East Londoner

Closest DLR station to the London Stadium which is more useful after the game due to restrictions put in place in the Olympic park and at Westfield is Pudding Mill Lane and only a 5 minute walk from the away end 

19 minutes ago, Lennieb said:

He's got the basics of  a decent solid full back imo ,puts in a good block and Has got a decent stong tackle on him ,yes there are bits missing but with decent coaching you could see a player there who could end up banging in a lot of appearances . I sit in the south and tbh there are some people pretty negative about him most weeks so you can't please everyone I suppose .

Wikipedia says he’s already made 56 championship appearances for us, not bad for a £300,000 signing from Carlisle 

As for coaching you’re right he has the basics and it’s probably easier to coach him to do the extra than it would be to coach a wide player to be a solid defender 

Longer term i could see him being a right centre back probably as part of a 3 

20 minutes ago, Andy082005 said:

The booking for Conway in the first few minutes summed the ***** up 

I thought the Sunderland players reaction got him booked in fairness 

Given there’s engineering work on the Sunday and everything is going via the Berks and Hants it’s very unlikely 

24 minutes ago, MattWSM said:

I'm going from Paddington to WsM

what is a shuttle train service?

One that only operates from Chippenham to Bristol but as you’ll be going from Weston you won’t be on it you’ll be going the scenic route 

7 hours ago, MattWSM said:

Do you know if its rail replacement via buses

For Chippenham there’s a shuttle train service to Bath and Bristol, for Swindon it’s a bus to Reading 

1 hour ago, Club and Country said:

I've just checked and don't think so, just looks like it won't be stopping in Chippenham/swindon 

There’s engineering work between Swindon and Reading so will go through Trowbridge and Newbury instead hence not stopping at Chippenham and Swindon 

Its quite a nice divert actually but slightly longer as takes two hours from Bristol 

25 minutes ago, Club and Country said:

Which ones out of interest? Just bought our train tickets 

Trains will be diverted via Newbury adding some time to journeys but not an enormous amount 

11 minutes ago, slartibartfast said:

Must be the worst ever of the new "super" grounds !

By all accounts it’s a decent athletics stadium, problem is politically it’s a bad look removing the athletics so we’re left with a compromise that pleases nobody 

Saying that, once they started winning a lot of the West Ham fans complaints quieted down a lot 

14 minutes ago, W-S-M Seagull said:

It's a wide angle lens which is making it look so bad. 

This is more representative.

 

Being a local I’ve done some West Ham games and it’s a fairly accurate illustration of the away end. For some reason the gap between upper and lower tiers is more pronounced at the away end 

3 minutes ago, Kid in the Riot said:

Certainly a chance West Ham will cross-check Bristol addresses with City. So if going home end make sure you get it sent to an address that won't be on City's database. 

I had that issue in reverse a few seasons back for the Brighton game at the end of the season and having a London address, city ended up contacting Brighton before allowing me to buy a ticket 

Funnily enough for this game I’m on both teams database 

Should anyone be seriously considering buying in the home sections 

47 minutes ago, View from the Dolman said:

I think that's for tracked postage - presumably both clubs are keen to avoid the possibility of tons of tickets going AWOL in the post (especially with some of the recent reports in the Bristol Post).

Also no collections at the London Stadium 

2 minutes ago, supercidered said:

Any decent Away Fans Pubs near the ground?

Theres barely any decent one for home fans 

1 hour ago, stortfordred said:

Last time I went there for football, Westfield was shut for football fans. You had to walk all the way round.

They do that for every West Ham home game unfortunately 

In fairness a lot of the weaknesses people talk about on this thread are things that Manning could potentially work on. He’s a good solid defender which is a good base to start with

Obviously Manning isn’t going to improve players overnight 

Funnily enough in the Southampton game i thought he was one of our better players 

2 hours ago, Kingswood Robin said:

If only it was that easy. If your team have a free Sunday, the Avon youth league is now actively moving fixtures forward, without even discussing it with the coaches of either team ! The team we were due to play is involved in the cup and the only team they could force us to play, we would have already played twice. So we've got lucky that weekend.

Genuine question as I’m curious, what happens if one or both teams don’t turn up? Presumably if one don’t they forfeit but what about both?

I’m undecided as train strikes etc make going to home games a long day but renewed this season as had a feeling of FOMO whilst we were under Nige. 

Whilst under the new head coach I’ve seen glimpses like the first half at Southampton I’ve kind lost that FOMO

Ideally for me the club would introduce a more flexible season ticket which would allow me to pick and choose games more as the choice currently is getting a season ticket or being a member and paying silly matchday prices with a small discount 
 

13 minutes ago, RedM said:

That's the max yes, I was just reading about what other teams have had in the past. I think there must be an option of upper or lower tier, or both. 8k being both which I'm sure we will ask for

I love the DLR. Disappointed whenever I go to London and don't use the DLR

When the stadium opened the fans in the cheapest seats had to sign a disclaimer stating that their seats wouldn’t be available for cup games due to the 10% requirement 

The regular away allocation is both upper and lower tiers. The lower is temporary seating which is closer to the pitch whilst the upper tier (including the extra bit for cup games) is some distance from the pitch 

As a local who’s been there a few times for football the away section is in two sections. The lower tier is temporary seating albeit closer to the pitch whereas the upper tier is permanent seating but some distance from the pitch 

Ideal draw for me as will be home within half hour of the final whistle 

Kenny Dalglish won the double at Liverpool and the league with Blackburn and was some player 

12 minutes ago, Shauntaylor85 said:

confused as you can still book a ticket back from Bristol to London and it’s not a GWR strike day. 

Tickets have now been removed from the system, apparently it’s possible to get from Waterloo to Bristol via Salisbury although that’ll be a little cosy

Think I’ve solved the Dolman PA problems, use 3 speakers rather than 1

4 hours ago, Never to the dark side said:

The fare is forty pounds,like others have said its a brisk walk or get a taxi

Won't be out of breath,as I am staying in Southampton,hoping to speak on Radio Bristol after the game.

£40? Is it a sedan chair to the station?