SecondOpinion
7:14 Thu Feb 9
Re: Bond Holders
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I have 25 grand in Premiun Bonds.
Heard on the news today that winning anything is going to alot harder.
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mallard
6:09 Thu Feb 9
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Best thing to come out of this all was Fan Power prevented it happening
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Mike Oxsaw
5:58 Thu Feb 9
Re: Bond Holders
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Woodford Green 2:20 Thu Feb 9
You're talking about something that happened when there was no social media, no world wide web, no mobile phones, not even fax machines (for public use).
All communications with potential buyers would have been either by mail or pre-call centre telephone, and each would have been pitched so as to play on fears of losing what many, quite rightly, saw as "theirs", if not legally, then certainly morally.
Odds-on all calls & letters were timed to arrive on the Monday after a home game, leaving many with an almost two week gap before they got the chance to chat with their peers about it; two weeks of isolated worry and concern...
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Woodford Green
2:20 Thu Feb 9
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Any Old Iron 2:12 Thu Feb 9
Re: Bond Holders
Playing devils advocate here but how about they instead stood with the masses and refused to buy one thus leading to the complete failure of the scheme in the first place?
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Northern Sold
2:16 Thu Feb 9
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Yeah we was on the pitch at the Everton game (0-2)... nice little run around in the centre circle ... woke up the next day and found our mug shots on the back page of the Sunday Mirror...
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Any Old Iron
2:12 Thu Feb 9
Re: Bond Holders
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Dan M 12:28 Thu Feb 9
That's more than a bit unfair. I know two families with bonds and your description of bondholders is way of the mark.
If I'd laid out £2000 to ensure I kept a pair of seats that had been in my family for 40 years and in return the club offered various privileges in perpetuity, then I'd get the arse-ache if they started trying to chip away at them. The club have no right to remove any of these privileges.
If the owners don't want bond holders then they should try to buy them out.
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Brucies_Star_Prize
1:18 Thu Feb 9
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I was old enough to remember the protests but too young to really understand what they were about. It was a shit, I'll conceived scheme that inevitably fell flat on it's arse, but a great investment for those who took advantage of it.
I dare say an equivalent offer today would have significant take up.
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Takashi Miike
12:53 Thu Feb 9
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I wish I'd kept the prospectus and not wiped my are with it
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ted fenton
12:48 Thu Feb 9
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Bob the cap used to sit behind us in the Chicken Run !
Wow what a true supporter.
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Grumpster
12:45 Thu Feb 9
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Bob the cap (RIP) had a bond, so don't forget that all of them will still not be walking amongst us either.
They got a reduction off of their season tickets for 10 years I think.
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Eddie B
12:39 Thu Feb 9
Re: Bond Holders
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https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/today-in-football-history-west-ham-fans-invade-pitch-in-protest-at-bond-scheme-1992/
For the younger ones among us.
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HAMMERNH
12:38 Thu Feb 9
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Let's round them up and deport them.
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Eddie B
12:34 Thu Feb 9
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LYING, THIEVING, CHEATS.
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Grumpster
12:33 Thu Feb 9
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2 friends have Bonds and probably haven't been to an away game for over 10 years, so I'm sure out of the 700, they don't all get used as it also depends on if you know someone who'd want a ticket for every game and are happy to go alone, as none of their mates will have enough points!!
Probably mostly bought by older people too (both I know are at least 10 years older than me in their fifties), as I would have had to get a loan out back in the day to get one as a teenager.
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Dan M
12:28 Thu Feb 9
Re: Bond Holders
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Still riles that while we realised the virtual extortion going on and got on the pitch to protest there were still a few weasels and snakes that actually bought the things.
I'm sure I read on here that they were getting the collective arse about the club reigning in the preferential treatment as the move to the LS approached. Someone I know at the club told me that Bondholders are typically like a group of spoilt kids.
I know I'd be embarrassed if my Dad had bought one. A proper "What did you do in the War Daddy?" moment for a West Ham supporter.
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Troy McClure
12:24 Thu Feb 9
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*Grabs corner flag*
*Runs to centre circle*
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Northern Sold
12:20 Thu Feb 9
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Reemeber reading Dicksy's Terminator autobiography and him saying the players were all against it...
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Northern Sold
12:19 Thu Feb 9
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Ha ha ha @ Riddle.... yeah you have a valid point
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J.Riddle
3:41 Thu Feb 9
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...were afraid they'd lose their seats...
Not much changed then, just send the heavy's in now and throw them out, ban them or move them to another shit part of the ground.
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jimbo2.
3:31 Thu Feb 9
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Billy Bonds was also our Manager at the time & he wanted nothing to do with it!
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jimbo2.
3:30 Thu Feb 9
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As I recall, they also gave you an annual discount on your ST & weren't they pitched at £500, £750 & £1,000?
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