Independent Leyton Orient Forum

If they win their last two games (Stoke - A and Barnsley - H), they will be in the Premier League next season.

Hardly a suprise
Greg Dyke set in motion when he took it over.

Hope they get there , been fantastic this season

Winnable games too! I hope they make it. Been very good and flirting with a big season for a few years now. Should be great inspiration for clubs like ourselves.

PoliticOs wrote: ↑Fri Jul 17, 2020 7:41 pm Should be great inspiration for clubs like ourselves.

Spot on!

Implemented a pretty unique system, which was a brave move in the Championship and it’s paying off.

As much as It guts me up to see where wolves and Brentford are since we were at the top with them 6 years ago, I hope they do it.

Will be playing the Hammers if they go up , West Ham 3 up at half time ☹

I always wanted to hate Bees but you have to admire the way they've gone about reorganising their football club to the point of going into the Premiershit .

They'd love to finish 5th 6th & 6th
3 seasons on the bounce
like the last time they went upto
the top flight way back when.

Hope The Bees go up, though I’d be amazed if they don’t come straight back down. Must be something in that Moneyball malarky, and having a rich fan as an owner who treats his fans with respect. Would be a good send-off for Griffin Park too.

Congrats to Leeds on returning to the PL after 16 years too. Quite like that barking Bielsa chappie.

Used to be a similar sized club to Orient, if only we had a rich fan as our owner eh?

Hope they do it but will they be like Norwich or Sheff Utd?

You have to acknowledge they have built a great side there- good to watch, too.
And to think they just pipped us to promotion in 13/14. They've built relatively steadily since, and deserve a crack at the Prem really.

Shows what can be done. In 'true' terms, they are no bigger than Orient.

I dislike Brentford.

EH16 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 18, 2020 10:52 am I dislike Brentford.

Me too

I watched Brentford play Chesterfield in 1966 or 1967. They were in the old Fourth division. Gate was about 8000, which was what you expected. Not even a whiff of bovver. About 8-12 Chesterfield supporters. In those days I was a Chelsea supporter, They would average gates of around 40,000. Orient were in the old division 2. Me and my mates supported either: Chelsea, Spurs or Arsenal. But we would go to other London Clubs whenever we could, to tick them off our bucket list. Brentford were dire. Their "star" was Docherty.

Bottling it with a few mins to go

Out of thier hands now , Bonne gets an injury time equaliser for Charlton who badly need the points

Blew it

Well done on what looks like a first premier league victory. Depressing really.

Only watched by a " crowd " of just over 14,000. Will that be enough punters to keep them in the Premier for very long?

I enjoyed the rivalry with Brentford over the years. I quite liked their ground but never really liked them as a club. I had an ex-girlfirend who was a Brentford fan which probably didn't help. However, what they've acheived is impressive. I know they'd had money behind them but so have lots of other lower league clubs and most have got nowhere. They did things differently and it's paid off. I hope they do well this season. I didn't think I'd ever say that.

Exiled O wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 10:09 pm I enjoyed the rivalry with Brentford over the years. I quite liked their ground but never really liked them as a club. I had an ex-girlfirend who was a Brentford fan which probably didn't help. However, what they've acheived is impressive. I know they'd had money behind them but so have lots of other lower league clubs and most have got nowhere. They did things differently and it's paid off. I hope they do well this season. I didn't think I'd ever say that.

This...reluctantly.
Too many memories of the assault on Kenny Achampong, the Battle of Brentford and the 4-3 Ricky Otto match to ever 'like' them.
However, they clearly have a business model that works and it's something for us to aspire to......even if I'm not sure that I really want Orient in the Premiership.

Good luck to them though and it was good to watch this evening, even of only for Carragher's comment 'the defending there was just ......Arsenal'

Clive Evans wrote: ↑Fri Aug 13, 2021 10:07 pm Only watched by a " crowd " of just over 14,000. Will that be enough punters to keep them in the Premier for very long?

The TV money will help them.

Brentford have done really well however, they wouldn't be in the Premiership if they had Hearn in charge

Amazing to think we used to play them twice a season, and not that long ago