Let's not laugh at Leyton Orient

[mill]

Crazy that £250k is "only" a weeks wages for some of the PL players, i say it all the time when the smaller clubs get wound up for owing amounts like 1to10K

Was it Darlington that built a larger ground, couldn't fill it and got wound up for owing relative peanuts?

I'm not suggesting it's for PL footballers to bail out others but it's going on out on loan to clubs like Orient and the fans that allows them to further their careers and go on to take home such generous wages.

How long/much would it take the players who grew up at London clubs to put a bit each in a pot and buy L.O and some of it's debt and hand the keys over to somebody decent in return for a certain percentage of their donation being paid back upon their retirement from the game. A sort of pension pot that keeps them involved with football doesn't seem the most mental of ideas although i grant you it's a very unlikely romantic idea that won't happen.

Football sometimes needs saving from itself and the FA should be sacked off, replaced and overhauled for incompetence and negligence the show on an alarming rate and scale.

FA imo is the definition of unfit for purpose and the biggest hindrance to the national teams success.., regardless of the players and their yes man choice of manager. Until they are shut down and rebuilt football in this country will always suffer.

The pl is a very successful company, financially and marketed well, even if not perfect. The fa's a shambles in comparison, an embarrassment

 

[mill]

There's an argument to be made that the pl has killed the English game, I can't agree if left in the hands of the fa it'd had never come out of the late 80's/ early 90's slump

 

[GosfordSpur]

Very sad. My second favourite team. Spurs one week and the Os the next..Spent the 70s in the old second division and Ralph Coates and Ian Moores played for the Os after leaving us. Had a season in the old 1st Division around 1962 when another old Spur, Dave Dunmore, played for them. Good nursery team..both Laurie Cunningham and Glen Roeder started their careers there, as did Dave Webb who moved to Chelsea.
I really hope they survive.

 

[nailsy]

They've collected over £58,000 in four days .

 

[Ray_Evans]

Very sad. My second favourite team. Spurs one week and the Os the next..Spent the 70s in the old second division and Ralph Coates and Ian Moores played for the Os after leaving us. Had a season in the old 1st Division around 1962 when another old Spur, Dave Dunmore, played for them. Good nursery team..both Laurie Cunningham and Glen Roeder started their careers there, as did Dave Webb who moved to Chelsea.
I really hope they survive.

I used to go to their games as a kid, when Spurs were away. I remember seeing Roeder & Cunningham play...good days, always a friendly club. Their fans do a fantastic job each year in remembering their players who fought & died on the Somme.

 

[Gb160]

School..
1967-1969
St Ignatius College, formerly Cardinal Allen school, Cotswold Way Nr Jolly Farmers, between Oakwood and Chase Side
1969-1970
St Ig's College. Turkey Street.

I lived in Stoke Newington during that time but came out on the rattler every school day, it was a kind of grammar school
back then. Entry dependent on exam results and connections.

I hated it and because they had never ever expelled any kid before I was asked to leave, which I gladly did.

Christ thats my old stomping ground !

I was a Grammar boy myself...right in the heart of the town....had a good few messy ones in the Jolly Farmers.
Loads of mates of mine went to St Igs... literally a stones throw from where Spurs train now, I walk my dog on their field every other day !

 

[TheChosenOne]

The joys of youth. I left there not knowing I would move out to buy a house andlive in Cheshunt near Theobalds Grove in 1978.

The trauma of cross country running around Capel Manor and thereabouts.

 

[mill]

Christ thats my old stomping ground !

I was a Grammar boy myself...right in the heart of the town....had a good few messy ones in the Jolly Farmers.
Loads of mates of mine went to St Igs... literally a stones throw from where Spurs train now, I walk my dog on their field every other day !

You hang around school playing fields with puppies?!!!!!!

 

[Gb160]

You hang around school playing fields with puppies?!!!!!!

I dont know what the worlds coming to if a guy can't harmlessly lurk in a school playing field without being labelled a pervert.
I even tried just hanging out in the bushes nearby but theres always some jobsworth policeman being nosey wanting to know what im doing? where my trousers are ? etc....fucking countrys gone mad !

 

[Ray_Evans]

I went to their game vs Grimsby today. Sky Sports disconnected, Fosters no longer available in the bars & a crowd of over 5000 including 1000 from Grimsby, who by all accounts dug deep into their pockets & slung their hard - earned into the Orient collection buckets.

There are rumours that the electricity is about to be cut off at the ground.

The team featured 7 youngsters, some of whom were reported to have left the pitch in tears after their defeat. There are some cracking players there, & if the club survives they may well have a bright future.

 

[nailsy]

They're just over the £100K mark now - £100,515.

 

[Ray_Evans]

Good article about Orient's plight, with interesting quotes from recent former players:

http://thesetpieces.com/features/couldnt-write-worse-story-fight-leyton-orients-future/

 

[nailsy]

Sky Sports are reporting that The O's have paid off their debts in full: https://twitter.com/SkySportsNewsHQ?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^author

Anyone watching Sky Sports News at the moment? I'm at work so I can't access it ATM.

 

[nailsy]

Apparently the Tax bill has been cleared, but they still owe four creditors so they'll be back in court in June.

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...-after-tax-debt-is-paid-in-full-a3494121.html

 

[Ray_Evans]

This story has a long way to run, sadly.

Let's hope the club finds a buyer soon.

 

[michaelden]

This story has a long way to run, sadly.

Let's hope the club finds a buyer soon.

Surely any buyer would just wait until it was bankrupt and then but it for pennies on the pound

 

[nailsy]

And another managers gone....

http://www.leytonorient.com/news/article/2016-17/os-statement-danny-webb-3648873.aspx

Apparently Webb was sick of the owner messing around in team affairs. They're now on their 11th manager in three years.

 

[DJS]

And another managers gone....

http://www.leytonorient.com/news/article/2016-17/os-statement-danny-webb-3648873.aspx

Apparently Webb was sick of the owner messing around in team affairs. They're now on their 11th manager in three years.

Pure madness...

The owner is such an arsehole.

 

[TheChosenOne]

And another managers gone....

http://www.leytonorient.com/news/article/2016-17/os-statement-danny-webb-3648873.aspx

Apparently Webb was sick of the owner messing around in team affairs. They're now on their 11th manager in three years.

The new manager Omer Riza is a 'journeyman footballer' started out with Arsenal but never played for them, been in and around North London/Herts and Essex football all his time in the game. I think he was at Aesena when a lot of youngsters couldn't get anywhere due to Wenger bring only Frenchies in

I know of his Dad Josh, his other half owned a house in Hertford 2 doors away from where I lived. They both used to do the maintenance etc on the place.

Josh was best buddies with Ralph Coates back a few years before Ralph died.

 

[nailsy]

The new manager Omer Riza is a 'journeyman footballer' started out with Arsenal but never played for them, been in and around North London/Herts and Essex football all his time in the game. I think he was at Aesena when a lot of youngsters couldn't get anywhere due to Wenger bring only Frenchies in

I know of his Dad Josh, his other half owned a house in Hertford 2 doors away from where I lived. They both used to do the maintenance etc on the place.

Josh was best buddies with Ralph Coates back a few years before Ralph died.

He was also the youth team bosses assistant until three months ago when the youth team boss was made the first team manager. At this rate one of the ball boys will be manager by the end of the season.