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West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
Which at the time - was a good deal for all involved, the club, buyer and finance company. This has nothing to do with a club facing administration. -
West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
And so they bloody well should - for the rest of their tenancy. Let's see if they do though. BTW - I think you'll find that currently they struggle to fill their present ground. So they need to find a whole lot more fans (circa 20K) from somewhere. (You need to be very careful now) -
West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
I totally agree - they have. But that doesn't make it right in the scheme of things. They have been given a massive bonus over every other team in England. How much more attractive will WHU be to the next sugar daddy looking to get in on the premiership action...? What do you reckon...? Prem team, London based, lovely new stadium.... -
West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
Super - 1 event, in 2017. -
West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
When you look at all of the hurdles other clubs have in building new stadiums - WHU have had it easy - honestly, they have. The rent, by premier league standards is peanuts. As for your analogy in regard to us and Bournemouth you might be correct - but just think about the fans of every other club in the country - it supports my view. Thank you. -
West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
Nope - they pay part of the conversion - a measly 15 million and 2 million rent a year. Peanuts when you think that Cov City were paying rent of 1.3 million a year in league 1. It will be interesting to see though, how many 'other events' are held in the stadium, because I don't think that they have exclusivity. -
West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
Because, like WHU, they too want to move to a new stadium. -
West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
Exactly what I said - and they shouldn't have to. The council should provide them with a stadium that meets their needs and at a rent that they can afford. They have done it for WHU, therefore they should provide the same service levels to all of their constituents. -
West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
It's not wrong if the council provided the same amenities and opportunities for all football clubs - unfortunately they don't. Hence the reason why a 'smaller' club may be forced to move it's operation away from the club that has benefited from this white elephant. Obviously I might have got that wrong, and Boris Johnson is planning to build yet another, more suited smaller, stadium and rent that to Leyton Orient at a knocked down rent, then moving on to the next football club in the borough. -
West Ham get a Stadium costing hundreds of millions for a mere £2m a year
Micky replied to St_Tel49's topic in General Sports
While I think it's just plain wrong on so many levels, I can sort of understand why they have got it. The council will be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea - the bottom line being they are going to be lumbered with a bloody great white elephant. Let's face it - what are they going to do with it? So they are pretty much consigned to give it to them. It's a very similar to the Etihad, where Manchester council helped city by assisting with the stadium conversion - mind you I think the club paid more than 15 million even all those years ago. The thing about this conversion though is that it has to be able to convert back to an athletics track (I think) - so that could have an impact on how it works as a football stadium. Personally I think they should be made to share with Leyton Orient as well - but unfortunately they'll just get bullied out of it. All pretty mucky really. -
Looks like Adkins may be in charge of Reading by the time we get there
Micky replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
He'd be a much bigger mug not to be linked with it and not to be interviewed for it though..... -
Looks like Adkins may be in charge of Reading by the time we get there
Micky replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
Personally I think he should hold out for the first round of sackings of the new season - could get himself a prem club, with at least a better chance of staying up than Reading currently have. -
Good to see we are all getting into the spirit of it. Well done chaps.
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How easy it is to buy an assault rifle legally in the US...
Micky replied to norwaysaint's topic in The Lounge
NRA's CEO Wayne LaPierre put the blame for mass shootings on violent media, rejected new gun control measures, and called for more security in the nation's schools. 'The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun,' LaPierre said as he addressed a room of press. Sadly, they're ****ed. -
Worry not - we'll be back there soon...!!! Dooooooooh, sorry........
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'Entertainment' - are you enjoying watching us more under Pochettino?
Micky replied to 110_Persaint's topic in The Saints
There - fixed it for you. But I do agree with you - he is. -
You don't get points for it, and that's the problem.
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For once I tend to agree with you. It's moments like that which you tend to group with losing 3 - 4 to Leeds, Peter Crouch shooting straight at the keeper against Everton instead of putting it into row Z. The nightmares just persist......
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Ooohhhhhh eerrrrrm, good point, well made. Very late, half a bottle of Taylors port and it's easy to get confused...!!
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I just think that our confidence will be shot to pieces after the next two games. We failed to hold on for a couple of minutes at Wigan, lost at home to QPR - not exactly glowing endorsements for any of our upcoming games. Therefore it really is difficult to see where the points will come from. Also not too confident that 37 points will be enough either.
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Your theory is actually quite correct. One direction are not a 'band' - well not in the musical sence anyway. Simon Cowell couldn't give two ****s about music - his target customers are the pocket money audience. Kids who rely on their parents to fund their musical 'passion'. And to be fair to him - he's doing very well out of it, bless him. But for all of that - please, please don't tarnish real musicians by mixing the two. Simon Cowell, X factor, all of those offshoots, the act and the fans - really have naff all to do with music.
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Expect nothing more than a good tonking - knocking yet more confidence out of us. Feel for RL - he deserves to go to Anfield and get something.
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Us and Reading - can't see villa going and got an awful, awful feeling that QPR are going to do a great escape. Wigan will do their usual - so perhaps Sunderland might nosedive into it as well.
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It won't come down to Stoke - we'll be gone long before then....!!!
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Can't see past a home win, this is the 3 points that will all but see Norwich safe probably - they'll be well up for it. We struggled against 'so called' shyte QPR last time out - so can't see us going to Carrow Road and getting anything.
