So own up then, who was consulted ?

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According to Levy 90 per cent of Spurs fans wanted to move to the OS. Maybe it was the same consultation as we had.
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As one of the 2.5 listed can I point out when I sat down with Ian tompkins there were 4 of us in the room so really you should show 5.5. But only 1 of them posts on kumb so it could be 3.5
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dapablo wrote:Is it really relevant anyway ?

If he didn't actualy consult more than a couple of fans so was over egging the pudding for media speak, so what.
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Mywhufc - did Ian give any indication when plans were going to be announce after the decision was made?
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When people tell porkies, it makes you wonder when they really tell the truth, if they are telling the truth. We all know there are not 17,000 waiting for a season ticket. We know they haven't consulted fans , so when they say they are looming at seats over the track can we believe them
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EvilC wrote:Mywhufc - did Ian give any indication when plans were going to be announce after the decision was made?
He said that once they get preferred bidder then they will look to draw up detail plans. He also said that it's not set in stone that they will take it i.e if it looks as being too expensive to convert they could refuse the stadium. I dont cling to that hope though. I hope to meet with him this week or next week . I will ask that question
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Thank you and good luck with the meeting.
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I was consulted and so was my wife.Welease Woger.
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the pink palermo wrote:Still 5.5 then ?
Looks that way

Consultation

Supporter consultation with regards to the move is already under way. Club representatives have already met/spoken with a number of supporters since West Ham's move was given the green light a fortnight ago.
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Dieter Eckstein wrote:I've got to say that if I was a neutral, just turning on the news and reading the papers, I would have no idea that there was a great deal of opposition to the Olympic move from West Ham fans.
I spoke to Sky several months ago about doing a piece on the opposition to the move. They weren't interested.
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Email just sent out from the club:
Last week's momentous decision by the Olympic Park Legacy Company to recommend us as preferred bidder marks just the start of what will be a hugely significant period in the club’s history. We know you will have hundreds of questions and we hope to answer some of those initial questions right away. Please click on the link below to find out more about what happens next and to have your most common questions answered:

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As the section above describes in greater detail there have been restrictions on what we have been able to share with you up until this point. Rest assured, we will be stepping up our consultation with you - when we have the opportunity to do so under the OPLC process. That said until now we have been regularly updating people and asking for fan feedback via articles on whufc.com, emails to supporters and the matchday programme – and we are grateful to everyone who has responded.

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Up the Junction wrote:I spoke to Sky several months ago about doing a piece on the opposition to the move. They weren't interested.
i tried but press were not interested, only the recorder spoke to me after i emailed in complaining that i had no response from them and that they advertised spurs fans petition against their move and had ignored mine.
sky interviewed me outside the ground took about 15 mins they used about 15 seconds, then so many west ham supporting journalists were pro move, the worse in my book being the clubs personal spokesman and supposedly journalist, the moose. the way he trotted out the clubs facts on consultation the supposed 17,000 waiting list pissed me right off. i thought journalists were supposed to investigate both sides of the story
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To be honest, whether we were consulted or not I'm pretty certain now it would have made no difference.

The owners would have been aware of the misgivings, and until Spurs interest, the majority being opposed to the move because of the track. Why else would they have needed to quote Tony Carr and PDC saying a stadium with a running track would be fine?
It was a case of paying lip-service to the fans prior to winning the bid, and possibly only marginally more interest in their views now I suspect. So it will be white seats, temporary seating only behind the goals, toilets, big screens so that we can see what's happening and......... er, that's it I reckon.

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Reckon the media are waiting for something a bit more juicy....for example maybe a few brown envelopes flying about.
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I thought they couldn't run official consultation until the deal had been rubber stamped by the Government, which still hasn't happened. So you're unlikely to see any change in the numbers till then pink palermo.
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