| Orient fan saying hello! 21:45 - Sep 10 with 4872 views | oriental |
Hi all, just to say hello and maybe engage with you about your feelings for the game on Tuesday - assuming it goes ahead. Bottom club at home to the top club would seem like a fairly easy prediction but this is Leyton Orient, the most obtuse, weird and frustrating club that ever existed. With us, nothing is certain. All the same, we are strong all-round this season and we've added a bit of northern toughness in the shape of head coach Richie Wellens. It's clear you've had a torrid time so far, how's it looking in the near future? |  | | |  |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 06:16 - Sep 11 with 4608 views | Dalenet |
I think we all think like that about our clubs. How many times have we risen on the crest of a wave and the most easy match on paper turns into a let down.
We are having to rebuild on and off the field. Losing the last of the players that came down from League One with us 18 months ago has meant a new squad that hasn't yet gelled. But we've scored 3 goals in each of the last two games when scoring has been a problem for us. The new manager has us attacking more thats for sure. Defensively we have a lot of work to do.
Off the pitch, we had a takeover attempt that the fans didn't want from chancers that have history elsewhere. The EFL is ineffective and 12 months on we are still waiting to hear what the outcome will be. But the new board have fought it off and the legal challenges too for which we will be forever grateful. We may not be flush, but we are owned by the fans and the ground is preserved for the community into the future.
Your start to the season is impressive and it'll be interesting to see if we can get something from the game. We should have played Salford yesterday - so another team riding high. I have no idea how the game will pan out on Tuesday, but looking forward to a cracker with a fair few goals. And we can't afford to sit back for a draw, although being off the bottom will be a result. Enjoy the game | | | |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 06:51 - Sep 11 with 4568 views | rochefort |
You don’t sound like a fan of your club. Saying you have added northern toughness is trying too hard to ingratiate.. | | | |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 07:42 - Sep 11 with 4501 views | richfoad32 |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 06:51 - Sep 11 by rochefort |
You don’t sound like a fan of your club. Saying you have added northern toughness is trying too hard to ingratiate.. |
Why? Bit cliched perhaps, but not unreasonable. | | | |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:34 - Sep 11 with 4221 views | oriental |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 06:51 - Sep 11 by rochefort |
You don’t sound like a fan of your club. Saying you have added northern toughness is trying too hard to ingratiate.. |
Aah! a classic example of that famous warm, friendly northern welcome. You know us cockneys, mostly shadowy, dodgy, tax-dodging tea leaves javascript:insertCode(' ') | | | |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:45 - Sep 11 with 4172 views | oriental |
Answering Dalenet's comments about off-pitch shenanigans, we are only too well aware of that. In 2019 we missed promotion to the championship on a penalty shoot-out at Wembley, our owner Barry Hearn sold out to an Italian billionaire who pee'd money up the wall like it was going out of style. Once he realised we weren't going to win the European cup, he lost interest and sodded off. Then we found ourselves in the NL without so much as a bank account.
Our current owners came over the hill like the cavalry and have built us up, bit by bit, and continue to do so. We're lucky, we could so easily have followed Bury into oblivion.
We've been playing Dale, on and off, all my life. We're not so different, sometimes up (not often) but mostly bottom feeding.
Are you going to get up from the bottom?
I'll try not use too many cliches | | | |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 11:30 - Sep 11 with 4100 views | Dalenet |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:45 - Sep 11 by oriental |
Answering Dalenet's comments about off-pitch shenanigans, we are only too well aware of that. In 2019 we missed promotion to the championship on a penalty shoot-out at Wembley, our owner Barry Hearn sold out to an Italian billionaire who pee'd money up the wall like it was going out of style. Once he realised we weren't going to win the European cup, he lost interest and sodded off. Then we found ourselves in the NL without so much as a bank account.
Our current owners came over the hill like the cavalry and have built us up, bit by bit, and continue to do so. We're lucky, we could so easily have followed Bury into oblivion.
We've been playing Dale, on and off, all my life. We're not so different, sometimes up (not often) but mostly bottom feeding.
Are you going to get up from the bottom?
I'll try not use too many cliches |
As for your last point - I ruddy hope so. The players have capability - they just need to be a team. The new manager has only just arrived and we have 39 games to play. But we all know what happened to Scunny and so I am not counting any chickens | | | |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 12:10 - Sep 11 with 4017 views | judd |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:45 - Sep 11 by oriental |
Answering Dalenet's comments about off-pitch shenanigans, we are only too well aware of that. In 2019 we missed promotion to the championship on a penalty shoot-out at Wembley, our owner Barry Hearn sold out to an Italian billionaire who pee'd money up the wall like it was going out of style. Once he realised we weren't going to win the European cup, he lost interest and sodded off. Then we found ourselves in the NL without so much as a bank account.
Our current owners came over the hill like the cavalry and have built us up, bit by bit, and continue to do so. We're lucky, we could so easily have followed Bury into oblivion.
We've been playing Dale, on and off, all my life. We're not so different, sometimes up (not often) but mostly bottom feeding.
Are you going to get up from the bottom?
I'll try not use too many cliches |
Rochdale fans are forever grateful for the help provided by Orient supporters last season when you held a bucket collection for us.
Incredibly generous gesture and great to see you flourishing. |  |
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| Orient fan saying hello! on 14:36 - Sep 11 with 3786 views | diver |
Wilbutts lane chippy still superb and pies are decent too | | | |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 18:40 - Sep 11 with 3466 views | foreverhopefulDale |
It's right opposite the away end, the chippy is. [Post edited 11 Sep 2022 18:41]
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| Orient fan saying hello! on 20:31 - Sep 11 with 3267 views | RAFCBLUE |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 11:53 - Sep 11 by kel |
I wouldn’t worry too much what this rochefort character thinks. We’ve had a number of new users sign up since the legal action was resolved and given it’s their first post I’d say they can be placed in the same category.
In fact, their post is wonderfully ironic in a way. [Post edited 11 Sep 2022 11:55]
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The only hard cheese story in the last year involved a Worsley based former fitness photographer and teamed up with a Wirral based McDonalds team member.
Its about to be on the menu at a bigger restaurant in the Midlands. |  |
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| Orient fan saying hello! on 21:33 - Sep 11 with 3160 views | pioneer |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:45 - Sep 11 by oriental |
Answering Dalenet's comments about off-pitch shenanigans, we are only too well aware of that. In 2019 we missed promotion to the championship on a penalty shoot-out at Wembley, our owner Barry Hearn sold out to an Italian billionaire who pee'd money up the wall like it was going out of style. Once he realised we weren't going to win the European cup, he lost interest and sodded off. Then we found ourselves in the NL without so much as a bank account.
Our current owners came over the hill like the cavalry and have built us up, bit by bit, and continue to do so. We're lucky, we could so easily have followed Bury into oblivion.
We've been playing Dale, on and off, all my life. We're not so different, sometimes up (not often) but mostly bottom feeding.
Are you going to get up from the bottom?
I'll try not use too many cliches |
I remember the first ever game between us……..opening game of the season 1969 at Spotland so while we now are regular opposition that wasnt always the case.
It was the start of a purple patch for you with denis rofe and Tommy Taylor playing as younsters. | | | |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 06:47 - Sep 12 with 2888 views | Dale_4_Life |
Orient have had a fantastic start to the season and Dales could not have been much worse.
Defensively there is a lot of work to be done but IF (and its a big if) we can get the back line hell bent on keeping the ball out we have a chance.
Its not David v Goliath - see you Tuesday. [Post edited 12 Sep 2022 6:49]
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| Orient fan saying hello! on 09:58 - Sep 12 with 2671 views | dingdangblue |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:45 - Sep 11 by oriental |
Answering Dalenet's comments about off-pitch shenanigans, we are only too well aware of that. In 2019 we missed promotion to the championship on a penalty shoot-out at Wembley, our owner Barry Hearn sold out to an Italian billionaire who pee'd money up the wall like it was going out of style. Once he realised we weren't going to win the European cup, he lost interest and sodded off. Then we found ourselves in the NL without so much as a bank account.
Our current owners came over the hill like the cavalry and have built us up, bit by bit, and continue to do so. We're lucky, we could so easily have followed Bury into oblivion.
We've been playing Dale, on and off, all my life. We're not so different, sometimes up (not often) but mostly bottom feeding.
Are you going to get up from the bottom?
I'll try not use too many cliches |
Ah yes. Rochdale legend Chris Dagnall missed your 5th penalty. Top v bottom occasionally turns up an upset - Im sure all Dale fans remember us having to beat bottom club Carlisle to secure promotion and they somehow beat us 1-0 at Spotland. With a new manager in charge of his 1st home game - you never know. |  |
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| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:11 - Sep 12 with 2651 views | kel |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 09:58 - Sep 12 by dingdangblue |
Ah yes. Rochdale legend Chris Dagnall missed your 5th penalty. Top v bottom occasionally turns up an upset - Im sure all Dale fans remember us having to beat bottom club Carlisle to secure promotion and they somehow beat us 1-0 at Spotland. With a new manager in charge of his 1st home game - you never know. |
*Darlington. |  |
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| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:38 - Sep 12 with 2608 views | D_Alien |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 09:58 - Sep 12 by dingdangblue |
Ah yes. Rochdale legend Chris Dagnall missed your 5th penalty. Top v bottom occasionally turns up an upset - Im sure all Dale fans remember us having to beat bottom club Carlisle to secure promotion and they somehow beat us 1-0 at Spotland. With a new manager in charge of his 1st home game - you never know. |
In my early Dale years, we spent most of them "touching the cloth" but remember beating top of the table outfits quite a few times, which made our seemingly perennial struggles all the more annoying
In particular, we beat Stockport 1-0 at Spotland around about 1967 and their cocky fans (some things must be inbred) draining out of the ground at the end to the derision of the Sandy
Also, beating Southport away 0-2 midweek, when you got the result on the radio at 10pm and jumping out the chair in disbelief |  |
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| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:40 - Sep 12 with 2605 views | EllDale |
My favourite example of this was when we stuck four up Preston on their plastic pitch.
Would have been around 1986 I think. | | | |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 11:38 - Sep 12 with 2464 views | dingdangblue |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 10:11 - Sep 12 by kel |
*Darlington. |
That unforgettable Darlington game!  | |
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| Orient fan saying hello! on 11:43 - Sep 12 with 2444 views | fermin |
| Orient fan saying hello! on 11:38 - Sep 12 by dingdangblue |
That unforgettable Darlington game! |
Beating Barnsley 3-0 away in front of Yorkshire TV in the late 1970s. May not have exactly been top v bottom but it was pretty close.
That Preston result kept us in the League with hindsight. Made up for the original postponement at 14.50 with a foot of snow everywhere. |  | | |
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