Top goalscorers

[SVH]

Barry Corr half way to 20 also. I predicted 21 so looking good.

 

[daviejones]

I'd say Ibehre would be pretty likely to have hit 20 goals by now but for the injury, shame for him really but fortunately other forwards filled his place very well.

 

[shoddycollins]

I'd say Ibehre would be pretty likely to have hit 20 goals by now but for the injury, shame for him really but fortunately other forwards filled his place very well.

Reckon by the end of the season we could be looking at Jabo and Asamoah on over 15 and Wyke and Hope on over 10

 

[daviejones]

Reckon by the end of the season we could be looking at Jabo and Asamoah on over 15 and Wyke and Hope on over 10

I think Asamoah will just about hit 15 - his game time will obviously be limited now due to other players returning from injury, but he still gives us pace nobody else comes close to - and Jabo could genuinely be looking at 25/30 goals, he's got 12 already and has been out for half the season.

 

[Richard Cranium]

Matt Green to get 50...

 

[wilsontown]

Vadaine Oliver is doing a lot better than generally predicted - 5 in the league but another 3 in other competitions. If he wasn't playing in just about the worst side we've ever seen he'd surely be up there.

 

[Carver]

Vadaine Oliver is doing a lot better than generally predicted - 5 in the league but another 3 in other competitions. If he wasn't playing in just about the worst side we've ever seen he'd surely be up there.

Why are you doing so bad? At the end of last season you looked a team that would be moving forward.

 

[wilsontown]

Why are you doing so bad? At the end of last season you looked a team that would be moving forward.

There's a few reasons. The problem is mainly in defence. We had two transfer listed full backs who were playing every week because there wasn't anyone better, and all of our centre backs were out of form (and in any case were always exposed against pace). In midifeld we lost both Russ Penn and (more importantly in my view) Luke Summerfield to injury, and they are only just on their way back. Oliver has done well but he's often been isolated because we don't play to his strengths - he'll win flick-ons all day but that doesn't really help if there isn't another red shirt within 20 yards of him. Reece Thompson looked good but is out for the forseeable future with an unspecified long-term illness. And Wilcox was just generally sucking all the life and joie de vivre out of the club until he got sacked.

Meanwhile Jackie MacNamara has come in, binned half the squad including some of our more experienced and battle -hardened players, and chucked a bunch of youth loanees in instead.

It looks a hell of a mess, but if we can get through to January still in touch, we might be able to sort it out.

 

[PoolieTom]

How's Flinders getting on?

 

[Carver]

There's a few reasons. The problem is mainly in defence. We had two transfer listed full backs who were playing every week because there wasn't anyone better, and all of our centre backs were out of form (and in any case were always exposed against pace). In midifeld we lost both Russ Penn and (more importantly in my view) Luke Summerfield to injury, and they are only just on their way back. Oliver has done well but he's often been isolated because we don't play to his strengths - he'll win flick-ons all day but that doesn't really help if there isn't another red shirt within 20 yards of him. Reece Thompson looked good but is out for the forseeable future with an unspecified long-term illness. And Wilcox was just generally sucking all the life and joie de vivre out of the club until he got sacked.

Meanwhile Jackie MacNamara has come in, binned half the squad including some of our more experienced and battle -hardened players, and chucked a bunch of youth loanees in instead.

It looks a hell of a mess, but if we can get through to January still in touch, we might be able to sort it out.

Yet they were determined enough to get a draw against us when 2-0 down and with only 10 men.

Anyway I hope your team does improve and stay up, not many Northern teams left in this league as it is.

 

[shoddycollins]

Yet they were determined enough to get a draw against us when 2-0 down and with only 10 men.

Anyway I hope your team does improve and stay up, not many Northern teams left in this league as it is.

I know it's quite early, but it's amusing to consider how much it would suck to be Morecambe should York and Hartlepool go down to be replaced with Cheltenham and Eastleigh, while Northampton, Oxford and Accrington go up automatically, joined by us in the playoffs to be replaced by four southern teams.

However looking at League One right now I feel it's safe to say that this division will be a lot more Northern next season. Seven of the bottom ten are Northern, and one of the others is Shrewsbury, who are only a short trip for most North-western teams.

 

[wilsontown]

How's Flinders getting on?

He's doing OK - one of the few players that most supporters would agree is good enough for League 2. Clearly he's conceded a load of goals in the last few matches but he's actually played well and it's hard to blame him given the shambles in front of him.

Yet they were determined enough to get a draw against us when 2-0 down and with only 10 men.

This is, weirdly enough, the one thing Wilcox was good at - getting points / wins when down to ten men. Why we couldn't shut up shop as effectively with all our players on the pitch I don't know.

 

[The Terminator]

Well Done Jay Simpson, the first Leyton Orient player for nearly 40 years to score 20 league goals in a season - By January as well.

If he goes in this window, we'll be very lucky to stay up.

 

[SVH]

20 goals by Jan you say? He's off.

 

[thewwfc]

nah, L£¥ton Ori£nt don't need the money, unless the player starts being a cock and forcing the move (which, OK, many of them try) then they should be fine. Believe in the persuasive powers of the mighty Hendo:

http://www.eurosport.co.uk/football...of-hotshot-jay-simpson_sto5045306/story.shtml

 

[shoddycollins]

Can't believe I had Jabo down to score only 9 with a couple more players above 6... oh how wrong I was