Rorschach
Sonny Walters
I heard a couple of hundred ejected for standing. Mind you that does seem a lot.
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The London Taxpayers' Stadium Shambles
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StephenH
David Ginola
Don't encourage him!
paxtonwolf
John White
Fixed
StephenH
David Ginola
I heard they were using binoculars, telescopes are just plain impractical
monkeybarry
Ian Walker
You need the range though.I heard they were using binoculars, telescopes are just plain impractical
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
I think the Olympic boys took first deal too quickly, West Ham could have been hard balled as their other option was to stay at Upton Park and they didn't want to do that
SpurMeUp
Jimmy Cantrell
I'm not sure anyone won from this debacle. Maybe whams owners. But if the fans start to wane as the novelty wares off the whole club could sink. Relegation would be hilarious. Bilic is too good a manager, but not consistent. If he left, then they might go down.
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
Was reading a thread on kumb about snatch squads ejecting fans from the stadium. Bizarre.
http://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=166231&sid=8d5694abe98f00ea8ce6e73a4d08ef66
http://www.kumb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=166231&sid=8d5694abe98f00ea8ce6e73a4d08ef66
K.D.D.D.D.Soc
Paul Walsh
Not if Sullivan wrote it!
Grays_1890
Colin Calderwood
I think when you look at Burnley and Watford making a fist of it West Ham could be in that mix of going down, days of "too good a team" are way gone.
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
Yeah it sounds fake but turns out it is not supposedly.
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
Snatch squads, sounds like their moving into porn movies.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
Snatch squads, from Rorschach post.
Sounds like the title to a porn movie to me.
Sounds like the title to a porn movie to me.
Baleforce
Ron Henry
they made all their money from porn movies originally
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
What were their porn names?
Whiffler
Jermaine Jenas
How come no-one knew ?
glasgowspur
Dimitar Berbatov
I didn't realise it was movies as well as the dildos and such
Posted on the Spurs Odyssey Forum by PrettyVacant:
Bit of inside info on the next phase of the Olympic Stadium debacle.
The Olympic Stadium may be going back into construction in 2018.
Basically, the stuff about the cost of turning the stadiumfrom foitball to athletics and back again that made the press is effectively all true. Ish.
The big cost is not simply the dismantling and rebuilding of the temporary stands (the lower tiers) every time. It's the (so I'm told) nine days it takes to do and the lost income that leads to. Note, that means for a one day event, the Olympic Stadium needs nearly three weeks between football matches. That means summer only.
Long term that means it is almost impossible tomake money from. Because it means only the summer spell can be used, and with the season starting in August and ending in May, that's a mere three month spell cut to just two months really (due to turnaround time of nearly 3 weeks) in which events are viable.
And that exact same period is the height of competition. Spurs will soon have the option of a major all-year events programme thanks to a retractable pitch making turnaround time one of hours not weeks Wembley. O2. Twickenham. Etc. They all can too due to relative infrequency of use. But the Olympic Stadium will find itself competing for events not only with those big venues, but with seasonal rivals too (the royal parks are now big venues for summer festivals, hence the value of other stadia being able to take events all year round.
Since events are the main means of the owners making money, and with some weekends in summer likely to include athletics meets (a contractual obligation) and thus diminishing revenue opportunitiestoo), the implications are huge.
So the owners are looking at a schedule, possibly one stand at a time, of reduced capacity, to install actual retractable seating (with all the mechanics that involves).
That is likely to cost tens of millions at best, and take years due to having to accomodate the sitting tenant (west ham).
It may also see big payments made to West Ham if the contracts specify availability of stands for matches. One stand removed per season hurts their capacity, and the changes to actual retractable seating are to ensure taxpayers get some of their money back, so some compensation to west ham who won't benefit at all seems likely.
And here's the thing. If it costs £50m to do, it could, once finished, make that back in just a few years. Because that would allow more profit making events and it might reduce change round costs by as much as £5mil a year too.
Bit of inside info on the next phase of the Olympic Stadium debacle.
The Olympic Stadium may be going back into construction in 2018.
Basically, the stuff about the cost of turning the stadiumfrom foitball to athletics and back again that made the press is effectively all true. Ish.
The big cost is not simply the dismantling and rebuilding of the temporary stands (the lower tiers) every time. It's the (so I'm told) nine days it takes to do and the lost income that leads to. Note, that means for a one day event, the Olympic Stadium needs nearly three weeks between football matches. That means summer only.
Long term that means it is almost impossible tomake money from. Because it means only the summer spell can be used, and with the season starting in August and ending in May, that's a mere three month spell cut to just two months really (due to turnaround time of nearly 3 weeks) in which events are viable.
And that exact same period is the height of competition. Spurs will soon have the option of a major all-year events programme thanks to a retractable pitch making turnaround time one of hours not weeks Wembley. O2. Twickenham. Etc. They all can too due to relative infrequency of use. But the Olympic Stadium will find itself competing for events not only with those big venues, but with seasonal rivals too (the royal parks are now big venues for summer festivals, hence the value of other stadia being able to take events all year round.
Since events are the main means of the owners making money, and with some weekends in summer likely to include athletics meets (a contractual obligation) and thus diminishing revenue opportunitiestoo), the implications are huge.
So the owners are looking at a schedule, possibly one stand at a time, of reduced capacity, to install actual retractable seating (with all the mechanics that involves).
That is likely to cost tens of millions at best, and take years due to having to accomodate the sitting tenant (west ham).
It may also see big payments made to West Ham if the contracts specify availability of stands for matches. One stand removed per season hurts their capacity, and the changes to actual retractable seating are to ensure taxpayers get some of their money back, so some compensation to west ham who won't benefit at all seems likely.
And here's the thing. If it costs £50m to do, it could, once finished, make that back in just a few years. Because that would allow more profit making events and it might reduce change round costs by as much as £5mil a year too.