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Re: Rival Watch

by Royals and Racers » 10 May 2025 13:10

Orient taken the lead against Stockport with a 2 yard offside goal :D

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Re: Rival Watch

by tidus_mi2 » 10 May 2025 13:11

Orient take the lead against the run of play, with a goal that was clearly offside, does seem like everything has just seemingly gone their way for the past month or so. Think they'll have a less successful season next season if they don't go up because there's no way they get these loan players back in League One and that's half their starting XI

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Re: Rival Watch

by Sutekh » 10 May 2025 13:56

tidus_mi2 Orient take the lead against the run of play, with a goal that was clearly offside, does seem like everything has just seemingly gone their way for the past month or so. Think they'll have a less successful season next season if they don't go up because there's no way they get these loan players back in League One and that's half their starting XI


Teams are only allowed to have 5 loans max in their match day squads.

Charlie Kelman (loan from QPR) is in his second loan spell at Orient already so presume he could be favourite join permanently in the summer. Actually wondering if Kelman is a player that might be on Carey’s list… :?

And it’s now 2-2 so Stockport proving themselves to be the serious threat we all know they are. Thinking they’ll be able to finish it off at Edgeley Park.

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Re: Rival Watch

by tidus_mi2 » 10 May 2025 14:34

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tidus_mi2 Orient take the lead against the run of play, with a goal that was clearly offside, does seem like everything has just seemingly gone their way for the past month or so. Think they'll have a less successful season next season if they don't go up because there's no way they get these loan players back in League One and that's half their starting XI


Teams are only allowed to have 5 loans max in their match day squads.

Charlie Kelman (loan from QPR) is in his second loan spell at Orient already so presume he could be favourite join permanently in the summer. Actually wondering if Kelman is a player that might be on Carey’s list… :?

And it’s now 2-2 so Stockport proving themselves to be the serious threat we all know they are. Thinking they’ll be able to finish it off at Edgeley Park.

Surely QPR give him a shot next season considering his record this season?

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Re: Rival Watch

by Royals and Racers » 11 May 2025 19:36

Plenty of empty seats at Wycombe tonight( Charlton sold out) pretty pathetic i reckon.


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Re: Rival Watch

by WestYorksRoyal » 11 May 2025 20:12

Royals and Racers Plenty of empty seats at Wycombe tonight( Charlton sold out) pretty pathetic i reckon.

That's why Couhig is buying us. Learn his trade at Wycombe, but they can never sustain anything better than what they currently have with their fanbase size.

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Re: Rival Watch

by AthleticoSpizz » 11 May 2025 20:28

Royals and Racers Plenty of empty seats at Wycombe tonight( Charlton sold out) pretty pathetic i reckon.
just sounds like poor proportional marketing to me. :wink:

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by Sutekh » 12 May 2025 05:56

Royals and Racers Plenty of empty seats at Wycombe tonight( Charlton sold out) pretty pathetic i reckon.


Not surprising given a run to the play offs of 3 straight defeats all against sides also in the play offs (including one 4-0 defeat at home to Charlton) :o

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Re: Rival Watch

by Stranded » 12 May 2025 07:34

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tidus_mi2 Orient take the lead against the run of play, with a goal that was clearly offside, does seem like everything has just seemingly gone their way for the past month or so. Think they'll have a less successful season next season if they don't go up because there's no way they get these loan players back in League One and that's half their starting XI


Teams are only allowed to have 5 loans max in their match day squads.

Charlie Kelman (loan from QPR) is in his second loan spell at Orient already so presume he could be favourite join permanently in the summer. Actually wondering if Kelman is a player that might be on Carey’s list… :?

And it’s now 2-2 so Stockport proving themselves to be the serious threat we all know they are. Thinking they’ll be able to finish it off at Edgeley Park.


First Orient loan was when they were in L2 and he had a moderate loan at Wigan in between. If he becomes available from QPR in the summer then they may have a chance if they go up but would be surprised if he isn't at least in QPR's pre-season plans given he looks a bit too good for this division this year - in terms of goalscoring at least.


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Re: Rival Watch

by katweslowski » 12 May 2025 11:15

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Royals and Racers Plenty of empty seats at Wycombe tonight( Charlton sold out) pretty pathetic i reckon.

That's why Couhig is buying us. Learn his trade at Wycombe, but they can never sustain anything better than what they currently have with their fanbase size.


Really hate attendance watch - but this criticism really is justified. I saw genuine Wycombe fans on Twitter sharing frustration at a lack of ticket sales. Wycombe FC were tweeting mid-week things like "2600 tickets sold so far... only another 1500 left" or something.

I watched part of the game last night and it was pretty boring. The camera points at the smaller stand and it looked about 50% full/empty to me. Wycombe is a really small club, league two level in my view and nowhere near Championship.

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Re: Rival Watch

by katweslowski » 12 May 2025 11:17

WestYorksRoyal Really don't want Sheffield United to go up and finish 20th again. What's the point? I bet half their fans agree with me too.


The more I see of Chris bloody Wilder, the more I am backing anyone to go up except them.

Did you see that video of him pushing all his players off the pitch? Basically, they'd just demolished Bristol City 3-0 in the 1st leg (which was an away game).

The players were all over at the away fans clapping them - and fans were singing/celebrating etc. Wilder runs over and starts pushing all the players off towards the tunnel - almost like it's half time, or they've got an urgent thing to get to.

As an away fan I'd be really pissed off about it. It's an amazing weekday night - massive result which pretty much seals their spot in the final (unless they collapse). Let the fans celebrate and players enjoy the moment.

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by genome » 12 May 2025 11:22

WestYorksRoyal Really don't want Sheffield United to go up and finish 20th again. What's the point? I bet half their fans agree with me too.


I've said this for a while, for the fans, going up is generally shit. The money is nice for the club. But after a few weeks, losing so many games is just a crap experience regardless of league

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Re: Rival Watch

by tidus_mi2 » 12 May 2025 11:47

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WestYorksRoyal Really don't want Sheffield United to go up and finish 20th again. What's the point? I bet half their fans agree with me too.


The more I see of Chris bloody Wilder, the more I am backing anyone to go up except them.

Did you see that video of him pushing all his players off the pitch? Basically, they'd just demolished Bristol City 3-0 in the 1st leg (which was an away game).

The players were all over at the away fans clapping them - and fans were singing/celebrating etc. Wilder runs over and starts pushing all the players off towards the tunnel - almost like it's half time, or they've got an urgent thing to get to.

As an away fan I'd be really pissed off about it. It's an amazing weekday night - massive result which pretty much seals their spot in the final (unless they collapse). Let the fans celebrate and players enjoy the moment.

Yeah, that was a bit shit wasn't it? They've come all the way down to Bristol from Sheffield to support their club and the manager just decides the players and fans can't celebrate together.

Glad he decided he was too good for us.


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Re: Rival Watch

by under the tin » 13 May 2025 10:33

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WestYorksRoyal Really don't want Sheffield United to go up and finish 20th again. What's the point? I bet half their fans agree with me too.


I've said this for a while, for the fans, going up is generally shit. The money is nice for the club. But after a few weeks, losing so many games is just a crap experience regardless of league


Such is the busted flush that is the league rigged for the benefit of the big franchises.

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Re: Rival Watch

by Who Moved The Goalposts? » 13 May 2025 11:17

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WestYorksRoyal Really don't want Sheffield United to go up and finish 20th again. What's the point? I bet half their fans agree with me too.


I've said this for a while, for the fans, going up is generally shit. The money is nice for the club. But after a few weeks, losing so many games is just a crap experience regardless of league


Such is the busted flush that is the league rigged for the benefit of the big franchises.


Quite. They never needed to announce a no-relegation clause. They've managed to achieve it in a more nefarious way.

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Re: Rival Watch

by Royalwaster » 14 May 2025 22:48

L Orient win on pens - there's no stopping them is there?

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Re: Rival Watch

by Royalwaster » 14 May 2025 22:50

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WestYorksRoyal Really don't want Sheffield United to go up and finish 20th again. What's the point? I bet half their fans agree with me too.


The more I see of Chris bloody Wilder, the more I am backing anyone to go up except them.

Did you see that video of him pushing all his players off the pitch? Basically, they'd just demolished Bristol City 3-0 in the 1st leg (which was an away game).

The players were all over at the away fans clapping them - and fans were singing/celebrating etc. Wilder runs over and starts pushing all the players off towards the tunnel - almost like it's half time, or they've got an urgent thing to get to.

As an away fan I'd be really pissed off about it. It's an amazing weekday night - massive result which pretty much seals their spot in the final (unless they collapse). Let the fans celebrate and players enjoy the moment.

Yeah, that was a bit shit wasn't it? They've come all the way down to Bristol from Sheffield to support their club and the manager just decides the players and fans can't celebrate together.

Glad he decided he was too good for us.


I don't think that was the point he was making - he was basically saying: 'The job's not done yet' - you can celebrate when we win the next game, which they did.

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Re: Rival Watch

by windermereROYAL » 14 May 2025 23:04

And another sodding northern club, there`s a whole lot of travelling to do next term.

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Re: Rival Watch

by tidus_mi2 » 15 May 2025 05:46

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The more I see of Chris bloody Wilder, the more I am backing anyone to go up except them.

Did you see that video of him pushing all his players off the pitch? Basically, they'd just demolished Bristol City 3-0 in the 1st leg (which was an away game).

The players were all over at the away fans clapping them - and fans were singing/celebrating etc. Wilder runs over and starts pushing all the players off towards the tunnel - almost like it's half time, or they've got an urgent thing to get to.

As an away fan I'd be really pissed off about it. It's an amazing weekday night - massive result which pretty much seals their spot in the final (unless they collapse). Let the fans celebrate and players enjoy the moment.

Yeah, that was a bit shit wasn't it? They've come all the way down to Bristol from Sheffield to support their club and the manager just decides the players and fans can't celebrate together.

Glad he decided he was too good for us.


I don't think that was the point he was making - he was basically saying: 'The job's not done yet' - you can celebrate when we win the next game, which they did.

It's clear that's the message he was sending but I think the players should be able to celebrate with the fans.

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Re: Rival Watch

by Sutekh » 15 May 2025 06:41

windermereROYAL And another sodding northern club, there`s a whole lot of travelling to do next term.


But if their offside goal had been ruled out they would have lost.

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