking Norwich out the cup at Carrow Road late 70s ... but could easily have picked the repeat in the 2000s
Peter Kitchen's goal at Stamford Bridge when we knocked Chelsea out the cup
Pitch invasion when we won the National League
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Oxford 2006
Alan Hull’s hat trick against Colchester
Sutton away 2019 and 2023
Wrexham 1989
Lockwoods goal against Hull 2001
The gillingham power cut
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Hate to be a spoilsport but as great as the other night was, I don’t think it will age well as a memory.

If the City game is, as is most likely, underwhelming then we will wonder what all the fuss was about. Or if we somehow give City a fright or even beat them, it will be that game that we will remember.
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one o in huntingdon wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:34 am Winning Div 3 1970
Beating Chelsea 3-2
Winning Play off v Wrexham
Beating Rotherham away play off
Winning National league
My 5 also , can't be bothered to type it in 😂
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Rotherham (a) 1999
Last minute equaliser at Northwich 2001
Hull (h) 2001
Oxford (a) 2006
Dover (a) 2018(?) Mooney's last minute 25 yard chip.

I have a terrible memory so this is very much subject to change. Peterborough (h) semi should obviously be up there but I couldn't enjoy it quite as much as everyone else as I knew I had a big clash on the day of the final and that was causing conflicting emotions.
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DrWindy wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 8:42 am
The Mindsweep wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 7:04 am Houghton's bum goal
Raymond the Roller sprinting across the pitch
OFF v Steve Bruce
Rhys Wilmott trying to reach the halfway line
Bill Roffey flattening Wayne Entwhistle
Raymond the roller was gold. Never seen before or since.

The same era as ‘boink’ from goal kicks. Haven’t seen that again either.
'Boing' was late 80s.

Raymond was late 90s.
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Definitely remember 'Boing!' well into the late 90s.
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Barrie Fairbrother's rocket cross shot goal across the goalie in the Wrexham playoff final.

Tommy Johnston's goal after beating three Everton defenders on an ice bound pitch.

Lockwood's hat trick against Gillingham.

O's lifting the league 2 trophy.

The takeover completion from the mad Italian.
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Chicken Dhansak wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:45 am Barrie Fairbrother's rocket cross shot goal across the goalie in the Wrexham playoff final.
Might wanna re-think this one
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Chicken Dhansak wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:45 am Barrie Fairbrother's rocket cross shot goal across the goalie in the Wrexham playoff final.
Who was masquerading as Lee Harvey
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Not sure how to define 'top' in my mind, so I'll go Desert Island Discs-style and try to hit some important milestones:

Brighton 4 - Orient 4, 1997 - my first ever away game

Walking up Wembley Way, a little drunk, before the Playoff Final, 1999

Oxford 2 - Orient 3, 2006 - obviously

Orient 1 - Arsenal 1, 2011 - even the goal celebration alone

Gillingham 2 - Orient 0, 2023 - real jubilation
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Chicken Dhansak wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:45 am Barrie Fairbrother's rocket cross shot goal across the goalie in the Wrexham playoff final.
Great memory.
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'Member when Jabo skipped past all those challenges on that awful, muddy Stamford Road pitch and clipped the outside of the post? What might have been, eh. Ray Wilkins ran over and banjoed him for that, as I recall.
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Oxford - nuff said

Arsenal and Tehoue

Winning away at Northampton, before when winning away never existed.

Fulham FA cup - I never went home that day!

Solihull Moors - we were creeping towards the finishing line and the result, along with the atmosphere in that beer tent. A proper memory.
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Wally Banter wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:52 am Not sure how to define 'top' in my mind, so I'll go Desert Island Discs-style and try to hit some important milestones:

Brighton 4 - Orient 4, 1997 - my first ever away game

Walking up Wembley Way, a little drunk, before the Playoff Final, 1999

Oxford 2 - Orient 3, 2006 - obviously

Orient 1 - Arsenal 1, 2011 - even the goal celebration alone

Gillingham 2 - Orient 0, 2023 - real jubilation
Yes, Brighton game was brilliant. Butch taking out the pitch invader. Brighton fans were not happy. A pretty edgy walk back to the car with my coat well and truly zipped up….
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one o in huntingdon wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:52 am
Chicken Dhansak wrote: Thu Jan 16, 2025 9:45 am Barrie Fairbrother's rocket cross shot goal across the goalie in the Wrexham playoff final.
Who was masquerading as Lee Harvey

Sorry about that, it was Lee Harvey, the old memory ain't what it used to be.
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