Johnson
2:57 Sat Sep 17
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Which will NEVER get better so get used or move on for a happy clappy div who likes it for a season then actually gets in to football and realises they have a clue what's going on so goes somewhere else.
It's what we voted for, like we voted to desecrate the badge too.
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Tomshardware
2:02 Sat Sep 17
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The view from my seat is ok, but what I can't accept is those ridiculous gaps around the pitch.
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Texas Iron
1:58 Sat Sep 17
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I warned you lot years ago it would be shit...based on attending matches in stadiums with running tracks in several countries around Europe and South America...
It's all about physics...Optics...
The further a small object like a football is from your eye...the smaller it appears to you..untill at a certain point...Too small to see properly...
And what is watching Football...if you can't see the ball...???
The clever knowalls on WHO laughed at me
.now I sadly laugh at them...told you so...
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afan
1:50 Sat Sep 17
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We had a great little ground , sorry ..can i have a moment
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Tomshardware
1:03 Sat Sep 17
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side effect 11:55 Fri Sep 16
That doesn't make much sense.
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side effect
11:55 Fri Sep 16
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Next season can't they erect the lower tiers behind the goals to go back further almost to the upper tier and certainly bring the stands nearer to the pitch.
Not sure if I have asked this question before.
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eusebiovic
11:37 Fri Sep 16
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Any Old Iron 4:19 Fri Sep 16
Yeah, I already know that Espanyol and Juventus have moved...I meant to say that this has inspired many other clubs to draw up similar plans inspired by them
;-)
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Tomshardware
9:32 Fri Sep 16
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So there is no way they could ever dig down further? If that's the case we are fucked.
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Any Old Iron
4:19 Fri Sep 16
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Eusebeovic - Juventus and Espanyol are not formulating plans to leave their athletics stadiums.
Juve left theirs in 2011 and the Catalans left the Montjuic olympic stadium in 2009. Both moved to purpose built football grounds because their fans hated being so far away from the pitch. And neither of their old stadiums had as big a footprint as our new 'home'.
Their are plenty of other examples of clubs leaving athletics arenas for purpose built football grounds; Bayern Munich and Eintracht Frankfurt for starters.
Five years ago on LBC I asked David Gold why he thought West Ham could buck the trend of fans dissatisfaction with athletics stadiums. He came out with the usual waffle about retractable seating, blah, blah. I reminded him that the majority of seats were not retractable and would always be miles from the pitch. Unfortunately he gave this point a swerve.
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eusebiovic
12:54 Fri Sep 16
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In Italy and Spain it was rather fashionable from the 70's to the 90's to build stadiums part funded by the council and football club with athletics tracks around them...
Many clubs have realised the error of their ways including Juventus and Espanyol amongst others who are currently formulating plans to rebuild without the damn athletics albatross
Real Sociedad and Udinese - were both parochial, provincial cities where it was almost impossible to get a good result...both want their old atmospheric football grounds back
FC Basel is a good example of a modern football stadium with steep stands close to the pitch
Innit
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Dan M
12:43 Fri Sep 16
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100 lanes
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Northern Sold
12:22 Fri Sep 16
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I'd love Sheik Mo Mo to buy it... smash up the bottom tier (shouldn't be too hard with all the breeze blocks and plastic ties).... and then build an oval horse track like they have in the States... racing on the outside... footy in the middle... I reckon Sheik mo mo would be up for that??
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Sniper
11:30 Fri Sep 16
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Seeing as we've done far better in Rio than at London, it won't be long before no one gives a shit about London 2012 anymore anyway. The legacy lies in the number of athletes inspired to work for the next okympics(which certainly seems to be the case for large numbers of the Paralympics) not the track mo farah won some golds on. Building on the success does not prevent you building over the bloody track
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1964
11:02 Fri Sep 16
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the kharsi - the kharsi?
Oooh really
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Texas Iron
10:42 Fri Sep 16
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It should have been clear to all from the beginning...
The stadium rental plan it's just a vehicle to make money for the current owners with disregard for the absolute quality of the football viewing experience for most of the attendees
You shouldn't have any problem with that seeing as the two owners saved West Ham United
I believe they are just marking time at the OS until they find a rich buyer and can cash out make Millions
Once you come to terms with that you may seek happiness and enjoy the games
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zico
2:51 Fri Sep 16
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Pity there is a legal maximum pitch size because they could have just extended the pitch to reach all four corners so to speak as that would have been a cheaper way to solve this problem!! Obviously I am kidding.
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stomper
2:28 Fri Sep 16
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Face, you are a hopeless romantic and i love the idea of a new Thames Ironworks.
You might be on to something there, tho' the old castle swifts was a much better name
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:^)
2:09 Fri Sep 16
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Does anyone really believe someone will buy the club, then the OS, then relocate us why they rebuild the OS into a purpose built ground?
It'd cost billions to do that, and without doubt still not satisfying a bunch of people who claim we're the new Chelsea/Man City because of it.
Someone should just start up a new TIW club and people can be happy mixing it up in the lower leagues against the like of Millwall in front of 9k fans.
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Gavros
2:01 Fri Sep 16
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Well there are a number of reasons including the cost of digging out more contaminated soil and tanking out below water level on an island but you cant go much further forward anywas as youre pretty close at the corner flags. You would have to pull the entire structure down from the upper tier and do a wholesale rebuild like what theyre doing at the luzhniki and needles to say you have to lose the rung track as well.
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Tomshardware
1:56 Fri Sep 16
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Any reason why they couldnt have dug down? The gap at the sides of the pitch is embarrassing.
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Gavros
1:36 Fri Sep 16
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In ten years capacity 90,000
#ITK
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