The Olympic Stadium is due to host its first Rugby World Cup match in little under a month when France and Romania run out at the soon-to-be home of West Ham, yet it looks like there's an awful lot of work to do before things are running smoothly in East London.
For starters, the water sprinklers spontaneously turned on during the maiden match to take place at the stadium between the Barbarians and Samoa, giving the players a soaking midway through the first half.
While tempers flared on the pitch in the form of a red card to Samoa’s Kane Thompson for scrapping with the Baabaas’ Saia Fainga'a, they may well have been off it as fans took to Twitter to complain about the alarming lack Wi-Fi and poor visibility from the seats.
A selection of the pictures are below:
Carl Hayman unsuccessfully tries to avoid the sprinklers
Bakkies Botha and Carl Hayman are soaked by the sprinklers
Need to sort out wifi at Olympic Stadium @rugbyworldcup, if you want social media saturation Coverage is appalling, only half full too.
; Tim Mackenzie (@SW20Macca) August 29, 2015
It's all going on at the Olympic Stadium. The sprinklers have now come on. Someone call the groundsman @Barbarian_FC. #rugbyunited
; Rugby Schedule ® (@rugbyschedule) August 29, 2015
With seats roughly 840 metres away from pitch I'd advise all West Ham fans to bring binoculars to Olympic Stadium. Specsavers to sponsor?
; Sam Peters (@Sam_sportsnews) August 29, 2015
Not quite what the Olympic Stadium expected... one Barbarian yellow card & one Samoan red card! Kane Thompson pic.twitter.com/Qrjn1KlaRA
; Emma Thurston (@EmmaThurston23) August 29, 2015
Not enough staff, not enough outlets, not enough thought. Shambolic at the Olympic Stadium's 1st rugby match. pic.twitter.com/GnQs1F1gqa
; Lance Bradley (@Lance_Bradley_) August 29, 2015
The stadium is due to host five matches during the upcoming World Cup – including the third-place play-off – and with fans eager to visit the venue that hosted one special moment during the London 2012 Olympics on Super Saturday, they’ll be very hopeful that the stadium itself will not ruin the event.
However, works at the stadium remain ongoing, and officials at the Olympic Stadium confirmed that plan are on course to have everything in place for the first game of the World Cup to take place there on Wednesday 23 September.
