Olympic Stadium (1 Viewer)

[chiefdave]

Piece up on the BBC website saying that most of the costs of running the stadium will be paid for by the taxpayer. Essentially means they are getting the stadium rent free!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33780720

 

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[lewys33]

DAMN AND BLAST!

Who owns Upton park? Could they hand that land over to the taxpayer for free if they moved in to the olympic stadium rent free? Just a thought in passing .......

More importantly however - WHO GETS THE F&B MONEY??

 

[NorthernWisdom]

"Without us the stadium would lose money":thinking about:

tbh the f&b is not ann entire irrelevance. I get suspicious with this West Ham deal that it may not be as good for the club as they seem to be thinking. Not long term, anyway.

Suspect there's a gamble on the current bubble holding and West Ham staying in that bubble.

 

[oldskyblue58]

don't they also share the stadium naming rights and the match day income with the council?

http://www.channel4.com/news/west-ham-olympic-stadium-football-boris-johnson

 

[chiefdave]

As well as the crowd trouble theres now an investigation being launched by the mayor of London into soaring costs.

 

[Terry Gibson's perm]

It's a total farce it should have been knocked down in fact it should never have been built the Olympics has cost the country a fortune and Coe should be losing his honours he is no better than Green.

 

[Marty]

Some of the closest parts of the stadium are further away then some of the stands at Upton park.

Like us, I suspect they'll regret their move. Within 5 years the stadium will be knocked down. It's an athletics ground converted for football, where they should have built a football stadium and converted it for 2 weeks of it's life to an athletics stadium. Site lines are terrible.

You have dangerous things like this.

How easy would it be to fall over that.

Look at the size of it compared to the new spurs stadium (Olympic stadium in red).

 

[chiefdave]

It's an athletics ground converted for football, where they should have built a football stadium and converted it for 2 weeks of it's life to an athletics stadium.

This. The idea that a stadium of that size could exist in London post-Olympics as an athletics stadium is bonkers.

 

[Marty]

This. The idea that a stadium of that size could exist in London post-Olympics as an athletics stadium is bonkers.

The original plan was for the top tier to be removed after the Olympics. After the football clubs expressed an interest, the whole site should have been redesigned. Manchester City successfully done it with their new stadium and the commonwealth games. Although they now have a slight problem with drainage as the pitch sits so low.

 

[NorthernWisdom]

England's Stadio delle Alpi

 

[NorthernWisdom]

The original plan was for the top tier to be removed after the Olympics. After the football clubs expressed an interest, the whole site should have been redesigned. Manchester City successfully done it with their new stadium and the commonwealth games. Although they now have a slight problem with drainage as the pitch sits so low.

tbh would have been sensible to stick with the reduction as originally planned... let Leyton Orient move into the smaller ground if they *must* have had a football club there, let Crystal Palace 'go home' and build their mooted ground where the Crystal Palace athletics stadium is.

That'd have kept everyone happy.

 

[Liquid Gold]

Some of the closest parts of the stadium are further away then some of the stands at Upton park.

Like us, I suspect they'll regret their move. Within 5 years the stadium will be knocked down. It's an athletics ground converted for football, where they should have built a football stadium and converted it for 2 weeks of it's life to an athletics stadium. Site lines are terrible.

You have dangerous things like this.

How easy would it be to fall over that.

Look at the size of it compared to the new spurs stadium (Olympic stadium in red).

That picture showing the bottom few rows is shocking

 

[chiefdave]

What's with the seats that are covered up?

 

[Liquid Gold]

What's with the seats that are covered up?

I think they are the bottom tier for athletics, the football ones are removed (at a cost of £7m a year to the taxpayer)

 

[chiefdave]

So they've left the athletics seating in and then put in seating for football, with higher tiers, in front? That seems far from the most efficient system.

If you look at american stadiums which are multiuse they just remove a section of seats and off you go.

 

[CJ_covblaze]

Went to the Chelsea game there. The worst thing about all the issues are they can not be rectified. All this "it takes time to bed into a new ground and the problems will be ironed out" is bollocks. They're stuck with those problems for good. Brady. Sullivan and Gold have fucked up massively.

 

[Hadji10]

I've been, didn't think it was that bad. If fans want to be twats and fight, they will.

 

[Otis]

With all your martial arts skills you would have thought you would have stepped in and calmed the quell.

 

[Hadji10]

With all your martial arts skills you would have thought you would have stepped in and calmed the quell.

Why would I get involved in things going on about half a mile away, clever clogs?

 

[Otis]

Why would I get involved in things going on about half a mile away, clever clogs?

Thought with all your super powers and all that ......

 

[Hadji10]

Thought with all your super powers and all that ......

They're not super powers though mate. Your banter is horrific pal, give it up. Honestly.

 

[Otis]

They're not super powers though mate. Your banter is horrific pal, give it up. Honestly.

The day I take advice from you will indeed be the day I give it up.