Gavros
1:22 Thu Sep 22
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#crew145 told them bollocks.
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ornchurch ammer
1:22 Thu Sep 22
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No mate. Just people watching the game.
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Iron Filings
1:12 Thu Sep 22
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No atmosphere Ornchurch?
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Johnson
1:12 Thu Sep 22
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Probably because STs fucked it off.
None of the many STs I know round there went or they got tickets elsewhere for a tenner to check out other parts of the ground.
Don't worry they'll be back for Southampton.
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ornchurch ammer
1:10 Thu Sep 22
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Where were all the standers tonight? Not a single one in Blocks 130, 131 or 132.
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nerd
2:28 Tue Sep 13
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Standing is warmer.
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nerd
2:27 Tue Sep 13
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Wait till it gets cold in the stadium. It will be very cold.
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RichyP
2:17 Tue Sep 13
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'Regardless of that, they shouldn't be standing'
Why?
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Dave M
1:37 Tue Sep 13
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So that's it settled then, ..everyone sit down and shut the fuck up?
That's not the answer I'm afraid.
I wouldn't bet against the whole seating plan being re-done next summer. That's the only way to try and please most fans, and regain some sort of stable ceasefire between the club and the fans, especially with much bigger games still to be played at the stadium.
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11MDE
1:20 Tue Sep 13
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Plenty of OTHER clubs stand... noticed even in that new Liverpool stand they had pockets of standing... mate has got a ST at Spurs he ain't sat down in decades
Regardless of that, they shouldn't be standing.
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Northern Sold
12:19 Tue Sep 13
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` The club screwed up for decades allowing standing in BML and chav corner. They're now reaping what they sowed by not taking the necessary action at the Boleyn`.
Always stood in the BML.... got a few letters saying sit down or we'll remove your ST... the next week even more people standing... I reckon 90% of the BML stood during the game... what are the club gonna do... ban 4000 or 5000 supporters as they don't want plastic splinters in their arris??
Plenty of OTHER clubs stand... noticed even in that new Liverpool stand they had pockets of standing... mate has got a ST at Spurs he ain't sat down in decades
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LeroysBoots
12:18 Tue Sep 13
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Expect an OS statement at the end of the day saying what a great job everyone is doing at trying to eradicate the evil standing people.............and how great the world is ..................click here for seated tickets
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RichyP
12:13 Tue Sep 13
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DANNY66 6:58 Tue Sep 13
Plenty of people were lied to by the Reservation Centre sales staff. They basically made it up as they went along and told people what they wanted to hear or needed to hear to reach their sales targets.
I don't blame the sales staff as they are target incentivised like all sales people and they are chasing the pound in their pocket, but someone has to be held accountable.
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Private Dancer
11:45 Tue Sep 13
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''Not sure why people need to stand through the whole thing - particularly with some of the dross we have been served up over the years''
This is what I can't get either. When I use to go I use to sit in the BMU, West Lower and Upper and occassionaly East Upper, nobody use to stand up all game. And unless my memory is playing tricks with me we didn't stand at away games either. Not that this is only a West ham thing, watching games on the box a lot fans stand now, although I assume this only happens in lower tiers.
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Hammer and Pickle
9:54 Tue Sep 13
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err errant 'not' after 'editorial' there ffs.
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Hammer and Pickle
9:51 Tue Sep 13
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I think the media are as aware of Brady's "legacy" as we are. Only up to now the collective editorial not has been in the direction of the big money (isn't it ever) so they haven't looked further than the events of the last match and the following immediate impression.
But if lessons are not learnt by the club, and behind-the-scenes voices like no doubt Bilić's are not heeded, then we are in trouble both in the media and on the pitch, and there are only a few ballsed-up home games before this turns into a relegation scrap.
Actually I think Sullivan will step in, if he hasn't already.
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Side of Ham
9:43 Tue Sep 13
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The reason West Ham's support is unique is because it's remained lairy.Modern football doesn't want lairy it wants 'Nigel Ultras' instead. This has been the plan in football for a long time and it's nothing new and it would have been filtered out regardless of the move it's just they got a huge opportunity to sift out the types they want to calm down or get rid of, this is that opportunity that was always going to happen. It's not the first instance the owners have been got at and they will be quite willing to let 'others' have the responsibility to get rid and make fans react.
Football as an edgy spectatorship is fucked and this has been the case for a long time hence seats and cameras on fans. They (Sky Sports etc) want a model of a support that kind of resembles Crystal Palace where they just sing nothing songs but make a noise.
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WHU(Exeter)
9:22 Tue Sep 13
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Pretty soon the media will pick up on "the legacy" aspect of all this with the OS.
The Board will no doubt lay the blame at a tiny minority of thugs etcetc, and it'll no doubt turn all heavy handed, as they can't be seen to have mishandled this, in the face of the media.
I sincerely hope that doesn't wash, with people looking in at it all, because all that is happening now is of their own making, and could have been completely avoided.
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Hammer and Pickle
9:11 Tue Sep 13
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WHU(Exeter) 8:43 Tue Sep 13
Remember you pointing this out and me thinking at the time "that's just shit managment of a football club (or any large, organised human capital)". Also hope she wouldn't make the same mistake again.
Seems she hasn't learnt her lesson, and that's unforgivable.
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penners28
8:58 Tue Sep 13
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Lets be honest, the whole thing has been a fucking shambles
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WHU(Exeter)
8:43 Tue Sep 13
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Kirov, I don't think anybody is saying that standing makes you a better fan?
just that there are those who prefer standing and those that prefer to sit - despite the all-seater grounds being around for years now, that's evident at the vast majority of grounds up and down the country, and was plain for anyone with a bit of sense that at the Boleyn, we still had a sizeable percentage of fans who preferred standing.
All this could have been EASILY accommodated at the OS, if there had been the tiniest understanding of that situation and a will to let it continue, and thus not piss off a sizeable amount of the support.
Said right at the very start of that OS thread, that there wouldn't be, as they (well Brady), has her own personal vision of what all grounds should be like, and that does not include standing. This goes right back to her time at Birmingham City and interviews where she stated that she aimed to change the fabric of the clubs fanbase. Their views on all this type of thing, were seen pretty quickly here as well, when a section of the East Stand was closed off.
This is "their baby"....their vision.
and it has led to this wholly predictable shambles.
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