You've got to feel sorry for West Ham....haven't you?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37158826


No, not really, although I would have liked to follow Ashley's progress playing European football. Maybe now that they are out of the competition Bilic might spend multi millions on a couple of foreign strikers and let us have Fletcher back?

There's lots about this West Ham/Olympic Stadium business that leaves a nasty taste. The fact that they got it on the cheap is the worst of it but who are all these twenty odd thousand "new" Hammers fans who are suddenly going to be watching them play? I have a feeling it will all go horribly wrong for them and they will end up with less fans than they had at Upton Park. It looks like a terrible place to watch football, that's for sure.

You can't help but smile though when you see the individuals running the club. I hope they get relegated this season and that the fans demand a return to the Boleyn Ground.

 

I dont know what the plans are but if its like any other ex footy ground it will be houses and flats before long.

 

And i cant see them letting fletch go. All their fans raving about him and saying he was the best player on the pitch tonight and the only positive.

 

I don't think they have new fans. Upton Park was a small ground and the new stadium has opened it up to more fans attending. Hence why they moved.

 

Of all the cockney clubs West Ham are the one's I can stand the most, like Slaven Bilic and they play good football, not my favourites but as Londoners go they're a much better club than the morons at the Den. As regard to the owners go there not Cellino level bad but there along way off Mr Cryne

 

The owners are the worst kind of Tory scum. No sympathy from me. They can get relegated

 

No need to bring politics into it, was there?

 

Agree with most of that other than the 20,000 new fans

They sold out Upton Park week in week out and always have been well supported

Not new supporters just unable to get tickets in the past




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I'm well aware of West Ham's history and have seen us play there a few times. I would be surprised though if there were over 20,000 people from the Plaistow area who are lifelong Hammers fans but could never get into Upton Park, and will now be seeing them at the Olympic. Obviously in the early days plenty will hop on the bandwagon but once they start losing regularly they will fall away again, leaving them with their core thirty-odd thousand.

That ground looks rubbish now when full. What will it look like when half empty?