West Ham set for Olympic Stadium ...

Iceberg ahoy!?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/foo...ew-threat.html

What's wrong with Upton Park?

Originally Posted by dunk

What's wrong with Upton Park?

Much better being in a massive half empty modern stadium

Or were you being sarcastic

Originally Posted by barca99

Much better being in a massive half empty modern stadium

Or were you being sarcastic

No, genuinely, what is wrong with their own, purpose built, stadium that contains their history, memories and their entire fanbase all in one go?

More bubbles plox.

Originally Posted by dunk

No, genuinely, what is wrong with their own, purpose built, stadium that contains their history, memories and their entire fanbase all in one go?

Reckon money will have something to do with it no doubt

Can see some not so happy hammers if/when this is confirmed

Originally Posted by dunk

No, genuinely, what is wrong with their own, purpose built, stadium that contains their history, memories and their entire fanbase all in one go?

Selling Upton Park.....

Hope the @#%&!s go down.

Originally Posted by VodkaAndCoke

Selling Upton Park.....

It's not exactly prime real eastate by London standards. I suppose Tesco or some such will pay up for it but relative to football finance it's not going to net them a lot. And as posted above it's a terrible move for West Ham as a club and it means Orient will cease to exist and probably have to go out into Essex to find a fan base. So that's two clubs £#%&!ed up by it.
I'm not too concerned about the clubs as such but it's another bell tolling for the game as a whole.

And where is the legacy for the publicly funded olympic park? Partially ripped up and the rest put into private hands within a few years

Piss take all round. As usual.

feel sorry for orient. they are going to be £#%&!ed by this.

Originally Posted by Jack Duckworth

feel sorry for orient. they are going to be £#%&!ed by this.

how? are all the orient fans suddenly going to start supporting west ham?

they're only moving about 2 miles ffs. it's not like the two clubs are from 2 different cities. As it is they're about 3 miles apart now. 10-15 mins in a car.

what on earth would leyton orient do with a stadium that size??

Originally Posted by Sparky***

how? are all the orient fans suddenly going to start supporting west ham?

they're only moving about 2 miles ffs. it's not like the two clubs are from 2 different cities. As it is they're about 3 miles apart now. 10-15 mins in a car.

No, they probably won't switch allegiance but the Olympic park is right in their catchment area, as opposed to where Upton park is now, and the fear is it's unlikely they will gain much new support as the years go on.

Originally Posted by silv

what on earth would leyton orient do with a stadium that size??

You can say the same for West Ham.

Originally Posted by Sparky***

how? are all the orient fans suddenly going to start supporting west ham?

they're only moving about 2 miles ffs. it's not like the two clubs are from 2 different cities. As it is they're about 3 miles apart now. 10-15 mins in a car.

because w ham will be able to undercut orient by offering cheap tickets to watch premier league/championship football as there's no way they will fill it every week.

Originally Posted by dodger

You can say the same for West Ham.

not in the same vein you can't.

they are getting an average gate of just under 4k atm.

Originally Posted by Jack Duckworth

because w ham will be able to undercut orient by offering cheap tickets to watch premier league/championship football as there's no way they will fill it every week.

sparky once again showing favour with his 4th team (2nd being QPR, 3rd being Spurs, then make your way round London on the underground - 5th, 6th etc etc)

Originally Posted by silv

not in the same vein you can't.

they are getting an average gate of just under 4k atm.

I doubt Orient actually want the stadium, they're merely trying anything they can to stop West ham getting it

Originally Posted by dodger

I doubt Orient actually want the stadium, they're merely trying anything they can to stop West ham getting it

isn't it owned by Barry Hearn?

Doesn't exactly shy away from controversial publicity does he.

"catchment area"...."undercut them by offering cheap tickets to watch premier league football"?

wtf are you all on about. Is there a huge untapped resource of potential football fans that haven't chosen a club in E10 then?

This isn't £#%&!ing Malaysia or the far east where they're all just jumping on the 'footie' bandwagon. Most people in that area will probably already follow west ham, spurs or arsenal anyway.

Chelsea and fulham are 1.8 miles apart and fulham did just fine when they were in the old 2nd division and chelsea were lording it up with their new italian superstars.

what a load of old %@#$&!s.