But we're longer serving in the LOI than Cobh!
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bray were ment to be replacing the red seats with green ones over the off season, but nothing has happened yet, and i doubt it will happen any time soon either.... place is still the same, falling apart....
Photo of the newly laid pitch in oriel park - taken at 10.30 pm last night
I think this is a similar standard to the one in Moscow used for the champions lge final last May
Upgrading has cost in the region of 50k
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Yep - your correct there Holiday - my mistake, the 1/4 million investment should make it a fantastic surface to play on
When are Fifa inspecting it?
Home sweet home!! :)
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Sorry about the photo on the left I didnt notice it was blurry until I put the photo on my computer. The photo was taken at the Rovers game two seasons ago were the lights went out.
Yes..
Hi Eamoss, thanks for the photo, it looks nice but I still can't understand much of the other sides of the ground, I know there is (was) a weird shaped stand somewhere.
It's mistery to me why it's so hard to build a decent stand in Ireland (where living and economic standards are higher than most EU countries); if you have a look at the other grounds in Europe through Google Earth or Windows Maps you see they look better even in small countries' lower divisions. How can that be? I know football in Ireland is having a hard time and I am aware about problems with GAA, still I think a ground like Flancare Park in Longford should be the starting point for every club interested in joining the LOI. I can't stand those temporary stands popping up in Ireland, they are so common in Italy too (at least you don't have many athletics running tracks)
Last year I started collecting aerial photos and news about past and present football grounds in Ireland; to write a book would take too long (I spent six long years to write Stadi d'Italia) and I guess few people would be interested but I think it wouldn't be bad if we could all work on a website like these excellent pages
http://www.footballgroundguide.com/
http://www.scottishgrounds.co.uk/
http://www.oldgrounds.co.uk/
How about it?
Why are Shams allowed put their crest on the glass but had to put manky seats in so people wouldn't think it's their ground?
I'm still trying to figure out how 28,000 people once fitted into Oriel. Anyone like to enlighten me?
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You see that Black and White wall well thats is our away section.
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There is another photo of it.
That photo of oriel must be 2 years ago, the stand is almost unrecognisable from today, there is a new roof and complete new sides with panels also replaced so you can actually see through !!!
It looks in a terrible state in this photo.
V Galway I think, and the fans on the way terrace arent galway fans either, this is our fans en route to or from their ht pint !
Tallaght Stadium Update
As well as confirming the first match in Tallaght on Saturday March 14th, the club can confirm that the SDCC will be building a stand on the east side of the stadium and that this 3,000 capacity permament structure is expected to be open in June. The current (main) accommodates 3,300 spectators.
good news
Will the new stand be a copy of the existing one. If the long term ambition is to have the stand go all the way around it would'nt make much sense if it was different.
Isnt this the side that Away fans go, so where will we have to go in the mean time, we can hardly stand in the building site and it wouldnt make sense to mingle the fans in the other stands beacuse lets face it, there is going to be trouble no matter what happens at these games!
I thought he was implying that there wasn't trouble in ONLY one game last year
Indeed, iirc Rovers and Pats shared stands without fuss, and there aws very, very few incidents of any kind at Rovers games either inside or outside the Tolka Park.