Stadium [Archive]

Black and White

10/12/2008, 7:55 PM

Lads just out curiosity...where are ye playing your home european games??? The showgrounds hardly are up to current European standards????

Red&White Rover

10/12/2008, 8:01 PM

No-one seems to know yet.

Could be the Showgrounds, but the Flansiro and Terryland have been mentioned.

sligofan4ever

10/12/2008, 8:04 PM

Apart from improving the Jinks Avenue stand. What exactly would need to be done for the Showgrounds to be up to standard ?

Red&White Rover

10/12/2008, 8:27 PM

Jinks wouldn't need much done. Just a spring cleaning and a few new seats. It's the two ends that aren't up to stndards.

Only1Rovers

10/12/2008, 8:35 PM

I love the title of this thread.

dong

10/12/2008, 8:42 PM

Jinks wouldn't need much done. Just a spring cleaning and a few new seats. It's the two ends that aren't up to stndards.
Indeed. Temporary seating could be installed either end. Not a huge problem I wouldn't think.

forza rovers

11/12/2008, 8:56 AM

Apart from improving the Jinks Avenue stand. What exactly would need to be done for the Showgrounds to be up to standard ?the lights on the jinks side are not euro standerd but the lights on the treacy side are.

Redzer

11/12/2008, 9:34 AM

There's not a hope in Hell of the Jinks passing. The seating is dangerous in the extreme.

Dodge

11/12/2008, 10:25 AM

Its more to do with little things like power of floodlights and access to hospitals and stuff like that. The amount of seats you have means nothing. We played the first two rounds in Richmond last year with 3,000 capacity

redobit

11/12/2008, 10:57 AM

Id say the seats are the least of our worries. The health and safety boys would be more concerned that you have to walk on gravel everywhere in the ground. If the council get the tarmacadam down in the car park and that, it would make a big difference.

SligoBrewer

11/12/2008, 12:00 PM

. If the council get the tarmacadam down in the car park and that, it would make a big difference.

why should the council do it?

redobit

11/12/2008, 12:30 PM

Thought there was an agreement for the car park be re-surfaced and that they would take charge of it for a few years

ifk101

11/12/2008, 12:43 PM

The rules are more flexible for the qualifying rounds than the actual first and second rounds etc etc. Don't think the Showgrounds should have any major problems hosting the first qualifying round.

red arrow

11/12/2008, 6:12 PM

the corporation (not the co. council) have agreed to tarmacadam from the entrance at the all weather pitch up to the new office(i think i'm correct in my assumption) this is the agreement as part of the new public car park at the showgrounds. it should have started last week but is definately going ahead. this would improve the appearance greatly. the next move would be to tarmacadam from the paying gate up to and behind the new stand. this would cost a lot of money. hopefully the whole thing will start in the new year

Only1Rovers

11/12/2008, 8:56 PM

the lights on the jinks side are not euro standerd but the lights on the treacy side are.

so don't turn on the lights on the jinks avenue side....what's the issue?

lifelong rover

11/12/2008, 9:29 PM

lads I was in the stadium to-day work has started on the tar mac.
clubs have to have 3000 permanant seats ,this is one condition that i know of

brianw82

12/12/2008, 7:43 AM

the next move would be to tarmacadam from the paying gate up to and behind the new stand. this would cost a lot of money

Brilliant if it happens. Dodging puddles is one of my least favourite things about the Showgrounds.

forza rovers

12/12/2008, 8:30 AM

so don't turn on the lights on the jinks avenue side....what's the issue?even with the 2 lights on and the jinks side not,it is still pretty dark.

Redzer

12/12/2008, 8:55 AM

the corporation (not the co. council) have agreed to tarmacadam from the entrance at the all weather pitch up to the new office(i think i'm correct in my assumption) this is the agreement as part of the new public car park at the showgrounds. it should have started last week but is definately going ahead. this would improve the appearance greatly. the next move would be to tarmacadam from the paying gate up to and behind the new stand. this would cost a lot of money. hopefully the whole thing will start in the new year

Amazing!! We get far more information from yourself, than from the 15 or so Management comittee members. Fair play.

Mayo Red

12/12/2008, 9:16 AM

Sure wouldn't we fill Thomond Park, now that UEFA have passed it!!;)

sligoman

12/12/2008, 9:07 PM

even with the 2 lights on and the jinks side not,it is still pretty dark.I think Only1Rovers was being sarcastic about not switching the lights on;)
Amazing!! We get far more information from yourself, than from the 15 or so Management comittee members. Fair play.To be fair, the news about the car park has been about a while now. It was in the programme months back.

Redzer

15/12/2008, 11:57 AM

To be fair, the news about the car park has been about a while now. It was in the programme months back.

The proposal was mentioned all right, but the fact that it is to go ahead immediately was news to me.

Rovers fan

15/12/2008, 12:05 PM

The proposal was mentioned all right, but the fact that it is to go ahead immediately was news to me.

There was a tiny piece in the champion(not the sports section) a few months ago about it. The council build it and get to use for I think 5 years. We get a nominal fee ad after the 5 years it's ours.

Black and White

15/12/2008, 12:56 PM

How many seats are there in the Showgrounds??

Rovers1

15/12/2008, 1:04 PM

How many seats are there in the Showgrounds??

just under 2000 in Treacy Ave. (main stand) and just under 900 in Jinks afaik

Only1Rovers

15/12/2008, 6:11 PM

I think Only1Rovers was being sarcastic about not switching the lights on;)

He was........;)

sligoman

15/12/2008, 11:07 PM

Corporation must have done something anyway (http://www.oceanfm.ie/onair/sligoleitrimnews.php?articleid=000004242)

mint sauce

01/01/2009, 8:48 AM

the corporation (not the co. council) have agreed to tarmacadam from the entrance at the all weather pitch up to the new office(i think i'm correct in my assumption) this is the agreement as part of the new public car park at the showgrounds. it should have started last week but is definately going ahead. this would improve the appearance greatly. the next move would be to tarmacadam from the paying gate up to and behind the new stand. this would cost a lot of money. hopefully the whole thing will start in the new year

Corporation must have done something anyway (http://www.oceanfm.ie/onair/sligoleitrimnews.php?articleid=000004242)

so any word on doing anything more to the stoney/gravel top that was laid around the all weather pitch, has not been used much for parking since laid by xmas shoppers (not from what i have seen anyway), but might not be long getting cut up again once is used more often after the holidays and everyone starts playing again

is the plan to still tarmacadam it