Bottom Orient v Top Rovers

[RampantRover]

24th place Leyton Orient. Won 2 of last 15 League games, drawing 2 and losing 11.
Winning 2 of the last 10 League home games, drawing 1 and losing 7.

1st place Doncaster Rovers. Won 8 of last 15 League games, drawing 6 and losing 1.
Winning 5 of last 10 League away games, drawing 3 and losing 2.

I have to make an honest predication here...
LOFC 0-3 DRFC

 

[Boletus Edulis]

Well they were our banana skin, so why not yours? 1-0 the Os. Not that I'd put money on that!

 

[RampantRover]

Well they were our banana skin, so why not yours? 1-0 the Os. Not that I'd put money on that!

We're the best team in this League...

 

[Urban]

We're the best team in this League...

You know what? I've never seen you post that before!

 

[RampantRover]

You know what? I've never seen you post that before!

I like facts, no one has ever or can question this fact. I like it!

 

[Boletus Edulis]

We're the best team in this League...

Not when games are played at 3pm on a Saturday, you are second best. At this time you have played 28 and got 55 points. The team above you has played one less game, but got six more points on Saturday afternoons.

I quite like this fact. You cannot question it, can you?

 

[RampantRover]

Not when games are played at 3pm on a Saturday, you are second best. At this time you have played 28 and got 55 points. The team above you has played one less game, but got six more points on Saturday afternoons.

I quite like this fact. You cannot question it, can you?

You've lost me...

 

[Super_horns]

Guess he mean Plymouth who seem to have some sort of mid-week phobia to winning...

 

[Boletus Edulis]

I like facts, no one has ever or can question this fact. I like it!

You've lost me...

Why you said you liked facts.

You've lost me...

You say that you are the best team in the league. The stats suggest that on Saturday afternoons you are not.

 

[RampantRover]

Why you said you liked facts.

You say that you are the best team in the league. The stats suggest that on Saturday afternoons you are not.

The league table tells us all otherwise though.

Also you aren't backing these 'facts' up, I can actually show you the league table.

 

[RampantRover]

 

[ProfessorGreen]

I think that's a bit too complicated for Yorkshiremen to understand Boletus!

 

[DearneValleyRover]

I think that's a bit too complicated for Yorkshiremen to understand Boletus!

Now now salty

 

[hellogregory]

Well they were our banana skin, so why not yours? 1-0 the Os. Not that I'd put money on that!

We were Doncaster's banana skin. The worst team in league 2 beating the best team in league 2. Their only defeat in last 15 games.

 

[The Terminator]

This is going to be another big tonking defeat for our young side, they let in 5 on Tuesday and 3 the Saturday before. This could be 8-0 with the roles reversed from 20 years ago!

Where is Wizard!? He has barely been around recently?!

 

[DearneValleyRover]

To be honest terminator I would take no pleasure in seeing us reverse that result. I've been where you are going and can only hope you find light at the end of the tunnel. I still want a win but a 1-0 with your youth getting applause will do.

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

I have to make an honest prediction here:

LOFC 0-6 DRFC

 

[The Terminator]

Our main issue for me anyway, is that Becchetti got rid of all our strikers in January and refused to replace them.

The only proper one we have left is Paul McCallum who is currently injured until April.
Sam Dalby is 17 and a first year scholar, he has been out of his depth for the last month, but its impossible to criticise him. Only 12 months ago he was preparing to take his GCSE's FFS.
Rowan Liburd is appalling though. We shipped out Ollie Palmer to save on money and I'd rather have kept Palmer all day long.

We have no one who can hold the ball up and take pressue off the team. On Tuesday night Billy Kee did an excellent job for Accrington holding the ball up, another good example is Exeters Ruben Reid, both small strikers but know how to be a centre proper forward outside of the box. We have nothing of the sort which is part of the reason we are always on the back foot.

 

[RampantRover]

Not when games are played at 3pm on a Saturday, you are second best. At this time you have played 28 and got 55 points. The team above you has played one less game, but got six more points on Saturday afternoons.

I quite like this fact. You cannot question it, can you?

Just seen this online! Absolutely clutching at straws, but good effort I suppose!

 

[NolansOrient]

Match day just makes me sad now, so I won't be going.

Good luck to Donny, they've been where we're going so they should enjoy their time on the up.

This could, quite honestly, be double figures.

It's not Orient while bec***ti is there.

I just want my club back, don't give a monkey's about the result.

 

[RampantRover]

It's horrible to see a club in your situation, hope you come back soon, after all the sh*t is over!!

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

The only reason I'm debating going is to watch my second favourite Orient player of all time play.

 

[RampantRover]

I'm guessing you mean Baudry? I'd put him up there with the best defenders we've ever had at this club. His touch is too good for a defender!

 

[NolansOrient]

The only reason I'm debating going is to watch my second favourite Orient player of all time play.

Baudry is your second favourite Orient player of all time? Did you only go for that one season when he was ok?

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

Baudry is your second favourite Orient player of all time? Did you only go for that one season when he was ok?

I'm guessing you mean Baudry? I'd put him up there with the best defenders we've ever had at this club. His touch is too good for a defender!

He's class isn't he? Not just his touch, but his reading of the game, he's always a step ahead of the opponent defensively as well. Criminally underappreciated by half our fans who want someone with #passion #lumpittorowz

 

[The Terminator]

I'm guessing you mean Baudry? I'd put him up there with the best defenders we've ever had at this club. His touch is too good for a defender!

Completely agree, very good for a ball playing defender in the lower reaches of Leagues One and Two who could also defend and make a good tackle when he had to. You don't find many ball playing centre halfs who are actually good in League Two.

Sometimes though he was perhaps a bit too good for us and certain players around him, his passes to those with weaker technical ability would sometimes leave them in a bit of a panic state.

He was prone to the odd mistake like all lower league defenders, his mistakes were usually due to him trying to be a bit too clever in playing the ball out and retaining possession, as opposed to making cynical fouls. Having said that he got sent off last season against Portsmouth for us for needlessly head butting (best way I can describe it) Michael Doyle, which was the worst thing he probably did whilst he was with us.

 

[E10rifle]

Baudry is your second favourite Orient player of all time? Did you only go for that one season when he was ok?

*clown smilies*

I'll assume that you're one of the many, many, many know-nothings on the Orient MB who don't rate a Baudry just because he's a bit 'foreign' (I.e. good at football) in the way he plays.

 

[E10rifle]

The only reason I'm debating going is to watch my second favourite Orient player of all time play.

Not sure how you can have him ahead of three of Lockwood, Cox, Mkandawire and Darius Henderson?

 

[E10rifle]

Oh, and I think we'll score. 1-7.

Not that it matters. Big fixture is around 11am on Monday.

 

[Look Out There Are Llamas]

Not sure how you can have him ahead of three of Lockwood, Cox, Mkandawire and Darius Henderson?

I have a thing for defenders. Maldini and Cannavaro are my two favourite name players of all time... Figures Mkandawire is number one on my list. Big D is a close third. (Actually, Thornton is third, then Cox, Lockwood, Lisbie in no real order. Matt Joseph would have been there but I met him as a kid and he refused me an autograph ).