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It is only football if you are a small time club like West Ham. If you are a big club like Spurs then you stay where you belong and build a top class purpose built stadium - for football! That is when it will really hurt the West Ham fans - when they see what we end up with compared to what they have. Their owners accepted an inappropriate arena because it was cheap and they are cheap owners or a cheap club.
As much as I wish it to be true....I don't think even the dildo brothers would attempt to sell that
They talk about filling the gaps between the lower tiers and main stand with seats! Stupid cunts.
How would they be able to do that?
You have to have a gradient and there isn't one.
Even if they pushed the seats forward they couldn't do it.
What about this cunt:
'Can anyone shed any more light on if the stadium was in full football mode last night or if there is still work to be done, specifically around the two areas behind the goals (BML & STBL)?
We, along with a few others in the Upper, were for the life of us trying to figure out if the stand behind the goal last night was just temporary and the main bit isn't completed yet (hence originally not selling them seats for last nights game). It looked VERY temporary - scaffolding stand with huge gaps behind and to the side. We took a look down there at H/T and when you looked down there were further seats that weren't being used which looked like part of the lower tear that hadn't been completed, which the scaffolding stand was literally built on top of. We imagined these were where our ST seats were and this is the retractable seating that moves forward over the running track, but wasn't ready last night hence the temporary stand. But now starting to read that what was there last night was the retractable seating and that was full football mode. Just very confused!!
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Seems it's finally dawned on them
And that's just the two pages I read
Knees Up Mother Brown - West Ham United FC Online: Forum • View topic - Olympic Stadium Discussion and Questions
Here's the next one.
I'm surprised how quickly they are showing their displeasure. There are some still trying to convince themselves that it isn't too bad but many are speaking frankly and honestly about the reality. Some didn't renew their season ticket already and others are saying they don't think they'll bother next season. And this after a decent season from them...
In all seriousness, there's no way that Chelsea match should stay on the Monday night. But what Sky wants, Sky gets...
This naming the stands thing, it's not official is it just them trying to make it sound like it isn't a soulless rented job?
cant be official. they don't own the stands.
They talk about filling the gaps between the lower tiers and main stand with seats! Stupid cunts.
How would they be able to do that?
You have to have a gradient and there isn't one.
Even if they pushed the seats forward they couldn't do it.
What about this cunt:
'Can anyone shed any more light on if the stadium was in full football mode last night or if there is still work to be done, specifically around the two areas behind the goals (BML & STBL)?
We, along with a few others in the Upper, were for the life of us trying to figure out if the stand behind the goal last night was just temporary and the main bit isn't completed yet (hence originally not selling them seats for last nights game). It looked VERY temporary - scaffolding stand with huge gaps behind and to the side. We took a look down there at H/T and when you looked down there were further seats that weren't being used which looked like part of the lower tear that hadn't been completed, which the scaffolding stand was literally built on top of. We imagined these were where our ST seats were and this is the retractable seating that moves forward over the running track, but wasn't ready last night hence the temporary stand. But now starting to read that what was there last night was the retractable seating and that was full football mode. Just very confused!!'
The seats behind the new temporary seats are part of the stadium itself so if they want to use them they would need some sort of lifting mechanisms which would need to be built under them to push them up about 50-60 ft higher, that would be insanely challenging and require much of the stadium structure and foundations to be rebuilt.
I kind of imagine when this was sold to the Hammers fans many expected some cartoon transformers stadium that gets on its legs and moves around not breeze blocks and wires.
First hurdle and they start crying... We've done it for years.. As funny as it would have been for them to get knocked out last night, i'd love to see how they handle the Europa schedule..
Mind you this lot knocked them out last year so it's still possible they won't make the group stages.
If Sullivan wants more of the TV money, he'll just have to put up with it.
After all he has stated TV money is his priority and they do subsidise the cheap tickets with it.
They are on live an awful lot over the first 6 weeks of live games. More than anyone else.
I reckon they will be on a lot more this season, if the exposure they have been getting from Sky recently continues.
Without the extra TV money from live games they wouldn't be able to compete at all.
They rely on it for a majority of their revenue now.
Edit: probably why they are attempting to buy any big name marquee signing going. He probably feels the more big name players he has to add to Payet the more they will want to be seen, hence more live games.
It worked for Man City and Chavs.
However, he's trying to do it on the cheap with other peoples money.
He say he's put his own money into the club, but forgets to tell you what he has got in return.
Sold a large piece of real estate and none knows how much for. Much more than he paid for it.
Has majority of shares in a club which if he doesn't sell to an oligarch have still risen in value because of taxpayers money.
He could get out now and double what he has put in.
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Not only that but it would be impossible anyway as the gap between the stands is the same height, there is no angle to work with so no one would be able to see. It's a complete fuck up this stadium, when you consider how much it cost to remodel it - basically, without actually remodeling it. Scandalous waste of public money.
You could always lift the back stands to make an angle but that would take even more money, sure magic Brady has a plan.
Pretty shocking really, when you consider the same designers are behind this shit show and our new stadium. Haven't covered themselves in glory at all, but, to be fair, they were asked to put lipstick on a pig to be used for purposes very much contrary to their original design.
Short of tearing down the stadium and removing the running track, which is what Levy proposed, they didn't have much to work with. The running track and the shallow angle of the stands makes it entirely unsuited to football. Those "retractable" stands also look absurd, and the chasm between them and the rest of the stadium looks to rival the distance from the stands to the pitch itself.
With a proper budget they could have made a better job of it, but they were always going to be limited in what they could do. Problem being they were asked to design a stadium that could be stripped down to a smaller capacity athletics facility, then asked to come back and turn it into a football stadium on the cheap for a penniless club. The powers that be should have been honest to begin with that converting it into a football ground would be the best ROI, and it would have changed the entire design process to begin with.
Went for a laugh over at KUMB.
A lot of sincere questions about the state of their "retractable seating." Scratch that, they're now calling it "relocatable seating", and they're deep down into the Bargaining stage of Grief. They're chalking it all up to the engineering firm providing the retractable seating going bust and this was the best they could come up with on short notice.
I shit you not.