Soccer in Croke Park

[nedder]

The best thing about having the away fans on the hill is that they can push the pitch right up against the canal end to ensure that all of us home fans won't need binoculars.


Won't happen

[dublinred]

That's the type of ignorant attitude that annoys GAA people. Don't forget its their stadium and we are the tenants.

Nothing against GAA, the fact is that we are paying premium prices circa 2m a game for 3/4 of the stadium as currently standing and bucket seats are banned.(maybe we get a discount if Hill 16 is unsuitable) I would like to see the GAA/GOVT finish off the ground with the proceeds and make it the national stadium. Some of my taxes went into the construction of Croke park and being from Sligo I don,t get much of a reason to go there very often, if it was completed it would be one of the best stadiums in the world.

[nedder]

Nothing against GAA, the fact is that we are paying premium prices circa 2m a game for 3/4 of the stadium as currently standing and bucket seats are banned.(maybe we get a discount if Hill 16 is unsuitable) I would like to see the GAA/GOVT finish off the ground with the proceeds and make it the national stadium. Some of my taxes went into the construction of Croke park and being from Sligo I don,t get much of a reason to go there very often, if it was completed it would be one of the best stadiums in the world.

1. Hill 16 will be used ( to house away support)

2. Its still Gaa's decision to do what they like with their stadium.
Your taxes don't count. Every sport gets taxpayers money. If you are going down that route, I presume you are all in favour of GAA to be played in new Tallaght Stadium??

[pineapple stu]

Nothing against GAA, the fact is that we are paying premium prices circa 2m a game for 3/4 of the stadium as currently standing and bucket seats are banned.(maybe we get a discount if Hill 16 is unsuitable) I would like to see the GAA/GOVT finish off the ground with the proceeds and make it the national stadium. Some of my taxes went into the construction of Croke park and being from Sligo I don,t get much of a reason to go there very often, if it was completed it would be one of the best stadiums in the world.
The ground is completed. What's wrong with terracing?

[dublinred]

The ground is completed. What's wrong with terracing?

Nothing, but I think the stadium looks silly at the moment it would easily be in the top 5 in the world if completed on all sides.

[Beavis]

The Hill will be no great loss. The Hill is open but with the dubs packed in, all are eager to sing and it is possible to generate noise, roof or no roof, if enough people are up for it. Although a few times though when I've had to sit, I could see the Hill going mad as usual but it wasnt nearly as loud as you imagine when youre there. When the Hill was being redeveloped two years back,the majority of the hill crowd were in the Canal and the noise was deafening at times.

[Forever Dreamin]

Bucket seats are allowed, thats being confirmed before as they are fixed to a permanent structure and the rent is a % of revenue so empty seats = no revenue to FAI or GAA!

Id much prefer to push UEFA to allow standing on the terraces and then have the area for the home supporters. If the FAI were to push for this they may well get support from premiership clubs as I believe many want to reintroduce terraces!

[ramondo]

... if we were to ever play england i'm sure they wouldn't like to see union jacks flying over the rubble of the easter rising

Sweet sufferin jaysus...

[Donegalcelt]

AFAIK, but open to correction, the GAA done up the hill initially in the late 80s and hatched a deal with the drumcondra residents not to rise it again for at least 25 years as it would leave certain houses in permenant shade. this was only applicable to that part of thestadium. they then done it up with the rest of the ground in the mid-nineties but its still the same height as they had promised. also, not a GAA man but the stadium is theirs and theirs to decide on whenever they want to do it up. us beggars cannot be choosers

[NY Hoop]

Delaney announced the other day that the away fans would be on the 7000 capacity Hill. The other 79000 seats will be for the Irish.

And the Hill does not look "silly".


KOH

[mjpcc]

Sweet sufferin jaysus...

Hear Hear

[NeilMcD]

No matter how bad we are doing I cant see us been out of it by the time of the welsh home game in March.

[eirebhoy]

Seriously though, guessing the capacity will be in reality , c.75k?
Yeah, around that figure. I think the away fans get 7,000 (the Hill) and we have 70,000.

[Dodge]

Unless they're world champions

[soylent green]

The Definitive Capacity of Croke.......seen figures on here, ranging between 65 & 84k......we need somewhere to house all those Tricolours from the north-west!;)

Seriously though, guessing the capacity will be in reality , c.75k?

?

Hill 16 capaicty "in the region of 13,000, bringing the overall capacity of the stadium to 82,500"

[From http://www.gaa.ie/page/croke_park.html]

[blobbyblob]

Against my better judgement, I was dragged to Bon Jovi on Saturday night.

To say the roof lifted off the place when everyone(80k) started singing ole ole ole was amazing. Ive never heard a sound like it in my life.

There have been some terrific noisy occasions in Lansdowne but if this was anything to go by, the only problem we'll have is players hearing calls or instructions.

The mexican wave was fairly awe inspiring also.

Oh Bring it on.

[macdermesser]

80,000 people paid to watch Bon Jovi??!! :confused:

hopefully people will make noise at our home games and not watch it passively like a game on TV, the chief medium of consuming football for a significant proportion of Orrland fans for the big matches

[blobbyblob]

80,000 people paid to watch Bon Jovi??!! :confused:



My thoughts exactly.

Standing in midfield, I also tried to size up a fairly large soccer pitch. We are going to be very very far away from the action. Hopefully, it shouldnt detract too much from the spectacle.

[jbyrne]

SG,
Isn't that for terracing though? Heard from CP regulars, it will be c.75k.....with 5k.bucket seats on the hill. Fair play, if we get this for the Welsh & German games. Don't expect a full house for Slovakia though.

i would say all Irish seats will be sold for all Croke Park games. Blockbookers will have to take their allocation for all games as usual and i would imagine the other seats will be sold on a package basis i.e if you want to go to the big home qualifiers like germany then you will have to buy tickets for them all. The novelty value of playing in CP alone will help fill it. Croke Park full of fans more or less following the one team under lights..... cant wait!

[NY Hoop]

SG,
Isn't that for terracing though? Heard from CP regulars, it will be c.75k.....with 5k.bucket seats on the hill. Fair play, if we get this for the Welsh & German games. Don't expect a full house for Slovakia though.

Eh see my earlier post. Hardly think Delaney is making up the figures.


KOH

[The Legend]

and why were 80k people singing ole ole ole at a Bon Jovi concert... to support Angola in the upcoming World Cup?