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Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 5:56 pm
by Give it to Jabo
I will start: Jay Simpson. Two spells and shaped up well. He had slightly bandy legs.
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:21 pm
by gshaw
James Alabi, great guy, great work ethic, awful finishing
Dale Gorman, never seemed to mentally get over his bad injury
Adam Thompson, another good egg but badly affected by injury
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:28 pm
by Rich Tea Wellin
Give it to Jabo wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 5:56 pm
I will start: Jay Simpson. Two spells and shaped up well. He had slightly bandy legs.
Wasn’t he the first player in donkeys years to score 20 goals in a season? And in that FB era as well. I’d say he did alright
First ones to spring to mind:
Dean Morgan
Adrian Patula - no idea why I wanted him to do well
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:39 pm
by Bergen
Christian Scales was a very good prospect.
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 7:54 pm
by LPE
Darius Henderson. Easily my top one.
One of the most physical players I’ve ever seen and should have been a beast at L1 level. I was so looking forward to seeing what he could do.
He had some great proper old school battering ram centre forward displays and his scoring record wasn’t bad but other matches he just didn’t look bothered and was not fit to wear the shirt.
Big wages. Big reputation. Just didn’t deliver.
I do wonder though how much of it was being part of the circus and the shenanigans of ‘You know who’ and if that might have affected him badly.
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 8:47 pm
by Ski Sunday
Jamie Cureton
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 8:56 pm
by Admin
Joe Baker and Gary Taylor-Fletcher
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 8:57 pm
by Admin
Give it to Jabo wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 5:56 pm
I will start: Jay Simpson. Two spells and shaped up well. He had slightly bandy legs.
Very. Well known that he couldn’t stop a pig in a hallway
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 9:46 pm
by Cheshunto
Kevin Nolan
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:29 pm
by Friend or fart
Colin West
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 11:13 pm
by Hoover Attack
LPE wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 7:54 pm
Darius Henderson. Easily my top one.
One of the most physical players I’ve ever seen and should have been a beast at L1 level. I was so looking forward to seeing what he could do.
He had some great proper old school battering ram centre forward displays and his scoring record wasn’t bad but other matches he just didn’t look bothered and was not fit to wear the shirt.
Big wages. Big reputation. Just didn’t deliver.
I do wonder though how much of it was being part of the circus and the shenanigans of ‘You know who’ and if that might have affected him badly.
Of course it did. Everyone was sh*t then.
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 11:57 pm
by faith1234
Nothing wrong with Colin west
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 8:08 am
by y o y o y
Andy 'Toto Schillaci' Sayer
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:03 am
by Give it to Jabo
Rich Tea Wellin wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:28 pm
Give it to Jabo wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 5:56 pm
I will start: Jay Simpson. Two spells and shaped up well. He had slightly bandy legs.
Wasn’t he the first player in donkeys years to score 20 goals in a season? And in that FB era as well. I’d say he did alright
First ones to spring to mind:
Dean Morgan
Adrian Patula - no idea why I wanted him to do well
20 goals in a season is very creditable, certainly, but I yearned for more. He was a real goal poacher - I wanted a touch of the Messis…
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:21 am
by Fellowo
Jabo!
Someone that could go past 5 players with ease, to get himself in front of goal and fall over.
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 3:23 pm
by Give it to Jabo
Of course, Jabo. Always respected.
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 3:56 pm
by MrB
Fellowo wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:21 am
Jabo!
Someone that could go past 5 players with ease, to get himself in front of goal and fall over.
Or sky the ball into coronation gardens
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 4:25 pm
by BiggsyMalone
gshaw wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 6:21 pm
James Alabi, great guy, great work ethic, awful finishing
Dale Gorman, never seemed to mentally get over his bad injury
Adam Thompson, another good egg but badly affected by injury
Alabi and Gorman for me too
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 4:50 pm
by Omygawd
Peter Garland. Had high hopes for him.
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 5:27 pm
by Proposition Joe
How can anyone say Jabo didn't succeed at Os?
Another vote for Gary Taylor (as was) and Lorenzo Pinamonte.
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 5:35 pm
by MrB
Proposition Joe wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 5:27 pm
How can anyone say Jabo didn't succeed at Os?
Another vote for Gary Taylor (as was) and Lorenzo Pinamonte.
I don’t know what Pinamonte was,he sure wasn’t a footballer!!
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 8:05 pm
by EliotNes
Fellowo wrote: ↑Sun Jun 02, 2024 11:21 am
Jabo!
Someone that could go past 5 players with ease, to get himself in front of goal and fall over.
BTT -- Yes, Jabo.
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 8:32 pm
by Frogger
Sean Thornton
Jeff Minton
Efe Echanomi
Ray Wilkins
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 9:06 pm
by ContrifibulatoryFred
Ski Sunday wrote: ↑Sat Jun 01, 2024 8:47 pm
Jamie Cureton
This
Re: Players you wanted to succeed at Orient, but didn’t quite do it…
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2024 10:32 pm
by gshaw
Two somewhat left field ones
Shwan Jalal - signed in a rush to cover the recalled cover GK Jakupovic, was hoping he could make himself a cult hero but as he flapped at crosses he wrote himself into folklore for other reasons
Robbie Simpson - striker we got from Cambridge I think around the same time, try as he might nothing worked for him. Again I recall him coming on when we needed a goal and ending up conceding a free kick in the opponent's half which ended up as a goal against, quite possibly due to the hapless Jalal
