The lads don't make it easy for us journalists, bloggers and fanzine editors, do they?

Just when I am preparing a doom and gloom issue of Panda and this blog and how we should have gone onto a glorious end to the season and a date with destiny in north west London, we pull out a second half performance worthy of a simple victory.

Three points in the bag and because of Tranmere, Walsall, Forest etc we suddenly find ourselves all dreaming again!

Just look at the table for a minute. If the results were to go in our favour again whilst we poodle off to south London on Saturday then we could find ourselves fifth - yes, you read me right, that's fifth!

In true Orient style, we gave ourselves a mountain to climb after Saturday and even worse after 45 minutes last night, then we pull out all the stops and put ourselves back in with a good chance!

OK, I am not about to get carried away, but a win this weekend and you have to admit that, with only a handful of games to go, we still have a strong possibility (like many others I freely admit) of making the end of season lottery!

It's so frustrating isn't it?

Explain this: how can the O's play for the first half of the game versus Swindon pretty much like the last 13 or 14 games, yet then put in a second 45 like the first 20 games of the season? Does it make sense to you? Because I certainly cannot make head nor tail of it!

Last night as I was selling Panda's, the great Alan Comfort passed by.

As always he said hello, bought a copy and I asked him if he could work some divine inspiration into the team and save the season - perhaps he made a visit to the dressing room at half time!

It really was great to see the flowing football that had been missing since the turn of the year and lets face it, in the first 20 minutes of that second half, Swindon would have been lucky had they conceded just four.

We had two penalties turned down (both good shouts from my view) and the team were just rampant. That type of football got us to the top of the league from day one, and you have to say that if we can play something like that till the end of the campaign then we will make the play-offs.

The flip side will be if we cannot follow up this win with another on Saturday (the first back to back wins since October is it?) then the fight will almost certainly be over.

It is a massive game.

Millwall are still not free and clear of relegation worries and no doubt that after last nights performance, a good few O's will make the short trip south of the river, so it should be a cracking game.

Don't know about you, but I would settle for half of what we did there last season, although that means it's not all too clever when you get outside the stadium!!!!

We have tough home games to come, yet what you would think on paper should be cast iron points on the road.

All I know is that if we can get three on Saturday, and follow that up with a win against Carlisle and Cheltenham, then four wins on the spin would give everyone massive confidence, and then you can start dreaming about what might happen if we get into the play-off's and go into them on an unbeaten and or winning run.

Big noise on Saturday please - the season starts here!!

Up the O's!