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Post by riccyfuller93 on Jun 14, 2017 14:48:33 GMT
until September apparently, because the stadium will not be ready after the World Athletics Championships. So glad we actually have a "Football" stadium.
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Post by TinkerT on Jun 14, 2017 14:56:04 GMT
Id rather a stadium which could seat over 60 thousand myself..each too their own.
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 14, 2017 15:02:32 GMT
I have a hammer mate who says it's a fantastic stadium but a crap football ground. Sounds about right to me.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jun 14, 2017 15:04:34 GMT
Id rather a stadium which could seat over 60 thousand myself..each too their own. A 60,000 seater stadium in Stoke-on-Trent would have upwards of 25,000 empty seats most of the time. Even more if it was such a poorly designed stadium for football as West Ham's stadium is. What I do envy West Ham for is the ridiculously low cost of the stadium to them. They pay a peppercorn rent which includes most of the staffing needed to operate the stadium - and the council taxpayers and business ratepayers of London pick up the rest of the bill - and all so the stadium can stage a couple of athletics meetings a year. A disgraceful deal for the taxpayers and for the other teams in the Premier League.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 15:10:27 GMT
Thought it was awful when we played them in November. Nice stadium totally unsuitable for football.
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Post by spiderpuss on Jun 14, 2017 15:44:18 GMT
Its a crap football stadium and does this mean every time an athletics meeting is organised that their fixtures are messed about? They've not thought this through properly have they?
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Post by pottersrule on Jun 14, 2017 16:03:43 GMT
Id rather a stadium which could seat over 60 thousand myself..each too their own. It would have a back to the old days feel about it,as with half empty stadium.
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Post by TinkerT on Jun 14, 2017 16:13:59 GMT
Id rather a stadium which could seat over 60 thousand myself..each too their own. A 60,000 seater stadium in Stoke-on-Trent would have upwards of 25,000 empty seats most of the time. Even more if it was such a poorly designed stadium for football as West Ham's stadium is. What I do envy West Ham for is the ridiculously low cost of the stadium to them. They pay a peppercorn rent which includes most of the staffing needed to operate the stadium - and the council taxpayers and business ratepayers of London pick up the rest of the bill - and all so the stadium can stage a couple of athletics meetings a year. A disgraceful deal for the taxpayers and for the other teams in the Premier League. Always good to have the option to fill 60 thousand seats though and it gives them a immense platform they could build from, not saying we'd fill it but id rather a 60k stadium than a 28k stadium that's for sure.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2017 18:52:43 GMT
Went to see Depeche Mode there two weeks ago and was great for a gig. One minor complaint was egression from seats was very congested and can see why it kicks off occasionally even between bad tempered cocker-knees supporting the same side.
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Post by philb on Jun 14, 2017 18:54:53 GMT
Its a crap football stadium and does this mean every time an athletics meeting is organised that their fixtures are messed about? They've not thought this through properly have they? They just wanted it as cheap as possible and that's what they've got.
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Post by philb on Jun 14, 2017 19:00:27 GMT
A 60,000 seater stadium in Stoke-on-Trent would have upwards of 25,000 empty seats most of the time. Even more if it was such a poorly designed stadium for football as West Ham's stadium is. What I do envy West Ham for is the ridiculously low cost of the stadium to them. They pay a peppercorn rent which includes most of the staffing needed to operate the stadium - and the council taxpayers and business ratepayers of London pick up the rest of the bill - and all so the stadium can stage a couple of athletics meetings a year. A disgraceful deal for the taxpayers and for the other teams in the Premier League. Always good to have the option to fill 60 thousand seats though and it gives them a immense platform they could build from, not saying we'd fill it but id rather a 60k stadium than a 28k stadium that's for sure. Nah pointless that is. We've been in the PL for ages now and we still only get 28 to hopefully 30,000. Where and what do you think the other 30,000 would come from and for. Even if we won the PL we'd still get no more supporters, look at Leicester. There wasn't a sudden clamouring for 1000's more to want to watch them was there. Look at some of the bigger teams in League 1 with half empty grounds, no give me a Stadium nearly full to capacity on a match day every week.
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Post by miltonstokienew on Jun 14, 2017 19:02:47 GMT
A 60,000 seater stadium in Stoke-on-Trent would have upwards of 25,000 empty seats most of the time. Even more if it was such a poorly designed stadium for football as West Ham's stadium is. What I do envy West Ham for is the ridiculously low cost of the stadium to them. They pay a peppercorn rent which includes most of the staffing needed to operate the stadium - and the council taxpayers and business ratepayers of London pick up the rest of the bill - and all so the stadium can stage a couple of athletics meetings a year. A disgraceful deal for the taxpayers and for the other teams in the Premier League. Always good to have the option to fill 60 thousand seats though and it gives them a immense platform they could build from, not saying we'd fill it but id rather a 60k stadium than a 28k stadium that's for sure. Not really thought this through have you ?
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Post by Pretty Little Boother on Jun 14, 2017 19:05:38 GMT
Upton Park was my favourite Premier League stadium, they can fuck off for leaving it.
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Post by block30row19 on Jun 14, 2017 19:52:11 GMT
Id rather a stadium which could seat over 60 thousand myself..each too their own. 🙄😂
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Post by TinkerT on Jun 14, 2017 19:54:53 GMT
Always good to have the option to fill 60 thousand seats though and it gives them a immense platform they could build from, not saying we'd fill it but id rather a 60k stadium than a 28k stadium that's for sure. Not really thought this through have you ? Why? Because stoke fans would rather play in front of 28 thousand rather than 60? You can knock west ham all you like but the stadium has given them massive potential and a great stepping stone. I've NEVER said stoke would fill it, i said id prefer that stadium at 60k rather than ours, Jesus.
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Post by ratters on Jun 14, 2017 20:04:42 GMT
If stoke wont fill it why would you want a 60k stadium with 30k fans in? Your statement contradicts itself.
you obviously didnt go to there ground if you thought it was suitable for football, id rather go accrington every week than west hams ground to watch football
If West ham can't fill 60k we never would no matter so called 'massive potential you perceive. So the only option is lots of empty seats
Full stadium outways any empty stadium no matter what size or what club.
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jun 14, 2017 20:05:20 GMT
Its a crap football stadium and does this mean every time an athletics meeting is organised that their fixtures are messed about? They've not thought this through properly have they? They only hold athletics meetings at the stadium in the summer close season. But the time taken to get the stadium converted back to football use means that there is some doubt as to whether they can ever play a home game in August. Let's be honest the scheme makes no sense in footballing terms or in terms of giving athletics a PERMANENT home to be proud of. The Spurs plan was much more sensible. They wanted to demolish the Olympic Stadium build a new one from scratch AND pay for a new athletics stadium holding 30K. That would have been great for the fans of both Althetics and football and would have cost the authorities far less as most of the capital costs would have been paid by Spurs. Not Boris Johnson's finest hour methinks!
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Post by miltonstokienew on Jun 14, 2017 21:49:04 GMT
Not really thought this through have you ? Why? Because stoke fans would rather play in front of 28 thousand rather than 60? You can knock west ham all you like but the stadium has given them massive potential and a great stepping stone. I've NEVER said stoke would fill it, i said id prefer that stadium at 60k rather than ours, Jesus. Why would anyone want play on a half empty stadium every week ? The only we would fill that is if we resurrected Sir Stan and that's not gonna happen.
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Post by TinkerT on Jun 15, 2017 7:12:15 GMT
Why? Because stoke fans would rather play in front of 28 thousand rather than 60? You can knock west ham all you like but the stadium has given them massive potential and a great stepping stone. I've NEVER said stoke would fill it, i said id prefer that stadium at 60k rather than ours, Jesus. Why would anyone want play on a half empty stadium every week ? The only we would fill that is if we resurrected Sir Stan and that's not gonna happen. I never said we would fill it, how many fucking times, jesus. What i said was id prefer a 60k stadium rather than a 28k one as it gives you a immense stepping stone and platform.
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Post by JoeinOz on Jun 15, 2017 7:15:38 GMT
Went to see Depeche Mode there two weeks ago and was great for a gig. One minor complaint was egression from seats was very congested and can see why it kicks off occasionally even between bad tempered cocker-knees supporting the same side. Did they do Enjoy the Silence?
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Post by essexstokey on Jun 15, 2017 7:21:15 GMT
The question really is have a virtually free stadium and extra income and put up with the occasional athletics over run or don't have the tax payers subsidised extra profits. which would you chose??
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Post by jeycov on Jun 15, 2017 9:07:52 GMT
The question really is have a virtually free stadium and extra income and put up with the occasional athletics over run or don't have the tax payers subsidised extra profits. which would you chose?? West Ham only have one home game in August and that is v Southampton on weekend 19th August Maybe they could change that game to an away one at St Marys and reverse the fixtures? ( too simple an idea?) Maybe it's been sorted This athletics event has been scheduled many months ago - a bit of forward planning should be possible from the powers that be and the club?????? The virtually free stadium would be my choice, regardless of the capacity. Arrangements for fans segregation and transport should have been better and need improving What will happen when Spurs play West Ham? Will one match count as a home game for Spurs and vice versa?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 11:25:38 GMT
Stoke fans can't complain. Stoke asked for the first game of next season to be played away to allow extra time for stadium improvements.
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Post by Will_75 on Jun 15, 2017 11:32:00 GMT
Why would anyone want play on a half empty stadium every week ? The only we would fill that is if we resurrected Sir Stan and that's not gonna happen. I never said we would fill it, how many fucking times, jesus. What i said was id prefer a 60k stadium rather than a 28k one as it gives you a immense stepping stone and platform. I can see where you're coming from, but the atmosphere would be horrendous....
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Post by Lakeland Potter on Jun 15, 2017 11:38:28 GMT
I never said we would fill it, how many fucking times, jesus. What i said was id prefer a 60k stadium rather than a 28k one as it gives you a immense stepping stone and platform. I can see where you're coming from, but the atmosphere would be horrendous.... Agreed. I'm all for expanding the stadium. But I'd much rather do it incrementally. So, for example, we prove we can fill or almost fill the new corner fairly regularly before we build the next corner. I do think we could have risked building this new corner (which will hold 1,800) a few years ago - but I'm glad we haven't gone down the Cardiff City route where they expanded far too early and now have a stadium which they never come close to filling. They'd have been far better to have secured a regular place in the Prem than go all out for a big stadium and neglect the team - which promptly got relegated.
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Post by TinkerT on Jun 15, 2017 14:55:36 GMT
I never said we would fill it, how many fucking times, jesus. What i said was id prefer a 60k stadium rather than a 28k one as it gives you a immense stepping stone and platform. I can see where you're coming from, but the atmosphere would be horrendous.... Do you think players care about the atmosphere though? Its a massive stepping stone and could push west ham on if they use it correctly..
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Post by nott1 on Jun 15, 2017 14:55:55 GMT
West Ham unable to play at home..........................and they are not much cop away either!
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Post by Will_75 on Jun 16, 2017 8:46:39 GMT
I can see where you're coming from, but the atmosphere would be horrendous.... Do you think players care about the atmosphere though? Its a massive stepping stone and could push west ham on if they use it correctly.. it definitely affects them... look at Cov at the Ricoh, us when we first moved to the Britannia. I'd rather play at Layer Road than the London Stadium.
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Post by TinkerT on Jun 16, 2017 8:50:13 GMT
Do you think players care about the atmosphere though? Its a massive stepping stone and could push west ham on if they use it correctly.. it definitely affects them... look at Cov at the Ricoh, us when we first moved to the Britannia. I'd rather play at Layer Road than the London Stadium. Its just a mental thing more than anything, there was a lot behind the scenes at cov so couldn't really use that as a example. Players will play anywhere as long as they approach games professionally. Like i keep saying the Olympic stadium has given them a massive stepping stone and if used correctly could put west ham way ahead of us. Everton are another club who realise what a new stadium will bring which is why they want a new stadium asap. You can't blame west ham for the deal with the government either. Fair play to them i say.
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Post by TexasPotter on Jun 16, 2017 19:01:31 GMT
I have a WHU supporter friend who invited me to visit when I come over next to see the stadium for our away day all this pre -fixture list, I told him I'd rather go Fulham my old stomping grounds as the olympic stadium looks less appealing from games watched lol
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