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yeah i'm with you here too.Quote:
Originally Posted by bohsmug
many other threads are used for bickering between 'rival' supporters. this one is always interesting and USUALLY only deals with fact.
don't get it closed for the sake of some silly points scoring against others.
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Originally Posted by gufct
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Originally Posted by bohsmug
congrats lads, ye've contributed as many off topic posts as we did in you condemnation.Quote:
Originally Posted by galwayhoop
does anyone know if/when this season the MFA plan on putting a roof on the remaining st. anns end?
the seats in the picture are the old ones been taken out the new ones are maroon in colour and are supplied by the same company that are fitted the new stand at turners cross.Quote:
Originally Posted by Risteard
any photos of stand with new seats in???Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
As far as I know the same contractors that did the Shed stand are lined up to put the roof on St Anne's end.Quote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
Don't know about when. Hopefully have it done for the start of the 2008 season.
Its seems that many of the EL league teams are carrying out work or are planning to carry out work to improve their grounds, which is great to see!
I take it the majority of the money for these improvements is coming from public bodies i.e Government/local councils etc?
Most funding for capital work at grounds would be from:Quote:
Originally Posted by SolitudeRed
-Lottery funding
-Dept of Sport grants
-FAI grants
And Local Authorities
Ans local Football Associations
Terryland Park - Galway Football Assoc
Turners Cross - Munster FA
well, the MFA arent actually contributing much at all to turner's cross, they're just spending the grants they get. afaik.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
AFAIK the Cork City friendly with Sunderland is an MFA venture to raise funds for Turners X development.Quote:
Originally Posted by GavinZac
Presumably to pay for the Shed stand and/or St Anne roof.
The Sunderland friendly is to knock the existing outer wall and turn styles at the "shed"/curragh road/east end and replace them with some thing nice and modern.Quote:
Originally Posted by paudie
heres hoping for red brick.
a grant has already been recieved by the MFA for construction of a roof over the st. anns end, but planning permission ends rather soon for my liking. i do wish they'd start immediately, even at the sake of closing the st.anns end for the foreseeable future. it might cost us in terms of a couple of big matches but it is not needed at the moment.
of course, the MFA has sold St. Anns End tickets for the Sunderland game at the end of this month so they wont be doing it before then. I hope that this is the only thing delaying the start of construction.
latest pic taken today
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Originally Posted by Guitd
Impresive!! How much people does the stand hold?
Looks very impressive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
1,500 and there are 1700 all new seats going in the old stand plus 150 odd at the clubhouse end.
Now Galway have the best staduim in the west.:mad:
I like it though very impressive. Seems awfull GAA like not like your usual soocer staduim.
must admit it is a dead ringer for pearse stadium's main stand!Quote:
Originally Posted by Midgit
i think the similarity is down to the colours though as the stand is top notch
Looks very good. Well done to all at terryland.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
Will you have terracing for the sunderland match or is it an all seater for that match?
What next in the plans?
To win a home game!Quote:
Originally Posted by rebelarmyexile
hope they plaster the front bit and paint it similiar to the front of the clubhouse and also cover the exposed beams it would make it a lot tidier, keep the birds from nesting in the roof and ****ting all over the seats which was a major corrosion problem in the stands at ballybrit. It would pay for itself with maintenance being half the effort.
its an ideal compact ground now with all spectators close to the action and id say it will be electric for any big games. An ideal showcase for a cup final. its a far cry from that bit of a stand in tolka park its most of the length of the pitch
whatever about the state its in, tolka has seating the entire way around the pitch apart from the one behind-the-goal end, where its far deeper than the one in galway anyway. fair play, but dont lose the head. you've just about caught up with turner's cross in 2001Quote:
Originally Posted by geezer
Well done to everyone involved at Galway that new stand looks pretty smart!Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
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Originally Posted by atfconline
I saw it from the dual carraigeway last week. It looks the biz.
What is the current state of St Mel's? Is it lost to football? Will they build something on it?
the picture doesnt do it justice I was up there today and sat on the top row and the ground at terryland leaves tolka in the halpenny place. There is no comparison, the last time i was in tolka which was last year there was lethal iron bars sticking up out of the ground where once seats were across from the main hayshed
It's up to the local council. A new re-development masterplan was unveiled for the whole St. Mel's area this week, but I didn't see any mention of the ground. They have said previously that it will be kept for football. I was passing by this afternoon and was going to go in and have a look to see what it's like.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paddyfield
looks good, any sign of developing the rest of the ground?Quote:
Originally Posted by atfconline
congrats to all involved, good to see all clubs making an effort to improve the grounds in the loi.Quote:
Originally Posted by Guitd
No news on that yet but everything is going to be completed over time. The stadium project team are continuosly raising money and have no intention of getting into serious debt just to have the ground completed. When the money is there the next part will start. The bit you see there cost €5 million of which a big percentage was raised by the committee.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
Wow £5 million???? That seems awful expensive for that. Are you sure. Our Stand is of the same quality if not better and i am positive we didn't pay half that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
I'd guess you're only going on Photos! if so relax on the my stand is better than yours...Quote:
Originally Posted by Midgit
Back on topic.
Any update on the new stand in Richmond park? Will it be ready for the Uefa Cup tie?
That €5 million would include the groundwork, offices, bar, shop, dressing rooms beneath the stand and the pitch. It was built off site and is mass concrete. It was then brought to the ground and pieced together like a jigsaw. It will be some place when the other three identical stands are built around the pitch.
Not going to blow my own trumpet on how good it is. Perhaps some of the visiting supporters might be able to make comparisons as I have never sat in the stand in Sligo
Remember this was a greenfield site as well.
Ive only seen the Athlone stand from the dual carraige way, but it looks the bizz. Im told the facilities are second to none and imo we should all be trying to get such facilities.
The sligo stand is good too but for gods sake, try to put the tv cameras on the other side. They only show the old stand and tbh it looks very bad.
That is one thing Sligo Rovers supporters have been wanting for years now. But they cant seem to get the planning permission to put up a TV gantry. Its dissapionting but we may have to wait until the old stand get redeveloped, with plans to make it a two tier stand with Box's and the like, including a Tv gantry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam_Heggy
In that case id just leave the cameras where their at. The redevelopment sounds like it is one to be showed off.Quote:
Originally Posted by Midgit
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Originally Posted by Battery Rover
will the other 3 stands (when built) be adjoined to the existing stand or will they be 4 stand-alone stands?
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I presume its Banagher Concrete behind that - they do an excellent quality job with mass concrete builds - plenty of the motorway bridges & already have done stadium jobs - eg the hill end of croke park.Quote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
Yes Banagher Concrete and fitted by a local company called Shine Construction