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Stepney.Ammer 1:50 Mon Nov 8
Does the stadium feel like home now?

For me it does.

Today was up there with any atmosphere I've experienced at a home game since 1994.

angryprumphs 4:19 Mon Nov 8
Re: Does the stadium feel like home now?

Will have to admit, I was one of those who threw their toys out and stopped going when we moved (I had given up my ST a few season prior). I fucking loved going to Upton Park, loved everything about it, the whole trip, the pubs, pie afterwards. I also loved being able to cunt off the opposition and they could hear me.

The bowl was the opposite of everything that made me fall in love with West Ham, it was clean, corporate, I had to walk through a shopping centre to get there and I was generally miles from the pitch, I didnt feel part of it.

That said, when i was finally dragged along to a game (which happened to be Chelsea LC) I had a fucking great night. It wasnt the same but it was still good fun and did feel like West Ham. So I have cooled off a bit, due to RL shit I havent been that often, used to make 5-6 games a season, and I supposed it does feel like 'home', just miss our first house, even though it was smaller and a bit shit.

balders 3:50 Mon Nov 8
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Nope and I will never forgive GSB for what the done

But do hope youngsters feel 100% different it’s their time now

Lily Hammer 1:20 Mon Nov 8
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Safe standing would be great if we follow the German rules, where during standing (domestic) matches, they allow more than one fan per seat. It’s something like 10 standing fans for every 7 or 8 seats.

BRANDED 1:20 Mon Nov 8
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The stadium is just fine and feels like home. loads of great places to eat and drink around it. Once in the vibe is great and there is a strong feeling of it being West Ham.

Its not The Boleyn and never will be but it feels just fine.

⚒️ 1:19 Mon Nov 8
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Hence why I put ‘terrace’ in inverted commas.

Having a bar to lean on makes standing a lot easier for many people.

Mr Anon 1:17 Mon Nov 8
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Is there no why to reinforce the big gaps and make them safe standing? Would be a huge improvement

AKA ERNIE 1:15 Mon Nov 8
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Safe standing isnt terracing its just flip up seats locked in place with a bar in front of you

⚒️ 1:03 Mon Nov 8
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Not really a case of needing it, Ernie.

I just think it’d be another step to making the place feel like home, having ‘terraces’ behind the goals.

AKA ERNIE 12:59 Mon Nov 8
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⚒ why do we need safe standing behind the goals when no one sits there.
Everyone stands up for 90mins

Kaiser Zoso 12:57 Mon Nov 8
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Oh do fuck off

Fo the Communist 12:57 Mon Nov 8
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There can be a good atmosphere there but that's different to calling it home.
The problem is that the place has no soul. It feels like somewhere you go to watch a one-off event - any event. It doesn't feel like somewhere that is part of your or the club's history.
Of course it could become that way but to do so it will have to overcome the fundamental design problem that its a multi-purpose venue with temporary seating plonked in an area that has no heart.

⚒️ 12:54 Mon Nov 8
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Just seen the new Spurs ground granted permission for safe standing.

They really should be looking at that for the LS for behind the goals.

Northern Sold 12:42 Mon Nov 8
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Too be fair UP All Seater had it's moments... Ipswich play off game I swear my fillings fell out that night it was so loud... same as when Marlon scored that last min winner v Arsenal... they was up there with any noise vibes created in ye olde UP time... and I incude the 76 Euro games...

New place?? Not for me... happy to have all my memories at the old place but I'm happy that finally people are having good days out at the new gaff and long may it continue.

Dicko75 12:31 Mon Nov 8
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I think it’s natural when people reminisce they do it through rose tinted glasses. There were plenty of games with shit atmospheres at Upton Park and for me the talk of it being some kind of fortress finished when it went all seater.

Second half yesterday was rocking and by far the best I’ve seen it in there. As good as what I experienced at Upton Park post all seater although I didn’t go to the last game

wanstead_hammer 10:59 Mon Nov 8
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Yeh, was rocking over there and the liveliest since we’ve moved there i reckon.
All little mobs (of the younger lot) establishing their own patches and coming together as one when need be. (creating a good atmosphere)
The squad all fully focused and confident. All
due to Moyes and his hoppos.
Keep it going West Ham!

⚒️ 10:41 Mon Nov 8
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It’s much better over there now but there’s still improvements they could make.

Why don’t they put the big screens at the back of the stand behind the goals and fill in the bit where the screens are now with seats.

Manuel 10:41 Mon Nov 8
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master 10:25 Mon Nov 8

''It's not about us, it's about the new generation, the 10 year olds and above. The new badge, the new stadium, it belongs to them and their future''


This is how I'm beginning to see it and it's a good point. In 10 years plus we will have so many fans who never even went to Upton Park. With possibly owning the stadium with a capacity of maybe 67000 and hopefully some positive changes to the stadium, and the outside too, dare I say it the move may well have been proved a success.

alfs barnet 10:36 Mon Nov 8
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Threw my toys out of the pram when we moved and refused to go.
My youngest asked for me to take him to the spurs game for his birthday so I broke my boycott.

I think it helped that we were up near the spurs fans (and the result), but I have to say I really enjoyed it - cracking view and a really good atmosphere.

Went to the City game a few days later and that was a bit more soulless - lots of tourists (saw one guy wandering around downstairs in a Liverpool jacket for fucks sake).

Sounded fucking good on telly last night - I think yes, the stadium CAN be home - we need to crack on with these results if we are to make it home though.

oioi 10:29 Mon Nov 8
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When the third goal went in the stadium was rocking. Loudest I've ever heard and the whole place jumping. Loving it.

master 10:25 Mon Nov 8
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It's not about us, it's about the new generation, the 10 year olds and above.

The new badge, the new stadium, it belongs to them and their future.

We are there for the start of this ride and were there for the end of the previous.

No matter what, just try to enjoy it, coz we're fucking massive.

BRANDED 10:15 Mon Nov 8
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We will never be 1-0 down to Stoke in the London in a Tuesday night.

I’m in an area that stands all game and sings all game. Yesterday I could hear noise from everywhere in the ground. Some areas were literally jumping. Its got more and more like this this season and it happens when we are winning.

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