MATCHWATCH : Leyton Orient (a)

[Vision]

Yes, yes he was. Elaborating a bit more, he was averaging about 1 goal in 3 and was improving the more he played.

Come on now. Two of his 3 goals for us were against Exeter under 18s in the pizza trophy.

With Ballard, there at least looked to be a half decent footballer in there even if he couldn't hit a cow's arse with a banjo whilst with us and, to be fair to him, we were oxf*rd shit the early part of that season. Was it the Shrewsbury debacle he crocked his knee? We shifted formation and looked a different team after that performance.

We'd already changed for the Shrewsbury game.

I say this all the time but we played well that day until Selles took off Ballard and Smith (not a mistake he made again) with about 15-20 minutes to go and we capitulated to 2 set piece goals in injury time.

Ballard looked like a talented footballer but for the first chunk of the season our chance creation was virtually non-existent. When Selles finally moved from 4-2-2-2 he was briefly moved to the left and looked very good. Then he got injured.

[Clyde1998]

Probably one of the worst performances of the season so far. Felt very much like the Peterborough game in terms of seemingly only turning up to draw, but Leyton Orient got the goals Peterborough didn't.

They had the ability to cause us problems throughout the game. The lack of pace in defence was exploited heavily - Dom Ballard and their #44 aren't lightning fast, but our defence couldn't handle them; thought our right side was terrible yesterday and was very easily exploited.

Matt Ritchie continues to be very disappointing; looked like he was running through treacle too. Pereira didn't look as comfortable coming for crosses and didn't get to a number of them (including for one of the disallowed goals).

No idea what we were trying to do with the formation in the second half - appeared to be some variation on 3-2-5 at points.

Once again a long gap between matches has lead to a defeat and poor performance.

If there are some positives to take from this: good to see Will Keane get on the pitch (albeit he didn't do much); the return of Paddy Lane; Jack Marriott getting yet another goal; Ehibhatiomhan looked positive once he came on.

[Clyde1998]

"Al Habsis in ISIS" or words to the equivalent made me feel a bit sick. Coupled with what I was hearing at Salmon and Ball, and our fans have properly regressed to neandthals. Absolute divs

I was in the home end right along side the Reading fans.

For the Reading goal someone threw a battery at us hitting one of the club officials sat in the neutral zone. The 20 or so teensgers spent the entire match goading about 10 teenagers from orient. They weren't watching the game at all. I appreciate this may be normal for some.

These teenagers think they are hard, they seem to have forgotten they're from Reading, and based on their hairstyles look like they go to private school. They're so embarrassing. I actually found myself joining in with your not singing anymore at them after the 3rd goal because their faces were priceless.

Was next to a group at Peterborough. They spent the game talking about their scraps, including being identified and talked to by the police a few games later. Based on the name of one of them, I really wouldn't put it past them being private school pupils.

[Norfolk Royal]

"Al Habsis in ISIS" or words to the equivalent made me feel a bit sick. Coupled with what I was hearing at Salmon and Ball, and our fans have properly regressed to neandthals. Absolute divs

I was in the home end right along side the Reading fans.

For the Reading goal someone threw a battery at us hitting one of the club officials sat in the neutral zone. The 20 or so teensgers spent the entire match goading about 10 teenagers from orient. They weren't watching the game at all. I appreciate this may be normal for some.

These teenagers think they are hard, they seem to have forgotten they're from Reading, and based on their hairstyles look like they go to private school. They're so embarrassing. I actually found myself joining in with your not singing anymore at them after the 3rd goal because their faces were priceless.

Was next to a group at Peterborough. They spent the game talking about their scraps, including being identified and talked to by the police a few games later. Based on the name of one of them, I really wouldn't put it past them being private school pupils.

Tarquin Fortescue-Smyth?