Orient captain Stephen Purches has mused on where inspiration might lay for next season.

He believes that a template for the upcoming 2009-10 campaign can be found in two patches of good form, at the start of the 2007-08 season and the final part of the season just gone.

This pair of sweet spells book-end a extended run of poor form which lasted from the middle of the 2007-08 season until the February of the campaign which ended last weekend.

The 29-year-old defender believes a blue-print emerges when that long slump is cut out and the two purple patches stitched together.

Purches said: "We ended the season in the same position as we did last year, and if you could merge together the start of last season with the end of this, we'd be alright, so that has to be the aim for next year.

“The last three months of this season gives everyone - the supporters, ourselves, the gaffer and Nuge - encouragement for 2009-10 and we've got to make sure we build on what we've achieved.”

Orient ended the 2008-09 season in 14th place, the same as in 2007-08.

Meanwhile, Wayne Burnett has quit his post as Orient’s youth boss to take up a similar job at neighbour’s Dagenham and Redbridge.