Your best 5 and worse 5 grounds in country

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28/07/2009, 5:09 PM
roinuj

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Originally Posted by eelmonster

Limerick?

looks abit like the markets field alright, :confused:
28/07/2009, 5:23 PM
sligoman

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Originally Posted by roinuj

not as much rain and wind as ye get up in sligo :D
everytime i went up around galway or sligo the place was flooded and 2 story houses looked like bungalows because the bottom halfs were under water.

I don't really want to get into a discussion about the weather on a football forum, but what you've just said there is just a load of crap.

Can't wait til September and posters like this are back at school.
28/07/2009, 6:00 PM
Dunny

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Originally Posted by Snoop Drog

Fakey rubber grass perhaps?

http://www.greenfieldssa.co.za/image..._2_star_01.jpg
28/07/2009, 6:14 PM
roinuj

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Originally Posted by sligoman

I don't really want to get into a discussion about the weather on a football forum, but what you've just said there is just a load of crap.

Can't wait til September and posters like this are back at school.

your the one who brough it up about the wind and the rain "on a football forum". not me.
28/07/2009, 7:19 PM
CarrickFan

anyone who has the Showgrounds in their worst 5 has'nt been up here in a while..the surface has been in great condition fot the last few matches...the main stand is as good or better than most in the league..

most of ye were Galway fans...i quite like Terryland..i dont do petty begrudgery:):)
28/07/2009, 7:44 PM
sligoman

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Originally Posted by roinuj

your the one who brough it up about the wind and the rain "on a football forum". not me.

Check again, wasn't me.
28/07/2009, 7:45 PM
Rovers1

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Originally Posted by sligoman

Check again, wasn't me.

I think it was.
29/07/2009, 4:17 PM
Da Real Rover

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Originally Posted by Paddyfield

Funny how the Shligo fans have the Showgrounds in their top 5 when most of the others don't. No bias there at all?

No comparison between supporters putting their clubs ground in the top 5 and the majority of an opposition fans putting their rivals ground in the bottom 5.
Just reeks of bitterness tbh.
No need for it really.
30/07/2009, 2:23 AM
Candystripe

Top five

No bias here

Turners X (best all round)
Terryland (two nice stands)
Dalymount great main stand although half the ground should be condemned)
Oriel (bad for away fans but the bar makes up for it)
Tolka (only because it has 3 1/2 proper stands)

Worst five

Finn Pk (no need for comment)
Brandywell (one great stand but everything else is a joke)
Limericks (see Harps comment)
Mons (great wee bar but that's it)
Utd park (**** hole)
30/07/2009, 6:41 AM
Paddyfield

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Originally Posted by Da Real Rover

No comparison between supporters putting their clubs ground in the top 5 and the majority of an opposition fans putting their rivals ground in the bottom 5.
Just reeks of bitterness tbh.
No need for it really.

You lost me when you used the word "rivals". Are you implying that Sligo Rovers are Galway United's only rival? Every other LOI club is our rival too. Thats the purpose of the League and Cup competitions.

Wake up and smell the coffee DRR
30/07/2009, 6:44 AM
mypost

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Originally Posted by mypost

Worst 5 (Can we extend it?)
UCD
Bray
Tolka
Wexford
Connaught St.

UCD: A pain the balls to get to, one of the few remaining grounds with no rail link, and when you eventually find it, you have to wade through about 20 faculties in order to finally get into it. Much preferred their old ground.

Bray: Broken seats, collapsing walls, far goal closed off, poor lighting. Bottom 5

Tolka: Dodgy pylons, poor lighting, no drainage system, goal end closed off, half a roofed Stand.

Wexford: Few facilities, wall too low, awkward to watch a game in, middle of nowhere.

Connaught Street: Shambles. Enough said.
30/07/2009, 7:54 AM
ATFC-1887

Best 5:No Order
Turners Cross
Athlone Town Stadium(and no im not bein bias...its clearly one of the better staiums)
Terryland Park
Dalymount....Could do with a whole new set of seats though lol
Tallaght Stadium

Worst 5:No Order
Station Road
Oriel Park(hate that kip)
Morton
Ferrycarrig
Finn Park
30/07/2009, 8:27 AM
dong

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Originally Posted by mypost

UCD: A pain the balls to get to, one of the few remaining grounds with no rail link, and when you eventually find it, you have to wade through about 20 faculties in order to finally get into it. Much preferred their old ground.

Bray: Broken seats, collapsing walls, far goal closed off, poor lighting. Bottom 5

Tolka: Dodgy pylons, poor lighting, no drainage system, goal end closed off, half a roofed Stand.

Wexford: Few facilities, wall too low, awkward to watch a game in, middle of nowhere.

Connaught Street: Shambles. Enough said.

Surely that's a bit unfair. I know Bray are struggling but this is an extreme way to keep clean sheets. Wonder could we try it at the showgies?:D
30/07/2009, 8:50 AM
Da Real Rover

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Originally Posted by Paddyfield

You lost me when you used the word "rivals". Are you implying that Sligo Rovers are Galway United's only rival? Every other LOI club is our rival too. Thats the purpose of the League and Cup competitions.

Wake up and smell the coffee DRR

I suppose thats why Galway fans sing "we hate sligo" at games we arent even playing you.
A bit of cop on wouldnt go astray.
30/07/2009, 9:48 AM
pineapple stu

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Originally Posted by mypost

UCD: one of the few remaining grounds with no rail link

Get the DART to Booterstown and walk 15 minutes. Nearer a train station than most other LoI grounds. Not to mention, of course, the ten or so bus services which either run into or outside campus.

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Originally Posted by mypost

and when you eventually find it, you have to wade through about 20 faculties in order to finally get into it.

Eh? You're doing well if you can find it from the other side of the campus, looking through 20 faculty buildings. When you find it, you enter it. Same as any other ground. Finding it can be tricky if you don't know where you're going (self-explanatory really), and in fairness now there's a load of building work going on around the place and new temporary pedestrian routes going up all the time (saw two of our players get lost a couple of weeks ago), but your post is, as usual, uninformed rubbish.

Also laughed at this bit -

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Originally Posted by mypost

Wexford: awkward to watch a game in

WTF?! :D
30/07/2009, 10:51 AM
davidatrb

Stands
best: Terryland (covered stands on both sides and close to the pitch)
worst: Jackman park (no seats if I remember right just small covered terrace)

Accessibility
best: To be honest probably Ferrycarrig because I think that it's the only ground in the LOI that has both sign posts to it and car parking in the ground. For ppl getting public transport Ferrycarrig is probably the worst so I'll give Tallaght I mention here too I guess.
worst: UCD (can never find the pitch)

Facilities (toilets and chipper is all I care about!)
best: Is there anywhere that has this right yet? I can't think of one - bear in mind that I dont get around to the Premier division grounds often!
worst: Jackman

Bar
best: Ferrycarrig, I guess the bar is neat and you can watch the match from the windows.
worst: The multitudes of grounds where the bar cant be found or doesnt exist.
30/07/2009, 10:56 AM
Straightstory

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Nice to see Belfield not featuring as often as it used to on these threads. :)

That's because no one's ever been there.
30/07/2009, 10:56 AM
sheao

5 best stadiums
Turners Cross
Tallaght
Terryland Park
Dalymount Park
Brandywell
5 Worst stadiums
Showgorunds
Finn Park
Station Rd
Jackman Park
RSC
30/07/2009, 10:56 AM
Ezeikial

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Originally Posted by davidatrb

worst: The multitudes of grounds where the bar cant be found or doesnt exist.

What? You've been unable to locate the bar?

A lifetime exemption from Alcoholics Anonymous for you then.
30/07/2009, 11:07 AM
pineapple stu

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Originally Posted by Straightstory

That's because no one's ever been there.

Possibly, though Jackman's getting a fair few votes.

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Originally Posted by davidatrb

worst: UCD (can never find the pitch)

Just in front of the stand there; can't miss it.
30/07/2009, 11:19 AM
christo

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Originally Posted by Straightstory

That's because no one's ever been there.

Because they can't ever find it :D
30/07/2009, 11:30 AM
atfconline

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Originally Posted by davidatrb

Accessibility
best: To be honest probably Ferrycarrig because I think that it's the only ground in the LOI that has both sign posts to it and car parking in the ground. For ppl getting public transport Ferrycarrig is probably the worst so I'll give Tallaght I mention here too I guess.
worst: UCD (can never find the pitch)

Bar
best: Ferrycarrig, I guess the bar is neat and you can watch the match from the windows.
worst: The multitudes of grounds where the bar cant be found or doesnt exist.

Nothing against Wexford, but are you kidding? Great there's a signpost, but access is down a death trap of a little country road. And a bar at a football ground that doesn't serve beer? :confused:
30/07/2009, 2:05 PM
Schumi

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Originally Posted by atfconline

And a bar at a football ground that doesn't serve beer? :confused:

I got a beer there after the game a couple of weeks ago. They only had bottles but it was grand.
30/07/2009, 2:19 PM
pineapple stu

I think it was either Heineken or that Italian beer you got. Nothing else.
30/07/2009, 2:40 PM
Schumi

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

I think it was either Heineken or that Italian beer you got. Nothing else.

Hence me getting the Italian beer! There was beer there though which was the point.
30/07/2009, 2:45 PM
pineapple stu

I know; just expanding.
30/07/2009, 6:31 PM
Cici900

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Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy

From what I have seen . . . . .
Best 5:
Turners Cross (by a country mile)
Terryland (biased, yes, I know)
Dalymount (home offootball)
Flancare (first ground in country with seating on 4 sides, well done)
Lissywoolen - (if you build it, they - Premier Division sides, and Premier Division football- will come!!)

Worst 5:
United Park - a hole of a place
Jackman Park - kip
Finn Park - I accept funds are being put into new ground
Brandywell - too far from pitch
Showgrounds - how can anyone play fooball on that surface??

ps - (dis)honourable mention to Cobh for Worst 5. Ground reminds me of orders on a submarine - dive, dive, dive

That cos we beat ye 4-1 when ye played us there?:p
30/07/2009, 9:25 PM
mypost

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Get the DART to Booterstown and walk 15 minutes. Nearer a train station than most other LoI grounds. Not to mention, of course, the ten or so bus services which either run into or outside campus.

Eh? You're doing well if you can find it from the other side of the campus, looking through 20 faculty buildings. When you find it, you enter it. Same as any other ground. Finding it can be tricky if you don't know where you're going (self-explanatory really), and in fairness now there's a load of building work going on around the place and new temporary pedestrian routes going up all the time (saw two of our players get lost a couple of weeks ago), but your post is, as usual, uninformed rubbish.

The fact that two of your players couldn't find it speaks volumes.

The idea of getting the DART to Booterstown to reach Belfield, is the equivalent of getting the train to Heuston in order to reach Richmond. It's not feasible nor practical. The bus at Blackrock station used to bring you to the old ground. It brings you nowhere near the new one. At least Pats ground has a Luas link.

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Originally Posted by davidatrb

worst: The multitudes of grounds where the bar cant be found or doesnt exist.

Kildare's players appear to have spent a lot of time in the bar this season. They are playing like a pub team.
31/07/2009, 1:03 AM
bluewhitearmy

[QUOTE=davidatrb;1202212]Stands

worst: Jackman park (no seats if I remember right just small covered terrace)

Have seats now :D still awful though :(.
31/07/2009, 9:50 AM
pineapple stu

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Originally Posted by mypost

The fact that two of your players couldn't find it speaks volumes.

It was because a new (very long) wall had been put up around construction meaning you have to go a different way. It's temporary; I mentioned it as a bit of a laugh.

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Originally Posted by mypost

The idea of getting the DART to Booterstown to reach Belfield, is the equivalent of getting the train to Heuston in order to reach Richmond. It's not feasible nor practical. The bus at Blackrock station used to bring you to the old ground.

The 11 (I think) brings you nearer the Bowl than the 17 brings you to the Park.

You said it's one of the few grounds with no rail link. The Bowl is closer to a rail station than, for example, the Brandywell, Terryland, Turner's Cross, Flancare, Lissywoolen, Dalymount, Finn Park and Ferrycarrig to name a few. As usual you're talking gibberish.
31/07/2009, 10:43 AM
ATFC-1887

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Originally Posted by pineapple stu

It was because a new (very long) wall had been put up around construction meaning you have to go a different way. It's temporary; I mentioned it as a bit of a laugh.

The 11 (I think) brings you nearer the Bowl than the 17 brings you to the Park.

You said it's one of the few grounds with no rail link. The Bowl is closer to a rail station than, for example, the Brandywell, Terryland, Turner's Cross, Flancare, Lissywoolen, Dalymount, Finn Park and Ferrycarrig to name a few. As usual you're talking gibberish.

Lissywollen is 5 mins away from train station
31/07/2009, 10:47 AM
Magicme

Well its much closer to a train station than us as our nearest would probably be Dundalk!
31/07/2009, 10:54 AM
pineapple stu

Yep, can add youz and, indeed, Drogheda in as being further away from a train line than Belfield.
31/07/2009, 11:51 AM
Partizan

I think Bray, Kildare County, Sligo, Limerick and Dundalk can be the only grounds that are practically linked to a mainline rail line. Tallaght Stadium is accessible by LUAS as well as Pats ground in Inchicore

If our beloved Todd Andrews hadn't swung his axe like a mad man in the early 1960s, the RSC would have been connected too as the Waterford - Tramore line ran nearby, in fact 5 minute walk from the ground.
31/07/2009, 7:12 PM
Martinho II

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Originally Posted by Partizan

I think Bray, Kildare County, Sligo, Limerick and Dundalk can be the only grounds that are practically linked to a mainline rail line. Tallaght Stadium is accessible by LUAS as well as Pats ground in Inchicore

If our beloved Todd Andrews hadn't swung his axe like a mad man in the early 1960s, the RSC would have been connected too as the Waterford - Tramore line ran nearby, in fact 5 minute walk from the ground.

what about longford partizan? we have a train line too!!:D
31/07/2009, 10:57 PM
the scout

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Originally Posted by WoodquayBoy

From what I have seen . . . . .
Best 5:
Turners Cross (by a country mile)
Terryland (biased, yes, I know)
Dalymount (home offootball)
Flancare (first ground in country with seating on 4 sides, well done)
Lissywoolen - (if you build it, they - Premier Division sides, and Premier Division football- will come!!)

Worst 5:
United Park - a hole of a place
Jackman Park - kip
Finn Park - I accept funds are being put into new ground
Brandywell - too far from pitch
Showgrounds - how can anyone play fooball on that surface??

ps - (dis)honourable mention to Cobh for Worst 5. Ground reminds me of orders on a submarine - dive, dive, dive

I'm quoting this particularly for Flancare park ( the Flansiro). Back in the day. . what a stadium!!!..
01/08/2009, 12:13 AM
Shelsred

Best 5: (No Order)

Terryland
Athlone
Turners Cross
Ferrycarrig
Belfield (Special offers in the shop were amazin)

Worst 5: (No Order)

Dalymount
Jackman
Morton
Inchicore
United Park (I like the away section though)
01/08/2009, 6:31 PM
christo

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Originally Posted by Shelsred

Best 5: (No Order)

Belfield (Special offers in the shop were amazin)

Honestly never knew they had a shop :eek:

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Originally Posted by mypost

Kildare's players appear to have spent a lot of time in the bar this season. They are playing like a pub team.

If they ever open the bar at Station Road (was always closed whenever the Dubs or Dundalk came down)
01/08/2009, 6:42 PM
Raheny Red

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Originally Posted by christo

Honestly never knew they had a shop :eek:

If they ever open the bar at Station Road (was always closed whenever the Dubs or Dundalk came down)

Was opened for us the last time we were there :cool:
01/08/2009, 6:53 PM
christo

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Originally Posted by Raheny Red

Was opened for us the last time we were there :cool:

Has got a bit better this year but for years any chance for them to make a bit of money they closed, I'm not sure if Kildare get anything from it anyway so I'm not too bothered

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