Independent Leyton Orient Forum

I know he made that one good header against Wrexham but that Dom Ball bloke is such a pointless player. Says a lot that 54 year old Darren Pratley starts ahead of him every week.

Cooper should have started RB, Clare or Ball in the middle instead of Pratley & Perkins or O'neill instead of Jayesimi.
Poor starting line up

Oh f*** off with this dogshit. 2-1 to this lot?

The Reverend wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:25 pm I know he made that one good header against Wrexham but that Dom Ball bloke is such a pointless player. Says a lot that 54 year old Darren Pratley starts ahead of him every week.

Yup been very disappointing and if TransferMarkt is to be believed our top earner too. One for the release list in summer.

Down to 10th as well.
Maxy was right play offs are a miss unless we turn this around

Perkins on? Time for bed…

Markanday in the 10 is odd, it isn't where he plays

How many points have we dropped from winning positions?

Jeremy Bentham wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:31 pm How many points have we dropped from winning positions?

Was 8 before tonight

They are out smarting us. Every throw in and foul is going for them. Lost our heads completely second half

Jeremy Bentham wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:31 pm How many points have we dropped from winning positions?

Prior to the Stevenage game, it was something like W16 D2 L2 when we’ve taken the lead. So this is a recent issue.

Wonder what's gone wrong in the last 6 weeks. Completely fallen off from the level we were at. The last two wins were not deserved and only delayed the inevitable unravelling of a play off challenge.

We haven't looked like getting back into this at all..

Bandy Legs wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:35 pm

Jeremy Bentham wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:31 pm How many points have we dropped from winning positions?

Was 8 before tonight

Our inability to control games once we're ahead is our biggest failing.

The players are aware that we are losing right?

First half 1-0 up and all over them. Forwards failed to take the chances and now we are going to lose this. Just goes to show how one must take the chances given to you.

At least Mrs NEs & I won't miss the play-off matches now, due to a pre-planned holiday, as we won't make the play-offs. We'll end up 6 points away from a play-off position, IMO.

A blind man could see we needed to change it, and nothing happened. Completely threw the game away.

Are we trying to waste time with all these game-slowing stupid fouls? Thick as mince.

Token wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:38 pm The players are aware that we are losing right?

Yes, you do wonder sometimes.

Mistadobalina wrote: ↑Tue Apr 01, 2025 9:36 pm Wonder what's gone wrong in the last 6 weeks. Completely fallen off from the level we were at. The last two wins were not deserved and only delayed the inevitable unravelling of a play off challenge.

We haven't looked like getting back into this at all..

I think the reality is that we had a purple patch between scraping past Boreham Wood in the Cup and the dogged win at Wrexham sandwiched between two very mediocre spells . We were simply not as good as advertised unfortunately.

I said the Blackpool performance was shambolic and got laughed at, the second 45 against Stevenage they deserved a point and tonight been outplayed by this dross, performances been very poor

Not the refs fault but every time we out muscle them it’s a foul. Abdulai gets flattened and no foul.

First time all season I’ve said this but this team ain’t quite got it. Too much panic, not enough nuance and ultimately the quality isn’t there for the too 6. Hope we can still make a run but it’ll be hard to get them back up again after that shambles of a second half

Embarrassing

Omar & TJ the biggest misses we've had.
Anybody who thinks they arent the glue knows fug hall about Football.

Losing Galbraith to that stupid international break has done for us tonight. Clare at RB was awful then our midfield was equally poor as a knock on. Wasn't James meant to be back for tonight?

Lacked any character or mental strength for someone to put their foot on the ball and take control of the midfield. Really really poor and unfortunately Richie didn't react quickly enough to the change after HT.