Could Limerick use Thomond ?

[historynut]

With Thomond not being used during summer, and todays announcement that it will host an international friendly - could Limerick FC not possibly look to use it as home stadium as and when Munster RFC do not need it.

[Saint_Charlie]

A 26,000 capacity stadium for about 1,000 people?

Don't think it would work too well

[jebus]

What he said

It would be a graveyard for any team in the League of Ireland, let alone a First Division side that pulls in 600 people on average

[Red&White Rover]

There'd be too much demand for tickets. Not worth the hassle.


Now if it was Galway on the otherhand...

[gael353]

plus the rental is €100,000 per day/night/match

[centre mid]

Potential venue for a FAI Cup final perhaps?

[Finlay Harp]

Would be a good option especially if two teams from the west or south made the final.

[L37Ultra]

Not only would it be a graveyard, it would also make no sense financially for Limerick as the cost to rent Thomond Park for even one game would probably ruin us.

It would no doubt attract a few more fans if we played in Thomond Park but never enough in the First Division to cover the cost of renting Thomond Park.

[gael353]

Potential venue for a FAI Cup final perhaps?

think thats already in the bag lads. limerick are bringing sunderland, private company bringing real madrid, fai has two friendlies and prob the fai cup final there

[historynut]

Fair ponts lads.
One thing for sure which I'm sure some would agree, oh what Limerick fans would have given for a modern day Thomond back in the (was it ?) 70's when they were forced to play a European Cup tie in Dublin.

[dcfcsteve]

I was just thinking that UCD should use Croker for the same reasons....

[dublin_owl]

I was just thinking that UCD should use Croker for the same reasons....

That doesn't make any sense Steve! (geographically like!)

Shels can use Croker, and UCD can use Lansdowne Road when that's finished. ;)

[HarpoJoyce]

That doesn't make any sense Steve! (geographically like!)

Shels can use Croker, and UCD can use Lansdowne Road when that's finished. ;)


Did Bohs play on Jones Road before? Maybe one more or another Dublin club.

And you know your history. UCD have played on Lansdowne too, very competively.

[gael353]

Fair ponts lads.
One thing for sure which I'm sure some would agree, oh what Limerick fans would have given for a modern day Thomond back in the (was it ?) 70's when they were forced to play a European Cup tie in Dublin.



Were't really forced. Waterford drew liverpool a few years earlier and made a packet out of bringing the game to dublin (liverpool were on tv every week on MOTD) so had a huge following. Limerick drew Real Madrid, tried the same gig but it failed and only 6,000 turned up (again as real although well known were not on the tv every week)

few years later to prove the point we played spurs in a pre season friendly at Thomond. 19,000 turned up. This was limericks biggest ever attendance for a "home" game. Biggest away gate was the Madrid away game where 49,000 turned up..http://www.limerickfc.ie/Fanzone/imgs/wallpapers/wallpaper2.jpg

[CuanaD]

Did Bohs play on Jones Road before? Maybe one more or another Dublin club.

Bohs originally owned Jones Rd & sold it to the Gah way back when

[barneyb]

Why didnt Bohs build on it ?;)

[Boh_So_Good]

I bet if one day Limerick had a soccer club not being run out of a parociahal house or a cellar underneath a pub in the Bronx they could get a consortium together which might have more hopes for a senior soccer club in Limerck which barely sees it future as little more than a junior sunday morning league side then we might see them playing at Thomond.

A decent business plan over the course of a season presented to Thormond Park might be worth trying. This is how soccer clubs are run. Having a priest telling you in the confession box that he knows a famous boxer in Amerikay who will rattle the poor box outside his local church is not going to be enough.

[Boh_So_Good]

plus the rental is €100,000 per day/night/match


How do you know they would ask this much?

[kingdom hoop]

As well as the obvious benefits, perhaps the budding of a brotherhood with Scottish side Queen's Park who play in Hampden could be another? :p

[John83]

Did Bohs play on Jones Road before? Maybe one more or another Dublin club.
They bought it as a cabbage patch, if I remember correctly.


And you know your history. UCD have played on Lansdowne too, very competively.
Indeed. Most recently in a friendly with Liverpool, I think?

[gael353]

How do you know they would ask this much?


ehhh because we asked

[pineapple stu]

Indeed. Most recently in a friendly with Liverpool, I think?
I think that was the only time. 25000 or so there. Most to watch us, of course, and not the part-time shower we were up against. :)

[gufcfan]

ehhh because we asked
I can't believe Limerick 37 actually enquired about the price and availability of a 26,500 capacity stadium.

[jebus]

I can't believe Limerick 37 actually enquired about the price and availability of a 26,500 capacity stadium.

Friendly games, such as the upcoming Sunderland game

[Boh_So_Good]

ehhh because we asked

Have they asked again since the Celtic Tiger went tits up? The answer might come with a couple of zeros knocked off the end.

[Boh_So_Good]

I can't believe Limerick 37 actually enquired about the price and availability of a 26,500 capacity stadium.

If they did good for them. Shows that they are not as narrow foccussed and priest/charity ridden as they have been in the past.

They could pack the place out with Sheeple to see their British TV heros. It is not as far fetched as it sounds.

[Dodge]

I can't believe Limerick 37 actually enquired about the price and availability of a 26,500 capacity stadium.

I can't believe any club would have access to a 26,500 capacity stadium and not at least find out how much it costs

Good to see the links between IRFU and FAI continuing to develop.

[Lim till i die]

Twaddle, twaddle, rubbish, blah, blah, wah, wah, look at me, look at me, LOOK AT MEEEEEEEEEE!, nonsense, rubbish twaddle, I need attention, wah, wah, and a cuddle, blah, blah.

Yeah, I wish Limerick were run like Bohs.

An example to us all. :rolleyes:

[John83]

I think that was the only time. 25000 or so there.
Was the UEFA Cup game against Everton in Belfield Park? Or Tolka? Even we'd get a crowd worth renting Lansdowne if we got an English team in the UEFA Cup now. Amazing the draw of the Premiership.

[Monkfish]

if one day Limerick had a soccer club not being run out of a parociahal house or a cellar underneath a pub in the Bronx

Will a large house on a 6 Acre site overlooking the City of Limerick do for you then?

[passerrby]

Will a large house on a 6 Acre site overlooking the City of Limerick do for you then?

only if its likerick prison

[oscar]

Will a large house on a 6 Acre site overlooking the City of Limerick do for you then?

you left out the bit that it was in Co.Clare:o:o:o

[gspain]

Was the UEFA Cup game against Everton in Belfield Park? Or Tolka? Even we'd get a crowd worth renting Lansdowne if we got an English team in the UEFA Cup now. Amazing the draw of the Premiership.


The ECWC tie v Everton was in Tolka if I recall correctly. 0-0 in Tolka and with Everton winning 1-0 at Goodison late on Joe Hanrahan was cleanthrough on goal but blazed over the bar. Everton won 1-0 on aggregate and went on to win the 1985 ECWC.

[Dodge]

My favourite story about that time is the journalists coming over and asking about Ucked's history...

[pineapple stu]

Wasn't it read out that way on the news?

Everton 1, Uck-ed 0

Probably getting the story distorted after 25 years though. Our Cup Final appearance this year! How time flies...

(Home game was in Tolka in front of 9000)

[John83]

The ECWC tie
:o Oops. Yes, ECWC. I thought 'second tier European competition' and forgot that there ever was a cup winners' cup.


v Everton was in Tolka if I recall correctly. 0-0 in Tolka and with Everton winning 1-0 at Goodison late on Joe Hanrahan was cleanthrough on goal but blazed over the bar.
And was promptly signed by Man Utd, though he never played for their senior team.


Everton won 1-0 on aggregate and went on to win the 1985 ECWC.
And I've heard that one of their players (I forget who) described us as their toughest opponents in the competition. Remarkable performance from our 'ambitionless' little club.

PS: I've heard the Ucked tale too, but not unlikely it was from you.

[Monkfish]

you left out the bit that it was in Co.Clare:o:o

and? :confused:

[4tothefloor]

you left out the bit that it was in Co.Clare
Clare only exists to service Limerick, so it's all the one. We might even get that part of Clare in the upcoming boundary extensions :D

[oscar]

and? :confused:

and nothing:cool:

[pineapple stu]

And I've heard that one of their players (I forget who) described us as their toughest opponents in the competition. Remarkable performance from our 'ambitionless' little club.
Derek Mountfield, while manager of Cork. Though he was possibly being nice to the league in general, having just taken over. But it was Everton's narrowest win, although Bayern managed to both draw and score against them.

Ultimately, though, don't forget the "remarkable performance" almost bankrupted us in a manner several clubs are emulating right now. Dick Shakespeare said that if we had beaten Everton, it would have been the end of us as we would had to go to Bratislava in the next round - expensive trip with no real income.

[Dodge]

PS: I've heard the Ucked tale too, but not unlikely it was from you.

I'm fairly certain I read it in a UCD programme. Probably a Declan Hughes article