West Ham get Olympic Stadium

Seagull on the wing · Mar 23, 2013

West Ham get the stadium which cost £600m for a £15m down payment and £2m a year rent. The stadium will hold 54,000 fans. They will also get £27m from the taxpayer to help transform the stadium for football.

This brings into question why should West Ham get the stadium.
The Stadium is closer to Leyton Orient than West Ham.
What happens to West Hams old stadium...will it be sold and the money go to West Ham or will it go to pay the taxpayer to pay back for the alterations. I have no beef with WH but it seems they are getting a big hand up from the taxpayer.
Could WH share the ground with LO.?
Plenty of issues....your thoughts..

Robot Chicken · Mar 23, 2013

Reminds me of the exact same subject on the other "West Ham gets the Olympic Stadium" thread!

withdeanwombat · Mar 23, 2013

I read this on the other thread,too,but I can't quite recall if anybody pointed out that this is just the Nation paying back the Hammers for winning us the World Cup in 1966.

Which they did,obviously.

bn1&bn3 Albion · Mar 24, 2013

withdeanwombat said:
I read this on the other thread,too,but I can't quite recall if anybody pointed out that this is just the Nation paying back the Hammers for winning us the World Cup in 1966.

Which they did,obviously.

What about for losing the 2010 World Cup?

EddieReader · Mar 24, 2013

I think West Ham Athletic have had a result here. I'll miss Upton Park, they will have attract new support, like us in some ways, as they don't fill up there existing stadium.

jevs · Mar 24, 2013

EddieReader said:
I think West Ham Athletic have had a result here. I'll miss Upton Park, they will have attract new support, like us in some ways, as they don't fill up there existing stadium.

Since when ? if it isn't sold out for home games, it's certainly not far off it.

pork pie · Mar 24, 2013

Seagull on the wing said:
West Ham get the stadium which cost £600m for a £15m down payment and £2m a year rent. The stadium will hold 54,000 fans. They will also get £27m from the taxpayer to help transform the stadium for football.

This brings into question why should West Ham get the stadium.
The Stadium is closer to Leyton Orient than West Ham.
What happens to West Hams old stadium...will it be sold and the money go to West Ham or will it go to pay the taxpayer to pay back for the alterations. I have no beef with WH but it seems they are getting a big hand up from the taxpayer.
Could WH share the ground with LO.?
Plenty of issues....your thoughts..

My issue is that it should be our "National Stadium" and not another football stadium. If the taxpayer is only going to get peppercorn rent, and have to invest heavily to obtain that, it should be retained for athletics, concerts, etc. At best, West Ham should only be allowed to use it for their matches under a shared use agreement.

screamadelica · Mar 24, 2013

jevs said:
Since when ? if it isn't sold out for home games, it's certainly not far off it.

How many turn up for the away games

Doc Lynam · Mar 24, 2013

Seagull on the wing said:
West Ham get the stadium which cost £600m for a £15m down payment and £2m a year rent. The stadium will hold 54,000 fans. They will also get £27m from the taxpayer to help transform the stadium for football.

This brings into question why should West Ham get the stadium.
The Stadium is closer to Leyton Orient than West Ham.
What happens to West Hams old stadium...will it be sold and the money go to West Ham or will it go to pay the taxpayer to pay back for the alterations. I have no beef with WH but it seems they are getting a big hand up from the taxpayer.
Could WH share the ground with LO.?
Plenty of issues....your thoughts..

Wasn't it a similar story with Man City?

ChilternGull · Mar 24, 2013

It's probably been said already but it rather sticks in the throat that such a fantastic new staduim has simply fallen into West Ham's lap with the minimum of effort and outlay of expenditure. This compares rather starkley with what the Albion had to go through to secure planning permission for the Amex. To rub salt in the wounds there is a mighty chunk of tax payers money being tossed at the stadium from which only West Ham will benefit. This is only because the Mayor of London and the Government wanted to get rid of the stadium before it became a white elephant for which they would have been held responsible. I am pleased the stadium now has a long term future and that football will be played there but West Ham should have paid a proper price not got it at Boris's fire sale. How about they started at £93m!

Triggaaar · Mar 24, 2013

ChilternGull said:
West Ham should have paid a proper price not got it at Boris's fire sale.

Is there anyone that disagrees with that?

RedRob · Mar 24, 2013

EddieReader said:
I think West Ham Athletic have had a result here. I'll miss Upton Park, they will have attract new support, like us in some ways, as they don't fill up there existing stadium.

I don't think WHU should have been 'given' the stadium - but must stress, before we all get hypocritical here, the VERY important point made above, re: 'new' fans.....

downham seagull · Mar 24, 2013

It will be an absolute travesty of justice if this is allowed to happen. The league rules forbid another club to move grounds which adversely effects another club ie Leyton Orient and no F**ker on the board have the balls to implement the letter of the law. The FA and the league love West Ham and are so bias towards them it's unbelievable. A classic example is the Carlos Teves situation where West Ham were found guilty and wern't deducted points like other clubs because "there fans would be upset" total joke!. I will hold them in contempt as much as MK dons for ever if this is allowed to happen.

swindonseagull · Mar 24, 2013

RedRob said:
I don't think WHU should have been 'given' the stadium - but must stress, before we all get hypocritical here, the VERY important point made above, re: 'new' fans.....

Bit big for the Championship when West Ham get relegated again.

kevo · Mar 24, 2013

It does seem completely unfair that West Ham should just have to pay £15 for a £600m stadium - at least they could cough up for the conversion costs. Presumably they will also benefit from the sale of Upton Park to developers (at least £15m I'd have thought), so in effect they are getting a brilliant spanking new stadium for nothing. Gives them a huge advantage compared to what other clubs have to go through - especially given the fact that it's a much higher capacity than Upton Park. Man City got a very similar advantage moving to the Eitihad. I can now firmly add West Ham to the list of clubs I truly dislike.

Absolute_Disgrace · Mar 24, 2013

to fill their new stadium they're gonna have to litrally make tickets £2 a seat with a free pwoper nawtee eel

SeagullSongs · Mar 24, 2013

Suicide move. The rent will eventually cripple them as they will only be making money from tickets. Catering money, etc, will go straight to the government.

Also, the view will be UTTER SHITE.

Triggaaar · Mar 24, 2013

SeagullSongs said:
Suicide move. The rent will eventually cripple them

£2m a year, which reduces after a while? That's a lot less than the cost of what we have tied up in capital.

as they will only be making money from tickets. Catering money, etc, will go straight to the government.

Are you sure? I thought they got a share of the catering. But even if they don't, they could end up with a lot of bums on seats, and merchandise sales.

Also, the view will be UTTER SHITE.

Every cloud.

Bwian · Mar 24, 2013

SeagullSongs said:
Also, the view will be UTTER SHITE.

It has got to be better than the shite view from the away end at shitey Upton Park. Mind you, anything is better than that fricking dump's away end. God I dislike that club.

SeagullSongs · Mar 24, 2013

Bwian said:
It has got to be better than the shite view from the away end at shitey Upton Park. Mind you, anything is better than that fricking dump's away end. God I dislike that club.

IIRC, the closest seat to the pitch at the Olympic stadium will be 40m. The furthest seat at the Amex is 57m from the pitch.

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