Work is progressing to finish the new ‘KOP Style’ East stand at the Olympic Stadium ahead of the first Rugby World Cup game in the stadium on Wednesday 23rd September. This new work will use relocatable seats to bridge the gap between the upper and lower stands on the East side of the stadium to create one enormous almost continuous stand.
When complete the East Stand will hold 20,000 supporters and have the words ‘West Ham’ emblazoned across it which will be complemented by a giant crossed hammer symbol, synonymous with the Hammers, appearing across the lower tier seats and both the North and South stands.
These pictures below taken at weekend show the progress in filling the gap.
Chicken run with a running track ….class. lets keep a little tradition.
Like the sound of the Boleyn Wall. Let’s be clear that it’s being called A Kop and not The K and by the time we are in there it will be the Billy Bonds Stand.
Most of the running track is still visible. If this is with the retractable seats in football mode, my seat in the East stand row 47 is going to be miles away.
Don’t worry Tadlad they are about to hide the track under artificial grass over the next few days
In remembrance of our current ground it should be called the Boleyn Wall.
I thought that got knocked down HH 😀
By calling it the chicken run would be something we could take to the os and make it feel more like home ! Upton park !
We need to take something with us and this would be permanent wouldn’t it !
Simples!!!!
It is the east stand in West Ham’s home ground so it is clearly The Chicken Run.
Calling it the Kop is just so lazy,it is nothing like a Kop should be or the intended us of the word Kop in football grounds.It also reminds me of Liverpool & all their scarf lifting w*nkers in theirs.Makes me feel sick everytime i have that vision,lol
There is no one definitive description of a Kop stand just the general concept that is one expanse as opposed to over hanging multi layered terracing, which is where the hill comparison came from. I think the Charlton terracing was the first to gain that description. I think it was useful to give an idea to fans of what they were getting but equally I don’t really want it to be applied long term to that side of the stadium. Chicken Run would work for me especially if only applied to the lower section (as the original always had a temporary feel about it for obvious reasons) and has the advantage of linking back to the Boleyn and our long history there.
Its total bs,Kop is fine for steep terracing but bares no resemblance to what we will have in the East Stand.Kop means something like hill,which is why the steeper terraces at grounds got the name.How does that have any relevance to the east stand at the OS.Its crap,lol 😉
Rads be careful this will open up a huge debate about LLDC funding so as a good friend of ours would say ” It’s Brady’s fault, it’s Nolans’s fault that the new stand doesn’t look right and it’s all down the 1 million we paid her and the 50k a week we paid him”..
What about
CHICKEN RUN !!!
SIMPLES !
I am uneasy with the term ‘KOP’.
Yes ‘KOP’ is short and simple but is not a West Ham term.
I hated the use of it at our session for booking our season ticket seats in this East Stand.
Can anyone think of a better name for our ‘End’? (which is not at any end of the ground).