ELPO: West Ham Utd 0-1 (agg 1-2) Astra Giurgiu (25/08/16)

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bowltorious wrote:Who would have been in our group by the way?
Austria Wien, Plzen and Roma
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bowltorious wrote:.............................

I just want the opportunity to go on a European trip to Inter Milan or whatever. Who would have been in our group by the way?
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You've missed trips to Vienna, Rome and Pilsen, where the beer comes from.
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Johnny Byrne's Boots wrote:
You've missed trips to Vienna, Rome and Pilsen, where the beer comes from.
Gutted, been to Rome before and it's a wonderful city. West Ham, the only club that can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
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Club statement on the 'incidents'

Bowltorious, the destinations I mentioned are in Astra's group, it's entirely possible we'd have been put into a different pot had we progressed.

I doubt it makes you feel any better though.
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With regards the club statement , it's another threat, another telling off, another know your place lecture .

The club are not playing the smart card here .
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the pink palermo wrote:With regards the club statement , it's another threat, another telling off, another know your place lecture .

The club are not playing the smart card here .
To be honest, the statement reminds me of the Cearns era. After away shennigans, the home programme would have a "cut it out lads" statement, and of course the obligatory "keep the fences away" tag.
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the pink palermo wrote:With regards the club statement , it's another threat, another telling off, another know your place lecture .

The club are not playing the smart card here .
I'd question anybody who thinks that shouldn't happen over last nights events which are circulating round the media.
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"With more than 10,000 Under-16 Season Ticket Holders"

:wink: Most of which are probably a result of the +1 or +2 initiative where ST holders went for the cheap extra tickets option, but in reality, their 48 year-old mates will be sitting in them all season (and no one seems to check on the way in whether Timmy is wearing school shorts or a 5 o'clock shadow).
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It might be a generational thing, but I truly believe that anyone videoing this trouble and posting online deserves to be banned for tarnishing the name of the club. Why do people feel the need to take pictures or record every ****ing aspect of their dreary little lives?
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aaronhammer wrote:I'd question anybody who thinks that shouldn't happen over last nights events which are circulating round the media.
Aaron , it's not the fact they are going to ban him that worries me , of course he should be dealt with once a proper investigation has been carried out .That investigation should include the ticket trail of the guy clobbered as well as the puncher, the response of the stewards , the context of the incident and the real extent of physical harm done to the individual .

But as I say, I don't have an issue with that , as all of that could and should be done by the club in private .

It's the statement, the public threat to the other 50,000 people in the stadium that troubles me .There's no need to issue it , the intention is to dominate and subjugate people who have done nothing wrong , and in doing so the club is further distancing itself from it's supporters .
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Sweeney Bod wrote:It might be a generational thing, but I truly believe that anyone videoing this trouble and posting online deserves to be banned for tarnishing the name of the club.
That's me carked then.

As I understand it, the chap who has been arrested was the fella seen on video taking a clump.
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Looking at the group draws we could have had... I'm absalutely heartbroken. Teams like Fulham, Wigan and boro have had runs in Europe in the last 10 years or so, why can't we? Specialists in failure. You know how the song goes...
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The 'fan' who took this video and agreed to give it to the Daily Mail is a total helmet.
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Image

Does anyone know these?
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Just watching the spurs v Liverpool game, both sides are leagues above us in how they play when they are out of possession, they win the ball back so high that they are usually left 3 on 3 when they do, it is what we really need to improve, we just drop off and then when we win it we are in our own half and not threatening, so we end up always having to break down 10 men to score a goal.
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Johnny Byrne's Boots wrote:Image

Does anyone know these?
The season tickets will have patron numbers on,so the club will know where they live.
All they have to do is return them to the club.
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LincolnshireHammer wrote: Have a word with yourself. We're not even in September yet and people like you have already brandished us as a 'joke'.

It's laughable how quick some are to put down the fans, it really is.
Quite surprised I managed to get a bite with this! Yes, I am utterly outraged by a typo on the big screen!
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Anyone else still getting lots of bants from other fans over this game? The multitude of spuds I know around t wells are yet to pipe down over this (both my bosses in the two gyms I work at are spuds) and this one is deffo rumbling on longer then your standard league loss :thdn:
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