What’s it gonna take?

[Nutsin]

Common complaint is to get the current owners out.

My question is what will it take for fans to be happy?

what are you looking for from the new owners to make you get behind the club completely.

Moving back to the Boleyn is obviously not an option, so excluding that what will make you miserable cunts happy or even giddy?

[Council Scum]

I don't disagree necessarily, but the whole thing would need ripping up and starting again, because the structure of it is just too big. And if we go down that route, we'd be homeless for a couple of years at least.

Anyway, none of it is gonna happen, if we do get taken over (I don't think we will anytime soon) by some American or a gulf state, and they cut a deal to buy it, they more than likely won't be making any radical changes to the ground. They won't give a monkey's about the fan experience.

I would think it would be possible to do it stand by stand and still use the rest of the ground. But, like you say, its just not gonna happen with this lot in charge. 

[Eerie Decent]

I don't disagree necessarily, but the whole thing would need ripping up and starting again, because the structure of it is just too big. And if we go down that route, we'd be homeless for a couple of years at least.

Anyway, none of it is gonna happen, if we do get taken over (I don't think we will anytime soon) by some American or a gulf state, and they cut a deal to buy it, they more than likely won't be making any radical changes to the ground. They won't give a monkey's about the fan experience.

[Council Scum]

We've been moved nearly 10 years now. 
​​​​​​Is there no chance for the bowl, with dynamic new owners? I think the location is as good as it will get in London now?

I know we're all nostalgic for Upton Park, but what would it be like today if we had stayed? Would they have rebuilt the stands, and got planning permission to expand? Or would it all have fell apart and the pubs and pie and mash replaced with vape shops and other shit.

Unpopular opinion, the good old days were gone long before we moved. I had started to get irritated with the people sitting around me in the ground, and the core working class fanbase had long stopped living in the area many years ago. 

But no doubt the move was badly managed and where were are now is not suitable.






 

I know you're in Ireland, so you don't regularly go to the cunthole masquerading as a stadium.

It's not harking back for the old times, it's just not fit for football. It's diabolical over there.

It's ok where it is, I don't think you can get a better location, we just need to rip out the lower tier and start again with it up against the pitch. 

[Eerie Decent]

We've been moved nearly 10 years now. 
​​​​​​Is there no chance for the bowl, with dynamic new owners? I think the location is as good as it will get in London now?

I know we're all nostalgic for Upton Park, but what would it be like today if we had stayed? Would they have rebuilt the stands, and got planning permission to expand? Or would it all have fell apart and the pubs and pie and mash replaced with vape shops and other shit.

Unpopular opinion, the good old days were gone long before we moved. I had started to get irritated with the people sitting around me in the ground, and the core working class fanbase had long stopped living in the area many years ago. 

But no doubt the move was badly managed and where were are now is not suitable.





 

I know you're in Ireland, so you don't regularly go to the cunthole masquerading as a stadium.

It's not harking back for the old times, it's just not fit for football. It's diabolical over there.

[Rossal]

We've been moved nearly 10 years now. 
​​​​​​Is there no chance for the bowl, with dynamic new owners? I think the location is as good as it will get in London now?

I know we're all nostalgic for Upton Park, but what would it be like today if we had stayed? Would they have rebuilt the stands, and got planning permission to expand? Or would it all have fell apart and the pubs and pie and mash replaced with vape shops and other shit.

Unpopular opinion, the good old days were gone long before we moved. I had started to get irritated with the people sitting around me in the ground, and the core working class fanbase had long stopped living in the area many years ago. 

But no doubt the move was badly managed and where were are now is not suitable.





 

Probably a fair point, wherever you stick a stadium in East London it will be surrounded by absolute shit holes or lads with knives in their pockets. 

I think Stratford with the transport links, the olympic park and Westfield etc is perfect. 

The stadium just needs redesigning that's all. If we had the Everton stadium there I think everyone would be immensely happy. 

[honky cat]

We've been moved nearly 10 years now. 
​​​​​​Is there no chance for the bowl, with dynamic new owners? I think the location is as good as it will get in London now?

I know we're all nostalgic for Upton Park, but what would it be like today if we had stayed? Would they have rebuilt the stands, and got planning permission to expand? Or would it all have fell apart and the pubs and pie and mash replaced with vape shops and other shit.

Unpopular opinion, the good old days were gone long before we moved. I had started to get irritated with the people sitting around me in the ground, and the core working class fanbase had long stopped living in the area many years ago. 

But no doubt the move was badly managed and where were are now is not suitable.




 

[Eerie Decent]

There's a plot that is not far to walk from Canning Town Station that is baron land, or get the DLR from there 1 or 2 stops if you're a fat lazy cսnt.

[Rossal]

There's a prime spot for a new stadium, in and around the Tate & Lyle factory. Right on the river, piss easy to get to, sadly not a lot of good pubs left nearby but you're not going to solve that problem anywhere now.

'Piss easy to get to'   Only a DLR station round there for miles aint there?  no one will be walking from canning town 

[Eerie Decent]

There's a prime spot for a new stadium, in and around the Tate & Lyle factory. Right on the river, piss easy to get to, sadly not a lot of good pubs left nearby but you're not going to solve that problem anywhere now.

[GBHammer63]

If these owners even admitted to making small mistakes before, during and after the relocation I’d fucking pass out let alone go giddy.
West Ham at the Boleyn Ground wasn’t just a bit of the local community it was the lifeblood to a lot of people and longstanding businesses (who also had promises broken), it was the thing that held a lot of the community together, there’s no West Ham community where we currently are, no Nathan’s, no Boleyn, fuck me even Westfield don’t want us or our money. We’re treated like shit neighbours that you have to tolerate on match days.
The club should invest in getting some of the old businesses restored around the ground (not for profit Brady) but that P word is the rub.

[Nutsin]

Was talking to a Brentford fan the other night. He was a black cab driver taking me somewhere and we went right past Brentford's stadium so we struck up a conversation about them. Like all Brentford fans he was an absolute dick, but I was asking him about their new stadium and how he found it compared to the old one which famously had a pub on every corner. I was surprised to learn that despite their stadium being beside a motorway and nestled amongst soulless new builds, there were plenty of pubs nearby and he claims the fans were positive about it.

So as the stadium is the biggest problem, I think our best bet is building from scratch but I don't know where really. The trouble with us is the cockney diaspora is so far flung now we can't recreate a scene to which we belong. We really are now like gypsies finding a random location to coalesce the family around. So it might as well be anywhere now. 

But ultimately we need owners who understand the soul of the club and how to repair it. 

How about the old West Ham memorials, would that be an option? 

That could work.

I played over there for a team called Bees wing. Full of West Ham hooligans. This had to be early 80’s. Mark Cannon was a funny cսnt! Some real characters on that team. Good memories. But that would be the obvious choice.

[wils]

Was talking to a Brentford fan the other night. He was a black cab driver taking me somewhere and we went right past Brentford's stadium so we struck up a conversation about them. Like all Brentford fans he was an absolute dick, but I was asking him about their new stadium and how he found it compared to the old one which famously had a pub on every corner. I was surprised to learn that despite their stadium being beside a motorway and nestled amongst soulless new builds, there were plenty of pubs nearby and he claims the fans were positive about it.

So as the stadium is the biggest problem, I think our best bet is building from scratch but I don't know where really. The trouble with us is the cockney diaspora is so far flung now we can't recreate a scene to which we belong. We really are now like gypsies finding a random location to coalesce the family around. So it might as well be anywhere now. 

But ultimately we need owners who understand the soul of the club and how to repair it. 

How about the old West Ham memorials, would that be an option? 

That could work.

[Nutsin]

Was talking to a Brentford fan the other night. He was a black cab driver taking me somewhere and we went right past Brentford's stadium so we struck up a conversation about them. Like all Brentford fans he was an absolute dick, but I was asking him about their new stadium and how he found it compared to the old one which famously had a pub on every corner. I was surprised to learn that despite their stadium being beside a motorway and nestled amongst soulless new builds, there were plenty of pubs nearby and he claims the fans were positive about it.

So as the stadium is the biggest problem, I think our best bet is building from scratch but I don't know where really. The trouble with us is the cockney diaspora is so far flung now we can't recreate a scene to which we belong. We really are now like gypsies finding a random location to coalesce the family around. So it might as well be anywhere now. 

But ultimately we need owners who understand the soul of the club and how to repair it. 

How about the old West Ham memorials, would that be an option? 

[wils]

Was talking to a Brentford fan the other night. He was a black cab driver taking me somewhere and we went right past Brentford's stadium so we struck up a conversation about them. Like all Brentford fans he was an absolute dick, but I was asking him about their new stadium and how he found it compared to the old one which famously had a pub on every corner. I was surprised to learn that despite their stadium being beside a motorway and nestled amongst soulless new builds, there were plenty of pubs nearby and he claims the fans were positive about it.

So as the stadium is the biggest problem, I think our best bet is building from scratch but I don't know where really. The trouble with us is the cockney diaspora is so far flung now we can't recreate a scene to which we belong. We really are now like gypsies finding a random location to coalesce the family around. So it might as well be anywhere now. 

But ultimately we need owners who understand the soul of the club and how to repair it. 

[Takashi Miike]

a football stadium would be a good start