Private Dancer
4:31 Thu Nov 3
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eastend joker 12:33 Thu Nov 3
Yep, they will leave that stadium hat costs them 2.5 mil a year and spend a few hundred mil to build a smaller stadium just next door to it. Fucks sake.
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Muggy Bonehead III
2:07 Thu Nov 3
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muzzy cunt is just looking for an excuse to blow the stadium up. mark my words
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eastend joker
12:33 Thu Nov 3
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big enough area the Olympic Park, space enough to build a proper 45,000 football ground similar to Juventus and leave that place in a couple of years .
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Mike Oxsaw
12:28 Thu Nov 3
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*bows head*
*slaps own wrist*
*twice*
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Scraper
12:19 Thu Nov 3
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*its
*its
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Mike Oxsaw
12:11 Thu Nov 3
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WHUDeano 11:31 Wed Nov 2
Don't be such a drama queen. Nailed on we won't be there for 100 years - world affairs/normal government fuck-ups will see to that. I'll give it a maximum of 5 before the corridors of power start whispering about it's disposal; 10 before it's sale becomes an electoral pledge.
I also expect our board to start sowing the seeds on us acquiring the freehold if they are not already doing so.
Whatever happens, they need to make sure there is no doubt in the public's mind that this latest incident/episode has fuck-all to do with anything West Ham have done.
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Queens Fish Bar
12:07 Thu Nov 3
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Just seen the standard tonight. It's saying our first 3 games of next season will have to be away as the retractable seating takes 15 days to erect.
Not really retractable.
We have rented a pup.
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WHUDeano
11:31 Wed Nov 2
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There should be a fans enquiry into what the owners actually did with this move. They've fucked our history and heritage for money and profit - orient should have taken it and converted it into a 25k stadium as initially planned. Zero thought has been given to the fans and a combo of money, greed and stupidity has left us homeless and playing in an athletic bowl for the next 100 years.
I hope the millions in profit and salary the three stooges and their families profit eventually profit will be worth it. I'll never forgive any of them no matter what success may or may not come.
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Toe Rag
10:39 Wed Nov 2
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Labour won't want to dig too deep as one Ken Livingstone bares a fair amount of responsibility over this FIASCO as well.
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1964
10:30 Wed Nov 2
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Stranded
.. wonderful. There is also Tory Andrew Boff who has had issues with Labour Newham mayor Robin Wales on various including the OS
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Stranded
10:24 Wed Nov 2
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FCJ. It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out.
Khan, a Labour mayor, calls for an enquired into the dealings of a Conservative mayor. The Conservative who chairs the culture, media and sport select committee says words to the effect of.. 'Great idea. And maybe he should look into the people responsible for green-lighting the original design, too? Depending on the findings of the Mayor's enquiry into Boris, maybe we'll launch an enquiry into that ourselves'
Which can be read two ways 1) The chair of the culture, media and sport select committee wants to get to the bottom of what went on. 2) A veiled threat to Kahn. Go after the former Mayor and current Conservative Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and we'll launch an enquiry into what Livingstone and the Labour Party had to do with it all.
Stalemate or Mutually Assured Destruction?
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mallard
10:06 Wed Nov 2
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What would be a realistic offer to buy the stadium?
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Full Claret Jacket
10:05 Wed Nov 2
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I'd love there to be a proper enquiry into Coe and Jowells decisions and the relationships between companies involved in all the work and the decision makers. Ken Livngstone even admitted lying about the cost of the Olympics to the country to win the bid. Why are none of these people accountable for gross negligence?
It won't ever happen though as the politicians and those lining their pockets here control what they want us to know and change the rules as it suits them.
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Mike Oxsaw
10:01 Wed Nov 2
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The sensible answer is, of course, for the government to cut their loses and give it to West Ham covenant free.
Social and mass media would go apoplectic at the merest suggestion of that happening, which would clearly show that their drivers are not making sure the government makes the best of a bad situation and minimises taxpayer costs, but that a football team that most people in the country don't support don't benefit in any way whatsoever.
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Hayzer
9:53 Wed Nov 2
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Khan must be bored shitless in that office with fck all to do.
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joe blob
9:32 Wed Nov 2
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Tell the athletics board to fuck off and leave the stands forward.
Sorted
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moorethanjustananon
9:27 Wed Nov 2
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All just political point scoring and ultimately meaning less as the agreement is already in place. Not a chance it can be changed without our agreement, which I'd hope we wouldn't do without it being very favourable for the club.
The most interesting quote I've seen is "It will be up to the review to decide how best to protect the purse of Londoners" which if my maths is correct (we pay £2.5milion pound rent and it costs £8million per year to get it upto the agreed spec) may be handing ownership over.
What we then would / wouldn't be able to do with it I have no idea
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Stranded
9:12 Wed Nov 2
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Should have said, that's still not all of it. There's stuff about the naming rights, too.
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Stranded
9:05 Wed Nov 2
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Mike. That has been brought up in a few things I've read since the enquiry was announced. If memory serves, even the BBC made reference to it, though only tagged onto the end.
The Guardian article covers it to some extent, too. I just didn't copy the whole thing as it's very long. This is the ending of the article..
"Khan has described the financial situation surrounding the stadium as “a real mess”. Damian Collins, the Conservative MP who chairs the culture, media and sport select committee, welcomed the inquiry. He said it should look into the decisions taken during Johnson’s tenure as mayor, but also those taken before the Olympics when it was decided to press ahead with a semi-permanent design that could be “demounted” to become a 25,000-seat athletics stadium after the Games.
“I do welcome this inquiry and I think it should also go back to before the building of the stadium to consider the design of it,” said Collins.
“They hoped they would find a use for it afterwards and there was no advance planning. If there had been they would have been much more effective at keeping their options open.”
Collins said the select committee would consider the outcome of Khan’s review before deciding whether to follow up with its own inquiry.
It is understood Khan and his City Hall team found out only recently about the issue with the additional £51m overspend and ongoing increase in operational costs related to the seating problems.
Yet the LLDC had always indicated it had invested heavily in a retractable seating solution that was state of the art. “The big decision was to go for full retractable seats,” said the then LLDC chief executive, Neale Coleman, in an interview with the Observer last year. “You either do it properly or you don’t do it at all.”
The LLDC is likely to argue that any operating losses on the stadium can be covered from revenues generated elsewhere on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, including housing developments."
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Sven Roeder
9:05 Wed Nov 2
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Our rent is £2.5m for a period of about 10 months of each year.
If it's being delivered a month late next August obviously we can knock £250,000 off.
Plus receive additional compensation for the inconvenience
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Toe Rag
9:04 Wed Nov 2
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4 million quid to take a bit of scaffolding down?
FOMB!
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