Leyton orient match thread

[cashman]

Originally Posted by ferret man

get off the lads back FFS there are quite a few players not playing up to scratch and they are playing in their normal positions.

Perhaps if he played as many good matches as bad they would.

[football19]

I seen the majority of the teams in league two this season and I am sure if we had big Akinfenwa up front for us we would be in the top five.
He's turned Wycombe from a average side,to one that challenging for promotion.
Just need a focal point/goals,the rest is good

[Lord Didsbury]

Twenty Eight - not so sure. Looked like a fiercely contested header on the telly box. The time to be really critical is when there is a free header.

Sean's sending off on the replay looks fair enough for a red card.

[cashman]

The replay showed no argument at all the red card was unjustified to me.

[Lord Didsbury]

Was that on the basis you think Beckles would have got acrossbefore he shot? No chance in my opinion.

[Exile on Spencer St]

The fact that the striker who allegedly 'bullied' Omar then had to go off to have the blood stemmed and his head bandaged suggests that there was no lack of commitment from either player.
For all Gornell's efforts, I thought Orient's front striker was much more of a physical threat than Stanley's, and usually had their scorer close by to pick up loose balls. Even if he did sometimes use his arm to control the ball.

But both O'Sullivan and Clark once again provided good threats out wide, it's just someone, or a pair, that's missing in the middle to convert the chances.
Instead of a digital screen, how about crowd funding a bid for Akinfenwa, like F19 suggests

[andyd]

Originally Posted by Exile on Spencer St

The fact that the striker who allegedly 'bullied' Omar then had to go off to have the blood stemmed and his head bandaged suggests that there was no lack of commitment from either player.
For all Gornell's efforts, I thought Orient's front striker was much more of a physical threat than Stanley's, and usually had their scorer close by to pick up loose balls. Even if he did sometimes use his arm to control the ball.

But both O'Sullivan and Clark once again provided good threats out wide, it's just someone, or a pair, that's missing in the middle to convert the chances.
Instead of a digital screen, how about crowd funding a bid for Akinfenwa, like F19 suggests

Barnet have Akinde 15 goals already this season I know London is probably a much better pull than Accy but surely as an established league 2 club with similar gates to Barnet we could pull in a decent box predator who can finish our decent approach play.

[football19]

It's always a gamble Andy for a club with our budget.
A named,good striker would set us back £4K minimum per week,so that's £200k per year,probably a third of the budget on one player.
They would want a minimum two year deal.
You can get six players for that,hoping 1/2 prove a decent buy.
That's why I mentioned Akinfenwa,he tends to go for twelve month deals,but there's no guarantee he would settle up here !!,who would be a manager

[AccyMad]

Originally Posted by football19

It's always a gamble Andy for a club with our budget.
A named,good striker would set us back £4K minimum per week,so that's £200k per year,probably a third of the budget on one player.
They would want a minimum two year deal.
You can get six players for that,hoping 1/2 prove a decent buy.
That's why I mentioned Akinfenwa,he tends to go for twelve month deals,but there's no guarantee he would settle up here !!,who would be a manager

He might if he knew the Hollands pie factory's just up the road

[st06nc2]

Originally Posted by football19

It's always a gamble Andy for a club with our budget.
A named,good striker would set us back £4K minimum per week,so that's £200k per year,probably a third of the budget on one player.
They would want a minimum two year deal.
You can get six players for that,hoping 1/2 prove a decent buy.
That's why I mentioned Akinfenwa,he tends to go for twelve month deals,but there's no guarantee he would settle up here !!,who would be a manager

We need to look for the semi pro non league stars might be abit cheaper and could be persuaded to sign for less with the incentive of playing for a league club

[Crown Grounder]

Not enough players chipping in with goals from all over the park. Not midfielders or full backs or centre backs. Really only Billy and Rommy scoring on what you would call a regular basis. That's our problem. If we were scoring and therefore picking up points there wouldn't be any of this criticism of players or tactics or formations. Only the management team with the players can sort it out. Coley is used to bringing loan players in to freshen things up, but he can't do that or the first time this season. ...... so it will have to be hard work and team spirit that pulls us through.....we need Grit, desire and determination.... starting on Saturday.

[monkey hanger]

a few observations about saturday and the general league season as a whole. seans sending off could have gone either way, but with people like drysdale in charge you don,t give him a chance to give the opposition a chance. as for comments about us being a top 10 side, well we may be up to the last quarter of the pitch and then we look as poor as you will see. one goal in god knows how many goals says it all and with the present system and players just can,t see it getting better. plenty of hard work to be done in january by coley to improve things but for those who think we are too good to go down be warned as its been said by plenty of other teams fans in the past.

[AccyStan1962]

[QUOTE=Revived Red;1182851][FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="3"]"Played superbly"?? "For 3 or 4 games"?? Can you be exact, please, about how many games he has actually played full back? As for his performance in the Yeovil game, I certainly would not say that it was "superb". Nor would another spectator whose views I respect:


Well for me he did okay in that game vs Yeovil. He did really well against Stevenage, Hartlepool and Woking there so theres 3 games for you. No doubt you'll disagree though so pointless getting into this. I see you are unbelievably quick to criticise Sean but find it hard to ever remember you saying he did well when he has had a good game.

[Revived Red]

[QUOTE=AccyStan1962;1182914]

Originally Posted by Revived Red

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"][SIZE="3"]"Played superbly"?? "For 3 or 4 games"?? Can you be exact, please, about how many games he has actually played full back? As for his performance in the Yeovil game, I certainly would not say that it was "superb". Nor would another spectator whose views I respect:


Well for me he did okay in that game vs Yeovil. He did really well against Stevenage, Hartlepool and Woking there so theres 3 games for you. No doubt you'll disagree though so pointless getting into this. I see you are unbelievably quick to criticise Sean but find it hard to ever remember you saying he did well when he has had a good game.

To be quite honest, I have great difficulty in remembering when he did have a good game. I am well aware that others can see qualities that elude me but it's all about opinions. I see that your opinion changed from him being "superb" at Yeovil to "did okay". I do think that there is a slight difference between these two assessments.

As for his performance in the Stevenage game, maybe consider these:

Originally Posted by Twenty Eight

McConville had a poor game

Originally Posted by Lord Stiffupperlip

Or even better, replace McConville who was ineffective.

The management are doing him no favours by playing him at full back. He was caught badly out of position on at least 2 occasions at Leyton before his dismissal.

[football19]

Originally Posted by st06nc2

We need to look for the semi pro non league stars might be abit cheaper and could be persuaded to sign for less with the incentive of playing for a league club

Thats the problem,even non-league players are on more than our players !!
Didn't Sean double his money going into non-league??
The lad Denton at Halifax is on double our highest earner and he has only played half a dozen games this year.
Getting Billy Kee fit and firing is what is needed,sooner the better.