diff --git a/src/main.cpp b/src/main.cpp
index 432ec871f5a..7ce7c92e5d2 100644
--- a/src/main.cpp
+++ b/src/main.cpp
@@ -179,8 +179,8 @@ bool AddOrphanTx(const CDataStream& vMsg)
     // at most 500 megabytes of orphans:
     if (pvMsg->size() > 5000)
     {
-        delete pvMsg;
         printf("ignoring large orphan tx (size: %u, hash: %s)\n", pvMsg->size(), hash.ToString().substr(0,10).c_str());
+        delete pvMsg;
         return false;
     }