Maybe that's the plan...bubbles500 wrote:.Relegation would be a disaster for stadium operators.
Olympic Stadium Discussion and Questions
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Ain’t that the truth!James P wrote:There is an absolute chasm between us owning the stadium and us turning it into a far better venue to watch football in. So many people seem to speak as though they are more or less the same thing.
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Latter is at least an option if former occurs.James P wrote:There is an absolute chasm between us owning the stadium and us turning it into a far better venue to watch football in. So many people seem to speak as though they are more or less the same thing.
Without owning the stadium the idea of making it a football venue is completely impossible,
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James P wrote:There is an absolute chasm between us owning the stadium and us turning it into a far better venue to watch football in. So many people seem to speak as though they are more or less the same thing.
Exactly this ,I have no idea why people think owning the stadium is a good thing.Right now we have a cracking deal,well the owners do.We don’t As it’s not a football stadium.If we own it ,that’s £8m a year out of our pockets to do the conversion.You can’t renovate it,you would have to knock it down.There would be nothing good about owning this stadium.Imagine being relegated then having to find £8m a year just to be able to play there.
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West Ham's legal challenges cost us milions
http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=131795
Sounds like a great working relationship.
Can't wait for the report. Let's hope it deems the whole shabang untenable.
http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=131795
Sounds like a great working relationship.
Can't wait for the report. Let's hope it deems the whole shabang untenable.
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Initial plans in place to do it for £4m from next year. Yet still a considerable sum, granted.bubbles500 wrote:If we own it ,that’s £8m a year out of our pockets to do the conversion.
Sounds expensive. For both sides. Maybe one for our boy Palermo and his keen eye for an set of WHUFC annual accounts (he said, whilst deftly passing the buck).Doc H Ball wrote:Sounds like a great working relationship.
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I'll pop a note in my diary .
The Mayors report is pivotal in all this .Regardless of how the two parties got to here , this is where they are, with WHU spending more with their lawyers arguing the toss with their landlords than they pay the same landlords in rent .
It's dumb negotiating by the LLDC / E20 and evidence , as if needed, that this was a bad deal because it left no goodwill on the table .I may have mentioned this before .
However, the Mayor clearly has an eye to the future and I'm sure Mrs Brady wishes to "cut a deal" with him going forward .Simply asking the question "the LLDC, what is it for, how much does it cost , and who pays ?" , which is the sort of thing being written on Claret and Pravda , is her preferred method of trying to force the Mayor to the negotiating table .
The club clearly want to manage the stadium, believing they could do a better job , ownership of it will be some way off on the masterplan .
The problem being the single biggest issues I expect are unsolvable regardless of who organises the stewards and hot dog sales .The distance from the pitch won't be changing in my life and the station won't be getting any nearer , or bigger .
Ultimately though , management of the stadium may make it easier to gain naming rights and or position the club for sale - it removes a third party that brings little but complications .The sad fact though is the real beneficieries will be the clowns that created the mess in the first place .
I asked many times before the move , what's in it for supporters ? Everyone can now see the answer , and a change in who runs the stadium won't improve that .
The costs involved in sticking the roof on and converting it for football use ( ha ha ha) is one of the biggest wastes of public money I can recall . The ongoing losses due in large part to the extortinate cost of moving the seats in and out , even at a reduced cost of £4m will cost the rate payer in London another £400m .
These are huge sums that were signed off under a different political administration .
Where did the money go, who benefited ? I hope when the Mayor receives the report from Moore Stephens they have forensically examined every deal and in deep throat style, followed the money .
One sign of corruption , anywhere, and I'd love to know the legal position on how strong our tenancy is .
For clarity I am not suggesting any act of corruption by any employee of WHUFC .
From the ratepayer and taxpayers perspective this was as far from the deal of the century as you could imagine .The Mayor , quite rightly, deserves to know who approved what and why .
The Mayors report is pivotal in all this .Regardless of how the two parties got to here , this is where they are, with WHU spending more with their lawyers arguing the toss with their landlords than they pay the same landlords in rent .
It's dumb negotiating by the LLDC / E20 and evidence , as if needed, that this was a bad deal because it left no goodwill on the table .I may have mentioned this before .
However, the Mayor clearly has an eye to the future and I'm sure Mrs Brady wishes to "cut a deal" with him going forward .Simply asking the question "the LLDC, what is it for, how much does it cost , and who pays ?" , which is the sort of thing being written on Claret and Pravda , is her preferred method of trying to force the Mayor to the negotiating table .
The club clearly want to manage the stadium, believing they could do a better job , ownership of it will be some way off on the masterplan .
The problem being the single biggest issues I expect are unsolvable regardless of who organises the stewards and hot dog sales .The distance from the pitch won't be changing in my life and the station won't be getting any nearer , or bigger .
Ultimately though , management of the stadium may make it easier to gain naming rights and or position the club for sale - it removes a third party that brings little but complications .The sad fact though is the real beneficieries will be the clowns that created the mess in the first place .
I asked many times before the move , what's in it for supporters ? Everyone can now see the answer , and a change in who runs the stadium won't improve that .
The costs involved in sticking the roof on and converting it for football use ( ha ha ha) is one of the biggest wastes of public money I can recall . The ongoing losses due in large part to the extortinate cost of moving the seats in and out , even at a reduced cost of £4m will cost the rate payer in London another £400m .
These are huge sums that were signed off under a different political administration .
Where did the money go, who benefited ? I hope when the Mayor receives the report from Moore Stephens they have forensically examined every deal and in deep throat style, followed the money .
One sign of corruption , anywhere, and I'd love to know the legal position on how strong our tenancy is .
For clarity I am not suggesting any act of corruption by any employee of WHUFC .
From the ratepayer and taxpayers perspective this was as far from the deal of the century as you could imagine .The Mayor , quite rightly, deserves to know who approved what and why .
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A very good analysis Pinky but if all this does is empty a bucket of the brown stuff over Johnson and his team where will it leave anyone?the pink palermo wrote:I'll pop a note in my diary .
The Mayors report is pivotal in all this ..
I think if we do get control of the stadium we might be able to make it marginally less s**t but the stuff around the ground will become far worse with restricted access etc adding to the already miserable situation.
The only outcome I can see is things getting worse for supporters but GSB & co gaining financially.
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Yep .Big George wrote:I think if we do get control of the stadium we might be able to make it marginally less s**t but the stuff around the ground will become far worse with restricted access etc adding to the already miserable situation.
The only outcome I can see is things getting worse for supporters but GSB & co gaining financially.
GSB are not in the business of doing anything for supporters .Anything they do ,any decision they take m is to benefit them , and only them .
Tragically too many of our su[porters - the same ones who fell for the "watch out, spurs will get it" rubbish will fall for whatever spin they put on the benefits of WHU owning the stadium , the truth though is only the shareholders will gain .
Before the move I repeatedly posted the supporters were going to get shafted .We were , and will continue to be regardless of who serves the popcorn .
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IF we could somehow own the stadium without athletics then we could convert it.
would require GSB leaving as would cost too much for them.
in the meantime we limp on both on and off the field.
next level for sure but wrong direction
would require GSB leaving as would cost too much for them.
in the meantime we limp on both on and off the field.
next level for sure but wrong direction
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What is the benefit to any owners, current incumbents or otherwise, to convert the stadium?hammerman11 wrote:IF we could somehow own the stadium without athletics then we could convert it.
would require GSB leaving as would cost too much for them.
in the meantime we limp on both on and off the field.
next level for sure but wrong direction
The place sells out every game, what would be the benefit to any owner of closing a stadium that sells out every week, finding somewhere else to play for one or two seasons, demolishing a 60k plus stadium, paying hundreds of millions to build a new 60k plus stadium that sells out every week? Sound like a waste of money?
Trust me that place isn't going to change dramatically in any of our lifetimes.
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How so George?Big George wrote:
I think if we do get control of the stadium we might be able to make it marginally less s**t but the stuff around the ground will become far worse with restricted access etc adding to the already miserable situation.
The only outcome I can see is things getting worse for supporters but GSB & co gaining financially.
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^^^ All the development that's going to be taking place over the next 14 years will have a major impact on routes around the stadium.
http://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co ... local-plan
http://www.queenelizabetholympicpark.co ... local-plan
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It’s very very hard to see what £325m was spent on.The roof,scaffolding,a few seats,AstroTurf and a bit of branding.If Something dodgy hasn’t gone on I’ll be amazed.I’m not 100% on this but I believe Although spurs project is £800m only about £450m is the actual stadium. So for an extra £100m They’ve built a state of the art stadium seems very odd. You just know these figures from the mayor report are going to be scandalous one way or another.Lets Just hope the overspend doesn’t lay at our door.
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the only way things will ever change is if we stay away in mass numbers, they need to realise what a 24 carat f*** up they've made, by mass numbers i mean attendances to drop to around 20,000 or so. unfortunately I don't think it will ever happen so all will seem forever rosy to GSB and they'll keep lining their own pockets. quite simply the revolt at the moment is no where near enough for them to even consider any type of redevelopment.
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They are planning on building on every scrap of land from the River Lea to Leyton, closing off access routes and cut throughs.mushy wrote: How so George?
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Another video circulating of folk managing to get in and scale the stadium.
Another video circulating of folk managing to get in and scale the stadium.
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I mean it’s impressive when you watch it - however this is now the 2nd video I’ve seen. They could easily have had a bomb in their bag and got it under the stand and blown it up at the next game. The security of this place needs to be sorted immediately as they’re putting 57k peoples lives at risk by not having proper preventions in place.Happyhammer52 wrote:" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Another video circulating of folk managing to get in and scale the stadium.
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Good work sanchoz.Doc H Ball wrote:West Ham's legal challenges cost us milions
http://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=131795
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