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Well played Jaan.

Says it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sir Alf" wrote: 22 Jul 2025, 15:54 Sullivans latest meddling in the football side of the business and using the clubs money to engineer a way to make sure his agent mates get some dosh fir another season, should help bolster the petition.

Owners should not involve themselves in an aspects of an industry they have no background or understanding of.  No other owners do that anymore and havent for decades.

Nothing changes until Sullivan’s gone or meets his maker. Of course the sons could be worse 😱
To make sure "his agent mates get some dosh". Can people not see this is about lining his own pocket...not Salthouse. Salthouse is a facilitator....a legitimate way of extracting money from the Club, and then channelling it post extraction.

He doesn't favour Salthouse and try and give him money because he's a mate. It's because there is personal gain involved.
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Sullivans latest meddling in the football side of the business and using the clubs money to engineer a way to make sure his agent mates get some dosh fir another season, should help bolster the petition.

Owners should not involve themselves in an aspects of an industry they have no background or understanding of.  No other owners do that anymore and havent for decades.

Nothing changes until Sullivan’s gone or meets his maker. Of course the sons could be worse 😱
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I do have a solution to speed up the process. Rig the fucker just as GSB managed with their bullshitting loaded YouGov Questionnaire that they then used against the fanbase as 'concrete proof' for moving. Purposely manufactured questions in such a way that presented fans as really wanting to leave The Boleyn for the Olympic Stadium. So what's good for the goose is good for the gander... 

I doubt it would be necessary anyway as the signatures should eventually become substantial, more to make the point they blagged it to get a desired result. 
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Swiss. wrote: 22 Jul 2025, 14:25 If we start having a bad season and a relegation fight I'm sure the number of signatures will rise exponentially. 
Says there’s a lot of fickle cunts in our support. They need to get off their arses and get involved. 
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If we start having a bad season and a relegation fight I'm sure the number of signatures will rise exponentially. 
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It's worth noting that just about 5,600 have now already signed it. Some didn't think it would get more than a few hundred once upon a time due to apathy. I reckon we could double that before the seasons out. 

From the acorn grows the mighty oak..
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Massive Attack" wrote: 22 Jul 2025, 12:23
GBHammer63 wrote: 22 Jul 2025, 12:13 The petition should have ten times the amount of signatures, our support that moan about the direction the club is going but can’t be bothered to sign up must be thick beyond belief.
It may well make no difference, but if you don’t sign up it’s like giving Sullivan and Brady the green light.
GBHammer gets it.
It should, but many don't think the petition will do anything. 

There's a disengaged fanbase or indifferent. 

I remember in the early days leafletting for Hammers United and the amount of comments about how people enjoyed what the club was doing was mind-blowing. This would have been 2019 and I don't think much has changed. 

We used to be followed by men, now it's birds galore and their effeminate lefty male mates instagramming, away fans in the home end and tourists. 

Relegation might do us a favour. 
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GBHammer63 wrote: 22 Jul 2025, 12:13 The petition should have ten times the amount of signatures, our support that moan about the direction the club is going but can’t be bothered to sign up must be thick beyond belief.
It may well make no difference, but if you don’t sign up it’s like giving Sullivan and Brady the green light.
GBHammer gets it.
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The petition should have ten times the amount of signatures, our support that moan about the direction the club is going but can’t be bothered to sign up must be thick beyond belief.
It may well make no difference, but if you don’t sign up it’s like giving Sullivan and Brady the green light.
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Send me a tenner and I'll sign 
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5,570 signatures. I've sent he link to as all my WH mates. Keep spreading the word. 
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I signed the petition and donated a tenner . Got to our bit right. 
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Jean-Luc Paul Goddard" wrote: 16 Jul 2025, 12:17
Swiss. wrote: 16 Jul 2025, 11:53
Massive Attack" wrote: 15 Jul 2025, 12:09 I notice the petition has jumped up in sigs by 1,000 in a week. 👀 




 
Where is the petition?
Link to the petition is stickied as an announcement on the Football Forum.

Looks like the announcements don't show up when you view this site as All Forums, which I imagine a lot of people do.
Good spot. Is stickied to All Forums now too.
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There is a certain school of thought that once a petition reaches 5,000 signatures that is the foundation for it to kick on quickly as long as it's shared widely and cross referenced amongst as many different fan groups as possible who must be able to see the writing on the wall at this stage. Even KUMB have been getting a bit fruity lately 🙄

I'm not saying it will make much of a difference to the overall situation but at least make sure the link is always posted across all media whether it's online or a downloadable flyer or poster that can be printed. 

At least do things properly. FFS
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Swiss. wrote: 16 Jul 2025, 11:53
Massive Attack" wrote: 15 Jul 2025, 12:09 I notice the petition has jumped up in sigs by 1,000 in a week. 👀 



 
Where is the petition?
Link to the petition is stickied as an announcement on the Football Forum.

Looks like the announcements don't show up when you view this site as All Forums, which I imagine a lot of people do.
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Massive Attack" wrote: 15 Jul 2025, 12:09 I notice the petition has jumped up in sigs by 1,000 in a week. 👀 


 
Where is the petition?
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I notice the petition has jumped up in sigs by 1,000 in a week. 👀 

 
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We don't need players that can keep the ball, we need a team that can keep the ball.
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Swiss. wrote: 14 Jul 2025, 16:31
 
The problem with this is that you get players that the manager doesn't want to play and will not be played.
 
 
That is simple. Objectively select a coach in line with the vison of the club. Twats who park players in a sulk would not get employed in the first place. Potter had little say at Brighton, he coached. Talent selection was lead by Tony Bloom and his patented algorithm supported by analysts. The Idea of an omnipotent manager is outdated. Guardiola; Slot; Howe; etc. are primarily coaches. 
Most clubs have a functioning structure. Sure they have to work within their means and some, like Villa stretch to the point of breaking. The coach participates in identifying a type of player and the analysts, coach and financial managers draw up a long list, short list and as team hire a player within their means. It isn't 100% guaranteed, but is far more likely to succeed than random selection by an owner or a manager picking an individual and then an owner trying to do a deal.
Even Moyes gets it now.  Two of the players he has signed for Everton first came on his radar through Tim Steidten and his team at West Ham. Yet Steidten went for "disappointing recruitment", as did Hussilos and Numan.
We are a circus and until Sullivan goes we will remain so.
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I think unless you can afford/attract world class attackers who keep the ball all the time, score plenty and you don't have to worry about defending, most managers have to build from the back really. Especially for us right now given that's our glaring weakness. CB, CDM, CM. Establish a platform and then build on it. It's a lot easier to stop conceding goals than it is to start scoring them in huge numbers.

Ironically we've firstly bought a wing back which is none of those positions, but I'd hope to god at least one CB (ideally two but we can make do with Todibo, Kilman and one other, I guess- seen as neither of those are going anywhere any time soon unless Todibo IS being flipped- but I think that would have happened already unless there's an earliest date it can) and one or two CM's come in along with a striker. It's the minimum we need but it's a start. 
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ATHammer wrote: 14 Jul 2025, 15:43 Potter's rebuild starts with a defender. I have no idea whether Diouff is any good or not. I hope he is and hope he becomes world class for us.
Dinosaurs build from the back. Moyes did it, Dawson, backs to the wall; and latterly, Aguerd, an excellent player in the right system and league, not suited to Moyesball or constant defending but, apparently, watched for two years.  Loppetegui did it, Kilman who is no leader, not worth £40m and probably impossible to shift.
This latest start from the back demonstrates why, beyond a shadow of a doubt, we need a Director of football. Sullivan "Backing" the latest manager to rebuild in his own image with a mixture of Sullivan choices and the managers wished for players is pointless from the team building point of view (maybe not the owners) and, ultimately, will lead to another rebuild in the near future as we achieve, at best, the apparent objective of survival without troubling the upper levels of the league too much and remain uncompetitive in the cups.
After all you can always blame, Hussillos; Newman; Steidten; Macaulay as it is easier than looking in the mirror to see the real problem. 
Progressive ownership would change this outdated fiefdom approach. 
We are crying out for an identity; a vision; strategy; tactics to deliver that strategy and the growth of the club. Recruitment, and sales, should be in line with that identity. In short progress not simply regular change, lurching from one disappointment to the next.
Sullivan won't deliver that progress so we will never be the World Class Team his acolyte promised whilst he is in charge.  
The problem with this is that you get players that the manager doesn't want to play and will not be played.
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Potter's rebuild starts with a defender. I have no idea whether Diouff is any good or not. I hope he is and hope he becomes world class for us.
Dinosaurs build from the back. Moyes did it, Dawson, backs to the wall; and latterly, Aguerd, an excellent player in the right system and league, not suited to Moyesball or constant defending but, apparently, watched for two years.  Loppetegui did it, Kilman who is no leader, not worth £40m and probably impossible to shift.
This latest start from the back demonstrates why, beyond a shadow of a doubt, we need a Director of football. Sullivan "Backing" the latest manager to rebuild in his own image with a mixture of Sullivan choices and the managers wished for players is pointless from the team building point of view (maybe not the owners) and, ultimately, will lead to another rebuild in the near future as we achieve, at best, the apparent objective of survival without troubling the upper levels of the league too much and remain uncompetitive in the cups.
After all you can always blame, Hussillos; Newman; Steidten; Macaulay as it is easier than looking in the mirror to see the real problem. 
Progressive ownership would change this outdated fiefdom approach. 
We are crying out for an identity; a vision; strategy; tactics to deliver that strategy and the growth of the club. Recruitment, and sales, should be in line with that identity. In short progress not simply regular change, lurching from one disappointment to the next.
Sullivan won't deliver that progress so we will never be the World Class Team his acolyte promised whilst he is in charge.  
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Monsieur merde de cheval" wrote: 13 Jul 2025, 03:41
Keep dreaming" wrote: 12 Jul 2025, 19:41
eusebiovic wrote: 12 Jul 2025, 09:14
I think it's a pretty damning fact that as football teams around the world were tearing down their municipal athletics stadiums to build a proper football stadium modelled on the atmosphere of a traditional British ground that those idiots shoehorned us into the worst possible example of a municipal athletics stadium totally unfit for football.
Still there are fans thinking this pile of shit is decent.
West Ham are broken
Broken ?
what the fuck is that.
We'll never be broken..ever.
 smurfs tenure is kangooroo shit compared to the Cairns .
We will see off smurf ..like we saw off uncle terrence and his gob - shite  goffer on capital radio every chance they had slagging us off ..

We prevail...cos it's what we do best

Not sure what you find difficult to understand?
Broken in a sense that it is not working. 
If something isn't working properly, it has to be fixed. Most parts of West Ham need fixing, and maybe the vital part is the head cսnt Sullivan.
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