Board/Fan Relationship

Comments

• BubblesNeverDies

  March 2018

  The cancellation of a march on Saturday was claimed as one of the triggers for crowd trouble against Burnley.
  
  I keep reading this as cancellation of a match. If only.
• ASLEFshrugged

  March 2018

  I don't see the point of a march, if the intention is to make the board aware of the discontent some fans are feeling then I think they got the message on Saturday
• BubblesNeverDies

  March 2018

  Aslef, the board will say there was a small minority of protesters - no more than 1% - and therefore unrepresentative. In my opinion, if there were to be a march it would have to be at least 10 times as many people for the board to take it seriously.
• PrestonHammer

  March 2018 edited March 2018

  I really hope his sons don't takeover the running of our club. I think that would be an absolute disaster.
• MunichHammer

  March 2018

  Based on what, Preston?
• Hammerwombat

  March 2018

  Apart from being privileged and possibly a little spoilt, I don’t think that should stop you taking over the running of the club? I don’t know but they might be quite good at it .
• PrestonHammer

  March 2018 edited March 2018

  Like Aslef posted earlier, I have read somewhere that David Sullivan has said he has no intention of selling up and will leave his shares to his sons.
  
  http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11685/10113522/david-sullivan-insists-west-ham-is-not-for-sale
  
  
• Hammerwombat

  March 2018

  Much like a lot of other business people in many other walks of life, including football.
• chicagohammer

  March 2018

  horshamhammer said:

  This times about 100 million.
  
  https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/west-ham-cant-continue-in-london-stadium-0h60m9d23

  Pretty hard to disagree with any of that, sadly
  
• ASLEFshrugged

  March 2018

  David Sullivan Jnr aka "the notorious Dave Sullivan" (according to his Instagram account) recently declared he was the "new Hugh Hefner" while showing off his £11m central London apartment (owned by his Dad obviously) to The Sun, The Mail and the rest. Hefner made his own fortune while Dave is "working" for his dad so perhaps the "new Donald Trump" would be more accurate,
  
  He's only 20, maybe he'll mature with age........
  
  
• claretandbluesky

  March 2018

  Well we all gotta have something to aspire to and if you were bought up by a porn baron I guess Hugh Hefner would fill that role. There are probably not too many 20 year old lads however who would see Hugh Hefner as something to aspire to in 2018 as he is a little bit 70's. Sully and he were a little similar I guess as both were primarily associated with porn but where as Hugh Hefner created Playboy sully created the Sunday Sport !
• ianbishoplegend

  March 2018

  I think Sullivan Jr comes across a little naive, but he is a youngster. He has the right attitude to succeed, and I wish him all the best.
• IronHerb

  March 2018

  Do you know him personally ibl?
• MunichHammer

  March 2018

  Why does it matter how somebody made his fortune? In what way is it relevant whether somebody earned millions selling porn or cars? As long as it is legal (i.e. not drugs or weapons to terrorists) I could't care less what they did.
• ASLEFshrugged

  March 2018

  "Notorious Dave" didn't make his fortune, his dad did
  
  However on the other side there is Jacqueline Gold who took over Ann Summers and turned it from a small chain of seedy sex shops patronised by men in dirty raincoats into a multi million pound business with 135 stores across the UK by some out-of-the-box thinking.
  
  If any of the kids are going to take over I'd prefer her
• Pearces_Left_Foot

  March 2018

  http://thehlist.blogspot.de/2018/03/west-ham-0-3-burnley-and-other-ramblings.html
  
  A good read (warning some naughty words included !)
• Pearces_Left_Foot

  March 2018

  https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-to-appoint-a-director-of-football-as-david-sullivan-takes-a-step-back-from-transfer-a3788646.html
  
  West Ham to appoint director of football , a good move if a bit late
• ASLEFshrugged

  March 2018

  https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2018/mar/13/david-squires-on-west-hams-chaotic-cauldron-of-infighting
• grey_til_I_dye

  March 2018

  What a strange thing to say.
• MrsGrey

  March 2018 edited March 2018

  Make it someone who knows what they are doing, surely?
  
  Best way to win support - sign some good players.
• IronHerb

  March 2018

  No, get someone who knows what they're doing.
• MrsGrey

  March 2018

  ;whistle
• IronHerb

  March 2018

  Throwing your hat in the ring Mrs G? ;wink
• Slaven_Cups_His_Beard

  March 2018

  Pearces_Left_Foot said:

  https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/west-ham-to-appoint-a-director-of-football-as-david-sullivan-takes-a-step-back-from-transfer-a3788646.html
  
  West Ham to appoint director of football , a good move if a bit late

  Only 8 years late.....
  
  Still got there in the end
• claretandbluesky

  March 2018

  I think we need the sharpest brain possible and someone who has proved themselves in the industry. A Daniel Levy type character. I actually think the worst thing we could do is get a hammers legend in as that wouldn't qualify them within the post. Paolo would stop the protests overnight and have them singin his name but not sure he would be qualified to fulfil such a pivotal role. I do recognise that Sir Trev has been involved in the game behind the scenes for a long time but not sure he would want a role that could potentially lose him all the love he has. Other than Sir Trev no other legends come to mind for such a pivotal role.
• ASLEFshrugged

  March 2018

  Sir Trev will be 70 in October so perhaps he's happy being retired, he's packed a lot of football into one working life.
  
  I have to say that given the boards past performance in filling staff roles I'm not expecting much but I'm not discounting the possibility that I could be pleasantly surprised
• TheMadcapLaughs

  March 2018

  Munich, when did selling weapons to terrorists become illegal. Most governments do it. Nice little earner.
• grey_til_I_dye

  March 2018

  Posh
  
  Indeed it was.
  
  Because, imo, it was.
  
  Are you in any doubt?
  
  Do you know of any club that gives the Director of Football the power to set transfer budgets?
• TheMadcapLaughs

  March 2018

  The pig thing. Is that because you just agreed with Grey, or was it the £60 million transfer kitty??
• MrsGrey

  March 2018

  It (the level of responsibility) will be part of the job description/contract, presumably.
  
  We may or may not get to know the details (after all, why should we - people are entitled to privacy in their employment matters (unless they are public servants).