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Poll Question: In your opinion whats the overall state of the current league stadia?
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Originally posted by cm79 cm79 wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Is Croke Park a county ground?

 
Its not, you got me there.
 
I would say that Parnell Park is in better shape than any LOI ground in Dublin.
better that Tallaght? Get up the yard
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Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Originally posted by cm79 cm79 wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Is Croke Park a county ground?

 
Its not, you got me there.
 
I would say that Parnell Park is in better shape than any LOI ground in Dublin.
better that Tallaght? Get up the yard

Tallaght is only marginally better 
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Originally posted by ABFC ABFC wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Originally posted by cm79 cm79 wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Is Croke Park a county ground?

 
Its not, you got me there.
 
I would say that Parnell Park is in better shape than any LOI ground in Dublin.
better that Tallaght? Get up the yard

Tallaght is only marginally better 

Parnell is without a doubt a better ground than Tallaght.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote cm79 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14 Aug 2015 at 7:45pm
I was on about LOI grounds in Dublin, I never mentioned Wicklow
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Originally posted by cm79 cm79 wrote:

I was on about LOI grounds in Dublin, I never mentioned Wicklow

Why do Bohs fans always make the Wicklow joke? It's f**king moronic. It was never funny
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Originally posted by 9fingers 9fingers wrote:

Originally posted by ABFC ABFC wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Originally posted by cm79 cm79 wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Is Croke Park a county ground?

 
Its not, you got me there.
 
I would say that Parnell Park is in better shape than any LOI ground in Dublin.
better that Tallaght? Get up the yard

Tallaght is only marginally better 

Parnell is without a doubt a better ground than Tallaght.
how?
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Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Rubbish. Places like Navan, Sligo and Drogheda are absolute holes, far worse than any LoI ground. Pairc Ui Caoimh is another stalinist armpit.

Or put another way, what county ground has the facilities and spectator comfort of Tallaght or Turners Cross? Casement, the Gaelic Grounds and possibly Semple stadium. The rest are way off the standard of better LoI venues.
Why are you always comparing everything to the GAA? Its a stupid comparison. Take my own county ground as an example. Most of it is terraced with one covered stand. You may argue the spectator comfort when the rain or hail is lashing the terraces , but on a nice day , there is nothing wrong with it. It can hold almost 45000 people when full to capacity. The main stand isn't anything fancy and could do with a facelift , but it seats over 9000 people with adequate facilities . I don't believe any LOI ground seats 9000 people. I know some GAA clubs in Kerry have by far better facilities and spectator comfort than some LOI clubs, not to mind county grounds so its another pointless argument. So once again you are talking complete and utter sh*t by saying the rest , including Fitzgerald Stadium are way off the standard of the better LOI facilities.
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Originally posted by Bitored Bitored wrote:

So I fell down a Wiki black hole last and I ended up looking up the SPL stadia. I was surprised as they are all pretty good grounds but (outside of Ibrox and Celtic Park) nothing exceptional and certainly achievable in this league.
What are peoples overall opinions of our current Stadia and hopes for the future?


Ibrox is not an SPL ground
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I won't go as far as the first division but in the premier we have a very mixed bag with some huge gaps between the best and the worst stadiums. Licensing really needs to be enforced on the culprits down at the bottom, some of them are in appalling state

Top of the class
Tallaght, Turners Cross

Good
Eamonn Deacy, Showgrounds

Okay but need improvements
Flancare, Markets Field (putting it in this category as can only go from what I've seen on the box since the upgrade), Richmond

Very poor need extensive work
Brandywell, Dalymount, United Park

Terrible simply not good enough
Carlisle Grounds, Oriel


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Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Originally posted by 9fingers 9fingers wrote:

Originally posted by ABFC ABFC wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Originally posted by cm79 cm79 wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Is Croke Park a county ground?

 
Its not, you got me there.
 
I would say that Parnell Park is in better shape than any LOI ground in Dublin.
better that Tallaght? Get up the yard

Tallaght is only marginally better 

Parnell is without a doubt a better ground than Tallaght.
how?

Capacity, 4 sides, location (as in~ not in the f**king mountains with a gale blowing through most games) 4/5 pubs within 3 minute walk, bar on site open to all, served by 7/8 bus routes and the Dart is 4 min walk away
As someone else said your fascination with the GAA is embarrassing
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How exactly is bray not good enough? Need new jacks but that's it

Saying it's worse than hunky dory is a joke
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Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Rubbish. Places like Navan, Sligo and Drogheda are absolute holes, far worse than any LoI ground. Pairc Ui Caoimh is another stalinist armpit.
 
Or put another way, what county ground has the facilities and spectator comfort of Tallaght or Turners Cross? Casement, the Gaelic Grounds and possibly Semple stadium. The rest are way off the standard of better LoI venues.
Pearse Park in Longford has no fire cert and they have to knock the main stand. 
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The Regional Sports Centre is a better ground than both Walsh Park and Fraher Field in Waterford which are 2 of the poorest county grounds around. I'm not saying that in a point scoring way as support both teams but it's a fact. Two modern covered stands at RSC versus 1 old stand at both GAA grounds with uncovered gravel or grass banks for the rest of the ground.
Some LOI grounds could do with improvement but funds are the issue.
Waterford City council run the RSC and could get grants as also used for athletics.
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Originally posted by 9fingers 9fingers wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Originally posted by 9fingers 9fingers wrote:

Originally posted by ABFC ABFC wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Originally posted by cm79 cm79 wrote:

Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Is Croke Park a county ground?

 
Its not, you got me there.
 
I would say that Parnell Park is in better shape than any LOI ground in Dublin.
better that Tallaght? Get up the yard

Tallaght is only marginally better 

Parnell is without a doubt a better ground than Tallaght.
how?

Capacity, 4 sides, location (as in~ not in the f**king mountains with a gale blowing through most games) 4/5 pubs within 3 minute walk, bar on site open to all, served by 7/8 bus routes and the Dart is 4 min walk away
As someone else said your fascination with the GAA is embarrassing
capacity is irrelevant and only bigger due to terracing, some of which is uncovered, location too. There are also pubs nearby and a bar on site, the public transport links for Tallaght are as good if not better. The difference is Tallaght is custom built for spectators, all seated and a more modern build.   
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Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Let's try this another way. Which is the better stadium? Markevic Park or the Showgrounds?


Showgrounds obviously. The park is falling apart. But the question is overall. To pick one of the worst GAA grounds in the country is stupid.
Anyway the GAA infrastructure is miles ahead of the combined grassroots/LOI/international team infrastructure.
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Well Waterford, Cork and Longford is the same story according to posters here....
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Originally posted by roverstillidie roverstillidie wrote:

Well Waterford, Cork and Longford is the same story according to posters here....


I have no idea why you have dragged the GAA into a discussion about LOI stadia. But what you have done is pick the best LOI grounds and pitted them against the worst GAA grounds.
If you want to do a comparison pick the top 5 GAA grounds and pit them against the best 5 LOI grounds. I reckon GAA grounds come out on top.

Now take the likes of Stradbrook and St. Coleman's park and pit them against marcevicz park. I reckon the GAA still comes out on top.

As most people have already told you here you're argument is like comparing apples with oranges. We may as well compare our grounds to EPL stadia. Its along the same line of pointlessness. We need to improve our stadia and so do other codes. The fact remains the GAA will take in 16million from the hurling semis (possibly could be football semis). Our league can only dream of that kind of revenue.
Their stadia works for them by and large ours don't.

If you need me to hammer home the point even more Páirc Seán Mac Diarmada in the home to Leitrim GAA in Carrick on Shannon. It has one stand with a capacity of 3000. If you offered it to our sides 10-15 of them would take it.
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