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The wrap

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Just getting this out into the public domain in case he deletes my email and claims the idea as his own 8-)

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Attn: Ian Tompkins - Brilliant Public Relations idea

Hi Ian

Opportunity:
The government has withdrawn funding for the wrap and it is reflecting very badly on them . . . I imagine we HAVE to get a wrap at some point.

Solution:
West Ham provides the wrap in time for the Olympics and we get a lot of good press, plus our colour scheme will be subtly imprinted on the minds of all the viewers.

Thank me later . . . . (by way of a free Season Ticket)

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Ottsands

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It is worth considering how the wrap is installed . . . . looking at the picture of the 'test wrap' I can just imagine some chavvy Hull City supporter will love slicing through it.

I think we'll have to have a solid wall installed with the wrap attached to the top of it.

Same concern for the roof as well.
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I'd rather spend the £7m on a striker .
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To paraphrase Frankie Boyle slightly a wrap with the words "**** off Tottenham" in twenty foot high letters would be good value
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There were articles a while back that private funding had been supplied for the wrap and plans for it to be done were back on :thup:

Nice try though!
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KFC do a nice wrap , perhaps they can sponsor it Headbanger
I would just delete the email
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HammerMan2004 wrote:There were articles a while back that private funding had been supplied for the wrap and plans for it to be done were back on.
Nice try though!

I'm so out of the loop :(

We'll still need to mount ours up on top of a wall though.
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HammerMan2004 wrote:There were articles a while back that private funding had been supplied for the wrap and plans for it to be done were back on

Nice try though!
Not quite there have been expressions of interest in funding the wrap so a tender process has been opened, it closes on Friday, still time to to get a bid in :lol:

As it happens one f the papers used our claret & blue wrapped version of the stadium to illustrate there Olympic timetable piece yesterday.
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Hammer110 wrote: As it happens one f the papers used our claret & blue wrapped version of the stadium to illustrate there Olympic timetable piece yesterday.
Spot the Guardian reader :lol:
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Hammer110 wrote:
Not quite there have been expressions of interest in funding the wrap so a tender process has been opened, it closes on Friday, still time to to get a bid in :lol:
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Thank you so much for your email. It is much appreciated. We will reply to all emails individually and certainly within 14 days. Please bear with us.
If your query is urgent or you wish to address matters individually please call our Olympic Project Director Ian Tompkins.

Noooooooo!!!!!
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Hammer110 wrote:As it happens one f the papers used our claret & blue wrapped version of the stadium to illustrate there Olympic timetable piece yesterday.
ottsands wrote:Spot the Guardian reader ::
They did it as well! I was at the in-laws so it was either the Torygraph or Express :P
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Re: The wrap

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You've got to wonder....if the stadium is open apart from the wrap...what's to stop people just squeezing through the wrap into the ground without showing a ticket? :lol:

Also, it'll be ****ing freezing at times.
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HammerMan2004 wrote:You've got to wonder....if the stadium is open apart from the wrap...what's to stop people just squeezing through the wrap into the ground without showing a ticket?

Also, it'll be f***ing freezing at times.
Wouldn't surprise me if the turnstiles are on the bridges over the shark infested moat :thup:
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ottsands wrote: shark infested moat


Crock infested, shirley.
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HammerMan2004 wrote:You've got to wonder....if the stadium is open apart from the wrap...what's to stop people just squeezing through the wrap into the ground without showing a ticket? :lol:

Also, it'll be f***ing freezing at times.
That is the cunning plan to fill the stadium
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the pink palermo wrote:I'd rather spend the £7m on a striker .
who from? wrapid vienna
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the pink palermo wrote:I'd rather spend the £7m on a striker .
Get a sponsor's logo on it and we won't have to pay a penny.

We need all the money to ensure we have Retractable Seating on all 4 sides of the pitch.
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WestHamIFC wrote:Get a sponsor's logo on it and we won't have to pay a penny.

We need all the money to ensure we have Retractable Seating on all 4 sides of the pitch.
This would not be put in place until post-Olympics, as Olympic rules prohibit branding in venues.
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Re: The wrap

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Shame we're not just getting a finished stadium really.
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As the deicion has now been ratified is it not worth investigating the cost of a reversable wrap.

Surely it can't be double the cost to produce the Olympic wrap with a Claret and Blue backing which we can reverse after the end of the games ?
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Gotta be a montage all the way round of the history of West Ham, from Thames Iron Works, White Horse Final, Fa Cup win, European Cup win, Boys of 66, Boys of 86, Tomas Repka :lol: and so on to the present day right the way round the stadium.
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