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• killerjerrylee

  February 28

  With both Pratley and Hylton teaching the dark arts, our young players would be unstoppable.

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• aliwibble

  February 28

  killerjerrylee said:

  With both Pratley and Hylton teaching the dark arts, our young players would be unstoppable.

  But the number of yellow cards would probably increase exponentially

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• thenewbie

  March 1

  killerjerrylee said:

  With both Pratley and Hylton teaching the dark arts, our young players would be unstoppable.

  Pearce teaching the defenders, Pratley the midfielders and Hylton the forwards would mean we'd have Darker Arts than Voldemort....

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• Bod

  March 1

  I was very discombobulated when he left. Absolutely ridiculous decision. Maximum respect to him.

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• IR94

  March 1

  still awful to watch, credit to him for carving out a career with his level of ability 

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• ForeverAddickted

  March 1 edited March 1

  Credit to him as an individual, two huge games for Leyton Orient in the space of a few days, and he's just played the full match in both of them!!
  
  Maybe its something that cost them today, a younger version of Pratley would have managed, and should have been replaced before FT

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• killerandflash

  March 1

  After the game he clapped our supporters, a top pro.

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• Talal

  March 1

  Will always think fondly of him 

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• Chunes

  March 1 edited March 1

  A top pro and someone who always gives 100%. But not a player I have ever enjoyed watching. 

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• IdleHans

  March 1

  Chunes said:

  A top pro and someone who always gives 100%. But not a player I have ever enjoyed watching. 

  except against Doncaster Rovers
  
  

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• se9addick

  March 1

  killerandflash said:

  After the game he clapped our supporters, a top pro.

  Yep, very classy guy. He’s had a great career, he must have looked after his fitness to a level that others wouldn’t given he’s still playing 90 mins in professional football at his age. 

  
  

  One we let go too early. 

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• Bostonaddick

  March 1

  Seeing him accidentally head it backward off the post was just like old times.

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• EugenesAxe

  March 1

  Bostonaddick said:

  Seeing him accidentally head it backward off the post was just like old times.

  Yeah the old fellas still got it 😂

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• JustFloydRoad

  March 2

  Hopefully he gave Anderson some lessons today (Anderson looked out of place).

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• thenewbie

  March 2

  se9addick said:

  killerandflash said:

  After the game he clapped our supporters, a top pro.

  Yep, very classy guy. He’s had a great career, he must have looked after his fitness to a level that others wouldn’t given he’s still playing 90 mins in professional football at his age. 

  
  

  One we let go too early. 

  I don't think we did honestly. Great guy, decent player but I genuinely don't think he's what we needed then or now. He does what he does extremely well but pure athleticism while very useful can only take you so far.
  
  That said he's definitely one I can see ending up on the coaching side one day and if he did end up back at The Valley in that capacity I'd be pretty happy.

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• clive

  2:28PM

  Leyton Orient are delighted to confirm that Darren Pratley has taken up a new role as PDP Coach, which will see him lead the U21 group.

  This will be the midfielder’s first venture into full-time coaching and sees him call time on a more than 20-year playing career.

  https://www.leytonorient.com/news/2025/july/03/darren-pratley-named-as-u21-coach/

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• se9addick

  2:33PM

  Congratulations to him on a wonderful playing career. 20 years & 734 appearances is a testament to how fit he must have kept himself. 

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• clive

  2:34PM

  https://x.com/CAFCofficial/status/1940778411129295080

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• AndyG

  3:47PM

  Would love to welcome him back one day in some capacity a true professional 

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