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Pub Bigot 12:13 Sun Nov 5
Time to get serious

It’s time we all unite to attempt to force the board out. They’re a much bigger concern than Bilic and removing them is the only way we’ll able to turn this ship around long term.

Would anyone leave the comfort of their pre and post match haunts to move on the board?

Iron2010 12:15 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

This isn’t a board who can be hire and fired because they are the owners who will only leave when that poxy sell on clause has expired.

Publicly embarrassing them would possibly lead to them changing their ways but they are ultimately just incompetent and tight.

bruuuno 12:16 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

I PROPOSE A CAKE SALE

Steven P 12:26 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Come on then Bigot. I'm for it. Let's here your plan on how you are going to force the owners to not only sell up but sell up to someone who will satisfy the criteria (which I guess is a manager who will get players giving 100% and entertain even if we go down. Invest £100m each window, whilst bringing through youth. All the while redeveloping the OS into a football stadium whilst moving us back to UP).

Being serious, would be interested in your plan.

Jimmy The Hoover 12:32 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

I don't get it. Replacing the board is going to be a much bigger job than replacing the manager. You need someone who will offer enough for the owners to sell - assuming they want too of course. Who do you want? The Icelandics back? Terry Brown? You're looking at this through rose-tinted glasses. If you want Gold / Sullivan out because of this season's results then just remember this cycle has been going on for decades. Unless they are going to do what the Russian did at Chelsea or the Sheikh did at Man City then what's the point? The irony here is that if big owners DO come in they will only do it because the new Stratford based West Ham is such a big proposition. The stadium move is the reason most fans who want the board out want them gone for anyway. Muddled thinking.

Alex V 12:36 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

I disagree. While I do think the board have many weaknesses I think it's the football side that is completely malfunctioning at present.

- In the short term they need to sort out Bilic and his coaches.
- For next Summer they need to build a proper modern structure at the club to administer the football side of the business.

ATBOG 12:45 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

- For next Summer they need to build a proper modern structure at the club to administer the football side of the business.

Barring them selling up this is the next best thing. They need to melt into the background and shut up.

Mad Dog 12:48 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Jimmy juat because the previous boards have been cunts doesn't mean these aren't as well.

I want the cunts out because they're cheap option 2 Bob lying cunts. See their absolute refusal to back us in the transfer market for several years as juat oine example. "we tried to get our targets. Bollocks you did.

They won't pay for compensation to get a manager away from another club so they'll take the useless cunt moyes because he's cheap. The fact that he's shit is irrelevant.

Your mum 12:52 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

The ONLY thing that will hurt the Board in not attending home matches or paying for anything to do with the club.

Infidel 12:55 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Bigot

You can't force the board out.

They own the club and they cannot be forced to sell.

There's a fantasy that West Ham fans act collectively and boycott the games to force the owners' hand, but that will never happen.

The stadium will always be full because (a) football fans live for matchdays (b) they've paid for season tickets and (c) they are cursed with hope that things will turn around and they don't want to miss out when they do.

S&G are incompetent, lacking in intellectual capacity and extraordinarily arrogant, believing themselves to be a first class management team. But they will sell when they are ready, not before.

I'm sure they will sack Bilic because he's lost the plot but there is a big risk they will appoint the wrong replacement.

Moyes would be a disaster. If you are going to sacrifice any notion of entertainment to make sure you stay up then you choose a manager who has a proven track record of saving clubs from relegation. Redknapp. Allardyce. Pulis.

You don't choose someone who has just got relegated because by definition they don't have what it takes to be a relegation survivor.

Don't get me wrong - I think appointing a relegation avoidance specialist would be a horrendous decision - but it would be even worse to get Moyes in,suck all the joy out of watching the club and still go down.

We've been there before with Grant and it beggars belief G&S would make exactly the same mistake twice.

Either get in a top manager who can get this squad to play expansive, entertaining football (my preferred option) or get Allardyce back (please God no) but Moyes ?? what are they thinking?

Pub Bigot 1:02 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Steve, facetiousness aside, as you said, they own the club and it’s attempting to force their hand by mass protest and the use of social media.

They have been incredibly bad for us and we’re at the stage where the club is going backwards.

Not owning the OS, lack of investment, undermining the manager/team, being vocal in the media.

I’m by no means suggesting I have all the answers, but I’m more than game to try and unify the support by opposing the board.

We can use the media and social media to get to the board.

, 1:03 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Infidel, you forgot to mention, apart from getting in a top manager, the bringing in of six galaticos in the next window. Job done, PL place secure. Easy innit this running a football club.

Side of Ham 1:07 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

I will not forgive the fact the main owner had shares in a Premium phone line to buy West Ham match tickets.Tells me all you need to know about him and his love of West Ham.

If you love West Ham you don’t needlessly fleece fellow West Ham fans.If you love business you love customers and do fleece them at every opportunity.

To put in any FOOTBALL structure needs the passion of the game to be priority as all structures to build will take a certain extravagance or better put punt to get the right system in place.
He loves money and doing SHREWD deals over any love for the club or the sport it pertains to try to be good at.

How do we know? Shares in a Premium phone line company is all you need to know.

Your mum 1:07 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

"I’m by no means suggesting I have all the answers, but I’m more than game to try and unify the support by opposing the board".

Maybe come up with some answers before unifying the support?

Alwaysaniron 1:08 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Infedel 12.55

Great post mate.

Forest Gate Ugly 1:14 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Infidel, what you say is spot on and utterly depressing. I don't trust the owners to solve our problems because they are the problem. The only weak link in their armour is that they are thin-skinned and, like the generals in Catch 22, they want to be liked. For the reasons you say though it would be nigh on impossible for supporters to run a coherent, organised, large scale campaign to oust them or even point them in the right direction. The only possible reason for optimism is they they might stumble into appointing someone who the fans like, who the players will play for and who ultimately becomes so successful and revered that the owners wouldn't dare to meddle and interfere with them. Moyes doesn't fit that bill.

Pub Bigot 1:14 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Your Mum, brainstorming mate. You’re not my enemy, you’re a fellow supporter and I want you onside.

As a suggestion to get the ball rolling, protest before and after games. Flags, banners and chants highlighting all the wrongdoings of the board, which I have highlighted below.

It’s our chance to use the tool of social media and the mainstream
media to to fight the board.

Charlton Athletic look to have had success in removing their board who is looking to sell up. I don’t know how successful we can be, but there has to be change from Sullivan, Gold and Brady and we need to try to get them to change.

, 1:21 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Getting someone in the fans like is totally the wrong criteria. I don’t care if it is someone we all hate if the bloke is effective.

We’re experiencing a manager now that a huge majority of the fans like ( I must admit to never liking Bilic ). Please put subjectivity aside for objectivity and realise we need an experienced PL man in charge focused on this season and survival. A manager for the long term might not be the solution to our immediate problem.

Side of Ham 1:22 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Sometimes even when it seems impossible you have to try, it’s what most of us want our team to do (just try and be a coherent unit) so why can’t the support?

Many who go are starting actually watch less and less of the game due to many differing reasons it is slowly getting to the point where it’s do that or go absolutely mental and get a ban for doing so.

I honestly think many are walking out/going for an early halftime beer etc to stop themselves going garrity

Johnson 1:23 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Given my perfectly valid thread got deleted because one would assume it was too close to the bone and folk didn’t like having their failings in supporting this club pointed out, don’t expect much from this lapdog website Bigot.

yngwies Cat 1:24 Sun Nov 5
Re: Time to get serious

Never dull being a West Ham fan is it.

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