Well, would you believe it, we've had a pretty horrendous season, yet it looks as if there's a fair chance the O's could be safe after all this year.

It may be a tad premature to invite Steve McQueen and James Garner to the last two home games and replace Tijuana Taxi with the Great Escape theme tune pre kick-off (not that Taxi should ever be replaced, of course) but things are certainly looking much more promising at the Becchetti Stadium than they were a couple of months ago.

The O's were bottom of the league in February, six points adrift of safety, and we were all getting ready to programme our sat-navs for trips to Accrington and Morecombe next season. However the win at Chesterfield triggered a run of six wins out of 12 and though we are far from out of the woods yet, things for sure are looking a little brighter now. As I write this Dagenham and Redbridge may not 100 per cent off the radar for next season, but a trip to the pier at Blackpool is currently looking the more likely scenario.

There are a number of reasons why our fortunes have turned round in my opinion. There is the improved situation regarding injuries with Jobi McAnuff, Darius Henderson and Scott Cuthbert all returning after spells on the sidelines. We appear to have found a more than half-decent goalkeeper in Alex Cisak who has improved our defence dramatically, highlighted by his stunning performance against Gillingham which earned us a point on Easter Monday.

Fabio Liverani at last seems to be getting his message over to the players much better now with his improved English. And after having not a lot of luck all season we finally appear to have had a little bit recently, noteably in the smash and grab win at Coventry.

The situation is looking up for us. I believe if we do stay up we could have a really good season next year. Unlike last year when we had the play-offs to contend with until late May, we will have the whole summer to rebuild this time round and I'm sure Fabio will have a good clear out come May. I have every confidence that our great Italian will replace the cast-offs admirably, and I'm confident we can look forward to promotion and Championship football come 2016-2017.

And with those guys up the road looking good for relegation from the Premiership next year, bearing in mind their defeat to the team bottom of the league last Saturday, it's going to be nice watching the Hammers first game at the Olympic Stadium at home to us in 2016-2017.

It's strange, indeed how things pan out in football. At the end of the season last year like all O's, I felt really fed up despite the fact that we had achieved our highest league position for 32 years. This time around we are going to end up with many points less than we managed yet there will be one massive sense of relief around Brisbane Road with everyone I'm sure looking forward to the first fixture in August, should we stay up.

At least for the remainder of the season it looks as though there is going to be something to play for in every game, which will mean an exciting - if tense - end of the campaign for the lads at our theatre of Italian dreams. I do think I'd rather have it that way than be a supporter of East London's second league side with just a few mundane matches to go with absolutely nothing to play for. They can blow those bubbles (pretty bubbles in the air), but at least watching the O's things never get dull.

Whatever happens between now and the beginning of May the 2014/15 season will go down in O's history as one of our more bizarre campaigns, even by Leyton Orient standards. Four managers, an Italian takeover, some strange goings on behind the scenes have all made for an interesting nine months.

The Coventry game on April fools day marked 48 years to the day since my Dad took me to my first match at Brisbane Road, a 0-0 thriller against Swindon Town. After that game back in 1967, the O's were sixth from bottom of the Third Division. Quite remarkably after the win at the Ricoh Arena the other week, we were lifted to sixth from bottom of the third tier.

After watching more than a thousand Orient games over the past six decades, we were thus in the same position as we were when it all started for me all those years ago. What, some might argue, has been the point of the past forty-eight years, then particularly as there has been a distinct lack of trophies or cup-finals in that time.

Well like any other O, I wouldn't have had it any other way. I've still got lots of cherished memories from Brisbane Road, (and there was of course always that failed appearance in the Anglo-Scottish cup final back in '76.) Here's to the 2015-2016 season, we'll be there, no matter what division we're watching football in.

Up the O's.