You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
West Ham Thread 2015/16
- Thread starter BlueHammer85
- Start date
BlueHammer85
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 13 Oct 2010
- Messages
- 36,663
My pre season optimism and the win at the Emirates has faded fast this last week or so... Leicester stuffed us and all of our sudden with a few injuries our squad looks rather bare - Adrian suspended for a few games and only one fit striker. Be interesting today.
Blue Smarties
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 10 Aug 2008
- Messages
- 26,951
Fuck, forgot about that. Popped into the bookies after work on Friday, should probably have put more thought into my bet other than "get me fucking home".My pre season optimism and the win at the Emirates has faded fast this last week or so... Leicester stuffed us and all of our sudden with a few injuries our squad looks rather bare - Adrian suspended for a few games and only one fit striker. Be interesting today.
Nowan Lyxus
Member
- Joined
- 21 Aug 2015
- Messages
- 17
I read online that we (taxpayers) have also got to pay for the conversion of the indoor 'warming up' track into a mosque to accommodate the needs of the vast majority of your fanbase. Is that right mate or just internet rumour?My pre season optimism and the win at the Emirates has faded fast this last week or so... Leicester stuffed us and all of our sudden with a few injuries our squad looks rather bare - Adrian suspended for a few games and only one fit striker. Be interesting today.
W
W
worsleyweb
Guest
Think the new stadium will be a disaster for them.
In fact - I will say they won't be playing in it in 20 years.
In fact - I will say they won't be playing in it in 20 years.
Nowan Lyxus
Member
- Joined
- 21 Aug 2015
- Messages
- 17
Bloody hell mate. When was the last time you went down to East London? I went down there last year to visit our kid and it were like being in Islamabad. WHU are nowt like us. None of their fans live within 20 miles of the ground and travel further to go to home games than the Man Utd scum do. I hear so much about the famous cockney pie and mash with green gravy but there are no places selling it anymore. Everywhere is halal pakistani and bangladeshi food. They don't even sell burgers or hot dogs outside the ground but the stall by the away entrance does the best lamb samosa's I've ever tasted and the 'bhajee express' one next to it was also very good (bloody pricey though mate).Hahah, fuck off with your "not the City I have supported man and boy". I can have a soft spot for West Ham as their fans have always been top draw when I've spoken to them and their club reminds me of us pre-Sheikh. A real good core group of fans, hope this goes well for them, especially if it's at the expense of your horrible mob.
feedmpenzaandhewillscore
Well-Known Member
Think the new stadium will be a disaster for them.
In fact - I will say they won't be playing in it in 20 years.
Be hard finding a patch of land in London to build a stadium though in 20 years time. Very strange set up at the Olympic stadium with the lower tier moving over the running track and leaving a 15 meter gap to the next bit of the stand.
They should have converted it into a proper football stadium like city did after the commonwealth games, how many times will you get 60,000 people to turn up to watch athletics? Very rarely unless it's the world championships or the Olympics which I don't see coming back to these shores for another 70 odd years.
Nowan Lyxus
Member
- Joined
- 21 Aug 2015
- Messages
- 17
Are you mad? they are getting it RENT FREE for 99 years. It will be great for them and even getting relegated won't matter as the taxpayer pays for all overheads so any drop in attendances won't affect them whatsoever. They have a massive target fanbase around the new stadium with plenty of local mosques and I think they will emerge as the biggest club in London within 10 years. They will definitely be Champions League regulars within 5 years.Think the new stadium will be a disaster for them.
In fact - I will say they won't be playing in it in 20 years.
Nowan Lyxus
Member
- Joined
- 21 Aug 2015
- Messages
- 17
I agree mate. Blair and his cronies and Seb Coe were so up their own arses that they never thought it through. It should have been built as a football stadium and converted for use as running track for the Olympics not the other way round. Athletics is and always has been a minority sport. It would have been cheaper and more profitable to demolish it and build housing there (4 bed townhouses cost £900k in that area). Typical politicians, spunking our money like it were confetti.Be hard finding a patch of land in London to build a stadium though in 20 years time. Very strange set up at the Olympic stadium with the lower tier moving over the running track and leaving a 15 meter gap to the next bit of the stand.
They should have converted it into a proper football stadium like city did after the commonwealth games, how many times will you get 60,000 people to turn up to watch athletics? Very rarely unless it's the world championships or the Olympics which I don't see coming back to these shores for another 70 odd years.
BlueHammer85
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- 13 Oct 2010
- Messages
- 36,663
The whole Olympic stadium has gone a bit obsessive to some - My take is we have to progress, Spurs would have taken the OS if we didn't. They would have a huge stadium over shadowing Upton Park, bigger stadiums can bring bigger investments. Not only that, it looks a beautiful stadium, it's huge and it's funny to see rival clubs crying that the taxpayer has had to cough up - we got a great deal , Sullivan/Gold and Brady have done a fine job here and I'm very much looking forward to the move although with a heavy heart as Upton Park has been my home for more that 20 years.