The penalty incident should never have happened, as their striker was offside by yards, it wasn't even close. We then conspired to give them two goals.
The lino was shit, but it was a lot closer than you give credit for. I'm 75% sure it was onside when the ball was kicked.
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Anyway funny old game. The inclusion of Agombar was a joke, pretty funny one but there is no justifying his selection when we have some proper young pro's on the bench behind him. He was indeed unfit and dogshite, but at least he tried to keep it simple whenever he touched the ball.
First half: Offside aside, Belford Ty totally fluffed a pass to gift Orient a one on one, then hauled down their man. He owes Cook half a diet coke for ruining his debut too. Thankfully his brother is possessed by the spirit of Peter "fucking good debut" Brezovan.
Unfortunately Branco is possessed by the spirit of Jerel "one fuckup a match" Ifil. And Andy Williams convinced me I was wrong about him as he flattered to deceive by doing not very much other than wave his arms about giving it a "ooh, look, I nearly got it honest".
Second half starts as the first ended, and we conceded our customary quick goal, game over. Except we took off Agombar and suddenly Rodgers scores a worldy flick up and smack it for the edge of the box. The game changes and we get the momentum, Randall and other debutant (?!) do well, but more importantly Andy Williams starts looking dangerous and starts winning the ball up front and takes on players and beating them. Had this Williams been around for a couple of games he'd be starting on Thursday.
Eventually Rickets goes on a good run into the box, gets fouled, and Williams smacks the penalty in an unsavable way. Later on the cockknocker ref missed a handball by an Orient player as Williams was nearly one on one after a breakaway, then Orient break straight away and have a shout for a penalty too.
As time ran out Orient peppered out box with crosses, and when the keeper came up and we so very very nearly broke onto an unguarded goal, but the ball out was a foot too close to the Orient defender.
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So all in all an odd day but it was good to see a 10 man Town team fight for a point (eventually). And everyone went home just a little bit happier than they thought they would.
