I think every Orient fan was relieved on Saturday when the referee blew the final whistle and Orient registered a much needed win over lowly York City at the Matchroom Stadium.

But it was a narrow and nervy win, ending what had been a controversial week for the side.

After a disappointing televised defeat to Hartlepool on Sunday last week, the Orient team bus took a detour to the Marriott Hotel in Waltham Abbey and made a week long booking.

The hotel stay caused much debate on Twitter, especially once the national media got involved, but simply for me it proved something that had been becoming more evident as the season went on.

Regardless of whether you believed it was a good idea or not, it put serious pressure on manager Ian Hendon as it was a public display of dissatisfaction from owner Francesco Becchetti. And I believe it to be quite justified pressure.

Ian Hendon, quite simply for me, hasn’t been good enough yet. I am not saying he should be sacked.

We saw the problems that arose last year from forcing out Russell Slade, which led to three more managers by the end of the season and a relegation, however it would be silly to not look at the recent form of Orient this season, three wins in 13 league games is not up to par.

Our first five wins came from, no disrespect intended, teams who are lower standard ones. Only one of the five teams we beat are in the top half, and Bristol Rovers are mid-table. The others, Barnet, Stevenage, Newport and Dagenham & Redbridge are fighting down at the bottom of the table with the latter rock bottom too.

Furthermore, no team we have beaten are above Bristol Rovers in the league, despite us having played seven of the top 12 teams already. That fact cannot be ignored, we do not beat the top teams. How can we push for promotion if we don’t beat our rivals at the top?

When I wrote my last fan’s view, in early October, I made the comment that ‘we will inevitably pick up injuries and suspensions’ and ‘it does leave us with a problem’.

Sadly, a few weeks ago we picked up a couple of bad injuries, with Connor Essam out for eight weeks and Dean Cox out for six months, which expectantly left us in a poor position.

With Alex Cisak away on international duty, we were struggling with players, our bench filled with youngsters and the oldest player there was 21.

That has to be Hendon’s fault. It's easy to say that we’ve been unlucky with injuries, and there is certainly no denying that we have, but we shouldn’t have allowed ourselves to be in the position where that became such a big problem. We should have had suitable back up in positions and not relying on late transfers in November to sure up the team.

Also, tactically I think Hendon has struggled. We have arguably the best forward in League Two, in Jay Simpson who already has 13 goals this term, but it boggles my mind watching some of the games and the plan basically consists of booting the ball up to Ollie Palmer.

That, of course, works sometimes but it's a far too frequent method for the Orient team this year to be effective.

I did some research on this topic, and watched all the league highlights from this season, and I discovered, if my calculations are correct, only 5 league goals this season were scored through headers, out of 30 goals this season.

More importantly, only two headers were scored since Paul McCallum’s injury, both scored by Mathieu Baudry and the header on Saturday was the first one to be scored since the home tie against Carlisle in September.

That is a poor record if you believe what Hendon has suggested that Orient, and more specifically Sean Clohessy, are one of the most frequent crossers in the league.

That, coupled with the poor form, suggests that maybe it doesn’t work as well as we’d like. Maybe it's time to switch to a more on the floor based football?

Saturday was a key win, don’t get me wrong, and Hendon can hopefully build on that victory and pick up a run of victories and take us to League One.

However, there has been little to cheer about in Hendon’s six month reign so far, and a large amount of that must be put towards the former West Ham United coach. That's why he is under pressure.

Up the O’s.