Ballard OFFicially gone

[Wally Banter]

https://www.leytonorient.com/news/2026/ ... stol-city/

[The Reverend]

Good luck to him. Worked miracles last season.

[Rich Tea Wellin]

Really sad day. Probably the best all round striker I’ve seen in an Orient shirt and sucks we only got to see him for a season, and a sh*t one at that.

But we’ve done well to have a player for a year and get such a big fee. It’s how it’s reinvested that will determine if we’ve done the right thing.

Good luck to Dom. Think he can make it to the prem and he’s gone about this move in the right way.

It’s better to have loved and lost and all that

[gshaw]

sad that it's over but glad for our League 1 status that it happened. Glad to see his final goal for us at the Southend game last week, finished off in his typical style.

Go well Dom, couldn't have asked for more from you. Now go smash up the Championship, get your next big move and earn Orient some more dough

[E10quence]

Gutted we only got one season of Dom.

Forever an Os legend for single-handedly saving the club last season.

Hope to see him in the Prem one day.

[L.Orient]

Sad day. Once an O, always an O. Looking forward to seeing him play for England in a few years time!

[SpiceAlbert]

“The question we have asked ourselves all summer and before that is ‘if we lose Dom, how do we move forward from it?’"

More bull from Gandler. The question was: "When we lose Dom, what do we do?" Anyone who thought all that "we don't need to sell" stuff was anything but a negotiating position is deluded, I'm afraid.

[gshaw]

Fair play Bristol City, your media guys have nailed this one

If you're not aware there was a week or so of rumours about a new broadband customer in the area under name of Ballard, smoothly done guys

[idontkn0 M]

I miss him already

[The Reverend]

“The question we have asked ourselves all summer and before that is ‘if we lose Dom, how do we move forward from it?’"

More bull from Gandler. The question was: "When we lose Dom, what do we do?" Anyone who thought all that "we don't need to sell" stuff was anything but a negotiating position is deluded, I'm afraid.

I’m glad that people are slowly staring to realise that this Gandler bloke is a snake oil salesman.

Absolutely mental that people genuinely entertained all this guff about building a 30,000 seater Thunderdome when we’re about to start the season with precisely 0 strikers at the club….

[spen666]

7 goals tonight without Ballard....

[Lifelongfan]

Fair play Bristol City, your media guys have nailed this one

If you're not aware there was a week or so of rumours about a new broadband customer in the area under name of Ballard, smoothly done guys

Not exactly ground breaking. Mid table fodder at best

[Stan1972]

Good luck and thank you Dom
Without yiur goals last season we would be in L2
Go smash The Championship

[Token]

Does this mean we are little Leyton Orient again?

[Hedmans Header]

Gutted ..

Won’t see him in an Os shirt again…

[gshaw]

Does this mean we are little Leyton Orient again?

Depends what the fee ends up being

[E10quence]

Does this mean we are little Leyton Orient again?

If we start the season with Theo up front, yes.

[BiggsyMalone]

Good luck to him. Now they can get the remaining transfers announced.

[soloman]

“The question we have asked ourselves all summer and before that is ‘if we lose Dom, how do we move forward from it?’"

More bull from Gandler. The question was: "When we lose Dom, what do we do?" Anyone who thought all that "we don't need to sell" stuff was anything but a negotiating position is deluded, I'm afraid.

Are you an idiot or something . Do you actually believe that evryone swallows what the management say . Of course they don't but they will always say it ,so don't worry your little self .

[Hoover Attack]

Thanks for last season and good luck for the future.

But you’ve picked a stinker here, Dom.

[Bergen]

It is a bit sad, but I guess it had to happen. All the best, Dom.

[RedDwarf 1881]

“The question we have asked ourselves all summer and before that is ‘if we lose Dom, how do we move forward from it?’"

More bull from Gandler. The question was: "When we lose Dom, what do we do?" Anyone who thought all that "we don't need to sell" stuff was anything but a negotiating position is deluded, I'm afraid.

I’m glad that people are slowly staring to realise that this Gandler bloke is a snake oil salesman.

Absolutely mental that people genuinely entertained all this guff about building a 30,000 seater Thunderdome when we’re about to start the season with precisely 0 strikers at the club….

The way I’m feeling at the moment I make you right . We’re still very much “little Leyton Orient “ selling our best players. Instead of building a team around them to get promotion. If we don’t have a new striker in situation by Saturday I’d start to ask questions about the club’s transfer policy and ambitions

[SpiceAlbert]

“The question we have asked ourselves all summer and before that is ‘if we lose Dom, how do we move forward from it?’"

More bull from Gandler. The question was: "When we lose Dom, what do we do?" Anyone who thought all that "we don't need to sell" stuff was anything but a negotiating position is deluded, I'm afraid.

Are you an idiot or something . Do you actually believe that evryone swallows what the management say . Of course they don't but they will always say it ,so don't worry your little self .

No, I'm not an idiot. Of course I don't believe everyone swallows it. But there are some who do - the proof's on here.

[Bandy Legs]

“The question we have asked ourselves all summer and before that is ‘if we lose Dom, how do we move forward from it?’"

More bull from Gandler. The question was: "When we lose Dom, what do we do?" Anyone who thought all that "we don't need to sell" stuff was anything but a negotiating position is deluded, I'm afraid.

I’m glad that people are slowly staring to realise that this Gandler bloke is a snake oil salesman.

Absolutely mental that people genuinely entertained all this guff about building a 30,000 seater Thunderdome when we’re about to start the season with precisely 0 strikers at the club….

You know we still have 10 days before
the season officially starts & & 5 weeks till the
window closes right ?

[The Reverend]

“The question we have asked ourselves all summer and before that is ‘if we lose Dom, how do we move forward from it?’"

More bull from Gandler. The question was: "When we lose Dom, what do we do?" Anyone who thought all that "we don't need to sell" stuff was anything but a negotiating position is deluded, I'm afraid.

I’m glad that people are slowly staring to realise that this Gandler bloke is a snake oil salesman.

Absolutely mental that people genuinely entertained all this guff about building a 30,000 seater Thunderdome when we’re about to start the season with precisely 0 strikers at the club….

The way I’m feeling at the moment I make you right . We’re still very much “little Leyton Orient “ selling our best players. Instead of building a team around them to get promotion. If we don’t have a new striker in situation by Saturday I’d start to ask questions about the club’s transfer policy and ambitions

Selling him isn’t really an issue. It was always going to happen.

It was the weeks of “will he / won’t he” charade and acting like we might not need to sign a replacement when obviously we would need to.

A properly ambitious club would have got this deal done early doors and bought a replacement in sharpish. Instead we now have just over a week before our first league game with no strikers at the club.