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Post by tommydark on Jul 27, 2024 9:07:00 GMT
Will the various works going on be completed before our opener v Bolton?
If so I take it we will sell out around 9000.plus tv money for the club.Can't wait
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Post by dennisrofe on Jul 27, 2024 9:41:17 GMT
Will the various works going on be completed before our opener v Bolton? If so I take it we will sell out around 9000. Can't wait Seems like such a long time ago when as a teenager I went with my dad to the game Leyton Orient vs West Ham United 25/01/1964 FA Cup R4. Record crowd of 34,345 watched the game and right winger Norman Deeley scored first for the Os via a rare header following an Os corner. Peter Brabrook equalised for the Hammers and the game ended up as a 1-1 draw. In the replay at Upton park, Os lost 3-0 with one goal scored by Johnny Byrne and two by Geoff Hurst.
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Post by tommydark on Jul 27, 2024 9:52:34 GMT
Recently saw a pic of Bob latchford towering over our Paul Harris to head Birmingham's winner,and so gain them promotion in that vital last game of 71/72.
Was there that night supposed 33000,but loads bunked in it was so easy to do so.must've been near 40000.
Great season of money making esp after the cup run and prize money.happy days
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Post by dennisrofe on Jul 27, 2024 10:18:00 GMT
Recently saw a pic of Bob latchford towering over our Paul Harris to head Birmingham's winner,and so gain them promotion in that vital last game of 71/72. Was there that night supposed 33000,but loads bunked in it was so easy to do so.must've been near 40000. Great season of money making esp after the cup run and prize money.happy days Did you ever see Dennis Rofe play ?
What a player !
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Post by redshank on Jul 27, 2024 10:30:56 GMT
Recently saw a pic of Bob latchford towering over our Paul Harris to head Birmingham's winner,and so gain them promotion in that vital last game of 71/72. Was there that night supposed 33000,but loads bunked in it was so easy to do so.must've been near 40000. Great season of money making esp after the cup run and prize money.happy days Did you ever see Dennis Rofe play ?
What a player !
Dennis should have been capped by the full England side. |
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Post by tommydark on Jul 27, 2024 10:37:00 GMT
Yes worth every penny Leicester paid for him.
A great youth system down here then
Find after find
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Post by dennisrofe on Jul 27, 2024 11:22:28 GMT
Did you ever see Dennis Rofe play ?
What a player !
Dennis should have been capped by the full England side. At the time, Dennis was one of a few excellent left backs who were eligible to play for England, including David Nish, the left back he replaced at Leicester City. Nish's £225,000 transfer from Leicester City to Derby County in 1972 broke the British transfer record.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dennis Rofe was a fast, tough-tackling left-back who starred in Orient's 1969–70 Third Division title triumph, missing only one game He was ever-present in 1970–71. He netted six goals in 172 League appearances for Orient before following Jimmy Bloomfield to Leicester City for £112,000 in August 1972, which made him the most expensive full-back in British football at that time. Rofe was signed by Bloomfield to fill the left back position after David Nish had been sold to Derby County for £250,000, which was a new record fee for a full-back that had been set by Rofe only 24 hours earlier.
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Post by eca on Jul 27, 2024 11:26:16 GMT
I thought Dennis was a great player
I played left back too - school captain 1962 and Ilford schools district team and then Kent schoolboy team
All a lifetime ago, I obviously was not as good as Dennis.
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Post by dennisrofe on Jul 27, 2024 12:35:32 GMT
I thought Dennis was a great player I played left back too - school captain 1962 and Ilford schools district team and then Kent schoolboy team All a lifetime ago, I obviously was not as good as Dennis. It sounds like you were a very good footballer when younger, what happened when you got older, did you keep playing ? |
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Post by dohnut on Jul 27, 2024 12:51:44 GMT
Will the various works going on be completed before our opener v Bolton? If so I take it we will sell out around 9000. Can't wait Seems like such a long time ago when as a teenager I went with my dad to the game Leyton Orient vs West Ham United 25/01/1964 FA Cup R4. Record crowd of 34,345 watched the game and right winger Norman Deeley scored first for the Os via a rare header following an Os corner. Peter Brabrook equalised for the Hammers and the game ended up as a 1-1 draw. In the replay at Upton park, Os lost 3-0 with one goal scored by Johnny Byrne and two by Geoff Hurst.
I was there too. A ground record that will never be beaten. Seen our 8-0 wins and the 9-2 vs Chester I think in a cup game. Saw us win 2-0 at The Boleyn ground too. Maybe I’m a snob but a 9000 capacity just doesn’t excite and hardly an encouragement to people who just fancy watching a game. And perhaps get hooked. dread to think how difficult it will be for me to get tickets this season now no longer a Season Card holder. Still that’s down to me. |
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Post by dennisrofe on Jul 27, 2024 13:22:51 GMT
Seems like such a long time ago when as a teenager I went with my dad to the game Leyton Orient vs West Ham United 25/01/1964 FA Cup R4. Record crowd of 34,345 watched the game and right winger Norman Deeley scored first for the Os via a rare header following an Os corner. Peter Brabrook equalised for the Hammers and the game ended up as a 1-1 draw. In the replay at Upton park, Os lost 3-0 with one goal scored by Johnny Byrne and two by Geoff Hurst.
I was there too. A ground record that will never be beaten. Seen our 8-0 wins and the 9-2 vs Chester I think in a cup game. Saw us win 2-0 at The Boleyn ground too. Maybe I’m a snob but a 9000 capacity just doesn’t excite and hardly an encouragement to people who just fancy watching a game. And perhaps get hooked. dread to think how difficult it will be for me to get tickets this season now no longer a Season Card holder. Still that’s down to me. You wrote '' Saw us win 2-0 at The Boleyn ground too'' Sounded interesting so I looked it up on google, is this the match you speak of ?
''26 Dec 1978 West Ham United v Orient L 0-2 League Division Two''
Google is so amazing, how did I get by all those years ago before I ever used a PC !!
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Post by dennisrofe on Jul 27, 2024 13:35:11 GMT
Did you ever see Dennis Rofe play ?
What a player !
Dennis should have been capped by the full England side. What an exciting player he was to watch, especially when he went on a run down the left wing ! I felt really upset when he was sold to Leicester City, but at least Os got a bumper transfer fee for him, at the time, a record price for a fullback. Os did very well to get Bill Roffey to replace him but for me....There was only one Dennis Rofe'' !! |
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Post by tommydark on Jul 27, 2024 13:35:11 GMT
9000 is such a let down when thinking of those sardines crowds we squeezed in back then.
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Looks like sell outs this season unless they find a way to increase further.
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Post by eca on Jul 27, 2024 13:41:02 GMT
I thought Dennis was a great player I played left back too - school captain 1962 and Ilford schools district team and then Kent schoolboy team All a lifetime ago, I obviously was not as good as Dennis. It sounds like you were a very good footballer when younger, what happened when you got older, did you keep playing ? Yes I was good as a school child - I did not get selected for London Schools. It just evaporated away after leaving school I just concentrated on studies / work - after I returned from Nigeria as a surveyor in the mid 70’s I only played for two teams Saturday and Sunday in the East London and Brentwood Leagues off and on until around 1987. |
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Post by tommydark on Jul 27, 2024 13:45:21 GMT
Talking roffey.what a fab bit a business petchey did..sell bowyer to forest £45k and immediately spend it on Jackson 25/Payne 15/roffey 5.
Initial rofe replacement was bobby arber for 72/73
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Post by couch on Jul 27, 2024 15:02:21 GMT
Does anyone remember Bill Roffey v Sunderland. Sunderland player committed an awful foul on Bill, I seem to remember him walking 20 yards to the player smacked him on the jaw and was walking off before ref did anything
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Post by mayland0s on Jul 27, 2024 15:05:22 GMT
Talking roffey.what a fab bit a business petchey did..sell bowyer to forest £45k and immediately spend it on Jackson 25/Payne 15/roffey 5. Initial rofe replacement was bobby arber for 72/73 Nice work Tommy . |
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Post by tattyfilarious on Jul 27, 2024 15:08:00 GMT
Does anyone remember Bill Roffey v Sunderland. Sunderland player committed an awful foul on Bill, I seem to remember him walking 20 yards to the player smacked him on the jaw and was walking off before ref did anything Wayne Entwhistle. Who could ever forget that name? Obviously not me! |
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Post by dennisrofe on Jul 27, 2024 15:09:38 GMT
Talking roffey.what a fab bit a business petchey did..sell bowyer to forest £45k and immediately spend it on Jackson 25/Payne 15/roffey 5. Initial rofe replacement was bobby arber for 72/73 Around that same time, Petchey also brought in Phil Hoadley and Gerry Queen. David Payne got a bad injury that did not help in our bid to gain promotion to Division One.
Wonder what the £110,000 got spent on that came in for Dennis Rofe ?
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Post by tommydark on Jul 27, 2024 15:59:36 GMT
Rofe wonga on queen and heppolette
Again petchey did well.
Shame it all went pear shaped later in the 70s for him.but that pitch meant he couldnt play his passing game on it.
Entwistle ha,roffey said he caught me on my recent Achilles injury it really hurt so I socked him! Classic
Nice to talk about this old stuff its been a quiet orient day so far
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