Board/Fan Relationship

Yeoldhammer

half the members are Bots I reckon

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Really? How’s that then?

Mrs G not sure what view you’re looking at within FB but believe me it’s over 10k members as the number when in the group is the real one I believe.

If I’d only said “around 10k” then it would of saved all this eh? ;wink

MrsGrey

yeold, I don't think members can be bots because there's a 'bot spot' question you have to answer before you can join. They might not all be real west ham fans though ;wink

Izzy ;ok It's definitely the same group ... maybe the way they appear in the list of groups (that I searched for) has a number that is the official FB count (done automatically) and maybe the number on the image is put there by the group administrator and includes other, non-FB members like through a blog page or twitter followers or something. Or maybe the FB official count is only updated every so often...

OutcastLondoner

Adam said:

MrsGrey said:

I'll report back, suz. I'm going undercover ;diop

You’re going to hide in their wardrobe in their bedrooms? Wow, that is creepy.

Then jump out like this

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

So we’re agreed it’s over 10k

I’m sure that the vast majority if not all are West Ham fans, not sure why they chose “real” would have to read back through the group, I’m guessing it was aimed at the fact they don’t believe all fans that attend the LS are actually west ham fans (??)

They’ve posted a very general initial five point plan and some of those items have already started to be looked at by the club, I don’t think this group is going away anytime soon and we will see activity of some sort. How successful they are in their aims remains to be seen

All just my opinion mind

MrsGrey

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard said:

So we’re agreed it’s over 10k

No, we really aren't. ;lol

MrsGrey

OutcastLondoner said:

Then jump out like this

And they be like

MrsGrey

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/08/david-sullivan-west-ham-worked-my-socks-off-not-good-enough

Interview.

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

MrsGrey said:

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard said:

So we’re agreed it’s over 10k

No, we really aren't. ;lol

Well we should be, because I’ve already proved it, unless of course you’re saying that Facebook can’t count the number of members accepted into a group properly?

Moojor

Is this like the Princess and the Pea of football supporters.

The prince was looking for a "REAL" West Ham supporter but all he found was somewhere between a possible 9.3k and 10k West Ham supporters, all who thought they were "REAL" West Ham supporters, they had even joined the FB page.

But sadly some were too tall, some were too short, some were to boring, and most of all of them didn't actually represent "REAL" West Ham fans.

So the prince went home all sad and lonely, hoping for the day when just one supporter would turn up at the London Stadium, on a cold and raining evening game and just say "I'M A REAL WEST HAM FAN"

The queen already had a pea hidden in a meat pie because she knew that only a "REAL" West Ham fan would be able to work out that someone had put a vegetable in the meat pie!

Alas, the pie grows cold and the prince more lonely by the day, just waiting for the "REAL" West Ham fan to let themselves be known.

;porkpie

Moojor

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard said:

MrsGrey said:

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard said:

So we’re agreed it’s over 10k

No, we really aren't. ;lol

Well we should be, because I’ve already proved it, unless of course you’re saying that Facebook can’t count the number of members accepted into a group properly?

Apart from when I'm looking at it on Facebook right now, it says 9407 members.

MrsGrey

;wahoo

OldCastleSwift

MrsGrey said:

OutcastLondoner said:

Then jump out like this

And they be like

;wahoo

OutcastLondoner

Are you both members of the group? It could be the privacy settings of some people excludes them from the overall number (just guessing).

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Moojor said:

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard said:

MrsGrey said:

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard said:

So we’re agreed it’s over 10k

No, we really aren't. ;lol

Well we should be, because I’ve already proved it, unless of course you’re saying that Facebook can’t count the number of members accepted into a group properly?

Apart from when I'm looking at it on Facebook right now, it says 9407 members.

Ive provides a screenshot (previous page on this thread) this morning of what I see from within a group. Sorry that’s all I can do. Are you a member? If so then take the same screenshot I did and we can then complain to FB that they can’t count. (Or that their counting system is inconsistent/flawed in some way)

;ok

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

This is what you see when you search the group on FB (as Mrs G had I believe)



This is what you see from within the group



And this is a comment a few hours ago from an Admin on the site (who probably take their number from within the group?)

Moojor

I'm joining the group but not sure if I'll get past the security at the door...

"Do you care about West Ham" was the question.

I of course put in "no I don't, I'm just trying to join The real west ham fans group for a bit of a laugh because my FB feed isn't full of enough rubbish at the moment."

TwistandShout

Yeoldhammer said:

half the members are Bots I reckon

I can assure they're not

OutcastLondoner

MrsGrey said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/08/david-sullivan-west-ham-worked-my-socks-off-not-good-enough

Interview.

"The manager says he wants Fonte from Southampton and Snodgrass from Hull. My kids begged me not to sign them.”

They'll be delighted about reading that.

OldCastleSwift

He just doesn't engage his brain, does he?

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

MrsGrey said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/dec/08/david-sullivan-west-ham-worked-my-socks-off-not-good-enough

Interview.

And this is partly what the action group would like to stop......they want the PR shambles that we are and the social media to stop from individuals within the club or family.

Why the heck is he mentioning what his kids want him to do?

Both those players are West Ham, we’re paying their wages (one in full the other probably in part), what possible good could come of that comment?

It’s embarassing, but let’s see who defends this kind of behaviour

Cuz1

Like West Ham you cant defend the undefendable

OutcastLondoner

Fonte in particular. He was in the team when he was fit.

Also, after Moyes said he wants proven PL players, Sullivan seems to be saying something different.

At least once a season he’ll give one of these responsibility-absolving interviews where everything that went wrong was the manager’s and he should’ve done something different. Well, do something different then if you’re so right. He’s a mini-Trump.

TwistandShout

OldCastleSwift said:

He just doesn't engage his brain, does he?

Id be surprised if he has one

OldCastleSwift

OutcastLondoner said:

At least once a season he’ll give one of these responsibility-absolving interviews where everything that went wrong was the manager’s and he should’ve done something different.

OCL ;ok I'm glad I'm not the only one that feels that way. We've seen it a couple of times already this season and this is another example of it.

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Lol he reckons they’ve reduced their involvement in player dealings the last couple of years.

I bet he couldn’t wait to get all this out and throw Slaven under the bus, probably been dying to get this interview out there for weeks

Does he actually think this will help his or the boards current situation and relationship with the fans? Many don’t buy it anymore and I think he’s going to find that out very soon.

baracks_a_hammer

If they felt their manager made such poor choices then why did they keep him on in the summer to allow him to make some more and then drag it out for a third of the season. Doesn’t particularly put them in a great light...

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

Some other quotes that didn’t make the article

Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

The last comment about Boro and Wolves is around the training grounds

claretandbluesky

I hate it whenever Sullivan opens his mouth, like Brady after Slav left he seems to keen to needlessly cast a shadow over another's ability and show himself in the best light. We can all do that however and it could have been pointed out that under his directorship we are by his own words even money to be relegated. Would he sack himself after that performance?