STAGSNET`S STATISTICAL PREVIEW

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STAGSNET`S STATISTICAL PREVIEW
14th August 2003 23:55

Leyton Orient, our next league opponents, are best known as FA-Cup giant killers, i.e. reaching the semi-finals way back in 1977-78, the Stags' only season in the old 2nd division, where Orient, as their name was then, was one of the opponents. In the final home game onthat season on April 29, 1978 in front of 6,336, Sandy Pate scored his last league goal for the Stags in a 1-1 draw which was essential for the Londoners in their eventual successful fight against the drop. The “O's”, who played a single season in the old first division in 1962-63, the Stags' first promotion one, have done a couple of name swappings during their nearly 100 years of League soccer, being elected to the old 2nd division in 1905 as Clapton Orient. Just after World War II, they changed their name to Leyton Orient – and during the 1966-67 season, they swapped their name to simply “Orient”. And in 1987, they changed their name back to Leyton Orient. As a result of this, the Stags have faced Leyton Orient under all their three names and the Londoners also faced the Stags in their first-ever league season in 1931-32. And the first home game was won 4-3 on January 16, 1932 – and in fact the “O's” faced the Stags in all their div 3 (S) seasons.
At home, the Stags have twice beaten the Londoners with a three-goal margin. The first was a 4-1 around Boxing Day 1969, inflicting the eventual div 3 Champs their biggest defeat of the season. The second was a 3-0 in 1992-93, thus gaining revenge for the Stags' biggest-ever defeat against the Londoners, a 1-5 hammering away on November 28, 1992. The home game on May 31, 1947, must be the latest date ever for a league home game in Stags League history. And the 0-2 on March 15, 1969, was the Stags first home league game after the famous FA Cup exploits reaching the quarter-finals in the 1968-69 season.
The teams last met in the 2001-02 season, when the home fixture attended by 5,168 was won 3-2 thanks to goals from Disley, Williamson and Greenacre but the away one was lost 2-0.

Played for both sides: Iyseden Christie, Greg Fee, Stuart Hicks, Ian Juryeff, Mark Smalley.
There may be some more players, but I have been able to trace the above listed.

Home stats: P 20, W 8, D 8, L 4, GF 30, GA 23
Away stats: P 20, W 3, D 4, L 13, GF 19, GA 39

Season Home Date Away Date

1931-32 4-3 1932-01-16 0-4 1931-09-05 Div 3 (S) – as Clapton Orient
1937-38 3-1 1938-02-05 2-1 1937-09-25 Div 3 (S) – as Clapton Orient
1938-39 1-0 1939-04-08 0-0 1938-12-03 Div 3 (S) – as Clapton Orient
1946-47 1-3 1947-05-31 1-3 1946-10-12 Div 3 (S) – as Clapton Orient
1966-67 1-1 1967-04-22 2-4 1967-05-12 Div 3 (old) – as Leyton Orient
1967-68 0-0 1968-04-16 0-0 1968-04-15 Div 3 (old) – as Orient
1968-69 0-2 1969-03-15 0-1 1968-08-24 Div 3 (old) – as Orient
1969-70 4-1 1969-12-27 0-1 1969-08-30 Div 3 (old) – as Orient
1977-78 1-1 1978-04-29 2-4 1977-12-03 Div 2 (old) – as Orient
1985-86 1-1 1985-09-18 1-0 1986-02-15 Div 4 (old) – as Orient
1989-90 1-0 1990-02-24 1-3 1989-11-25 Div 3 (old) – as Leyton Orient
1990-91 3-3 1991-04-16 1-2 1990-09-08 Div 3 (old) – as Leyton Orient
1992-93 3-0 1993-03-23 1-5 1992-11-28 Div 2 – as Leyton Orient
1995-96 0-0 1995-08-19 0-1 1996-01-13 Div 3 – as Leyton Orient
1996-97 0-2 1996-09-14 1-2 1997-01-04 Div 3 – as Leyton Orient
1997-98 0-0 1997-11-29 2-2 1998-04-04 Div 3 – as Leyton Orient
1998-99 1-2 1999-02-13 1-1 1998-09-08 Div 3 – as Leyton Orient
1999-2000 1-1 1999-09-11 3-1 2000-03-04 Div 3 – as Leyton Orient
2000-01 2-0 2001-04-21 1-2 2000-11-04 Div 3 – as Leyton Orient
2001-02 3-2 2001-10-05 0-2 2002-03-19 Div 3 – as Leyton Orient

Svante Bernhard aka Sweden Stag (pictured below, centre)

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