Alberto Cavasin hopes Leyton Orient’s players react to planned fan protests over the club’s ownership at Saturday’s League Two clash with Blackpool in a positive manner.

The Leyton Orient Fans Trust (LOFT) will hold a march before kick-off and mark the 18th minute of the game with chants in protest against controversial owner Francesco Becchetti.

The Orient manager says he understands supporters’ frustrations after the club’s torrid start to their League Two campaign and insists his squad must urgently begin to mend bridges with a string of more positive results.

“I hope it is going to have a positive effect on the players and it is going to be a civil protest,” the Orient manager explained.

“We know that we have to achieve many, many results to equal all the sadness our supporters have had. We are professionals and this is part of our job.”

A 3-0 victory against Colchester United last time out, which was Orient’s second victory in three league matches, may have offered the first signs of an upturn in fortunes on the pitch.

However, the issues between LOFT and Becchetti run far deeper than results and it will take more than another win on Saturday to placate supporters’ appetite for change.

Becchetti’s opacity on the manner in which the Brisbane Road club is run is a concern and fans feel a change of ownership may be required if he is unwilling to amend his approach.

A campaign which has so far featured just five league wins means Orient are flirting with the relegation zone and sit just two points ahead of 23rd-place Exeter City.

Poor home form has been at the core of the O’s rotten campaign to date, and three points taken from Stevenage is all they have to show from eight games at Brisbane Road.

Cavasin, therefore, feels it is vital his side take the form which garnered victories over Colchester and Hartlepool United into Saturday’s match.

“Yes we have talked about [carrying on their form] in the changing room with the lads,” the Italian manager said.

“Clearly we were all happy about this victory [against Colchester] because it is something liberating, it is very important.

“We said already we need to think to Saturday’s match at home both for the table and for our fans.”

Only three points separate Orient and Blackpool in the table and comparisons can be made between the two clubs both on and off the pitch.

Blackpool fans are even expected to join Orient supporters for the pre-game march as they continue to rage against the ownership of Owen Oyston and chairman Karl Oyston.

The club dropped from the Premier League to English football’s lowest professional tier in the space of five years and have taken legal action against supporters of the Tangerines after protests in the past.

Victory could nonetheless take Blackpool into the League Two play-off places, dependent on results elsewhere, and they will be looking to extend a three-game unbeaten league run.

They made light work of Notts County last time out as a double from Kyle Vassell and strikes from Colin Daniel and Jamille Matt took them to a 4-0 win.

They also enjoy a favourable recent record over Orient having won both encounters when the two sides met in League One in the 2006/07 campaign.