2012 Stadium

[Stingray]

As a Hammer, I am keen for The Mighty Hammers to be able to progress and hopefully move into the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Olympics.
Seems we have some support :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/olympic_games/8670638.stm

Man City had the same deal after the Commonwealth Games, but why is there so much opposition about a football team moving in after the Games????

Building an 80,000 capacity stadium for one months worth of action, then destroying nearly 2/3 of the seating, just to create an athletics stadium???

Lord Seb Coe needs to chill out and realise that athletics, a summer sport, is really only viable in the UK for 2-3 months of the year.

So with Arsenal in their fantastic stadium, Tottenham nearing finalising their new ground..why shouldn't The Hammers at least lease the Olympic Stadium and for one, keep it British!!!!

 

[vim_fuego]

I'm of the opinion that the last thing we need to be hosting at the moment or in 2012 is the bloody Olymipcs! It is something the majority of us will not be able to watch live due to expense and ticket availabilty...Yet again they've rammed it predominately into the South East and as SR states it get used for 1 month then most of it gets turned over to private clubs who in the present climate probably can't cope with the upkeep of them...

At least a footy team like the Hammers could keep a regular turnover of cash coming into the stadium and local area...how many athletic meets where tens of thousands of fans would turn up will they have during the warm months?

 

[Rigga]

If they want the stadium the Hammers (whoever they are) should pay for it - all £12 billion of it.

Apart from a booking agency, I disagree with any single commercial club/business trying to use it as their "Home" when so many millions of public money has gone into it.

I believe this arena should be used as the UK National Sports Arena / Stadium for many sports and large area events as well as Wembley and could also be used for new National Sports Training Academies / Schools.

I don't think this will end up like the Dome - sold off for a penn'orth. But we'll see...

 

[Realist78]

If they want the stadium the Hammers (whoever they are) should pay for it - all £12 billion of it.

Apart from a booking agency, I disagree with any single commercial club/business trying to use it as their "Home" when so many millions of public money has gone into it.

I believe this arena should be used as the UK National Sports Arena / Stadium for many sports and large area events as well as Wembley and could also be used for new National Sports Training Academies / Schools.

I don't think this will end up like the Dome - sold off for a penn'orth. But we'll see...

Now that must be one hell of a stadium given that Wembley was £798M!

 

[duffman]

Different games different rules. Olympic rules require a legacy in the stadiums football is an olympic sport it's big enough to stand on it's own two feet other olympic sports aren't.

 

[Harry B'Stard]

Post Olympics use of the stadium.

Post Olympics use of the stadium.

I've an idea for the olympic stadium.

How about using it to host all the concerts and other non football sh1te that goes on at Wembley.

Then Wembley's hallowed turf could actually have a chance to mature into the perfect football pitch that it should be!

HTB

 

[Realist78]

I've an idea for the olympic stadium.

How about using it to host all the concerts and other non football sh1te that goes on at Wembley.

Then Wembley's hallowed turf could actually have a chance to mature into the perfect football pitch that it should be!

HTB

Now, the decision makers should be on that like a tramp on chips!DT_Xtremez_19:

 

[duffman]

Wembly's owners would have to buy the stadium for that to work.

 

[Harry B'Stard]

Wembly's owners would have to buy the stadium for that to work.

The government allowed the sale of the dome to go ahead at £1.

If they do the same with the olympic stadium it wouldn't take long for Wembley's owners to start turning a healthy profit.

HTB

 

[duffman]

The government allowed the sale of the dome to go ahead at £1.

If they do the same with the olympic stadium it wouldn't take long for Wembley's owners to start turning a healthy profit.

HTB

That's because no one really wanted it, a sports stadium in london would be quite high in demand. And if for no other reason why should the gov take a massive hit to prop up a company that couldn't build wembley on time. We can't/should take that sort of hit. Why should they anyway, to subsidise west ham?

 

[Stingray]

That's because no one really wanted it, a sports stadium in london would be quite high in demand. And if for no other reason why should the gov take a massive hit to prop up a company that couldn't build wembley on time. We can't/should take that sort of hit. Why should they anyway, to subsidise west ham?

It would be lease terms only as Man City's stadium is. No profit to West Ham or anyone else, plus a consortium with Essex cricket club to hold 20/20 matches there in summer along with Olympics....win/win. If the stadium was reduced to 60,000 instead of 25,000 that Coe wants, we would have a great footy stadium for sports events.
The government may want to sell to AEG, as they did with the Dome. Do we really want another UK asset owned by US people????????

 

[duffman]

It would be lease terms only as Man City's stadium is. No profit to West Ham or anyone else, plus a consortium with Essex cricket club to hold 20/20 matches there in summer along with Olympics....win/win. If the stadium was reduced to 60,000 instead of 25,000 that Coe wants, we would have a great footy stadium for sports events.
The government may want to sell to AEG, as they did with the Dome. Do we really want another UK asset owned by US people????????

It wouldn't really bother me, more bothered about the cost to the taxpayer, like i said it's a rule that after the games their must be a legacy, how hard and fast it is I don't know.