Reds v Leyton Orient

Decent home record against the ‘O’s’ but they are unbeaten in 2024. Looking forward to this one.

https://www.soccerbase.com/teams/head_to_head.sd?team_id=208&team2_id=1537

 

a re-post- they play at Port Vale tomorrow and are currently on Championship winning form over the last 10 games-a hard game in prospect.

 

Won't be an easy game. But I am very hopeful for the win.

 

I always hope not expect !

 

If I remember rightly (which will prove to be a load of gibberish!), we fought back from two nil down to draw 2-2 in 1968. Also, at that time, they were simply called Orient.

 

So did they drop the Leyton bit for a while. I recall them being Leyton Orient in my early days at Oakwell. I first went in1961.

 

Originally, they were Clapham Orient. They then swapped Clapham for Leyton, then dropped Leyton. A few years later, they readopted Leyton to their name.

 

I may be being daft but 4th doesn’t win the championship does it ?

 

Good to hear they’ve a midweek game, hopefully that will slow them down a bit

 

20 points from 10 games form across an entire season works out at 92 points.

 

I remember them being just Orient in Division Two, in our popular '81 season.

 

That was the point I was trying to make.I did say recent form .92 will get automatic 99.9% of the time

 

Yeah but that also means 3 teams would finish above them so not championship winning

 

Sadly, JLWBLil, you are not correct. Their original name was Clapton Orient, based in the East End, whereas Clapham is south of the river. But, by God, I wish I had your memory as reds fan

 

Ah that makes sense, I was going to research why they moved north of the river

 

Still fancy us. Exeter was appalling last week but Orient have to end their run somewhere and why not at one of the best sides away, who were on decent form before two weeks prior.

2-1 Reds. Very similar to Stevenage game just before Christmas.

 

You are reading it as if it is "the table". Its not, it's a form table showing form over the last 10 games. It shows that all 4 of those teams are in "championship winning" form. I.e. if they kept that form up over the whole season, they would win it. They all won't.

The idea is not to look at that table and look at one teams position in relation to other teams. The idea is to look at one teams form and extrapolate that over a season.

 

Thankyou for clarifying my OP. You have grasped what I was trying to convey unlike some others

 

That was Norman Dean's debut and he scored. It was also Eric Winstanley's second game back after injury. Dean looked over-weight, but had the knack of scoring even so. Cardiff was reputed to be a drinkers club in those days and a lot of players put on weight there. I also saw both home and away games against Orient in the 1968-69 season. I remember saying before the home game, which was in September, that the team which scored first would lose. As both sides had started the season really well, I thought the side scoring first would underestimate the ability of the other to come back. George Boardman scored first for us - absolute beauty, facing towards the right wing, but on the left front edge of the penalty area - he controlled the ball with his right foot and curled a beauty inside Goddard's right post. Alas, my prediction came true and Orient fought back to win 2-1 with a little winger called Terry Parmenter nipping in to get the winner. I saw the away game in February. It had been postponed more than once because of a frozen pitch, but they ended up playing it midweek. They were so unsure the match would be on that the match programme, for which there was no charge, was a sheet of A4 paper from the office photocopier. The pitch looked like a neapolitan ice cream - the far side was green grass, as the sun had been on it; the middle was a band of brown mud; there near side was white with frost and ice. However, it was a most entertaining game, but Orient did the double over us by winning 4-2, with Eddie Loyden and Norman Dean getting our goals and Brian Sherratt having a bit of a mare in goal by letting a shot jar from his grasp into the path of an Orient player, who scored. I must have the programmes somewhere. Two good teams in those days.

I will be coming up to Oakwell for Saturday's game and in the West Stand. Haven't made it for a while on health grounds, but looking forward to it.

 

Hope you're keeping well mate.