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The Opponent:  Leyton Orient

Could this be the first home game of the season where one really should wrap up warm? With the Desmond newspapers convinced 100 days of snow is on the way I am thinking of diversifying my business and investing in a path sized snow plough, purchasing every sledge I can find in hope of making a quick buck when everyone has sold out and drag myself down to Go Outdoors and invest £300 in a coat. If this doesn’t guarantee a mild winter then not much will. I don’t mind the snow, the kids love it, I just can’t stand the havoc it causes with a fixture schedule pile up and the will it – won’t it be on saga, knowing whether to post a matchday thread up can be somewhat of a gamble too. But for now unsafe ground access and renting giant heaters seem to be on the back burner and its back to SN1 for what seems to be our first home league match for some time.

Today aside, I will always hold a special place in my heart for The O’s, for it was they who condemned the six fingered livestock lovers to non league football a few years back. I remember the chant of “Orient, Orient” ringing round the Town End, what happy memories. Orient proved to be the early pace setters a few months back but are showing early signs of doing a Tranmere, I’m hoping today brings us 3 points closer to them but the expectations remain grounded. Interestingly, Barry Hearn became chairman of Leyton Orient in 1995 after the club was put up for  sale for £5 by then-chairman Tony Wood whose coffee growing business in Rwanda had gone somewhat tits-up  in the country's civil war. The most famous supporter of Orient is undoubtedly the frog faced Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and some of the natives of Leytonstone include cricketing legend Graham Gooch, David Beckham and the wonderfully named cook, Fanny Craddock.

Where the opposition gather – 

http://leytonorientforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14377
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Why can't they just face it he wanted to play for a bigger, better club ?? regards xx  ”

Knobs.

Last 6 – WWLWWL (2nd on 38 points)

They have served us both – Harry Morris (To Clapton Orient),  Stan Earl, Jimmy Lee, Martin Ling, Jonathon Tehoue, Gary Alexander, Pat Kanyuka, Percy Whipp, John Gorman, Calvin Andrew, Craig Easton, Alex Revell, Scott Cuthbert.

The Odds –  Swindon 13/10 Draw 12/5  Leyton Orient 2/1  Orient strike pairing Mooney and Lisbie are both favourites to open the scoring at 11/2 whilst N’Guessan and Ajose are both nearer 13/2. Im going with Ajose again. Given a good run in the team he may well be the 20+ goals a season we need.

The Son Says –  He has noted Orient’s good form so far this term and was respectful enough to predict a 2-1 win for Town, normal service will no doubt resume shortly.

The Prediction –  We are not even half way through the season yet and we are sat well in League 1. Of course we would swap positions with Orient tomorrow if we could but for me I have full belief in us turning the cockney slaaaaaaaaags over 3-1. 2 from Ajose and a peach of a strike from Luongo. 8’127 with 522 from London.

And Finally –  Alfred Hitchcock was born at 517 High Road, Leytonstone, on 13th August 1899. To mark 100 years since his birth, and to commemorate the director's link with the area, 17 mosaics were installed in the entrance corridors of Leytonstone tube station. They were made in vitreous glass tesserae, using the reverse method, by Greenwich Mural Workshop. The work required some 80,000 tiles, took seven months to complete, and the final installation took place during April 2001.

COYR COYR COYR

I'd honestly forgotten that Pat Kanyuka existed.

Tough one to call this
There will deffo be goals as the 2 front men from Lorient seem to be in a rich vein of form and our back line isnt
Having said that am gonna go for a 3- 2 town win.
An Ajose double and Hall header  :-[

Away fans - well Jed tweeted 250-300 earlier which would be a piss take as they took 1666 to posh on the last league outing, the away forum SR linked mentions sales of over 800 already which would be more like it.
995 away from Laaandan taaan overall 8850 attendance.

They've done well this season, got 1-1 all over it.

Plays in Thailand nowadays, in the last couple of years he has turned out for the likes of Staines, Maidenhead and Tamworth.

Russell Slade reminds me of Judge Holden from Blood Meridian, for any Cormac McCarthy fans out there.

I'll say 2-1 Swindon, goals from N'Guessan and Ajose! 8418 the crowd, with Orient bringing around 750-800!

We will take the lead.....   and lose 1-2

They are in good form , 2-0 to them on the break a la Warsaw

True story this. Had a book so-called written by FC; BBC, 2/6p. Couldn't give it away. A 'mate' put it on eBay: £20 it sold for. On that basis the O's owe me one.

I've got a good feeling about this. 2-1 Swindon COYR

Shaw Rosso = Mr Plow

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Don't know which Swindon will turn up lately. It must have been around this time last year when Tranmere were put to the sword at the CG - so with,history on my side 5-0.

Ajose 2, Im'Guessin 2 and Ward.

9112 with 878 from way out east

3-4 goalfest

7,999 (would have reached 8,000 but I can't make this one -gutted)

I fear a dicking a la Walsall.

 :nod:

Can't see why we can't win this, they lost the last two lets try and make it the last three, as afew have said could be goals in this I'm going for a one nil home win in front of 8,495 coyr

Just setting off from Essex. Youngest son is mascot today on his 9th birthday. He's really looking forward to it so I'm hoping for a win of any sort. He hates losing!

I think this is a game that league position suggests a draw - that's not going to happen in my opinion.

Like others I fear a Walsall if they've done their homework but I reckon it could be another Vale.

A 5 goal thriller with the team that scores first winning. I'll get off the fence later.

I got a bad feeling about this.

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I'm gonna say 3-1 to Lorient. I used to visit Leytonstone regularly as I had some friends who lived there, always wondered what was up with the mosaic in the tube station, thanks SR.

Welcome to the TEF 'members whose kids were mascot against Layton Orient' club. Its a pretty small club so far. Hope he has a great day, I'm sure he will.

My lad wouldn't do the whole 'pretend to shake hands but smooth your hair' routine to Alex Revell in the pre-matc  lineup, I blame our cup loss on him.

2-0 Ajose, Luongo

2-1 defeat.

Would'nt be disappointed with a draw today but think we can scrape a 2-1 win,both from Prichard

A win would be epic....

0-2, not feeling optimistic today.

I've found Stella increases optimism

0-2 defeat with 9,156 there including 927 O's.

I really think we will win today,want to be there.

Good luck to the boys today! Of course it'll be a tough game, but fuck it, we've turned over better teams in the past, and besides, we 'ent too shabby ourselves. Will be a good match.

STFC

1-1 today . First match for me in ages . Looking forward to it though.

The top scorers in the league going against our defence suggests we will have to score a couple to get anything out of the game, 2-2

It's going to be to be the season debut of my thermals I think

We underestimated Walsall and played the game at the wrong tempo. I don't think we'll underestimate L'orient, but doubt we'll stop them scoring, so 3-2.

Getting the bus in as the ECU went on the car  :(

Not travelling down today unfortunately, I reckon I'll miss a Town win, 3-1

I can't see past an Orient win, sadly

2-1 town. Ajose to score first. Well i have just 30/1 on that at coral's

0-3 to Orient.

Mass suicide on the pitch after the game.

Morshead says to expect signing news imminently. Ajose?

Young lad from Marlow apparently. On Twitter, I may have been whooshed

not quite.

Swindon Town have signed central midfielder Ben Gladwin from non-league side, Marlow FC

er. Well, can't say I've heard of him. Any football hipsters on hand?

A touch of Google tells me that he's quite at free kicks, but not much other info.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6jHNj0itis

http://www.skysports.com/nikeacademy/story/0,28730,19684_6673366,00.html

Target man with clinical finishing apparently. Replacement for Ranger sounds like.

Whether he is good enough is to be seen. Sounds like a certain chap we got from Poole a few years back.

"I'm learning something from the coaches every day. We had a really good passing session with Paul Hart, who came in as a guest coach. I played a few nice balls, then threw in a bit of a lazy one. Paul called me over and told me to 'play every pass like it's the last one you'll ever play'. That stuck with me."

Hopefully didn't pass on any tips on what formation to use when needing to win a must-win game.

Central midfield.

What's the point signing some non-league player who no one has ever heard of. When did that ever work??

I'm just going to go sit in the corner with my cap on.

He's not just any old midfielder - He's a 'giant' midfielder according to the Adver :hmmm:

Good to see Storey back on the bench

Ranger not in the matchday squad - did he train all week, do we know?

Town : Foderingham, Thompson N, Hall, Ward (C), McEveley, Kasim, Luongo, Harley, Pritchard, N'Guessan, Ajose

Subs: Belford, Branco, Barthram, Agombar, Thompson L, Elgabas, Storey

This also sounds familiar:

They took loads to Oxford when they relegated them out of the league, and gave the gobby little toads a bit of a spanking by all accounts

Oh dear, Orient are drum wankers

http://thewashbag.com/2013/11/05/quiz-is-missing-midfielder-harry-agombar-the-new-milan-misun/

This is great stuff from the Washbag on Agombar, who makes it on to the bench!

Is Player awful for anyone else, or just me?

Coventry 0-4 Tranmere. Didn't see that coming!

Working perfectly here, which is unusual. I'm sure as soon as i hit post………..

Fucked up my Accy already

Curse of the early game, fucks mine up every time

Tranmere have had four shots on target. Efficient.

1-0

 :pint:

Ajose is on fire!!

1-1

I was just about to post that we look good so far and missed their equaliser

 :cry:

You daft twats.

wtf

Muppets.

Ridiculous goal to concede.  We're looking shambolic now.

A new CB is a priority in January.

Two poor defensive mistakes

too oftentoo often now!

Fuck you football

 :(

Can I jump in with "Moses parts the red sea" now?

No problem Morshead, I'll just take the credit ;)

Both from the right.  Definitely our weakest side of late.  I don't think Thompson looks at all comfortable.

Coxy scores for Forrest

Fitchett scores again for Salisbury.Can we offer Storey in p/e?

The away team look a lot fitter to me..this could end up 4 each as we are giving it a real go.
The ref is poor I got to say.

Ever since Jed wrote that letter we've been bullied and easily overrun

Oh Christian Roberts bless your inability to get people's names right.

Foderingham, it's Foderingham...

OK up to falling asleep after our goal. Crap thereafter. Pritchard pointless. McEveley cruising for a red. Orient number 10 must have breasts he's so much of a women.

Kasim should never have been beaten by his man for their second goal. McEveley our best player but looks unlikely to finish the game. Awful ref far too easily swayed

I'm 4 rows behind you sonic. Shouting at the ref.

Ironic then that kasim was at left back wher Jay Mac should have been when yheu scored..cant blame a midfielder gor that..we got work to do.

our bench doesn't look influential.

El-Gabas on for Pritchard at HT

Aaaaand 3-1

Second for Moses O, deflects off Ward.

I can't remember us having a bench that weak, ever.

game over methinks

Shite, new CB needed desperately.

Well that's that.  Pathetic again.

I think we just had "Oh jay zay"

Roar :crash:

our defence has been shit all season

fair point. Still think McEveley is about the only player who looked decent first half

The ref is a giant penis

Crikey this sounds terrible!

what a fucking twat

fucking ban him for life the cunt

All kicking off, supporter on the pitch throws a punch at the Orient keeper, El Gabas gets a yellow for diving. That'll be controversial.

Last he'll see of football.

El Gabas gets a yellow for going down in the penalty area, and a fan gets on the pitch and swings a fist at the Lorient keeper.

All kicking off...

This.

Is Jones being particularly annoying? By the sounds of the crowd it's the referee that's making himself unpopular.

Was it Crispy?

That was weird...

I was expecting the fan to go for the ref frankly.

What was the point in that...?  :no:

Thompson on to save the day...

STFC could very likely pick up a fine for that incident, hardly what we need.

And if anyone is gonna score again, it doesn't sound like its going to be us!

Awful turnout from Orient. Poor number of home fans too.

It was probably Chang on the pitch, angry that he didn't predict the new lad being signed up.

At least he showed a bit of passion

Flint og-made me feel a tiny bit better

N'JOSE

;D

I can tell the ref is shit by the amount he whistles. It's not a confident, single blast, it's a rapid pepepepepepepeep.

=Shit ref

Get McEveley off before the ref does

too late

oops

Too late.

Stupid cunt.

Well, I don't think there was anyone on earth that didn't see that coming. Ray Charles is scratching his head.

Shite day all round. Orient better team and deserved to win imo amd could have been a silly score at the end without fods. First half I thought we were half decent and maybe a bit unlucky to go in a goal behind.

Why do we have such fucktards supporting our club, give that cunt a life ban. Fucking bellend

I retract my statement about McEveley. Idiot.

Pretty embarrassing today. No effort.

"Released by Reading for being too small"

"Now 6' 3"

English football coaches really are crap aren't they?

No, I think that's universal. If the ref had got any worse, he'd have had to go in our back four as they were the only ones on the pitch having a worse game than he was. And that fucking nobend who took a swing at their keeper, what's that going to cost us?

These texts are borderline suicidal. I realise perspective and football fans aren't the best bedfellows but jesus h. christ.

Not a good day at the office today. All 4 goals had elements of fortune, switching off after going one up was schoolboy beheviour. Thought kasim headed into his own net and the third took a gargantuan deflection.

Orient weren't amazing but better than us and looked more lively throughout. I thought luongo and Harley played quite well today, not sure who was man of the match but we really need to sort out the defence, shocking at times.

The guy that ran on....what a plum, what was he thinking? At least that incident helped the atmosphere!

Ah well, got my ticket for Crawley on Tuesday wonder if ranger will be back. Someone else mentioned but our bench looked weak today!

He was dire, but according to Christian Roberts he was MOTM :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Mcevely was stupid for getting sent off but I didn't think he played too badly. His marauding runs in the first half were nosebleed territory!

I dont think hes as bad as everyone keeps making out personally. First half today I thought he played well and was one of the better players. Second half not so much but as I said, hes an ok full back.

The overall defence needs new faces, we look terrible at the back

First half fairly average and was a sucker punch to concede right after scoring but that second half was a joke. Totally ineffective and no real chance of note.

The 'strength' of our bench today was fucking abysmal. The sooner Ranger is back in the mix the better because we really do look lost without his presence upfront.

Impressed with Orient - reminded me of a Di Canio away performance. Strong at the back, well organised, niggling fouls to disrupt the match and wind up the home support and they took the piss overall. Good side.

McEveley had a tough time but was up against their best player.

Anyone else think the Orient 2nd was a Kasim own goal? He looked dis-interested today for me and his range of passing was really lacking.

Wasn't impressed with some of Cooper's pre match comments, we are in League 1 ffs not the top flight.

I thought we were shit. There was no width and Orient looked as though they would score every time they attacked. I'd struggle to pick a MOM. Our defence really is a total fucking shambles. Orient were fitter, stronger, wanted it more and a bigger bunch of cheating cunts than we were.
We got what we deserved. We missed Ranger as we had no focal point in attack. N'Guessan was dogshit today. Pritchard was wank. Ward and Hall were the Chuckle Brothers ably assisted by Nathan.
Now for some beer. Oh what for a Foley type character.

Very worrying for me today,lot of our better players like Pritchard and Kasim were awfull.
Our fitness looks poor to me all Orient players looked faster and more up for it than our lot today.
Was really disapointed by that showing today to be frank.

Ummmmmmm
Garbage
Thats all I can manage for now

Orient really didn't have to play well to beat us today - they were helped by the ref to a certain extent, he blew for a foul every time they went down, rolling around yet we hardly got anything.  But take nothing away from them they were bigger, fitter and stronger than us and showed us up as not really being good enough.  No pattern to our play, no hold-up, no driving into the box, we were poor.  Their no. 4 ran the game and - sadly for us - ran the ref as well.

Forgot to say that Cuthbert today was outstanding for them,and no billy big bollox either....lot of credit to him in my opinion.

What a waste of money. Only made better by meeting the London Reds in The Great Western pre-match. Shame I couldn't join them for the Froch bout later. enjoy the night lads

For the first 20 minutes it looked like we were in for a good match. Ajose missed a sitter, then we took the lead. As a team what we did next was criminal but not unheard of. We switch off and straight from the kickoff it was over Thompsons head, Wes was in no-mans-land and it was 1-1.

From that point on we were on the back foot against a better team, and even though the Orient goals were crap - they earned them. In contrast our back four get a lot of criticism, but in truth having a soft centre isn't just a back four issue. The midfield is skillful but is not offering the same level of protection that we had last year.

Continuing in the second half we lost the midfield battle and while we probed and huffed and puffed the truth is Orient could have had a couple more had Fods not made a couple pf good saves and had the Orient attack not turned a bit Laurel and Hardey in front of goal.

So no complaints, we got what we deserved. If I were to summarise I don't think Orient fully showed why they are where they are, yet we did show why we won't go up if we don't sort it out.
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Now for two special (Olympics) mentions:

1. Their #10 was the biggest moaning twat I've seen for a while. Spent half his time on his arse, half his time moaning about it.

2. The ref - I've never seen the play stopped (head injury) with us in possession midway in their half, only for play to be restarted with an uncontested drop ball at their keepers feet. And I swear yoGabbaGabba was brought down in the box too. Looked a pen to me.

3. McEveley was getting a lot of stick from some fans, and praise from others. But I think it sums up his game. Lots of good things and the odd not so good. IMHO he was our best defender. Shame he lost it and went on a mission to get a red - why other with the blatant second yellow when so near the end of the match and 3-1 down.

4. Based on what I've seen. Pritchard, championship. You're having a laugh. Undoubted skill is masking his shortcomings (no pun intended). Oh for a wide man that can actually beat a player. Or can spot a pass without having to run 40 yards with the ball at his feet first. I think he can come good, now is the time that he needs to do it.

Absolute shite today.

That is all.

Nothing more to say.

Thought el gabas looked lively. Never a penalty though.

Looked tripped from behind to me. Would like to see a decent replay of it, which we'll never get.

In the great western? most normally head for the gluey. must have been Mark for one desperate for a strongbow would be my first guess?

I don't think it happened.

I tend to head there first when on the train, but didn't go today and now and again a couple of the others pop in, but normally its the gluey or the tap.

Fair assumption, they were the voices in Dosser's head

I'd like to know how the linesman in front of the Arkells managed to become a qualified official with no knowledge of the offside rule

You obviously didn't notice the one on the DRS side then, he missed every offside going!

I sit in the TE corner of the DRS so missed that. Shocking officials all round then.

I blame Jed for complaining about officials
Hardly had a good one since

What happened when the twat from the TE ran onto the pitch? I missed that bit until he was surrounded by surprised stewards.

He went after the Orient keeper, not sure why he wound up the TE so much.

Probably because of the constant time wasting and not giving us the ball back which led to them nearly scoring

Didn't think we deserved to be losing at half time but we were poor second half. Orient were a horrible team though. After Walsall I was happy to hold my hands up and give the opposition a lot of credit. Losing to that bunch of cunts really stuck in my throat though. In the ref's ear from first minute to last and constant time wasting, diving and whinging.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2512443/Leyton-Orient-keeper-Jamie-Jones-punched-THREE-times-thug-Swindon.html

Punched three times?  :hmmm:

What a cock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQbTXItwnN0#t=63

Woolster at 0.46 in  :clap: :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Right.  Just had had a lovely fish pie and feel ready to comment.

As has been said, first half hour ish we were allright.  Looked like it was going to be a good contest.  Very sloppy to fall asleep like that straight away from kickoff.  Their second goal was sloppy as well, but thought we may still get back in it.  It was only really the shocking deflection resulting in the 3rd goal that killed us.  We just turned shit then.

There was no flow because we weren't allowed any by the ref who seemed to think every touch on an Orient player was a foul whilst blatant fouls on our players were ignored.  From where I was, El Gabbas was clearly fouled several times in the box during that incident and it was a pen.  There was no way he could stand up with all the player around him grabbing him.  It certainly wasn't a dive and free kick against us.  So all hell breaks lose and some barely evolved mouth breather from the TE decides to attack the keeper.  Wrong person numbnuts, go and twat the fucking ref.

The hatred of the keeper is traditional.  He was wasting time from the first half but big deal.  Get over it.  Its his right to do so at the risk of getting penalised and the ref is the one who should police it.  

I do hate the fact that fans are either suicidal or spazzily elated.  I guess that's the nature of football fans, but frankly there is a middle ground people.  We weren't very good, we lost, move on.  We're going to be inconsistent this season.  It'll probably kill some of the fan base who don't have any sense of perspective.  

Have a nice night everyone.  On to the next game.

Kept a drop ball rather than giving it back when we clearly had possession.

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Quite so. Mate of mine said he saw a Walsall game on the box earlier this week and they were poor, so how come they were so good when they played us? I said because, like us, they're capable of playing very good football but can't do so consistently week in, week out. Which is why both sides will threaten around the edges of the play-offs, but not quite do enough.

I'd blame the ref for that personally but the keeper was a prick. Just can't figure out how it escalated to that suddenly

You're always going to be on a hiding to nothing trying to understand the mindset of an idiot

Was only 16 apparently according to the police!

Edit: now saying 26

Sounds about right. I also expect them to release a statement claiming he was responsible for shooting JKF and that four officers were witnesses and are claiming overtime payments backdated....

Lets hope this asshole never darkens the CG again.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BZxrSFvIAAAKeo1.jpg

JKF? From the man having a go at the coppers' typos :)

Darv?

Just back but a bit stella'd up

We were awful throughout. Let's have none of this bollocks that we were OK for 30 minutes.

It was Walsall mark II. We have a chronic lack of pace at the back and the number of times they got a runner in behind us was alarming.

Luckily we seem to be able to beat the mediocre teams but are painfully exposed against any half decent side.

JMac, for what's it worth, was our MOM. But seeing as he was up against a total dross - well.

We have to accept that. Mid table is about our true place as every time we have played anyone decent we have been beaten.

Orient were no Walsall, but were plenty good enuf to stuff us.

Heads do seem to drop very easily and quickly

Was it just me or did the stewards seem to take ages to react to the dickhead on the pitch? He seemed to pause after getting on, jig about a bit and then decide to have a pop at the keeper. Maybe just the way I saw it, but seemed as if with a quicker reaction they could perhaps have got him off before he'd had chance to start swinging at players

I lost my wedding ring at the game today.  I sit in the DRS near the Town End.  I went back and checked after the game (thanks to a helpful steward) and couldn't find it.  If anyone picked it up or handed it in then please get in touch!

Its a silver (in colour) male wedding band with an inscription on the inside.

Devastated to have lost it, so really hope somebody found it!

Shit day all round!

They took their time, that's for sure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puDHmvK5XWE

He'd been stood at the side of the goal for some time before that video starts though, like I say he seemed to stand there for a bit not quite sure what to do. Suspect he was a bit nonplussed and hadn't expected to get that far?

I was working for a temping agency yonks ago when back in the UK and said agency recruited the STFC stewards. I was offered a position as a steward even though iI was still only a young lad in college. I declined as the money was shite and I wanted to spend my Saturdays having the craic, not working.

No training was offered whatsoever and no interview or checks to be sure I was the right kind of person for the job. I definitely was not the right type of person for the job as I would have made a quick exit at the first time of trouble.

Things may have changed a bit since then but I really doubt that stewards are properly trained (or sufficiently paid) to handle a situation. I expect that most just want their paycheck and keep well clear of any potential trouble.

Cunt. I must point out I was pissed :-[

I like the steward that mans the doors by the food kiosk in the DRS stratton bank end. Would be a right help in an emergency!

I remember a Leeds fan a couple of seasons ago that ran on twatted a keeper and ran off again back into the crowd all without really breaking into more than a jog.
Seems the stewards only look into the crowd - if they miss you getting on the pitch then you are away

You and me both tho I avoided the cameras

If you look at the pic on this page one steward is looking the other way!!!

Frecin shit punches . . borderline girly at best imo.

Most has been said already.  Shite ref and shite defence yet again.  McEveley seems to be turning into the regular scapegoat, but he's been our best player defensively for the last month or so by a mile.

I'm glad a few others have commented on the midfield as well.  As good as Kasim was at the beginning of the season, it's been very poor lately with Loungo not much better.  N Thompson hasn't looked right for weeks, is he still injured?  As much of a moaner he was, I'd have their no 4 in our team.  Exactly the sort of player we need.

As mentioned the bench wasn't exactly strong today, but why does Cooper have such a problem with using all 3 subs?

I'm wondering how the next couple of months will pan out to be honest.  We've got a lot of injuries and potentially could lose a number of players in January, which will mean another transitional period.  As KR said, we've struggled against anyone in the top half of the table.  Literally all our points have come against teams at the bottom.  I can't see that changing with the current set up.

Surprised by the lack of comment on the idiot who attacked the keeper. Whilst I fully expect he now thinks he is some kind of local hero...let's hope that it dawns on him that a few months in jail and the impact that has on his earning power may not have been worth the childish satisfaction he got out of it all.

Plonker.

Yeah who was their 4?  I thought he ran the midfield pretty well.

Romain Vincelot

No 7 Dean Cox is a good player aswell

Agree. He's one of the best players in this league and I think he led Nathan a merry dance today by playing pretty central after about 20 minutes. he ripped is a new one last season.

Really? Plenty over the last 3 pages or so
He was very good wasn't he? Mind you, I bet Wolves fans were saying that about Kasim and Luongo a few months back. Every player has a dip in form, think they've both done enough this season to deserve a bit of slack while we see if they're just having a dip or it's a more permanent nosedive

On an entirely unrelated note, Fjortoft's bar looks totally surreal and a bit hilarious.

Exactly, I said that a few posts earlier - he also ran the ref!

Aye, theyve lowered the price to 7.50 aswell apparently. You dont get a drink though

I do feel sorry for McEveley he doesn't deserve half the stick he gets. It can't be easy playing alongside the baffoon that is Grant Hall at left centre back. If Hall was our player maybe I'd have a bit more patience but at the moment we are playing a centre back who has nothing going for him just for the benefit of Spurs it would seem. I can't believe we haven't got someone in to replace him. The guy can't beat anyone in the air, has no strength, can't tackle and doesn't even have any pace I just can't see why we continue to persevere.

theakston2 totally agree hall is poor another spurs lad who will end up at grays ala slabber, Darren ward should of gone Brentford as at least he would be sitting on the bench there rather than being our no 1 centre back!!!! jay is a decent full back basic granted but very steady!! we need to invest at the back Christ we used to never concede and now were a banker for goals goals goals

The club might do to stock up a bit in the main bar in the Legends Lounge instead of wasting money on that.  Not one packet of crisps after the game today for not the first time and I heard a few people moaning that some drinks had sold out as well.  Not very good.

Very true Paul.  It's a shame their dips seem to have coincided.  Personally I think we need a far nastier midfield player.  CS mentioned a similar player to Steve Foley to which I totally agree.

What do people make of El Gabas. Is he just a really shif Dossevi which is quite something

Crap, hasnt gold hold of this football lark

I disagree

There is a total lack of passion at the CG, and has been since PDC left

This guy is a bit stupid, because he is probably going to Jail, but other than that - go for it, at least someone is showing a bit of passion.

I accept most of you will crucify me for supporting the guy, but the same people will also moan about the lack of Passion in the CG

Give me the old days of fences, passion and a bit of scrapping any day over the current sterile lifeless crap

Was Pritchard injured?

Barely touched the ball 10 times in the first half. Almost glued to the touch line. But the few times he did get the ball injected a bit of pace. But when he did get the ball it was often 60 yards from the LO goal.

At times he flatters to deceive so much it drives me mad but at times I think he could be better utilised.

He was holding his back very early on so perhaps injury hindered him somewhat

Cooper said they took him off as he wasnt in the game

Defence was poor, but thought McEveley played well. Uncharacteristic mistake from Thompson, usual lack of cohesion between CB's, complete with numerous Hall fouls and Ward's limbs moving a second behind his thought process knocking in their third.

I've slated El Gabas every time he's played, but today he made some good runs, put in some crosses that our strikers should have been gambling on, and should have had a penalty.

Ref was terrible, pitch invader an utter fucktard.

He retweeted something earlier about how him being glued to the touchline was a waste of talent. I agree and as he RT'd it I suppose he did to.

I don't think Cooper has quite worked out his to use him but I think he'll be gone in Jan anyway.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Gblv92Sn00

When it comes down to rivalries, I think we do far better on goalkeeper assaults than the Pikies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-Gblv92Sn00

Today we were poor. Jmac the best player and that says something. No cutting edge upfront which was disappointing. We need to sort that defence asap its nowhere near good enough.

Think you can safely remove the "peaceful" bit from your avatar. You'd have to be as vacuous as that kid to laud that pitiful incursion as a demonstration of passion. That was just dribbling, mindless hatred.

Passion my arse. He was out of order by going full retard at the orient keeper  like that. That's not passion, that's a banning order and a possible club fine.

Sound like he's young. Hopefully he's learned from his mistake.

Completely agree with his tweet too. Disagree with whoever said he has pace. He doesn't. If he did then he could  be able to take a man on and actually beat him.

As said earlier I also think he's a bit greedy/too slow to move the ball on sometimes.

He needs to work on that or there  is a danger he'll end up like McNamee.

But I do think he has talent. He can play a good ball and feed the strikers. Has a good free kick too.

NBR, are you Ted Bacon on Twitter?
(http://i.imgur.com/1q5tZOc.png)

check out his profile Mr Frog. Missing link material:

"Unemployed former Leyton Orient CF. Active terrace lad at Millwall FC. Ulster Loyalist, EDL, BNP. Regular at Bricklayers Arms, collecting various benefits"

Could be a parody account I suppose.

Hmm. Tans?

He sustained a fairly unfunny attack on Sam and the media in general last night which didn't read like parody.

Passion?!  Doubtful.  I'll bet he won't even remember doing it this morning.  If he wasn't off his face on a cocktail of cheap lager and amphetamines, I'd be amazed.

Yeah, just read that. Probably not then. Its a bit worrying there are people genuinely this stupid in the word. Hey ho.

And if he wasn't, he's got some serious anger issues.  I assume nobody on here knows him?

Well, I hope that game - plus the Walsall shambles - has ended anyone's thoughts of the play-offs.

Thank God we seem able to beat the mediocre teams in this league.

Just where has the attractive, passing football gone? What has happened to Kasim, Pritchard, Ward? Their form has deteriorated badly.

Without the passing style it is truly dreadful to watch - comical even - getting overrun so easily coupled with keystone cop defending.

Could be a long winter

As we're seventh and one point of 6 I still have hope. If you don't have hope you just end up wallowing in your own self pity.

Yep.

We are a whole point adrift, we had might as well just give up now.

It's almost as if having a young side might lead to us being inconsistent...no need to panic.

I hope when the League investigate this they look at several other things. First of all why cunts like Mooney feel the need to celebrate in front of home fans - fuck off to the small band of Orient fans who made the trip. Why the keeper felt the need to ignore all rules of sportsmanship. Why players are allowed to be in the ref's ear every ten seconds. Mostly, though the performance of the ref and linos who spectacularly failed to ref to the rules of the game - offside, time wasting, the art of fouling. I particularly liked it when NGuessan wrested their guy to the floor and was given the free kick. . 
I think the guy was a complete bellend but I can understand why.

Interesting thing - points

15 off the top spot
16 off the bottom spot

 :hmmm:

Season is only 1/3 in so could still go any way

For fuck sake im getting pretty pissed off with this. Just because someone has made a parody account doesnt mean its me.

I'm laughing, but for all the wrong reasons :facepalm:

Ooh touchy. Why would anyone think it might be you? Was meant as gentle ribbing, but will make a note to avoid in future. Apologies.

Its alright ive just got a raging hangover so am not in the best of moods 8)

Well I think everyone was expecting that to be a tough game unsurprising that it turned out the way it did but frustrating nonetheless with their first goal which so easily have been avoided...seemed to go to pieces after that - not helped by the referee who was as bad as I have seen fro a while.....we need a Nile Ranger to complete the formation against the better teams - absolutely no need to panic just at the moment.....haven`t bothered read to many other posts on here but seems there is a lot of negative stuff going about.....calm down.....January coming up so maybe a few more Spurs youngsters to come on down....

Glad to see the town end getting upset, with the referee but not sure the guy on the pitch was such a good idea...although the goalkeeper was a cheating and good for nothing....

Orient will be promoted no doubts about it....

If ever you wanted a post for opposition fans to look at and suggest that our fans might be a little bit simple, this is it.

Going to post this and read back.

I thought the difference between a good side and an outstanding/epic one was evident yesterday.

Orient are well drilled, organised and play simple football very quickly and very slick. Also they have a physical (not dirty) edge to their game, so to me overall they have the all round package to do well in a very tough league this year.....

Ref was piss (again) but not a bearing on the result for me.

Why was Ranger missing.?..if it was because of him going AWOL again then far dos but if it was because Cooper wanted to teach him a lesson then it was a mistake.

Probably going to Creepy Tuesday but I do feel our league position is where we might end up...

No worries cos we're going to win the JPT.......

Going back to yesterday...

Thought we played well for the 1st half hour, Orient gave us a lot of space to play the ball and then we scored...which in a weird sort of way was probably the worst thing that could have happened yesterday as after we scored we just switched off altogether. They go down the other end and score, and we stop playing...it was a strange sort of game, in that once matey went on the pitch to throw some bitch slaps at their keeper the game itself almost became secondary. I thought the foul on El Gabas second one was a penalty from my view, and then in the commotion of the incident, their no.6 boots El Gabas on the floor and gets away with it - did anyone else see that???


 

Re the penalty incident it looked like El gabas chucked himself on the floor but then got up and might have been fouled the second time. Had he not been blatantly looking to go down under any contact he might have had more sympathy with the ref.

You poor fucker...hope it turns up...

Our present position in the league is different to how we are actually playing.

Our good home form has been skewed somewhat by the fact that our wins have all come against team either in the bottom 4 or at best mid table.

Taking our performances against the better sides in the league doesn't fill me with confidence that we can compete to maintain a play off position.

Doesn't bother me that much if we just maintain the status quo, just saying that MY OPINION is that we will struggle to stay in and around the top 6

Point on pitch invader....

Lost his temper....and now he is fucked....rightly so....

I am impressed that Jed has come straight out and said....ban...etc etc.

But hang on a minute....where was Jeds comments on that Cunt of a Keeper at MK last season giving it the finger and causing trouble with the Stewards.???

Just like Fittons post match comments at the Orient game ref 'the flare'...

Stewards giving it the biggin in a public street outside Brentford....

Where are the board when we are treated like shit??? They don't want to know then......

Highlights are up on player

Thought so at the time but the more I look at it am pretty sure their second goal came off Kasims head

And McEveleys first booking  ::) missed taking out the player up one end of the pitch so tracked him back 50 yards to make sure he got him  :headhurts:

Not sure it was a pen either ( not that mattered as didnt get it )
All theirs were pretty route one too oh well roll on tuesday

Got a couple of games coming up where we could do with getting at least a win in one of them, although a 2 draws would be helpful.

Need to cos December is looking a tough one with 3 away games ,none of them easy and Cov at home

I don't think it's anything to do with writing off our chances or giving up but an urgent need to address some very serious concerns which are becoming more and more prevalent as teams have figured us out before it is too late and we're too far adrift. We've seen what this team is capable of but it's in dire need of some tweaking.

I don't know how well (or badly) it came across on the wireless but the performance yesterday was akin to the Malpas, Wilson 09/10 and Hart days - no passion, no urgency, second to everything and comical defending - when these players have shown to be capable of far better.

I've only seen home games, Wolves aside, so I'm only seeing half of the entire picture but in recent games - yesterday, Port Vale and Walsall - we've come up against sides who have harassed and bullied us and we've offered little resistance to it. We beat Port Vale because their defence was worse than ours, Walsall were less physically aggressive but we couldn't cope with their approach at all and Orient didn't give us time on the ball and employed some dubious tactics which the referee simply ignored. We can't handle a physical opposition and when you look at our squad, especially in midfield, we have very few players who can.

January is fast approaching and we could lose some important players. Despite our league position, it's reasonable to be a little concerned.

It looked like that on the highlights but from my seat it looked as though the Orient player got to the ball with a stretch despite Kasim's effort to cover it. Regardless, Kasim should have done better IMO.

McEveley's first booking was a cynical foul to break up their attack, he knew what he was doing. Fuck knows what he was doing for the red card though...

Where are the highlights??

Only the keeper incident on my sky highlights!

I watched it on the FLS, about 50 mins in.

It certainly didnt come accross to me like that on t'radio, we sounded like we were "almost" matching Orient everywhere on the pitch but with somewhat poorer defending.

It is quite impossible to get a true reflection on a game from the commentary at times, but if what you say is true about the lack of passion and urgency then I can see where you are coming from.

Our defence has been a cause for concern all season but our midfield and attack has more than made up for this by scoring lots of goals, it seems to be the policy of "we score at least one more than the opposition" which is entertaining but it will always leave us open at the back when attacking and we will have a fair few results like we did yesterday.

That said....if we can tighten up at the back then we could easily get back into the play off places, its still very early in the season really and almost all of us would happily have taken this position at this stage pre season (Chang excepted).

But because we have shown some glimpses of fantastic football this season then our fans naturally expect more.

McEveley quoted as saying "Am I the only one who gives a fuck around here?" when going down the tunnel after his sending off

Ward spent a fair amount of the game yesterday working out where Hall was and shaking his head at the lack of communication from him.
Jay Mac really was a stupid fucker for both yellows but looked good bombing forward in the first half.
That defence needs some serious work.
Also what a save from Fods at the end.
 

Manish looked different this week.

I'd certainly take this position come the season's end, if we were to push on next season.

What really did piss me off yesterday, was Cooper's pre match comments. Bizarre.

McEveley's first yellow was 'professional'... no problem with that. The second one, could be seen as stupid; at 3-1 down, he could have let him waltz through. But frustration got the better of him (or maybe he thought he could get a toe to it?). Either way, it seemed to stem from him being one of the only ones who looked remotely up for it after the first 20 minutes or so, the quote from the tunnel above pointing towards that.

Don't blame him to be honest, some players were just going through the motions as soon as we went behind. Time to send Hall back to Spurs and find a half decent centre back and a midfield enforcer to try and enable us to mix things up a little. Unfortunately 3 problems with this I would imagine. a) finding these players b) affording them and c) this probably wouldn't fit Jed's so called 'pretty' football philosophy.

On a side note I still can't help but think that pathetic letter Jed wrote to the football league has bitten us big time. If teams hadn't figured already that we were a soft touch everyone did after that!

I was thinking that at half-time yesterday. And at full-time. And when I posted on here last night.

It's basically served as instructions for opposition teams on how to beat us.

As Christian Roberts said after the game, Alan McCormack would have fitted that enforcing midfielder role perfectly if we'd held onto him - could provide cover in defence too.

Yep, remember one incident in the first half when Mooney beat him in the air with Ward having not been alert to him and he just turned to Hall and shook his head.


You missed out the fourth problem.

I watched them on player
But also here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy-Yz_cCw-I

Brilliant commentary!

We score but claim offside?

Ward wants to worry about himself,didn't cover for the first,to slow to cover for the second and then deflects the 3rd(not really his fault). The amount of shit Hall gets is unreal yeah he has not been great but let's face it Ward is just as much as a fucking liability

Ward and Hall don't work as a pair and they've had enough games. They are hardly helped by both full backs / wing backs / midfield. I'd happily send Hall back to Spurs but that alone won't sort the problem out. I'd also happily drop Ward at the moment.
The problem is their places are under no pressure as there are no obvious replacements.
I'm a big fan of Nate Dog but he has been crap recently. 

I was unable to listen pre match, what comments were they?

http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=53072.0

You're completely right. Even re. Thompson, unfortunately.

Cliques ruining the dressing room ;)

I think while we've all been doing a lot of hand-wringing over formations, who should play where, and experimenting with a more utilitarian approach to combat our away form, the aspect of the team that was key to our form in the early part of the season, playing with freedom, commitment and energy to support each other as a unit, has seen something of a decline.

The number of times our players were left isolated yesterday, with team-mates stood watching him statuesque, where at the beginning of the season he'd have had 2 or 3 simple options available, seems to be indicative of a loss of something in the players, whether confidence, desire, fitness, I'm not sure; but at home, against a team that's been top of the league for most of the season, I expect them to come out at a high tempo, full of desire and energy to prove what they can do, not afraid, tentative, lethargic, as they seemed to come out yesterday.

I wonder if part of it is the burden of expectation, which was pretty much non-existent at the start of the season, allowing them to play with total freedom of expression, but which has slowly built up to the point where they're actually now expected to win.

Who was it that once said that a week is along time in politics, well it seems the same is true with Swindon Town.

Last week Kasim wasn't shit and we weren't doomed to a fight to try an just stay in League 1.

Although to be fair it was still all Hall's fault, even though Ward has been equally culpable for a lot of the shit defending going on.

The annoying thing is us ticket buying no marks can see Hall and Ward dont work as a pairing or individually for that matter.
So the ones in the know ( Power/Cooper/William etc ) splash out on a midfielder  :headhurts:

Wheres the sense

So somewhat inevitably the FA are investigating the keeper incident.

Completely agree with all of this.


Orient played to the fact that he'd already been booked, particularly when they brought the sub on who he subsequently fouled.  Most of us could see it was going to happen.  Cooper should have subbed him to avoid the inevitable, especially since he only used 2 out of the 3 subs.

We've been spoilt the last couple of seasons, I think our fans need a sense of perspective after what's happened over the summer. I'm happy with mid table.

Fixed

Is he out of contract in January or in the summer?

I'd make the idiot that ran on the pitch pay the fine

Summer

Who was it on here that lost a ring, I know of somebody that may just have found it.

Someone on Facebook has posted saying they found a silver wedding ring in the DRS stand, a guy called Lee Walters. I don't know him, a mate of mine shared his post.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=4999197317417&set=a.3642332396642.113739.1824314725&type=1

If Cooper has dropped him because of previous AWOL activity to teach him a lesson I don't think it was a mistake. You can't have players doing what they want without consequences while others work their nuts off. Particularly Ranger with his previous of taking the piss out of his employer.

We are a worse team without him though.


Do you really think it was that bad?

I didn't, I thought we tried to attack. We never seem to do so with much pace urgency, which is frustrating, but that's us. With Hart/Malpas we didn't seem to even give it a go. Just my opinion like.

But for me the 'problem' is the if the game doesn't suit the players we have we are stuffed. Take yesterday, I thought Harley and to a lesser extent Luongo were reasonably net with the ball. But there was no bite when we didn't have it.

What we really needed was for someone to absolute twat their number 4 early on.

Same post that I saw, small world.

Perhaps not as bad as Hart. The lack of ideas reminded me of watching Malpas' side though, for all our neat passing at times we looked very one dimensional and became very direct towards the end with long balls over the top to Ajose which were mostly gobbled up by Cuthbert. Someone else summed it up well - it's not so much the urgency or the passing but the general lack of movement that has led to us being too static and losing the ball.

Agree about the lack of bite. We could have done with their number 4, regardless of him being a moany French twat.

we were shit after they equalised, ref had no idea. on the plus side at least we're not spurs and we didn't get dicked 6-0

The 2nd half was reminiscent of 10/11 - completely devoid of any attacking ideas or threat. More effort than that shower of shite but the lack of creativity was very alarming.

I hope ranger is back for Tuesday. He's key for the team. Nobody holds the ball up as well as him. N'guessan doesn't seem a target man despite being a big fucker, his touch just isn't as good.

We defiantly lacked a game changer, we do need a better centre back not impressed with hall at all. N'Gussen wasn't as good as Ranger is at holding up the ball. Wes did well at keeping the scoreline at 3. Think Kasim has lost some form is nowhere near his best.

Every time orient went forward they looked like scoring. Every time we did, there just wasn't the same sense that we could do any damage. N'guessan kept
Getting into good crossing positions but it was pointless him crossing it so it would go nowhere. We never once got to the byline and fired a cross in towards Dany.

He controls it as far as I can kick it

Was the same at Colchester but they were a lot poorer than Lorient

J Mac now joint dirtiest player in league 1.
http://espnfc.com/stats/discipline/_/league/eng.3/english-league-one?cc=5739

Judging by our stats and the team level with us, I predict next Saturdays game to turn into a mass punch up.

One thing I just remembered. Catching coopers post match interview he seemed to imply the new midfielder we just signed could be involved on Tuesday...

Massive ask to step up to league football, know nothing about him, but he's tall enough to be the midfield enforcer :)

Wow we have 3 in the top 10
Carlisle 2

Could be worth a punt on a sending off in that one esp as their two have 4 reds compared to our one red for JMc


Someone asked him on twitter if he played CB
He replied  :no:
From what I read he seems to be an attacking midfielder as he said he like to get forward and score

Why not chuck him in? Apart from luongo I thought our midfield
Was ineffective on Saturday. Bit of a gamble but if it pays off then cooper will be a genius.

Actually save him for the jpt thinking about it.

Serious answer

a. He shouldn't just walk straight in

b. Which level did he play at, I doubt he's fit enough for 90 mins league football yet.

C. Just because our midfield didn't work against orient doesn't mean it won't attaint Crawley.

If he does as well as our other player plucked from non league this year he might do ok.  Let's hope that Power has a nose for decent non league prospects.

Seeing as Cooper has said he wants a target man in on loan ASAP doesn't seem like Ranger will be back in action any time soon - if at all

First comment I'd like to make...I know their 'keeper did some time-wasting...but not giving the ball back is not a breach of the rules, is it? It is bad sportsmanship, however...but surely it's not cheating if he didn't break the rules. I always thought it was a gentlemans agreement.

Secondly, I thought JMac looked decent, although his red was inevitable.

Thirdly, El Gabas, I thought looked OK, not sure if it was or wasn't a penalty though as it all happened pretty quickly and haven't watched the highlights yet.

Lastly...good luck to the lad who has signed from the lower echelons...but isn't Jackson playing in a league above Marlow? Hey, this lad may be decent...but Jackson has scored something like 18 in 20 in Southern League and Conference North collectively...maybe they're just getting this new lad as 'one for the future'....although after the pre-match comments, I'd quite expect him to at least make the bench tomorrow.

All good points Batch. My comment was extremely knee jerk and not completely serious.

You've got a proper hard on for Kayden Jackson haven't you?

Massively. It hasn't gone down since he scored his first goal for Supermarine.

It's just a clear observation that his goal/game ratio is impressive, at any level.

Should probably see a Doctor about that, it could be serious.

And it is, but it's hardly Charlie Austin levels is it? I personally don't think there's nothing wrong with leaving him at Supermarine for the moment. It's obviously working for him there, but there's no guarantee he'll come into the side and fit in- he hasn't been training and drilling with the tactics the same way the rest of the lads have. I trust Cooper knows what he's doing with the guys he's sent on loan.

I think it'll do more of a kindness to Jackson to leave him where he is in a good run of form- he's more likely to actually 'break into' football then instead of getting to the end of his contract with Samsung and then toddling back off to the real world.

I haven't suggested it is as good as Charlie Austin...although he could have similar potential.

He's at Oxford City now...

The current board/management obviously see more potential in him than what's been shown in the previous Win A Pro competitions...

Also, it was just the point that Jackson is playing and scoring in a league higer than Gladwin...maybe Gladwin will go out on loan too, but like I say, it was just an observation.

Not sure it was mentioned, but fair play to their keeper for not going down and holding his head like some might have done.

My take on the game.

Their keeper- unsporting, cheating Cunt
Their no. 10- whining cunt
Their no.4- whing cunt
The rest of their team- Cunts (mainly cos they beat us).

The ref- blind or cheating cunt
Lino's- cluless cunts

Ward- WTF?
Hall- WTF?
Nathan T- could have done better
Our midfield as a unit- why the fuck did they let The Cunts have free reign on the middle of the pitch? Too often the ball got cleared into a Cunt heavy central third.
Ajose- worth his place and tried hard. I think he is finding his form.
N'Guessan- tried hard but spent to long out on the wing as opposed to being in the middle bullying their defence.
El Gabbas- looked like he was trying and had a couple of nice touches. It was a penalty.
Jay- on a hiding to nothing with the second yellow. Yes we were 3-1 down but, if The Cunt had got a cross in and we went down 4-1 some on here would have been tearing him a new one for being a useless fucker. He had to get the challenge in, even though he knew what was coming. He is haveing a really good patch and I think folk should aknowledge it.

The Pitch Invader- Cunt.

I think I have covered it.

The lad from Marlow isnt a striker. He is a midfielder and at 6 foot 3 deffo some much needed height. Our midfield is currently vertically challenged

I think it's apparent to see that our defence has turned to shit compared to the last 2 seasons.

Last season it took 34 games to concede the same amount of goals as we have in 17.

If we get this sorted, and maintain our creative centre midfield, I think we'll have a decent season.

I can see however that we might start falling off the pace once we play some of the bigger sides.

When attacked by the pitch invader do you mean? He just kind of hopped away, tauntingly, until the rest of the field had realised what was happening. If you watch the video as soon as the rest of his team mates appear he reverses direction and goes back towards the bloke. Quite funny.

No I haven't-

Blood pressure- through the fucking roof :badmood:

He has come from the same level as supermarine and has not been training full time, has been training with Swindon for a few days ?? for Cooper & co to look at him was also looked at by a few other teams I think Sheff Weds was mentined, he plays as an attacking midfielder.

So if he get's anywhere near the first team for the next few weeks with his fitness levels I'd be surprised

I read this earlier and couldn't work out who you are on about.

Enlighten me please, Berni?

Kasim you thick cunt

We signed him from Brighton - last time I checked they were a Championship club?

Hang on a minute, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_%26_Hove_Albion_F.C.

Yep, they still are.

 :wink:

We signed him as a free agent, both wrong.

This write up - whining cunt ;D

He was a free agent who has made 1 appearance for Brighton and about 16 non league, so I think you can pretty much say he was a non league player.