sentences:  Smith signed with Tommy Taylor's Leyton Orient in August 1997, with a tribunal setting the fee at £42,500.He scored ten goals in 51 games in 1997–98; Orient would have finished one point outside the Third Division play-offs had they not been deducted three points.He captained Orient to the play-offs in 1998–99, and converted a penalty in the shoot-out victory over Rotherham United at the semi-final stage.