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.
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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.
A 26,000 capacity stadium for about 1,000 people?
Don't think it would work too well
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
There'd be too much demand for tickets. Not worth the hassle.
Now if it was Galway on the otherhand...
plus the rental is €100,000 per day/night/match
Potential venue for a FAI Cup final perhaps?
Would be a good option especially if two teams from the west or south made the final.
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.
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 thereQuote:
Originally Posted by centre mid
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.
I was just thinking that UCD should use Croker for the same reasons....
That doesn't make any sense Steve! (geographically like!)Quote:
Originally Posted by dcfcsteve
Shels can use Croker, and UCD can use Lansdowne Road when that's finished. ;)
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Originally Posted by dublin_owl
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.
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Originally Posted by historynut
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/img...wallpaper2.jpg
Bohs originally owned Jones Rd & sold it to the Gah way back whenQuote:
Originally Posted by HarpoJoyce
Why didnt Bohs build on it ?;)
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.
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Originally Posted by gael353
How do you know they would ask this much?
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
They bought it as a cabbage patch, if I remember correctly.Quote:
Originally Posted by HarpoJoyce
Indeed. Most recently in a friendly with Liverpool, I think?Quote:
And you know your history. UCD have played on Lansdowne too, very competively.
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Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good
ehhh because we asked
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. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
I can't believe Limerick 37 actually enquired about the price and availability of a 26,500 capacity stadium.Quote:
Originally Posted by gael353
Friendly games, such as the upcoming Sunderland gameQuote:
Originally Posted by gufcfan
Have they asked again since the Celtic Tiger went tits up? The answer might come with a couple of zeros knocked off the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by gael353
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by gufcfan
They could pack the place out with Sheeple to see their British TV heros. It is not as far fetched as it sounds.
I can't believe any club would have access to a 26,500 capacity stadium and not at least find out how much it costsQuote:
Originally Posted by gufcfan
Good to see the links between IRFU and FAI continuing to develop.
Yeah, I wish Limerick were run like Bohs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good
An example to us all. :rolleyes:
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
Will a large house on a 6 Acre site overlooking the City of Limerick do for you then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good
only if its likerick prisonQuote:
Originally Posted by Monkfish
you left out the bit that it was in Co.Clare:o:o:oQuote:
Originally Posted by Monkfish
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Originally Posted by John83
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.
My favourite story about that time is the journalists coming over and asking about Ucked's history...
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)
:o Oops. Yes, ECWC. I thought 'second tier European competition' and forgot that there ever was a cup winners' cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by gspain
And was promptly signed by Man Utd, though he never played for their senior team.Quote:
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 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.Quote:
Everton won 1-0 on aggregate and went on to win the 1985 ECWC.
PS: I've heard the Ucked tale too, but not unlikely it was from you.
and? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by oscar
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 :DQuote:
Originally Posted by oscar
and nothing:cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by Monkfish
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.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
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.