Best LOI stadium

**Umberside** · 04/05/2009, 2:08 PM

So what's the best LOI stadium?

Glenmalure Park would've been the best until 1987. Its successor in Tallaght is pretty good as well but I'm going to go for Turners Cross

**Sheridan** · 04/05/2009, 2:10 PM

The hits just keep on coming!

**Umberside** · 04/05/2009, 2:17 PM

Originally Posted by Sheridan

The hits just keep on coming!

I was going to mention Dublin City's home ground, but then I realised ye never had one

**CSFShels** · 04/05/2009, 2:19 PM

I'd probably say Tolka or Turners Cross. As or the pitch itself, well Galway and Wexford Youths seem to be the big 2, although Tolka was nominated in there as the third one. Overall I'd say Tolka. A few years ago would have been another story.

**Umberside** · 04/05/2009, 2:26 PM

Originally Posted by CSFShels

I'd probably say Tolka or Turners Cross. As or the pitch itself, well Galway and Wexford Youths seem to be the big 2, although Tolka was nominated in there as the third one. Overall I'd say Tolka. A few years ago would have been another story.

Tolka is good alright. I'd imagine a little development and it would be a fine staidium i.e. if the Away End was covered or if the stand across from the TV gantry got a new roof.

It's like Turners Cross five years ago. We put a roof on the St. Anne's End and built a new Shed and it is quite a stadium now.

Still love going back to Tolka though, special stadium.

**gael353** · 04/05/2009, 3:09 PM

LOI grounds all of them, are ****e. parts of their stadiums are good but most of them are ****e. We have the worst by far the worst in fact. Terryland would be the best as it has one good stand and one adaquate stand. Turner cross has four stands and id knock all four and move somewhere else if i could, pitch is also too small. Athlone have the best stand although i havent been to tallaght yet.

**Blue Bear** · 04/05/2009, 3:38 PM

In terms of the pitch, it has to be Wexford, great surface, even the warm-up area is decent (Limerick fans may object

). Problem is its too open, atmosphere gets lost. Id go for Tolka, very good surface with a good atmosphere.......

**gael353** · 04/05/2009, 3:39 PM

Originally Posted by joey4ireland

Why so?

The secret to a good stand is how steep it is. if you cant see over the persons head in front of you then its just a cheap **** stand. we'll start at the far side, the small stand. lets face it a few rows of seats with an umbrella over it and ppl going out the escape area at the back to make a **** up against the wall. Main stand....front ten rows arnt steep enough. Front ten rows get wet when it rains. Shed end....front rows arnt steep enough. Like the main stand a capacity rather then a viewing requirment was put in place prior to building. New stand, in GAA its called a covered terrace but you had seats in that terrace first so now the gaa would call it a covered stand and charge €20 for sitting in it but with little viewing comfort.

Im not slagging off cork city or anything but if limerick built anything like that id be gone from the game. The newest stand should have been bulldozed to ground level. A two tier stand could then have been built with propper facilites underneath like toilets shops and maybe even corporate facilities. But that would have cost money, and only rovers and athlone have had the ambition to go that extra mile.

**gael353** · 04/05/2009, 3:51 PM

Originally Posted by Blue Bear

In terms of the pitch, it has to be Wexford, great surface, even the warm-up area is decent (Limerick fans may object

). Problem is its too open, atmosphere gets lost. Id go for Tolka, very good surface with a good atmosphere.......

lol tolka? a dump of the higest order. lets look at the ballyboch end???? an open seated terrrace where every seat is weather damaged, broken or covered in vomit from some dream team gig from five years ago. Ground is slippy from being exposed, one good stand there the rest are from bygone days. wexford is a fine facility, but its quality....clenliness and pitch quality has fallen back in the last year and a half.

**irishultra** · 04/05/2009, 3:55 PM

Tolka but really most are terribly designed. I mean dalymount for example. the car park cutting into the stand what is up with that? The Jodi stand is very good, but man what is up with the motte and bailey like effect in the opposite stand?

Now this is a nice stadium, in a country way smaller than ours(famagustas ground)

**SkStu** · 04/05/2009, 3:56 PM

Originally Posted by gael353

lets look at the ballyboch end???? an open seated terrrace where every seat is weather damaged, broken or covered in vomit from some dream team gig from five years ago..

while your lookin, if anyone finds the half oz. i lost there a few years ago, send me a PM.

thanks in advance

**Sheridan** · 04/05/2009, 3:57 PM

The fact that it was constructed piecemeal over the course of a century might have something to do with its inconsistent design...

**longfordjames** · 04/05/2009, 4:16 PM

Flancares good

**OneForTheFuture** · 04/05/2009, 4:28 PM

Tallaght looks great inside and out....except it desperatly needs 3 more stands as the atmosphere is lacking as a result... and the pitch on friday gone was in a bad way.

Tolka Park is up there in the LOI.

Ferrycarrig is on the up.

**gufc2000** · 04/05/2009, 4:51 PM

Terryland of course

**pól-dcfc** · 04/05/2009, 5:54 PM

Originally Posted by gufc2000

Terryland of course

I like Terryland. The Brandywell is right up there...

**Dundalkjames** · 04/05/2009, 5:55 PM

Tolka Park or Lisslywoolen ( now known as the Athlone Town Stadium )

**Paddyfield** · 04/05/2009, 7:22 PM

Turner's Cross is the best by far which always produces a good atmosphere.

Tolka set the standard in the 90's but hasn't been maintained since.

Longford is nice but very open. Most of the seats are not covered.

Dalymount's Jodi Stand is the best main stand in Ireland but the rest of the stadium is dated.

Showgrounds main stand is a fine structure but the other stand is poor.

Terryland has gone from a "cabbage patch"* in the early 90's to a top 3 contender in 2009.

* Eamonn Dunphy called Terryland a "cabbage patch" on RTE before the ground was redeveloped