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@mywhufc@HammersUnited2 I don’t know - the stadium only opened in 2013 but I wasn’t really paying attention to their seating arrangements.
What I do know is their half empty stadium had a better atmosphere than our full one 🤷♂️
@HammersUnited2@mywhufc Was at Nice vs Auxerre on Friday. Less than half-full - 18,600 in a 36,000 capacity ground - yet the atmosphere was 100x better than ours because this lot were all stood together. I know it’s not our traditional culture… but maybe we need to try something new?
For the record - the @WestHam FAB - every single member worked so hard to make this happen. Club and supporter representatives together. And we did it for every single West Ham fan. United We Stand.
Enjoyed that despite the result. A threadbare squad competed throughout and on another day with another referee would have got something out of that. ‘Graham Potter’s claret and blue army’ the end too 😍⚒️
@Hammers091 Not saying we don’t need new/better players - and we definitely need strikers. Just not sure we need the wholesale clearout we normally see when we change managers
@Hammers091 I’m not sure it needs to be that drastic. This is a good group of players - they were just made to look very bad by a very bad coach. Plus, we have young players coming through who will now get a chance
And so it's come to pass. A return to a structure where the role responsible for a long-term strategy (recruitment) effectively answers to a short term appointment (the manager), and the owner does whatever he wants regardless. West Ham are *so* back!
#becarefulwhatyouwishfor
Whatever your views on Steidten, he checked and balanced Sullivan, and was a move away from the expensive boom-and-bust cycles centred around individual managers. No matter how good Mcaulay might be, him replacing Tim would be a return to that outmoded and inefficient structure