Board/Fan Relationship

grey_til_I_dye

bbb

To be exact, the are charging interest. AfaIk they haven't taken any money out yet.

ianbishoplegend

billybondsbeard said:

IBL - only if they take the debt with them This club is a cash cow for them - they are taking interest on the debt.

7% is nothing for that sum of money. No one in the city would accept that.

ianbishoplegend

deehammer said:

Ibl
I read recently that interest was dropped to 3.5%!

Cool!

sweepy23

grey_til_I_dye said:

bbb

To be exact, the are charging interest. AfaIk they haven't taken any money out yet.

My understanding is that Sullivan has restructured Club debt (I.e. money owed to him) and in turn received an extra 25 percent of shares in the club.

It is essentially the same as taking money out and buying shares to increase ones ownership without physically removing the money. A seamless transaction.

They know what they’re doing.

SuzanneClaret

We will deserve it we finish in the bottom three.

We don’t get a buy because we moved stadiums.

SuzanneClaret

I always am ;biggrin

Moojor

Macca85 said:

Your right Suzanne

The board will deserve it

Just out of interest, you were all for sacking the board when we finished 7th yeah? I'm struggling to remember these "protests" then.

Fortuneseeker

Moojor,

We were warned by the Birmingham City fans what to expect & with serious regret I haven't found what they said to be wrong. The 2015/16 season was a freak just look who won the title! We just had an inspired season with you know who being the talisman, he could see the writing on the wall and left somewhat acrimoniously but looking at what has happened since less people can blame him.

IronHerb

I think you'll find most of the issues started the year after we finished 7th. ;hmm
That'll be the season after we left Upton Park.

horshamhammer

IronHerb said:

I think you'll find most of the issues started the year after we finished 7th. ;hmm
That'll be the season after we left Upton Park.

Indeed. If we'd properly invested that window we could have pushed on. Instead we threw the Europa, Payet left and the rest is history...

ianbishoplegend

All I want is Lanzini and Arnautovic back for an extended run. Don’t really care about anything else anymore.

ASLEFshrugged

The Boleyn connection comes from a claim by Richard Breame that Henry had courted Anne at his house and Breame did rent a house to the King, supposedly for Anne's brother George, from 1529 until 1531 but that was in Greenwich.

Breame only bought the manor of East Ham in 1544, eight years after Anne was beheaded. He built Green Street House aka Boleyn Castle sometime after that and it was demolished in 1955

The first time the crossed hammers and castle were combined on the crest was on the cover of the 1958/59 West Ham Players Promotion Souvenir Handbook

Putney_Hammer

So hands up who’s going on the march then cos I am I have had enough. It probably won’t change a thing but they need to know how the fans feel about them and the situation.

Moojor

Putney_Hammer said:

So hands up who’s going on the march then cos I am I have had enough. It probably won’t change a thing but they need to know how the fans feel about them and the situation.

What are you actually marching about? What is the outcome the march wishes to achieve?

Fortuneseeker

Moojor,

The cost of season tickets & in time hopefully world domination.

;biggrin

I expect it's so "some" of the fans can express their dissatisfaction at the last few years since we moved stadium and all that was said prior to it happening and no signs of that actually becoming reality? ;ok

Putney_Hammer

The real West Ham fan group will tell you all you need to know sounds like there will be between 5 to 10k marching all the social media West Ham groups are joining kumb ect. People have had enough and quite rightly so ;ok

Poshhammer

Apparently the £20k crowd funding target has almost been achieved.
What is striking is the number of people who've donated, loads have chipped in a tenner just to do theyre bit for the club. Makes you proud to be a hammer ;ok

thornburyiron

Big Sam must be laughing as his West Ham fans are deluded comment is being proven. Nobody in their right mind would have taken the aspirational comments of champions league in 7 years as an actual promise.
There are lots of clubs who were premier league who would gladly swap places with us.
As for banners saying 'sack the board' who exactly do they think would be able to do that. The directors could be sacked I suppose by the owners and a new board appointed but wouldn't that leave the owners still in place.
If the owners were to walk away and take the money owed to them the club would fold and go into administration. Most likelihood it would be years before we got back into the PL if we in fact we're still in existence.
By all means protest at some of the things that happen such as the Henry affair but not the fact we are not buying players like City or Chelsea etc or not regularly in the top four.

Yeoldhammer

Don't know what the expectation is, even if you successfully hound out the owners the Boleyn is long gone.

SuzanneClaret

What makes them the ‘real’ West Ham fans I wonder.

They want Gold, Sullivan and Brady out? But who replaces them? Have they crowd funded enough to buy the club?

Poshhammer

SuzanneClaret said:

They want Gold, Sullivan and Brady out? But who replaces them? Have they crowd funded enough to buy the club?

Erm....someone else.

Moojor

Poshhammer said:

thornburyiron said:

If the owners were to walk away and take the money owed to them the club would fold and go into administration.

Are you really still buying into that nonsense? Really?

So who have the "real West Ham fans" lined up to buy the club?

Poshhammer

SuzanneClaret said:

What makes them the ‘real’ West Ham fans I wonder.

What makes you a real west ham fan?

SuzanneClaret

Poshhammer said:

SuzanneClaret said:

They want Gold, Sullivan and Brady out? But who replaces them? Have they crowd funded enough to buy the club?

Erm....someone else.

It’s reassuring to know that there is a plan. I like a plan.

MrsGrey

I'm slightly baffled by those who believe 'they are only in it for the money' yet at the same time think that by publicly putting pressure on the owners, Sullivan and Gold are going to go because... they don't want the embarrassment/hassle/whatever.

If the fans are correct in their belief, presumably the owners, sitting in their comfy seats looking at all the season ticket holders holding up bits of paper, are thinking ha ha ha you mugs. ;puzzled

SuzanneClaret

Poshhammer said:

SuzanneClaret said:

What makes them the ‘real’ West Ham fans I wonder.

What makes you a real west ham fan?

I have never once claimed to be.

MrsGrey

SuzanneClaret said:

Poshhammer said:

SuzanneClaret said:

They want Gold, Sullivan and Brady out? But who replaces them? Have they crowd funded enough to buy the club?

Erm....someone else.

It’s reassuring to know that there is a plan. I like a plan.

The cunninger, the better. ;thumbsup

SuzanneClaret

Oh for sure ;biggrin

Poshhammer

MrsGrey said:

If the fans are correct in their belief, presumably the owners, sitting in their comfy seats looking at all the season ticket holders holding up bits of paper, are thinking ha ha ha you mugs. ;puzzled

Ironically they've probably been doing that from day 1

alderz

Poshhammer said:

SuzanneClaret said:

What makes them the ‘real’ West Ham fans I wonder.

What makes you a real west ham fan?

It’s probably something to do with supporting the club and not claiming to be the only “real” type of fan. That’s the problem with the “real” fan group, it assumes that people who disagree are not “real”.