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Post by tenacres on Aug 25, 2017 7:10:28 GMT
Is tomorrow!
They've won 3 and lost 2 so far this season including being thrashed 6-1 at bromley? Which orient side will turn out?
Will we beat our league record following of 401?
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Post by spitfiretoby on Aug 25, 2017 8:33:11 GMT
I think that it is pretty telling that the 2 defeats have been or artificial pitches. They have scored 7 and only conceded 1 on grass.
It will be a tough game, i think we will need to score first to have any chance of winning, a draw would be good result though.
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Post by reeced1993 on Aug 25, 2017 10:44:29 GMT
Is tomorrow! They've won 3 and lost 2 so far this season including being thrashed 6-1 at bromley? Which orient side will turn out? Will we beat our league record following of 401? Maybe not as not many trains are running due to the Waterloo Works |
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Post by spitfire91 on Aug 25, 2017 15:26:34 GMT
Should be a cracking game if we play like we did second half against tranmere can see us getting all three points.
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Post by steve on Aug 25, 2017 19:24:19 GMT
BTTS, take a point now..
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Post by thelake on Aug 25, 2017 19:32:26 GMT
really think we will win this, seem to turn it on for these sorts of games. remember when we beat the bristol rovers 2-1 in their own bakc yard?
that was our first season in this league i think
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Post by rocky on Aug 25, 2017 20:06:08 GMT
1-1 ben williamson, 350 spitfires
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Post by unknownquantity on Aug 25, 2017 21:25:14 GMT
I believe that the last time we travelled to play a team with Leyton in the name we were two divisions below where we are the attendance was 61. The Eastleigh travelling support should comfortably exceed four times this figure and the overall attendance is likely to be at least 50 times this figure.
Funny to think that 55 years ago Leyton Orient were beating Manchester United and Liverpool in football's top flight.
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Post by taylov on Aug 25, 2017 22:58:00 GMT
"Funny to think that 55 years ago Leyton Orient were beating Manchester United and Liverpool in football's top flight"
Not the first club we've met in the National League who used to be in the old First Division - in 1946 whilst Swaythling were playing their first season on Southampton Common, Grimsby Town were having their last season in the top flight. I don't count AFC Wimbledon - not the same club.
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Post by unknownquantity on Aug 26, 2017 9:37:04 GMT
I did know that Grimshy did play in the top flight, although Leyton Orient did so more recently and I expect for most people on here Grimsby's last top flight season was before they were born.
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Post by tenacres on Aug 26, 2017 20:09:11 GMT
I believe that the last time we travelled to play a team with Leyton in the name we were two divisions below where we are the attendance was 61. The Eastleigh travelling support should comfortably exceed four times this figure and the overall attendance is likely to be at least 50 times this figure. Funny to think that 55 years ago Leyton Orient were beating Manchester United and Liverpool in football's top flight. Of course the last time we played Leyton was the Ryman Premier playoff final in 2005. A certain gent named Wayne Shaw was in goal for us. Since that game with the 2 teams competing on an equal level We have had 2 promotions whereas Leyton got relegated once and folded in 2011. Quite differing tales! |
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Post by back4more on Aug 26, 2017 23:13:37 GMT
I did know that Grimshy did play in the top flight, although Leyton Orient did so more recently and I expect for most people on here Grimsby's last top flight season was before they were born. Malcy, you and me probably well remember Leyton Orient going up to Div 1 as second place to Liverpool in 1962. I think though that for most people on here the O's last top flight season was also before they were born. There is by the way a superb posting on Facebook by Mike Andrews to do with the old Clapham Orient players who went off to fight in the First World War, albeit long before even our time! |
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Post by seatonspitfire on Aug 26, 2017 23:34:58 GMT
The club was the first complete team to join up with 41 players and staff from Clapton Orient (now known as Leyton Orient), joined the 17th Btn Middlesex Regiment, which became known as the Football Battalion with 122 professional footballers signed up.
In July 1916 the battalion took part in the Battle of the Somme. Thirteen Orient players were wounded. Some never played football again and three – Centre Forward William Jonas, Inside Forward Richard McFadden and Wing Half George Scott - lost their lives serving club and country.
Their sacrifice did not go unnoticed and King George V paid tribute at the first match post the war saying “Good luck to Clapton Orient FC, no football club had paid a greater price to patriotism."
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Post by unknownquantity on Aug 27, 2017 20:02:47 GMT
I do not personally remember Leyton Orient and Liverpool being promoted in 1962, but I am sure back4more remembers who won the Division 1 title the following year with their captain and leading goalscorer reputedly smoking in the tunnel before games (How things have changed). At the start of that season they sold the midfield player who was instrumental in the rise of Leeds United during the next few years, although seven years later they won the title again with a midfield trio who are often referred to as the Holy Trinity.
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