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Very surprised by this Dave Challinor rumour. Hartlepool look like a club enjoying their return to the league (apart from yesterday) and Challinor has picked up plaudits. Very risky move in my opinion. Can't see the logic. As has been pointed out money doesn't guarantee success in that lottery...

Best: Harrogate who did a real tactical number on us at home when we had been looking in good form. They won 2-0 and I think only Forest Green have scored past us at home since. Worst: Sorry to say is Hartlepool, losing 5-0 they seemed to give up pretty quickly and were a calamity in slow...

Yeah we could do with maybe one more but once Paul Smyth gets going we have a number of players who can play through the middle just no other big lumps. Sotiriou and Drinan are capable down the middle. It's arguably Sotiriou's best position and it would be good for him to get more minutes, he's...

We have Theo Archibald (left sided winger/forward) from Lincoln on a season loan and Alex Mitchell (CB) from Millwall. Both have had a big impact and look good players. I think we may well try to sign Archibald later in the season if he can continue in the same form. He is definitely enjoying...

Haha you couldn't make it up. He must have promised his son a dinner after the match

Don't think there are too many O's fans who despise Russell Slade. Did a great job with us and had a very good record until taking over at basket cases like Charlton and Coventry who were already in the shit. Things didn't work out at Grimsby but look what has happened to them since. Still, he...

When Happe first broke through he looked a great young prospect. But I think he has showed poor form since the middle of last season and has regressed slightly. There was talk of him moving up the divisions but in all truth he is at this moment an average at best L2 centre back that would...

Yes I think Jackett will help. Ultimately we just lost a tight away game against a form side. It's just the way it happened that stings a bit. If we had lost 1-0 and played crap no one would raise an eye brow. The weird thing is we have looked defensively solid this season infact had one of the...

Wilkinson is a very capable player in my opinion. Scored some wonderful individual goals last season. Not sure how much of a team player he is though. Still that shouldn't matter too much once he finds form. More than capable at this level and is a threat more times than not. Better than alot of...

Can't remember highs and lows occurring in quick succession like that in a long while. Seemingly an 87th minute winner and what would have been a very impressive away result followed by two goals against in the 91st and 93rd minute. That defeat stung today. Still, I think we are capable of...

Bradford were not really out of form when we played them. I think they were 2nd in the table at the time. Jackett at the start of the season mentioned how tough our opening couple of months looked on paper....Bradford, Rovers away, Exeter, Salford away. He thought it would get easier after...

Orient have Mansfield at home looking to continue our good start to the season. Things seem very positive at the moment under the Jackett/Gallen regime. Paul Smyth another lively forward player still to make his debut is slowly on his way back from injury but is unlikely to be ready. Any...

Despite some recent clean sheets and improving defensively Orient are still vulnerable at the back. I would like to see a more pacey CB brought in and maybe some quality and experience at full back. But other than this I think we are looking strong in most other areas of the pitch. We seem to...

I wonder what will happen now there is this second lockdown. I take it football will be suspended after Tuesdays fixtures for at least a month?

Good win today for us but not getting carried away as Bolton were utterly terrible. It was almost too comfortable

Genuine question. Are Southend playing mainly players from the youth team and young first year pros? Reminds me of us (Orient) when we went down. You end up just ticking each game off as a defeat in your head before each match. The owner selling off all the experience pros in the process.

Can someone enlighten me with what happened with Mellon. Didn't realise he was no longer there. Must have lost track during Covid. I thought he had done a stellar job for Tranmere with 2 promotions in quick succession. I know you got relegated but you were fighting it before season was stopped...

Just waiting for us to draw Plymouth for 12,000th time. It's nailed on.

Pleased with two away wins and two clean sheets in a week. We were unbeaten had knocked Plymouth out of the league cup and had good momentum before the club curse struck again with covid hitting our squad and having to postpone games. Just waiting for the curse to strike us down again, wonder...

So you've basically prorogued the board and declared yourself head statesman and sole rule maker. Where have I heard this before? We need a more democratic approach :surr: