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coys200

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State of this. Taxpayers baseball.
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Marty

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Mar 10, 2005
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Fast forward to 20/21 July when the Athletics meeting will be held there.

Happy Hammers might be better off getting an couple of away games for the start of the new season.
Doesn't it take three weeks to relay the pitch and get it football ready after an athletics meet? If that is the case they will be away first game.
 

TheChosenOne

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Dec 13, 2005
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Doesn't it take three weeks to relay the pitch and get it football ready after an athletics meet? If that is the case they will be away first game.

Going to be tight 12.30 ko v Man City on 10th August - 19 full days !
 

mickdale

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I doubt the stadium will last 99 years infact I doubt it will last 30 years. Pretty sure it was built as a temporary stadium that could be taken apart. Utterly ridiculous that with the football conversion it pretty much cost same as ours.
What’s the betting they buy the stadium for a quid after leaching millions out of the taxpayer and everyone has had enough....surely that’s their endgame with the constant bickering with the landlords
 

nailsy

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What’s the betting they buy the stadium for a quid after leaching millions out of the taxpayer and everyone has had enough....surely that’s their endgame with the constant bickering with the landlords

I like to think that if there was ever the possibility that West Ham could buy the stadium for a quid that Daniel Levy would swoop in with a last minute offer of £2.50.
 

SugarRay

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What’s the betting they buy the stadium for a quid after leaching millions out of the taxpayer and everyone has had enough....surely that’s their endgame with the constant bickering with the landlords

I’m pretty certain Mr Levy and Mr Barry Hearn ensured this is virtually impossible. Just as removal of the athletics track is also virtually impossible.
As part of the deal, Levy got cast iron guarantees neither could happen as these were basically the only two reasons they didn’t award Tottenham the stadium ( anyone with half a brain cell could see Levy’s proposal was the most sensible and easily the most lucrative, who’d have thought they’d end up suggesting something similar at some point! )

Imagine the transfer funds after Levy got done suing everyone involved if it were to happen!
 

Bensonrecon

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God no. That would be awful. I couldn't think of anything worse than playing in that stadium in front of six thousand people. Just make West Ham stay there and up the rent.

True but then they don't need to play there, they can always just take the seating to refresh Brisbane Road and sell the rest for scrap.
 

mickdale

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I’m pretty certain Mr Levy and Mr Barry Hearn ensured this is virtually impossible. Just as removal of the athletics track is also virtually impossible.
As part of the deal, Levy got cast iron guarantees neither could happen as these were basically the only two reasons they didn’t award Tottenham the stadium ( anyone with half a brain cell could see Levy’s proposal was the most sensible and easily the most lucrative, who’d have thought they’d end up suggesting something similar at some point! )

Imagine the transfer funds after Levy got done suing everyone involved if it were to happen!
cast iron guarantees?
Do you think London will put up with haemorrhaging millions for the next 97 or so years?
Money is going to be getting tighter - we can al see that.

It will be a case of - we tried, it just wasn't to be and we are cutting our losses and releasing the money pit.
 

riggi

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God no. That would be awful. I couldn't think of anything worse than playing in that stadium in front of six thousand people. Just make West Ham stay there and up the rent.

Yup this. Orient need to stay where they are. Keep the old school grounds and keep the soul.

Looking out my window at the Olympic park makes me so thankful we didn’t move their. It really is awful.
 
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