rosettes
peanut seller
small white programmes
half time scores in programme and shown around perimeter of pitch
League ladders - given out in comics like valiant and hotspur
playing in blue
golden girls
smell of horses oils
football with laces cleaned with dubbin
rattles
programme fairs
ray the roller
electric scoreboard
floodlights in corner of ground
just being called Orient
outside toilets
west side ultras
Never saw the team play in blue - my first game was in '68 after the change to red.
Don't remember the golden girls, ray the roller, an electric scoreboard or the West Side Ultras.
I can go back to standing on the North terrace, which had about ten steps up to a mud bank you had to traverse to get to the
toilet, which was open to the elements. I can remember when we played in blue with white trim and white shorts, and no
floodlights.
Fatbaz wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:19 pm
I remember most of that.
Never saw the team play in blue - my first game was in '68 after the change to red.
Don't remember the golden girls, ray the roller, an electric scoreboard or the West Side Ultras.
If you started in 68 then you will defo have seen ray the roller. The man is a legend at the O’s.
seem to remember the electric scoreboard fell over after a storm , just in time for the visit of Coventry in the cup.
The debris was them thrown by the exiled west side into the Coventry fans who were residing in the West Side.
The afore mentioned debris was then shipped back into the south bank.
Lost 4-1
Wasn’t electric scoreboards, they had letters which corresponded with those in program, e.g. A 2-1, B1-1 ect.
Wooden rattles and crowds of 20,000, team in royal blue and white, and Brisbane rd a fortress. Those were the days my friend, I thought they’d never end.
Fatbaz wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:19 pm
I remember most of that.
Never saw the team play in blue - my first game was in '68 after the change to red.
Don't remember the golden girls, ray the roller, an electric scoreboard or the West Side Ultras.
If you started in 68 then you will defo have seen ray the roller. The man is a legend at the O’s.
@ Thor,
you're probably right, I may well have seen him. The trouble is, I just can't remember him. Mind you, I don't remember much about last week.
Obviously I recall Charlie Hasler, of course.
Remind me about Roy; maybe you'll jog a long-lost memory.
Fatbaz wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:19 pm
I remember most of that.
Never saw the team play in blue - my first game was in '68 after the change to red.
Don't remember the golden girls, ray the roller, an electric scoreboard or the West Side Ultras.
If you started in 68 then you will defo have seen ray the roller. The man is a legend at the O’s.
Remind me about Roy; maybe you'll jog a long-lost memory.
Ray!!!
Used to roll the roller (hence the nickname) with so much vigour it was both unnatural and inspirational. The roller lived at the SS from memory and he used to charge up north with it to sort out the goal mouth.
P.S. What about the north stand rattler (I think he died about 10 years ago)? "Go on you goal scoring, rip roaring reds!"
He also used to use the roller in a certain way, he would start around the penalty spot and run on a very distinct, curved
course. IIRC he had a big following in the stadium.
Fatbaz wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:46 pm
Hmmm... Ray (not Roy).
I'm afraid that I have no memory of him.
'The roller' did suggest that he was ground-staff, that's why I mentioned Charlie.
Raymond used to roll one penalty box
Then put that roller behind the goal & sprint the entire length of the pitch to get the other to do the other end.
Big lad fairly hefty .
Had a bit of a swingy head from side to side
( bit like the dogs youd buy for the back shelf of a car.) due to his illness .
Last time i saw him was when i was walking back gome from whipps x after visiting my mum.
At 1st i thought thast Raymonds old man , i hooe nothing has happened to Raymond , as i passed him i saw it was actually Raymond . The spitting image of his Dad , who himself was a regular down at the O's.
He was a bit heavier & a bit less hair than
his pitch rolling days .
KC & sunshine band wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:02 pm
lovely lunch with the boys having a craic
who remembers ?
rosettes
peanut seller
small white programmes
half time scores in programme and shown around perimeter of pitch
League ladders - given out in comics like valiant and hotspur
playing in blue
golden girls
smell of horses oils
football with laces cleaned with dubbin
rattles
programme fairs
ray the roller
electric scoreboard
floodlights in corner of ground
just being called Orient
outside toilets
west side ultras
up the os
Still got one of the league ladders from the Hotspur all clubs still with it, remember all the others but wasn't interested in the ultra's and a friend of mine married one of the Golden Girls
Redcard wrote: ↑Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:35 pm
Wasn’t electric scoreboards, they had letters which corresponded with those in program, e.g. A 2-1, B1-1 ect.
Wooden rattles and crowds of 20,000, team in royal blue and white, and Brisbane rd a fortress. Those were the days my friend, I thought they’d never end.
Raymond The Roller’s half time activities used to upstage Hearn’s pathetic celebrity walk ons around 96/7. He was much more entertaining.
Used to stand on the North Terrace near The Railwayman with his rattle cheering on the Rip-Roaring Reds. Good days (though the team and games were mostly rubbish).
slacker wrote: ↑Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:59 am
Raymond The Roller’s half time activities used to upstage Hearn’s pathetic celebrity walk ons around 96/7. He was much more entertaining.
Used to stand on the North Terrace near The Railwayman with his rattle cheering on the Rip-Roaring Reds. Good days (though the team and games were mostly rubbish).
Me too, regarding the railwayman. He was always 15-30 feet over my right shoulder.
