Leyton Orient v Swindon Town Official Matchday Thread

[THE FLASH]

this is a forum...we have a say disagree....agree....it was just my view on someone elses.

Steve disagrees....fine.....Audrey says i have a point..fine.

Going to games make you a fan not an expert...watching on telly and listening on the radio makes you a follower.

on holiday i meet loads of Man United 'fans' been once......if ever...

[sonicyouth]

Bit harsh to say some on here aren't fans.

[Flashheart]

Going to games make you a fan not an expert...watching on telly and listening on the radio makes you a follower.

I just don't know what to say to that.

[tans]

I reckon doss has hacked his account

[suttonred]

The Football League Paper gave Belford 4/10. What did he do wrong?(Harley got 6!)

Adje, they also had flint in the team of the week a few weeks back. Playing for Brentford!  Belford didn't do anything wrong, made 2 or 3 good saves as you know. The FL paper don't go they read the forums!

[Arriba]

Supporter goes and supports.
Follower follows the team around the country.
A fan can be a fan wherever they are or whatever they are doing.

Well that's how I see it anyway.

[Costanza]

A fan is a fecking fan any which way you look at it and they choose how much of their time they want to invest.

[Benzel]

Adje, they also had flint in the team of the week a few weeks back. Playing for Brentford!  Belford didn't do anything wrong, made 2 or 3 good saves as you know. The FL paper don't go they read the forums!

Couple of Orient fans were saying Belford was gash. Not that I respect their opinion at all.

[suttonred]

Not sure why, there was one dodgy episode when he could have been robbed poncing about, but bar that was pretty solid. caught everything and his distribution wasn't too bad. One report I saw said he kept putting the ball out, I don't recall any. Ward though passed into touch with no player near at least 3 times. I think the thing that struck me most yesterday was how much we gave the ball away, it was almost constant throughout the game, Never seen it as much from us ever.

[Fred Elliot]

Going to games make you a fan not an expert...watching on telly and listening on the radio makes you a follower.

I'll tell that to my mate who, after being a ST holder for 17 years was made redundant last June and is still not working.

I am sure he would love to meet you for a chat

I don't post a lot nowadays, and now I understand why

[jutty274]

I'll tell that to my mate who, after being a ST holder for 17 years was made redundant last June and is still not working.

I am sure he would love to meet you for a chat

I don't post a lot nowadays, and now I understand why

I think you may have taken Flash's post the wrong way, i think he was trying to say that the people who say they are fans but have never been are followers. The fans are the people who have been to games & still go whenever they can, this may be the last season for a while that i get a season ticket but would still class my self as a fan.

[Bogus Dave]

Why the fuck does it matter

[Costanza]

Why the fuck does it matter

TESTIFY!!!

[Bob's Orange]

Now the dust has settled I'll give my thoughts on Saturday.

Firstly a good travelling support which was noisy and backed Swindon from the start. Gladwin was playing left wing for the first half but I only realised this after about 44 minutes. I feel a bit sorry for him constantly being played out of position. I thought Ward and Troy both looked a bit dodgy first half, a few times I thought Troy misjudged the ball and Lisbie got in behind him too easily. Orient hit the post after some typical bad defending and then a stupid challenge by Reckord just before half time for the penalty meant an uphill battle for a point, let alone 3.

For the second penalty I thought Troy was just clumsy, although at times he looked like he had been drinking since 8am so it was no surprise when he gave away the penalty. From then on Orient's keeper could have gone and signed autographs in the crowd as he had nothing to do. I'm not sure whether they were very organised at the back but we just never ever looked like creating anything and in the end to come away with a 2-0 defeat was ok in a damaged limitation excercise.

Onto the players.

Belford - Did what he had to do and made some smart saves and looked comfortable coming for crosses. A couple of times with the ball at feet he looked like a disaster waiting to happen but got away with it. My MOTM

Byrne - Can't really fault his effort and he didn't do anything bad from memory

Ward - With the ball at feet he's hopeless. A number of times he passed the ball out of play when under pressure. Will be unhappy with his performance.

Troy - More composed on the ball but I didn't think he was as solid as in previous matches and made a few errors. That said he always looked for the ball and tried to find a red shirt.

Reckord - Not great, however he seemed to grow in confidence and made some overlapping runs. Took a shot on in the second half that I thought he should have left to Smith. Undecided about him.

Luongo - Average

Harley - Powder Puff, fairy, feel free to add your own description. Pulls out of headed challenges, pulls out of tackles, floats around the pitch putting in about 50% effort. I'm sorry but after seeing him against Oldham I thought he might have tried to rectify his abysmal performance. I'd rather have a youth player putting in 100% than this waste of space. A real disappointing signing.

Kasim - Tidy enough

Murphy - Apart from a shot that almost went out for a throw in behind him, I thought he did ok and not really sure why he went off. Would have given us an option to play diagonal balls in behind, if we ever decided to fucking try and do that instead of passing around for a minute and then giving it away.

Gladwin - Didn't know he was even playing. Out of position so harsh to be judgemental. Tried his one stepover trick once and the ball went out for a goal kick. Standard.

Smith - Works hard but the ball just doesn't stick with him. Often his second touch is a tackle. One good moment where he nutmegged the defender only for Reckord to take the ball off him. Not a sniff of a chance.

Reis - The guy is a left winger and his style is not going to work the way we play. I'm sure he wants to get to the byline and whip in crosses but he's hindered. Almost fell over the ball once trying to beat his man and fooled the defender so much he got passed him. Not seen enough to know whether he's going to be any cop or not.

Barker - Not sure he realised we were in our away shirts. Gave the ball away every time he got it. Not been impressed so far.

At least tomorrow night we can look forward to having Fallon back at the CG to inevitably score the winning goal!

 

[Reg Smeeton]

At least tomorrow night we can look forward to having Fallon back at the CG to inevitably score the winning goal!

I'm more worried about Wiltshireman Matt Tubbs....Crawley have had a couple of decent results since getting back on the park after a long break has seen them slip to the edge of the  drop zone. A win tomorrow for them and they'll be 8 points behind us with 6 games in hand....our comfort blanket, could start to look a bit frayed round the edges without a picking up a few points in the next 4 or 5 games. Fortunately a couple of draws will do.