Well we are now nearly three months into the season, and to say the least it's been an interesting one at East London's Premier Club. Boring it most certainly has not been around the old place since August.

Talking to various folk around Brisbane Road these days, in my opinion, there has been lot of unplaced pessimism concerning 'the Italian job' that we've seen over the past few months at the Orient.

Around the early seventies I remember watching an interview with Sir Stanley Rous on the television, and he stated that he had a note book where he had written down every football match he had ever been to.

As Rous was considered something of a God like figure in football circles in those days, myself as a young footy mad anorach, decided if it was good enough for Sir Stanley, it was good enough for me and I too started my own notebook recording every game I'd witnessed.

Well sad as it is some 40 odd years later that notebook recording every game I to go to is still being kept. It contains details of well over 1,000 Orient encounters as well as a few hundred others involving minor teams like England that I've seen in that time.

Now the thing about it all is that I look back in it and so many of the O's games over the years that are there I have completely forgotten.

Indeed upon closer inspection of the book's contents it seems like there have been entire seasons where nothing much has happened on or off the pitch, resulting in entire years having slipped from the memory. I simply can't remember anything about them at all. You wonder why sometimes you ever bothered to buy a season ticket it was so boring.

The point about all this is that the 2014-2015 campaign with the the goings on and off the park in E10 will for sure in many years time still be remembered. Dull it most certainly has not been.

Now talking to fellow O's to some of them the Italians coming in has been a disaster for us all and they wish they hadn't ventured from their homeland over to E10. Well I have to disagree. To me its all been pretty exciting.

Ok, so the new owners don't tend to say a lot about whats going on but I find this all rather fun. It's really quite nice to go on the website every day and find out who the latest person is who's going to be our next manager - Steve Evans, Dougie Freedman or one of about half a dozen obscure Italians.

And lets face it, Mr Becchetti not telling us anything all adds to the intrigue.

Now there have been periods in the time I've been supporting the Orient when things at Brisbane Road have really got me down, but I have to say that is not the case at the moment - in my first season watching back in the sixties, buckets were passed around the terraces to keep the club going, and I've seen enough financial crises over the years when it's all been very depressing. You've wondered at times if we'd have a club at to watch at all, things were so bad.

Well at the moment, there are certainly no worries financially about Leyton Orient (and we are one club from East London that doesn't stitch the tax-payer up with our stadium).

Even if the unthinkable were to happen and we were to go down to the basement division it would not be the end of the world - we'd still have a club to watch (and it looks like we'd have the added bonus of being able to watch ourselves on a reality TV show).

I'm even not too despondent either about what's been happening on the pitch so far in 2014-15. It's not unusual for teams that just miss out at the play-offs to have a hangover at the start of the next season. Indeed the two years after our failed efforts in 1998-99 and 2000-01 were complete disasters for us, so it's nothing new for the O's.

It's been really tough with all the injuries we've had as well. Last year at the beginning of the season we hardly had an injury at all - if my memory serves me well at one point we went about 98 games unchanged because of it. Key players like Dean Cox and Lloyd James have been badly missed at various points during this campaign.

The loss at Port Vale has taken us down to 18th but it remains very tight at the bottom. I'm still personally convinced we've got enough quality in the squad to push up the table.

A trip to Wembley for another play-off final might be beyond us this year, but lets face it we're the O's so we all know if we got there it would all end in heartache anyway.

No let's all settle for a nice day out there in March for the Johnstone's Paint Trophy final where we could all enjoy ourselves without the pressures of a promotion to worry about.

I'd take that now with a mid-table finish. And it would also be nice to be able to record a few home wins in my little notebook before the end of the season. Every team has to have a year of 'treading water' every now and again and this I fancy, is one for Becchetti's boys this time round.

And as I just finish writing this I hear that we have a new manager. This one appears to have plenty of hair so it will be interesting to see if that will bother the supporters. I fancy not so long as he gives us a win or two, and I guess it's a bit of a relief to the local barbers who I understand never saw the previous holder of the job.

I for one am quite excited by the appointment and am going to celebrate with a nice pizza this evening.

Up the O's.