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Are West Ham going down??

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  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    How can you postpone a football match because of a bit of wind?
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    They could have taken that decision last night on the basis of the forecast!  Many Wet shammers  will be well on their way to Manchester by now. Ridiculous. 
  • Good for West ham that, means it'll be rescheduled for later in the season when City will have a pile up of fixtures once the champions league restarts.
  • Addickted said:
    How can you postpone a football match because of a bit of wind?
    Learnt their lesson after lasagnagate a few years ago.
  • _MrDick
    _MrDick Posts: 13,103
    In that case, I’m going to have to watch another comedy. Any recommendations? 
  • E_cafc
    E_cafc Posts: 2,617
    They could have taken that decision last night on the basis of the forecast!  Many Wet shammers  will be well on their way to Manchester by now. Ridiculous. 
    Millwall v West Brom is still on apparently.  Surprised about that but I suppose they have an image to uphold. 
     " No wind likes us, we don't care "
  • E_cafc said:
    They could have taken that decision last night on the basis of the forecast!  Many Wet shammers  will be well on their way to Manchester by now. Ridiculous. 
    Millwall v West Brom is still on apparently.  Surprised about that but I suppose they have an image to uphold. 
     " No wind likes us, we don't care "
    ‘Cause they’re hard.
  • Oh ffs, I triple-captained Aguero in my fantasy team for this match!!
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    Addickted said:
    How can you postpone a football match because of a bit of wind?
    Learnt their lesson after lasagnagate a few years ago.
    I wish there was a screwed up angry face with expletive button on here lol
  • Addickted said:
    How can you postpone a football match because of a bit of wind?
    Obviously not because of the actual game, but i'd assume safety issues in surrounding areas with things falling over/collapsing on fans going to the game.

    Same as in icy weather, when the pitch is ok because of under soil heating, but it gets called off because roads/pavements are iced up and dangerous for fans.
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  • I can see them going down today if they are in a rowing boat anywhere.
  • Oh ffs, I triple-captained Aguero in my fantasy team for this match!!
    I had KDB as C, and Aguero as VC. What's going to happen with that? Seems unfair if the game gets moved to another game week that not only do I lose out on points this week, but others get the benifit of getting City players in for a double game week. 
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,143
    In amongst the entirely enjoyable description of their current self inflicted crappy season, against a backdrop of their supporters finally realising they've been sold a total dud by the owners, is mention that there are plans to "square off the stands" and bring them closer to the pitch this year. First I've heard of this. 

    As a leading "malcontent and keyboard warrior" @PragueAddick can you shed any light on who might be picking up the bill for this?

    https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/feb/09/west-ham-staring-drop-brady-bunch-spark-anger?CMP=share_btn_tw


    None of us "sleepers" in the Coalition know anything about it, but we will definitely find out. It's a legitimate public interest question.
  • It's a shame it was called off, I fancied City to pulverise them 6-0. They would have been really fired up after Pep's comments post Tottenham about refreshing the team for next season.
  • It's a shame it was called off, I fancied City to pulverise them 6-0. They would have been really fired up after Pep's comments post Tottenham about refreshing the team for next season.
    Bet they're now on their hollibobs , bless their cotton socks ! 
  • Cheers @PragueAddick I'd assumed this was just something I'd missed being announced but apparently not. Keep fighting the good fight.

    I expect Gavros will resurface on here soon after any enquiry about it becomes public! 
  • I wonder if West Ham have a thread on their forum called ‘are charlton going down’
  • iaitch
    iaitch Posts: 10,223
    Their thread is called 'Charlton are going down'.
  • From today's Mirror.  Headline: Passion of Upton Park to a toxic, soulless bowl.  The fans were sold a dream by the Brady bunch but now it's a NIGHTMARE.

      
    Can this finally shut up those Charlton fans who keep going on about a new poncy stadium.

    THE VALLEY IS OUR HOME.
    The only move I would ever want is the peninsula but again we are miles away from that and I would want it to replicate the valley. The valley extension is perfect from what I have seen and would be more than enough for our fan base. Peninsula is a pipe dream if we ever get to the point where we have 5x more fans than seats

    On a side note I think Bowen is a top signing, West Ham have signed some right slop over the years but I don't believe he falls into that category, we will find out 
    No to the Peninsular. No. Valley Floyd Road. 
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,348
    An article about West Ham written years ago, when they were in trouble (are they ever not)  included an opinion that went something like this .. 
    'the trouble with West Ham is that they can no longer call on four diamond geezers from Gidea Park to have a battle in midfield for them, they need more sophisticated football brains' .. (unquote) 
    I paraphrase but that was the gist .. the trouble now is that they have too many expensively assembled and overpaid sub standard midfielders defenders and attackers from all around the globe who are NOT prepared to have  battle, no matter the size of their brains .. perhaps a few more diamond geezers like Mark Noble are required
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  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    Or better foreign players!
  • https://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=134365

    New development announced today
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    https://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=134365

    New development announced today
    Who's gonna pay for it?
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,143
    https://www.kumb.com/story.php?id=134365

    New development announced today
    "Despite the club's plans, many supporters remain unconvinced that the changes will make much if any difference to the match day experience. "Only two options will work [at the stadium]," wrote KUMB member Samba. "Complete demolition and a rebuild - or we leave."

    Okaaaay, so "Complete demolition and rebuild", well we taxpayers spent £323m doing a complete rebuild to West Ham's own spec, so I guess demolition and new rebuild, shall we say £800m based on what Emirates and WHL have cost? Yeah, we can cough that up, can't we, folks? "Or we leave" uhuh, and to where exactly?

    You could almost feel sorry for them because at least the Valley lay empty and waiting for our return when we were kidnapped and bundled off to Selhurst. The Boleyn is already gone. But unlike us, so many of them were up for this. I don't see a solution to this.
  • Surely those right angled corners will play havoc with athletes on the 200 metres and above :neutral:
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,350
    edited February 2020
    OR they could resign from all football competition and train their squad to race each other around a running track...  That would work!

    After all, they are half way there this season right?
  • cafc999
    cafc999 Posts: 4,967
    I thought they were only going to use the stadium for prem matches @PragueAddick ?



  • MuttleyCAFC
    MuttleyCAFC Posts: 47,728
    The goalkeeping was terrible in that clip.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,143
    @cafc999

    Another good shout. Certainly the original contract didn't allow for that, I am pretty sure. There was a fuss when Bilic talked about training at the stadium. I'll check it out. 

    We've already written to the LLDC asking who is paying for the proposed seating re-config. and Caroline Pidgeon at City Hall has promised to look into it too.

    Can't stress to strongly how useful alerts like this are. All of us in the OSC have to some extent switched off as we felt we've taken it as far as we reasonably could - media lost interest in the story - but such alerts help us to switch back on again quickly and remind  them all that we haven't gone away.
  • I did say to tell them, as a taxpayer, you own the ground.