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Orient news from the London Lite 15th September

Orient will check on Stephen Purches and Adam Chambers after both picked up knocks in the 1-1 draw with Exter

L.Orient banned from entering transfer market after poaching French players

Leyton Orient, the little known east london club who play on the site of a future supermarket and are twinned with French Giants Lorient (club motto – because they’re worth it) have been handed a world record 10 year ban in the transfer market after illegally approaching, attempting to sign, and generally poaching like eggs the cream of the French Cheese market in Calais.

Take That

Orient chairman Harry Byrne and Chief Executive Column Writer Mort Pinter acted under cover by opening a warehouse named “Eastenders” in Calais where they sold cheap booze, and English people flocked in their thousands to buy the bargains in January and August.

The scam was discoverd when a french employee, known locally as Len, revealed what his bosses were doing by inadvertedly posting information on Fraisebook and Tweeter (the french versions of Friends Re-United and Myspace)

The full list of players poached by L.Orient is as follows….

Loick Pires (brother of Robert)
Paul Thierry (brother of John Henry)
Stephane Purchase
Rianne Jarvis
Jerome Jones (gk)
Thierry Mkandawire
Jerome Ibehere
Jason Jean (JJ) Melligan
Sasha Opinell
Simone Church
Michel’ Simpson
Zinedane Zakuani
Amara Simba
Magno Vierra
That Other one from the Calais amatuer team

Manager Gerard Williams slammed FIFA and was quoted as saying “Sacre Blue” before eating an onion and crying real tears and cycling off down the louvre…

Reserves v Crystal Palace

Hammered!
Don’t mention the score!!

The Season so far and Upcoming Fixtures

League:
Bristol Rovers (a) Won 2-1
Oldham Athletic (h) Lost 1-2
League So Far: Played 2 Won 1 Lost 1 For 3 Ag 3 Pts 3

Carling Cup 1st Rd: Colchester (a) Won 2-1

Match reports to follow.

August 18th – Charlton (h)
August 22nd – Yeovil (a)
August 29th – Carlisle (h)
Carling Cup 2nd Rd – Stoke (h)

PRE-SEASON REPORT

Geraint Williams first pre season in charge of Leyton Orient saw a number of trialists given the chance to impress, although none of them were taken on in the end. It also saw a mixed bag of results and many goals being scored. With seven games, we won 3 drew 2 and lost 3, scoring 16 and conceding 12. The wins were against Billericay, Kildare and Newcastle United, draws with Bishop Stortford and Hayes & Yeading, and losing to St Albans, Ebbsfleet and Dagenham & Redbridge.
Here is a brief outline of the games.

Billericay Town 4 Leyton Orient 5

Starting line up:

Morris

Cave Brown

Daniels

Chorley

Ashworth

Melligan

Smith

Hall

McGleish

Brown (Trialist who had a few good touches but didn’t really show enough)

Baker

Second Half:
J. Jones, Purches, Mkandawire, Casciato ( trialist who was decided against also scored against Kildare), M. Richards (Trialist – good in the games but was not taken on), Davis (Trialist), Demetriou, Sydes, Pires, Jarvis, Patulea

Scorers: Melligan, McGleish, Jarvis (2), Patulea

Kildare 0 Leyton Orient 2

Scorers: Casciato, Chorley (Both Casciato and Richards released after this game)

Ebbsfleet 3 Leyton Orient 2

Scorers: Demetriou, McGleish

Bishop Stortford 0 Leyton Orient 0

Jones, Cave Brown, Ashworth, Gunmundson (trialist) Gilbert (trialist released after Newcastle game, asked for too much money), Beautyman, Sydes, Thornton, Baker, Scowcroft

Subs: Melwood for Thornton, Benjamin, Babbs for Jarvis, Crowther for Scowcroft

Leyton Orient 6 Newcastle United 1

Hayes and Yeading 1 Leyton Orient 1

Scorer : Scowcroft

St Albans 2 Leyton Orient 0

Morris, Cave Brown, Mkandawire, Babbs, Bieudonne, Melligan, Hall, Beautyman, Demetriou, McGleish, Patulea

Subs: Sydes for Melligan, Pires for Demetriou, Crowther for McGleish, Benjemen for Patulea, Ashworth for Mkandawire

Dagenham and Redbridge 1 Leyton Orient 0

Pre-season – New Signings

New Signings
Adrian Patelua- striker from Lincoln City
James Scowcroft – striker from Crystal Palace
Jimmy Smith – midfielder from Chelsea
Ben Chorley – central defender from Tranmere Rovers

Players offered contracts
Sean Thornton accepted
Andrew Cave-Brown accepted
Loick Pires acccepted
Scott McGleish accepted

Players already under contract for next season
Glenn Morris
Stephen Purches
Tamika Mkandawire
JJ Melligan
Adam Chambers
Jamie Jones
Luke Ashworth
Jason Demetriou
Ryan Jarvis
Harry Baker
Charlie Daniels

Leyton Orient 6 Newcastle United 1

GOALSCORERS
Smith, Thornton (pen), McGleish, Mkandawire, Jarvis, Baker
Barton (pen)

TEAMS
First Half: Jones, Daniels, Purches, Chorley, Mkandawire, Thornton, Demetrious, Smith, Melligan, Patulea, Scowcroft
Second half subs (all used) : Morris (gk), Ashworth, Gilbert, Cave-Brown, Pires, Baker, Sydes, Hall, McGleish, Jarvis

Newcastle United
1st half: Krul (gk) Coloccini, Enrique, Nolan, Barton, Duff, Smith, Habib Beye, Taylor, Obafemi Martens, Gutierrez
Subs (all used) Foster (gk) Guthrie, Xisco, Geremei, Andrew Carrol, Lualua, Kadar plus two blokes off the street (sorry squad players)

Leyton Orient took apart Newcastle United at Brisbane Road in a match which confirmed the disarray the toon army are currently suffering, and piled more gloom on owner Mike Ashley.
With no deals finalised on buying the club from Ashley, there was still no managerial appointment, and with Alan Shearer nowhere to be seen it was left to Chris Hughton and Colin Calderwood to take charge of the team and coaching.
For the East Londoners, it was their only home friendly of the season after Newcastle pulled out of a trip to Amsterdam on police advice to avoid fans clashing with Sunderland fans. The O’s were scheduled to play Luton the night before but pulled out of the game to entertain the geordies.
It’s possible that the relegated Johnston Paint Trophy Winners could have given the eastenders a harder game, as Orient opened the scoring after just 5 minutes from Jimmy Smith after good work by Jason Demetriou and Sean Thornton. Thornton added a second from the penalty spot on 20 minutes after Habib Beye was adjudged to have carelessly handled in the box.

Newcastle pulled a goal back through Joey Barton, also from the penalty spot and started to get back into a game, as Damian Duff and Jonas Gutierrez swapped wings, but were denied twice by superb saves by young keeper Jamie Jones from Steven Taylor and Obafemi Martens.
Just before half-time Jones made a third great save, this time from his own player Charlie Daniels, attempting to safely head the ball back to his keeper from a Newcastle corner.

For the second half many substitutes took to the field, including Geremi, LuaLua and Xisco for Newcastle, and Scott McGleish and Ryan Jarvis for Orient. McGleish, a player released by Colin Calderwood at Northampton added the crucial third goal after just five minutes with a stunning overhead kick from the edge of the box, and just a minute later Tamika Mkandawire added a fourth from a corner and seemingly killed off any hopes of a comeback from the Championship side.

If a 4-1 win against an ex Premiership side that contained 15 squad players on £50,000 a week wasn’t enough, Ryan Jarvis broke into the box and curled in a fifth, past helpless sub keeper Fraser Foster.
So 5-1, and the Brisbane Road faithful that weren’t left stunned and lost for words, celebrated by singing “we want six” “can we play you every week?” and “easy easy”
They didn’t have to wait too long. With the clock running down on 87 minutes, good work down the left by Loick Pires allowed him to slot a ball into the middle for fellow youth team product Harry Baker to place the ball into the left corner and finish the scoring on an extraordinary afternoon.

Afterwards, a cheeky Geraint Williams said “I’m a bit disappointed we didn’t keep a clean sheet”
Newcastle caretaker Chris Hughton banned all of his players from speaking to the press.

In their first pre-season friendly one week earlier the Toon had put seven past local neighbours Darlington, so may have been expecting a similar result on their trip to London, but were quite simply knocked for six by the better team on the day.

20 Years Ago Today – PROMOTION!!

June 3rd
Fourth Division Play-off Final
Second leg
Leyton Orient 2 Wrexham 1
Harvey 43, Cooper 78

(First leg: Wrexham 0 Leyton Orient 0)
Orient win 2-1 on aggregate.

Paul Heald
Kev Dickenson (Ward)~Terry Howard~Keith Day ~John Sitton~
Kevin Hales~
Steve Baker – Lee Harvey~Steve Castle~Alan Comfort~
Mark Cooper

I’m trying to work out the formation from that team, at first glance it looks like SIX defenders!! Maybe one of Howard or Hales played in midfield. And only one out and out centre-forward in Cooper??
(Cooper recently returned to the Brisbane Road playing surface for the LOFT v Ear charity match which ended 1-1)
I read elsewhere that Alan Hull was on the bench…
Dig out some more stats and some photo’s on this soon…

The Dale Jacobs Trophy

Dale Jacobs

On saturday may 16th fans of Orient and friends of Dale Jacobs get together to play on the hallowed turf of Brisbane Road in memory of a great guy who lost his life in January of 2008 to cancer at the age of 26.

The clash between Orientear fanzine and LOFT is the second and should hopefully become an annual event.
Last year saw a 3-3 draw with LOFT triumphing on penalties.
Entrance is free, but donations are being collected for macmillan cancer.
While lasy year was all friends/fans, this year will see a higher profile with ex Orient legends Mark Cooper and Lee Steele represented.
Not sure Coops will last 90 minutes but will be great to see him and Steelo in action again.

The match kicks off at 1pm at Brisbane Road, with an auction of memorabillia at 4pm.
Donations here – http://www.justgiving.com/dalejacobstrophy