I have to admit that whilst I am not a great contributor to Facebook, Insta etc etc I am slightly addicted to YouTube (YT).

"Slightly" according to Dartford Ghirl is probably the wrong word. Given I am a pensioner, I check YT daily mainly to see latest on when, or if, we are heading for a financial crash and my hard earned pension will disappear! The hard earned bit is tongue in check, I loved my job and it often didn't feel like work.

I digress...

Most of my time on YT is watching anything West Ham, in the hope that someone in the know (ITK) can feed me some good news that we are about to sign Messi or the club is sold to a billionaire knight in shinning armour with a love for West Ham offering fans everything they could possibly dream of!

The point of the post to get a feel on The Org if you do the same and thoughts on the latest fall out with Gonzo verses the pantomime villain Brothers Grim :o)

Boogerscaravan Jnr, the little scamp. Came up with a bit of a tongue in cheek curve ball at the weekend. He said Dad, if the Kretin in the sky buys West Ham outright. Does that mean he can buy the stadium??

I said I don't think it's that simple. But he was hankering for it be be knocked about and renamed.

The Postman Pat Stadium anybody........?

Well gang, it's D Day shiz or bust time. No more debating after today.

Personally I think we are going to smash the granny out of Leeds today!!

We will do our bit. We have to. The rest is in the lap of the Gods.

Which is funny as I'm a staunch atheist - COYI..!!!

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Well hello to all the .orgers that still frequent the site from back in the day, and hello to those I don’t know.

Time moves fast, too fast for my liking sometimes.

Firstly, I wanted to pay my respects to Nev for the years of work, brilliant writing and management of the .org.

This place gave me my first outlet to share, moan, vocalise and opinionate (yes I’m making that a word). It was always done with humour, and fairly managed by Nev.

The early days of fans forums, moving away from the paper fanzine, it had a fantastic buzz and group of passionate fans that made a brilliant site.

I was so sad to learn of his loss, but really pleased to see Louis take on the mantle, and that new forum members are contributing.

I’ve been away a long time. Life evolves, things change, priorities move.

I’m no different, managing a family and work I had to concentrate elsewhere.

However, this will be the first time 25 years I’ll be giving up my season ticket.

Is it knee jerk reaction to the inevitable and deserved relegation?

No. Been through this more times than I care to remember. And maybe (hopefully) it may push Sully out to the wasteland where he belongs.

No, this has been long coming.

The first death knell was VAR. Killing in stadium experience, second guessing myself when a goal is scored, to the extent that I now never celebrate properly until I’m convinced everything is agreed.
I won't even discuss the decisions is does or doesnt give...its just beyond the pale.

The second was the football. By almost every team. Sheep. The keeper having the ball more than a forward. Sideways passing, going back, ball retention. Bores me to absolute tears.

I can count the number of games that have had me excited on one hand in the last 5 years.

Everyone trying to copy the Pep method, but with players nowhere the same standard. So we end up in a banal, lifeless cycle of turgid football.

The third was the 8pm Saturday KO. Even though I hate the 12:30, as it’s far too early to generate an atmosphere, even the 8pm Monday I swallowed as I could often go from work. But 8pm on a Saturday? That’s when I’m going out (well, I sometimes have a social life) or watching a film on the sofa, having a takeaway – essentially having down time and family time, not watching football and getting home at 11:30. Really is the TV companies ruling and now actively pushing attending fans away.

And they’ve won.

I don’t care enough anymore. The accumulation of the above has just drained my love of the game.

I’ve frequented lower league games more in the last 3 years. Having a beer, standing watching, knowing you only have to check the lino for a decision, and the game only lasting 90 – 93 mins tops.

I’ve not even mentioned the stadium, and lack of effort or attempted effort to create a home, a surrounding area to make it feel like us, but we know that ship sailed the minute they signed the lease.

There have been some good atmospheres in there – European nights obviously – but it just became abundantly clear from day one it would never work as a football stadium.

Tifos and flags won’t change that.

Tourists masked attendances….well, the Championship will show them what they’re actually left with.

The cavernous distance from the pitch, but worse, the gaps between stands, will never address that. Sure, UP had quiet days, BUT, it was OUR home. This place has never felt like that.

Another point that drilled that home was Bonzo’s death. I took flowers up there, and all we had was some railings outside his stand – no actual physical monument for anything WHU related – just blowing in the wind…homeless.

Unless we get some rich, decent owners, with plans for a purpose built stadium, ambition to engage with fans and listen, implement a strategy that we can all see and understand, agree a playing style and culture from youth ttoo first team…then I cannot see us ever reaching what most of us dream of.

There is the counter argument that no one has a divine right to all this. And that’s true. But we play and watch the game to dream and aspire to be better don’t we? I’d rather dream than fade and die.

So if you’ve read these ramblings, thank you.

I’ll be lurking in the future! But the days of the Flying Physio Room are gone. While it was fun to dramatize the often bizarre decisions our club made, it was always tongue in cheek – and always with a tinge of sadness that we’re so often poorly managed from top to bottom – but, humour is a great combatant and antidote to that – and maybe we shouldn’t take things too seriously? I certainly don’t anymore over football.

So we’ll see what future hold over the weekend.

I’ll still follow us with interest, but now from an armchair…and not at 8pm on a Sunday...

I know we've all got our opinion about players ,for years I was against Souhec making the team but this year I've been proved wrong,he's turned into a warrior on the pitch and a real gent off it,but this Pablo geezer is a different proposition, I can see the own at the club we paid 20 million for him ,who ever they are,falling around the place laughing,I can't think of a single player ,for any club that I think is do out of touch with what's goin on ,it's come to the point where I'm beginning to feel sorry for him ,he doesn't seem to have the basic stuff that it takes to be a pro footballer ,it completely does my head in .he runs arownd the place as if he's thinking " what the f*#k am I doin here .in front of all these people ,I never signed for this lot ,I signed for Maidstone town " ,anyway I seriously would love to know ye're opinion of him , sometimes I wonder if my age is playing tricks on me ,that I don't see things in the context that others do ,but this guy ??? Seriously.

The results for spurs n forest and now man c practically assure our relegation

Arsenal beat us to win title.

Was a good ride but its done

Never good having to rely on others to help you out and now we are back in the shit because what was once in our own hands is now gone.
You can say what you like about how "unlucky we were against Brentford" but the fact is we lost because we never tried to win until we were losing....Everton we got away with because of the ridiculous subs and trying to defend a one goal lead for 20mins+Lucky for Nuno Wilson saved his bacon but a leopard wont change its spots and because of that we are down........yes we are no point in thinking anything else.
So whats next? well the future is easy to predict regarding player exodus on a scale we saw last summer and oh how those decisions have come to bite us in the arse eh Sullivan Brady Potter and co...I can see Nuno either walking or getting the bullet and just who would we give the job to? who has experience of getting a club out of the meat grinder that is the championship? who is available for £0? why one Scott Parker of course and do not be surprised if/when that happens.
So now some of the Academy players will be promoted to the first team and if we have any cash left after paying off some of the debt we will get journeymen on low wages to try and flesh out the squad and help the youngsters try and cope with fan demands of an immediate return but what then if we did manage to get promoted? and that most certainly is going to be a big ask to do that.
So we get back to the promise land by some miracle you are then struck with the new financial rules so as the Barcodes have discovered about the closed shop that is the Prem you can have all the money in the world but you are not allowed to spend it you can only use what you generate and so from being a stable Prem club(i no i laughed at that when i typed it)by being mismanaged for so many years the likes of Brentford/Palace/Fulham/Villa(rmbr they were in the championship)/Bournemouth/Forest/Leeds/Sunderland...all who were below us when we won the Conference league will be pushing on and so we will become a Yo Yo club neither one thing or the other.
Painting a pretty bleak future you may say but i am just pointing out the reality of the situation...It wont stop me supporting the club but years of mismanagement has Lead to this and the next 10 years will not be any better with owners like ours who stumble from one wrong decision to the next.

With all the drama going on in the boardroom and the power struggle for control of the club i would like to hear from those of you who have attended home matches about what may happen long term.

The biggest gripe of course is the stadium and if Sullivan gets booted out Kretinsky or whoever is in control must address this situation hopefully and if we were given permission to build a new "football" stadium would you be happy for it to remain where it is now or prefer a move off the site to somewhere with better access?

Having heard many horror stories of getting to and from the stadium i thought i'd ask those with experience of doing so would you like to stay or go if a new ground is proffered in the coming years.

And where would you like the new ground to be built if you are for the move away.

Spuds fans and players jumping around smiling cheering grinning like they had won the league after Simmons goal only to get a swift kick in the balls when Brighton got there Edward Woodward.....Loved the scenes then of all those sad teary eyed wankers realising they are still in the shit and deservedly so.

Now we have to capitalise on that slip up because until the last ball of the seasons kicked it is a proper dog fight and one we must not lose specially to that bunch of tossers so come on West Ham you have a chance to open up clear daylight on Monday night and add even more pressure onto that lot COYI