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He’s been made to look a bit of a plum now as the truth came out, he believed the Sullys
But when you knee jerk like that then have to backtrack because you now may of made the situation worse, well......
Sorry I wasn’t clear, they’d had their ST cancelled/revoked and banned from home or away for 3 years and lost all their away points.....
They didn’t drop them in the street
Outside the gates is public land and the house is about a quarter of a mile away down a long drive. It was a photo opportunity nothing more.
(Before you ask... no i haven't polled every supporter on the planet - I'm going on the basis of all the chants, banners and other west ham forums)
Surely a windup but very funny
I think that most fans would accept us still being a yo yo club, with mid table aspirations, but not to give up the Boleyn to stand still.
It was our home.
You give that up for something better, both on and off the pitch, and it hasn't happened, and too much has now been revealed about the Board's modus operandii to put it back in the box. And yes , our current form is affecting everybody's mind set, but the fact remains that promises were made about the next level in return for the sale of the Boleyn, that are clearly not going to be fulfilled. That gives fans the hump.
The current Board do not have the money, or will not invest further to let us kick on, relying on pay day loans to finance transfer activity, and mortgaging our assets to do so for this year.
They are making 7% interest on a debt that has merely been transferred to them, and not got rid of.
They will sell at the earliest feasible opportunity IMO - and please lets not hear about them being the saviours of our club - they spotted a unique business opportunity that came off.
We could easily have gone into administration after Eggy and still survived. Other clubs have - with nowhere near our level of support.
With regards the debt and interest, not only did they transfer it they helped cause some of it with relegation!
2010
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/jan/19/sullivan-gold-west-ham-takeover
2015
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2916915/West-Ham-win-Premier-League-five-years-say-David-Sullivan-David-Gold.html
This one didn’t help much
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/sporting-president-labels-west-ham-owners-the-dildo-brothers-as-war-of-words-over-william-carvalho-a3628721.html
I wouldn’t say it’s the best arena for Football
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/talksport.com/football/one-greatest-arenas-world-football-west-hams-karren-brady-talks-olympic-stadium?amp
How many managers have we had at West Ham under their ownership?
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2010/jan/19/sullivan-gold-west-ham-takeover
There are many more articles with quotes that don’t help the owners cause.
Personally I think they have done things with good intentions however I can understand why people hold them to their word.
I do think they are chancers and they’ve run all their businesses with promises that aren’t ever scrutinised. West Ham are just too public to get away with it. They just don’t know any better.
Their history doesn’t help
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2006/apr/02/sport.comment
One thing I definitely don’t agree with is the interest they charge the club.
How you can have the bare faced front to charge interest on loans needed because of your own mistakes is beyond me.
All the while the value of your investment has gone through the roof
I do think however two seasons is not long enough to be able to say we wont get there as I actually feel we will, but perhaps not with the current board, but the new stadium will I feel eventually make us more attractive to an investor of substance, but it doesn't in itself ensure immediate success, how could it?
The issue about the board is more complex as when we consider the ground move there is a temptation to envisage a more sinister motive than I think is likely, in that they had no care about West Ham and it was purely business. I actually feel this is not correct and that they have tried their best within their ability and means but I don't think they are actually great at their job, I think the size of the task in running a premiership club is beyond them as I think they are essentially barrow boys made good. I think were they sackable they would have been fired a little while ago, were their performance measured as Slav's was or a players would be. I write this as we have had poor transfer windows, last year lots of targets which never got done and ending up with sub standard players at exactly the time we needed take a chance, although this is likely a mixture of responsibility of Sully and Slav, this year the whole Carvalho saga and its aftermath was again low rent barrow boy stuff in my view. They have had a managerial appointment hardly anyone believed in with Grant that got us relegated and now another chance taken with Moyes, add to this the many regrettable PR episodes of Sully and sometimes Brady such as her latest column regarding Slav and I sometimes just think you people are not professional enough to be doing this job.
To put it into perspective I am not sure many fans would envy too many of our players at the moment, maybe three or four. I don't think any premiership fans would be wishing they had newly appointed Moyes as their manager and probably just as many would want our owners as well. It's that reflection which is most sobering for me at present.
If we can survive this season, we need appoint a strong manager, select and sign good quality targets who fit together with existing players to make a team able in all areas of the pitch, I know it's easier said than done but the role of persuasion through selling our club as a destination and of course financial clout is the owners and managers job, Then go on a PR offensive which means trying to present us in a better light, so sully shuts up, Brady gives up her paper column and we give David Gold the mic if needed. Do this and we can hopefully walk on together, unfortunately get us relegated and you will likely become the new collective Mike Ashley.
Not sure exactly what G&S said but West Ham fans needed lots of convincing to move. Of course they were going to hype up the move by saying we can achieve this and we can achieve that. Everyone says that when something new comes along. They weren't going to say: 'We are aiming to just about stay in the Premier League with this move, enjoy the new stadium!'
So, the club apparently called for a "meet" with such names as Andy Swallow. Micky Morgan and Bill Gardner, if you don't know these names look them up.
AS starts a Real West Ham Fans Action group on FB, where he's already at 6,000 members in just over a couple of days. He is very clear, the club contacted him not the other way round, the reason being these guys are organising something, which they're normally very good at. Ben & Tara would've been at the meeting and AS asked other fans for reasonable questions/concerns from fans, to take to this meeting as a five point plan
C&H then opened it up on their website as an ICF Meeting with the Owners, which was not what the new group wanted to see, that article was subsequently taken down pronto and has caused a fair amount of grief I believe.
The meeting has been postponed as they didn't think they had enough time to get their stuff together, however this action group are planning something for a later game possibly CFC or AFC. These blokes won't be "won over" or just fobbed off, they've been part of WHUFC for a very long time.
My guess is that the club got wind of protests, and are trying to reach out the olive branch, in order to try and quieten this down a bit. Some have even a suggested that this is an elaborate plan by the club, that if there is any protests/trouble they put it back on this lot.
I don't see this going away, now it's started.
Enjoy! ;wink
"I want everyone to be together. I am not aware of the problems before I came, I was a bit surprised when I heard (chanting against the board).
I thought you might like to know that. ;biggrin
I have a bit of a problem being represented by members of the ICF. If they are who the club chose to reach out to I am quite disappointed.
http://www.thewesthamway.co.uk/2017/12/01/exclusive-bloggers-meeting-karren-brady/
She denied it of course, with the famous quip
'One Swallow doesn't make a Summer.'
Thanks. ;yercoat