Good afternoon.
First item of business is a whopping congrats to Citizen Astromesmo. Not only is he a delightful chap in his own right, but he is now the quite rightly the wonderfully proud father of a swanky new ‘junior client number’ and we ought all raise a cyber glass to not only him but those he calls his own :winke:
My newest most favouritist figure in football, Barry Hearn has formally thrown his Chairman’s titfer into the old OPLC ring. I sincerely hopes he gets the outcome he seeks.
Not just granted the OS itself which would be sweet for Orient of course, but being treated fairly in accordance with the numerous laws of the land. So far, the installation of another football club that would without doubt threaten the very existence of Leyton Orient has been summarily ignored. The word ‘disgrace’ is bandied about so frequently in football we’ve almost become immune to it. The treatment of Orient has been less than shoddy.
So eager have been the narcissists and the pornographers to advance themselves fair play and justice have been ridden roughshod. Here’s the boy Barry:
“We are asking for a 25,000-seat stadium and we want to see if we can get around the athletics track. It has to stay, we know that. But can we build up, if not down, and see if it’s possible to get it covered while we play?
“If it isn’t possible, it isn’t – and we wouldn’t move in with a running track between the pitch and the crowd.
“We have submitted an application for permission to move to the Football League, and that permission is something that West Ham don’t yet have.
“It was the Premier League who gave them the green light to move in their original plan, but they are no longer members of the Premier League.
“The rules are that the Football League would not sanction a club moving closer to another club if it affects the business of that other club, and there’s no doubt that West Ham moving there would affect us.
“West Ham can’t just assume that they will be in the Premier League by then. How, therefore, can the Olympic Park Legacy Company, whose job it is to decide who takes over the stadium, allow West Ham to remain in the bidding process? We want them thrown out because they don’t have permission from the relevant authority – the Football League.”
Up The Orient!
Harry – coach of the month! Yes ingrate Spurs supporters just live with it.
Your option to Harry is – lets get another European ooaching chancer who knows nothing EPL football and spend another 5 years in football mediocrity.
Love him while we have him.
For not too longer I imagine :whistle:
Think I may have missed out a “much”, or added an “er” :ermm:
Barry Hearn, full of fighters that looked good but had little weight behind the punch – has anything changed – the OLS will become another Dome if you ask me (I just did, no you didn’t, yes I did :blink: )
Leyton OPrient have as much chance as getting it as Wet Spam have of eating fugileeti without a mouth
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Anyone got any thoughts as to what sort of side we are going to put out tomorrow evening? I’m driving down and probably won’t get home until after 3am so it would be nice to see a few first teamers in there.
Where you driving from? Bloody good effort, hats off. Hope there’s a few firsties in the squad for you. Hope there’s not for injuries.
West Yorkshire, close to Halifax…
I reside in Edinburgh currently, always find A1 the quickest, if you can get on to it easily.
So it would be ‘fair’ for Spurs to move out of Harringey and into Newham where West Ham reside, and it would be fair for Orient to move out of Walthamstow and into Newham, where West Ham reside but it would NOT be fair for West Ham to move with the borough we currently reside.
So Spurs moving into Stratford would not adversly affect the progress of Leyton Orient, but West Ham moving to Stratford would?
Orient’s average gate is about 3,500, how an earth do they expect to fill 25,000 seats? Where will Barry Hearn get £2m a year to rent the stadium.
The West Ham bid is ‘fair’.
Nobody has said it would be any more or less fair for Spurs to move in at the OS than anyone else.
Barry Hearn has the best interests of LO at heart. His judgement may be right, it may be wrong. I don’t see how it reflects on Spurs or Wet Spam either way. What he has done is point out that LO have applied for permission from the League, while Wet Spam have not. This is a verifiable fact so not really much use in disputing it.
The previous Wet Spam bid “won” because the club “promised” to keep the running track in place. It is quite obvious to anyone who bothers to examine matters closer, that having a running track at a football stadium is the kiss of death. It has not been financially viable ANYWHERE, EVER.
Either The Laurel & Hardy of Smut simply hadn’t bothered to check this and naively and erroneously assumed that having the track would work just fine (setting the club and OS up for spectacular failure), or they knew this full well (and were speculating that when the stadium avec failed miserably there would not be any political appetite for keeping them from switching to stadium sans). So inept or corrupt. You choose. “Fair” it is certainlyl not.
What any of the teams’ new bids might look like nobody knows yet, apart from what Hearn informally mentions above regarding LO’s possible thinking. The bids have yet to be submitted.
Why don’t you go back and moan on KUMB, there’s a good spammer
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Well done Barry, was a great read and never a truer word said! I hope his words are heard and Orient protected.
Unfortunately with the round the back dodgy dealing of that lot they’re probably have a “Right to Buy’ clause put into the rental contract and demolish the track within 3 years, Boris has already bypassed the bidding process stating how West Ham will get it.
Its stinking up the place!