New Stadiums

The artist did a nice job of superimposing the crowd and pitch from the 1998 All-Ireland hurling semi-final into that. Ger Loughnane is walking around on the sideline.

sid waddell wrote: The artist did a nice job of superimposing the crowd and pitch from the 1998 All-Ireland hurling semi-final into that. Ger Loughnane is walking around on the sideline.

There must be great money in doing art for pie in the sky GAA upgrades.

True, but look at the numbers.

Edited by roverstillidie - 14 Nov 2016 at 3:17pm

roverstillidie wrote: True, but look at the numbers.   Lets take 10 years - all but Harps and Drogheda have come to fruition. Rovers, Cork, Sligo, Galway, Waterford, Wexford, UCD and Athlone have all built new or seen serious upgrades with Bohs and Derry imminent.   What has happened in Gahland in that time in terms of country grounds? Armagh put in a new stand and Pairc ui Caoimh which everyone states is a missed opportunity, and that took them 30 years. How many plans have the Dublin blazers had alone? Lets not go near Casement.   There just seems to be huge talk in the Gah that a random country will build an enormodome that has no basis in reality, either sporting or economic that get shelved quietly. There was talk of a 42,000 seater upgrade for Cusack Park. In a town of 25,000 and county of 117,000.

You're such a fruitloop when it comes to GAA.Talking about small fry like the " UCD bowl" and any loi ground for that matter.Mcahale park (42k) Pearse Stadium (26k) Limerick (50K) Armagh...Healy park....the Mournes.....extension to fitzgerald stadium.43k PUC 60k this is big boy stuff .......thats about half the things that have happened in the last 10 years or so.......could think of many more if i could be bothered....each bigger than any existing loi ground.....wind your neck in you nutjub

Yeah i was way off there.......some of those were redeveloped 11 years ago....my whole argument falls down there.....

To answer your question without having to google or think about it....Mchale park Mayo Galway was pretty full in 2015 .....limierick v Tipp same year...Donegal Tyrone in Ballybofey ( a sh*te ground but still about twice the size of any loi stadium) .they're just ones i was at.....Do you see how youre losing this argument? Again.....this is big boy stuff,not "wasn't it great to see 5k at turners cross" ...You seem to be intelligent enough but have a blind spot regarding certain things.Fair play to ya.

pre Madonna wrote: kimbap wrote: Yeah i was way off there.......some of those were redeveloped 11 years ago....my whole argument falls down there..... To answer your question without having to google or think about it....Mchale park Mayo Galway was pretty full in 2015 .....limierick v Tipp same year...Donegal Tyrone in Ballybofey ( a sh*te ground but still about twice the size of any loi stadium) .they're just ones i was at.....Do you see how youre losing this argument? Again.....this is big boy stuff,not "wasn't it great to see 5k at turners cross" ...You seem to be intelligent enough but have a blind spot regarding certain things.Fair play to ya. He has a point though, one that you are reaffirming, that these grounds are not value for money.

Of course not,they are terrible value for money,not filled that often and usually a vanity project to some dinosaur on the county board.I'm not really worried about that though ....they p1ss all over loi grounds and to compare the two is stupid.I think we both know this when it comes to to ritd and his GAA blind spot though.

Fair enough,Croker is fairly decent i think you'll agree.Most provincial grounds are not at the same standard but are very comfortable and can accommodate huge crowds in the summer or when needed.Dwarf loi facilities...a couple of big GAA games over the summer would have a bigger attendance than all loi games over the season,its not even an argument.If you want to say how the loi and soccer is great and compare the two thats fine.But to compare loi and GAA stadia in Ireland is not the way to do it,you'll  come across as a clown,like ritd.thats the point im making (im dismissing the who,what and where of how they were built,i do have issues with this but its another argument) ritd has an irrational problem with all things GAA,he cant make a cohesive,non emotional poiny (like a bird on the blob) I dont usually engage with him but he has to be called up on this,he's all over the shop. 

kimbap wrote: Fair enough,Croker is fairly decent i think you'll agree.Most provincial grounds are not at the same standard but are very comfortable and can accommodate huge crowds in the summer or when needed.Dwarf loi facilities...a couple of big GAA games over the summer would have a bigger attendance than all loi games over the season,its not even an argument.If you want to say how the loi and soccer is great and compare the two thats fine.But to compare loi and GAA stadia in Ireland is not the way to do it,you'll  come across as a clown,like ritd.thats the point im making (im dismissing the who,what and where of how they were built,i do have issues with this but its another argument) ritd has an irrational problem with all things GAA,he cant make a cohesive,non emotional poiny (like a bird on the blob) I dont usually engage with him but he has to be called up on this,he's all over the shop.

roverstillidie wrote: sid waddell wrote: The artist did a nice job of superimposing the crowd and pitch from the 1998 All-Ireland hurling semi-final into that. Ger Loughnane is walking around on the sideline. There must be great money in doing art for pie in the sky GAA upgrades.   How many of them actually happen?