Stadium Updates (All Clubs)

[Pablo]

Think its 1,200 or something like that. Builders say it'll take 6 weeks. Its a bit mad having something actually done rather than seeing 15 drafts of plans and then nothing for years.

The Belfield Bowl is going to take a huge amount of work to get a license for next year

3000 odd seats so? Hardly enough to cater for demand in a UEfA game is it?

[Dodge]

Probably not but if the other options are renting out Tolka or Dalymount and half filling them, I'd go with Richmond

[ifk101]

Does it really cost E2.5 million to add 900 uncovered seats and concrete boxes to the Belfield Bowl?

[passinginterest]

If you follow the link and scroll down to the general section there's a picture of the plans for the Wexford Youths FC stand.

It's going where the temporary stand is now so I assume no work can start until the end of the season. It shouldn't take long to build once it's started with Wallace behind it. I presume they'll want to have it ready start of next season. Unless of course they can move the temporary stand to the other side and start work a bit sooner.

[NY Hoop]

Sligo Rovers are doing a huge revamp of the staduim. Shed end was knocked in february and construction of a state of the art training facility: Gym, indoor soccer arena, pool, Box seates overlooking the pitch. Offices are also being put into the building which will help the running of the club. Also a club shop will be put in seperate to the main training centre/offices. And as far as i know a plans for a small shed (no seating) are to be included in the building of the centre which will be located where the old Rovers shed was.

A new boundry wall is about to be finished by the end of the month with brand new turnstiles (home and away) and a front office included.

Great stuff but how about putting in a proper tv gantry facing the main stand?

KOH

[Poor Student]

Does it really cost E2.5 million to add 900 uncovered seats and concrete boxes to the Belfield Bowl?

There's other stuff like floodlights and sorting out the perimeter.

[Midgit]

Great stuff but how about putting in a proper tv gantry facing the main stand?

KOH

The fans have been wanting that for a good while now but the board don't seem to be interested for some reason. Wasye of money they may think?!?

[Bald Student]

Does it really cost E2.5 million to add 900 uncovered seats and concrete boxes to the Belfield Bowl?

No, we have five years to get that spent.

As far as I know, the rugby players walk from the dressing room, through effectively the turnstiles and either down through the stand or just to one side (i.e. where there's building work now). I think there was talk of putting an underground tunnel for that (can't have Bohs players walking through a stand with loads of Bohs fans obvioulsy), which would run from the dressing rooms to the pitch. Not sure if this was a definite plan or just an idea though - one of the others might be able to correct me on that.

It won't be a tunnel (as in, it won't be underground or anything) but immediatly to the left of the main stand a set of steps will be fenced off for players to get from the changing rooms behind the stand to the pitch.

The Belfield Bowl is going to take a huge amount of work to get a license for next year

It's not a huge amount of work. The new stand is practically built now. What's left is floodlights, the facilities behind the stand, fencing and hard standing, none of which is particularly complicated.

[NY Hoop]

The fans have been wanting that for a good while now but the board don't seem to be interested for some reason. Wasye of money they may think?!?

Very short sighted. The main stand looks impressive on tv especially with the players coming out. Showing a half empty tiny stand does your club no favours.

KOH

[Dodge]

It's not a huge amount of work. The new stand is practically built now. What's left is floodlights, the facilities behind the stand, fencing and hard standing, none of which is particularly complicated.

Fair enough. Just going on that photo posted and the couple of times I passed it. Forgot you had the grant waiting to pay for it

[Bald Student]

Fair enough. Just going on that photo posted and the couple of times I passed it. Forgot you had the grant waiting to pay for it

Also, what's required by licensing isn't huge. 1,500 seats and standing for another 1,500 so the work to be done by next March is 900 more seats (there were 600 there already) and enough tar-macadam for 1,500 to stand on.

[pete]

Think Pete quoted the wrong bit of my post

Well spotted. Meant to remove that part.

[oriel]

Dundalk also opened a new building on the terracing next to the stand at the start of the season, gents and maybe a first for the eircom lge, ladies toliets ! with dressing rooms also in the middle of this building, this is for the pitch rental long term but toilets are open on match days. New dressing rooms for home and away teams to be built behind the far end goal with car parking space, this area already cleared and levelled and awaiting next phase.

All we`re missing now is around 5,000 seats !

[BohsFans]

Work starts in richmond

http://www.stpatsfc.com/news.php?id=1592

a lot of LOI news on the radio today... it said that this is the next part of the clubs plans to turn the ground into a 10,000 all seat venue!

[kdjaC]

a lot of LOI news on the radio today... it said that this is the next part of the clubs plans to turn the ground into a 10,000 all seat venue!

Dont see how tbh alll depends on whether the new stand is 15 or 20 feet away from the pitch to allow the shed to be redeveloped. Also dont see the need when we won leagues we had 4kish home fans with a max of 6k at a cork game. Lots of empty seats when we go poo again.

On radio who was the club annoucing the 150k sponsorship deal? Or was that pats and a slow news day ?


kdjac

[Dr.Nightdub]

Wasn't us.
(a) We got the bookies onside.
(b) €150k is beneath us

[BohsFans]

Dont see how tbh alll depends on whether the new stand is 15 or 20 feet away from the pitch to allow the shed to be redeveloped. Also dont see the need when we won leagues we had 4kish home fans with a max of 6k at a cork game. Lots of empty seats when we go poo again.

On radio who was the club annoucing the 150k sponsorship deal? Or was that pats and a slow news day ?


kdjac

Nothing about sponsorship, just about the ground.

[CuanaD]

1. 1996/97 . . . . . Seated Terraced
   Bohemian F.C . . 1,700 . 13,300
   Bray Wanders . . . . 0 . 7,000
   Cork City . . . . . 2,000 . 5,000
   Derry City . . . . . 3,000 . 7,000
   Dundalk . . . . . . 1,200 . 11,000
   Finn Harps . . . . . 500 . 7,500
   HFE . . . . . . . . . . . . 0 . 3,000
   St. Patrick's Athletic 500 . 6,500
   Shamrock Rovers . Tolka . Tolka
   Shelbourne . . . . . 9,000 . 500
   Sligo Rovers . . . . 650 . 6,000
   UCD . . . . . . . . . . 400 . 4,600
   Athlone Town . . . . 200 . 10,000
   Cobh Ramblers . . . . . 0 . 6,000
   Drogheda Utd. . . . 400 . 6,000
   Galway Utd. . . . . . . 80 . 6,500
   Kilkenny City . . . . 1,000 . 5,000
   Limerick F.C. . . . . . . 0 . 10,000
   Longford Town . . . . . 0 . 8,000
   Monaghan Utd. . . . 600 . 5,000
   St. Francis . . . . . . . . 0 . 3,000
   Waterford Utd. . . . 1,250 . 5,000
   
   Totals . . . . . . . . . 22,480 . 135,900
   
   158,380
   

As a comparison - these figures above were the stated capacities of Stadia at the start of the 96/97 season - there have been A LOT of changes since then.

Only 22,480 seats (take out Tolka & it looks far worse at 13,480) in the LEAGUE 10 years ago, 6 clubs with NO SEATS and only 7 clubs with over 1,000 seats!

I wonder what the up-to-date figures are?

[harpskid]

There's now only 250 seats in Finn Park and the terraced capacity is also down from that 7,500

[CuanaD]

There's now only 250 seats in Finn Park and the terraced capacity is also down from that 7,500

Yeah, for the 99/2000 season the seated cap. was down to 400; now its 250?

Where have all the seats gone?