[Lord Snooty]

Huddersfield Town v Leyton Orient
Sky Bet League One
Saturday May 3rd - 15:00 ko
at Leeds Road

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Huddersfield Town welcome Leyton Orient for a Play Offs party at the Kevin Nagle Arena on Saturday afternoon. They just need three points to achieve their ambition of making it to the end of season lottery. And our spineless idiots are in no mood to be party poopers. Even though this has now been announced as the final Town game for the General, Jonathan Hogg.

So in advance of Saturday's game, I'd like to say congratulations to the O's for that and offer my sincere apologies to Reading FC and all their supporters who after a traumatic few years, will have to settle for another season in League One.

Talking of Hoggy. Kevin Nagle has said that he hasn't been offered a new contract. How many more have been told the same? How many will have even less of a reason to bother with trying to look as if they care?

Tickets: Meh! Who cares? They don't. Why should we?



A brief history of Leyton Orient: formed in 1881 as Glyn Cricket Club and started a football section named Orient Football Club in 1888. They became Clapton Orient in 1898, then Leyton Orient in 1946. It was back to just Orient again in 1966 and then from 1987 onwards they have been back as Leyton Orient.

1905/06; elected to the Football League.
1905 to 29; Divison 2. Relegated.
1929 to 56; Division 3 (S). Promoted as champions.
1956 to 62; Division 2. Promoted as runners up.
1962/63; One and only season in Division One. Relegated in last place.
1963 to 66; Division 2. Relegated in last place.
1966 to 70; Division 3. Promoted as champions.
1970 to 82; Division 2. Relegated in last place.
1982 to 85; Division 3. Relegated.
1985 to 89; Division 4. Promoted after beating Wrexham in Play Off Final.
1989 to 95; 3rd tier. Relegated in last place
1995 to 2006; 4th tier. Promoted.
2006 to 15; League One; Relegated.
20015 to 17; League Two. Relegated in last place.
20017 to 19; National League. Promoted as champions.
20019 to 23; League Two. Promoted as champions.
2023 - now; League One. Play Off winners?

Head to Head



Town lead the head to head with 26 wins to Orient's 19, with 18 draws.

In our very first Footbal League season, 1910/11, Orient was our 9th league game. They were Clapton Orient then and the game was played at Clapton Stadium, also known as Millfields Road and we lost 2-0. We won the return fixture 2-0 with Irishman, James Macauley and Scotsman James Richardson scoring our goals.

We stayed together in Division Two until Town got promoted in 1919/20. That was of course, the roller coaster season that nearly saw us go bust, nearly got taken over by Leeds United, but ended with an FA Cup Final and a first promotion for the club. The season started with Orient coming north to Leeds Road, the first league game after the Great War. Our war hero Jack Cock, scored the first goal. He would become our first ever England international in the next few weeks, while the second goalscorer in our 2-1 win, Jim Baker, went on to join Leeds, becoming their club captain.

After a midweek trip for a defeat in Bury, our brave lads went down to Clapton on the Saturday and completed a league double over the O's. It was a 1-0 win and Sammy Taylor scored the first of what became and still is a club record of 41 goals in a season.

So we never met again until we were relegated in the 50s. They had become Leyton Orient by now and we had six seasons together before they went and had their one and only season in the top flight of English football. We had another two seasons together in the 2nd Division before they went down again.

We had just one season together during our decline in the 70s. That was 72/73 in Div 2 and we got relegated.

They were still in Division Two as we started to climb back up, but our next meeting came in the FA Cup in 81/82. We drew at Leeds Road but then lost the replay down at Brisbane Road.

They were relegated at the end of that season though and so we met in the league for just one season, which saw us promoted at the end of it. The home game was a thumping 6-0 win with goals from Colin Russell, Mark Lillis, Daryl Pugh, David Sutton and a couple from Brian Stanton. Lillis and Stanton were on target again in April, as well as Phil Wilson as the Terriers won 3-1 to go top of the 3rd Division table.

We got relegated again at the back end of the 80s and so had another six seasons together in Div 3, the last of which, we went up again. In that 94/95 season, we did the double over them. Paul Reid and Andy Booth on target in the 2-1 home win and Iain Dunn and a Ronnie Jepson penalty secured a 2-0 away win.

Boothy scored a few against Orient in his Town days. He scored in a 3-0 home win when we met up again after our relegation to the 4th tier in 2003. He scored again in a 1-1 draw down at theirs later in the season, but having already sent off Pawel Abbott, dickhead referee Trevor Parkes, gave Boothy a second yellow card and off he had to go. Dickhead!

It's not all bad memories for the club legend and ambassador though. In 2009, Boothy played his 457th and final game for Huddersfield Town, away at Leyton Orient. He only went and scored as well, his 150th goal for the club. We couldn't hold on to the lead though and the match ended as a 1-1 draw.

Once Boothy had retired, another goalscorer started tormenting the O's. Jordan Rhodes scored 7 goals in 6 games against them, including a hat trick at Brisbane Road in the promotion season of 2011/12.

That was the last time we played each other until this season. At the end of November, we won 2-0 down there with Michal Helik and Callum Marshall scoring to push Orient into the bottom 4, with us firmly entrenched in the top 6.

How easily a season can turn around! Next season, they may be in the Championship!




Recent form - last 6 matches:

Exeter 3-1 Town
Stockport 2-1 Town
Town 1-2 Cambridge
Burton 3-0 Town
Town 0-1 Wycombe
Town 2-1 Mansfield

Orient 1-0 Wycombe
Cambridge 1-2 Orient
Orient 4-3 Barnsley
Crawley 1-3 Orient
Mansfield 2-3 Orient
Orient 0-0 Wigan

Town are 10th in the League One table with 64 points. The O's are 6th with 75.







Anagrams for the 2024/25 season: including players, managers, staff, competitions and even opposition players.

1. Liam Chuffed
   
2. Mr Cat Arkwright
   
3. Not Tomsk
   
4. Hulls Calm Alarm
   
5. Ah Chill Mike
   
6. Adolf Diapered
   
7. John Grot in Town
   
8. Been a Hiker
   
9. Ruth Poverty
   
10. Unbroken Rose
    

[jjamez]

Think we may see who's staying and who's going with the line up on Saturday. Can't see many being there. Hopefully it shocks the owner into action.

1. Duff duff
7. Worthers original

[Amelia Chaffinch]

2. Carthoss

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5. Michal Helik

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3. Tom Tonks and he did with that throw in

[theo_luddite]

Talking of Hoggy. Kevin Nagle has said that he hasn't been offered a new contract. How many more have been told the same? How many will have even less of a reason to bother with trying to look as if they care?

Given that signing 2 shiny new expensive strikers, who were supposed to boost our play-off/automatic ambitions but instead turned out to be as good at firing blanks and getting injured as the one's we supposedly already had, I reckon Carthoss told lots of them around the January transfer window. What little morale there was, Carthoss tipped in the river with players coming in on more money (possibly Championship wage contracts) when everyone else had taken a hit in the wallet and had theirs reduced to League One standards.

Duff Duff and Worthy handed a squad that looked at Town and said, if you don't want me around, why should I make your 4 year plan suddenly look good again? Yes, they should be putting themselves in the shop window, they had the chance to do that last season.

Meanwhile down Oxford way, Rowett reckons Helik might be the best January signing he's ever made.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/football...r-AA1DUxBa
I wasn't too bothered when he left as Balker was more or less fit again and should have been capable of doing the job. That worked out well too!!

[Lord Snooty]

In my opinion, Helik looked like he'd clocked off in the summer. He was as bad at everyone else at the start of the season, typified by his own goal against Northampton.

[theo_luddite]

Part of why I wasn't too bothered with him leaving. There's always someone on a thread somewhere (DATM or The Unexamined part of Yorkshire Live as examples) squawking, why wasn't so and so replaced when the replacement was already in the building. Didn't matter at the end, anyone else coming in only had to go for a drink with the squad to realise nobody is buying into Kevin the Gerbils master plan. He's spinning his wheel at the back of his cage right now.

They haven't convinced me on the pitch to renew. Are they gonna get som'at sorted between now and the end of month?

A hamper full of merch they can't sell in exchange for a £1 raffle ticket seems about right with our lots out of tune thinking. A free season ticket might sell a few more, but what do I know as a retired Product Manager?

[jjamez]

4. Callum marshall
6. Freddie ladapo?
10. Ruben roosken

With helik, I was never his biggest fan, we went from sarr and colwill to him, big trade down considering he cannot play out from the back and is essentially an old fashioned lump.

We didn't replace him and long run it's cost us and I hope we bring in technically capable defenders in summer

[Amelia Chaffinch]

4. Callum Marshall

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6. Freddie Ladapo

[jjamez]

9 vertu trophy

[ritchiebaby]

9 is Vertu Trophy, no idea about t'other. Point to jjamez, he just beat me to it by a minute or so.