None of the stewards cared until the pitch went up in flames. Then a few ran over.
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It was not thrown through stupidity. It was a deliberate act to damage the pitch. The scum had their mobile phones held up to video their vandalism.
The cretins don't realise, or care, that their club will end up paying the repair bill.
I do agree that it was stupid of Dundalk not to anticipate this. Rovers fans did the same deliberate act of vandalism earlier in the season. It should have been no surprise that they would do it again.
People have their phones out to record the atmosphere before a match all the time ffs. A flammable pitch shouldn't be allowed in the league any. The fai need to get strict with the ground licences and make dundalk do serious upgrades to that kip.
If it was a grass pitch no body would be talking about it, dundalk threw flares on the pitch at the cup final last year no one made a big deal over it, but do anything to dundalks astro and its the crime of the century.
Yeah because I said people recorded pre match atmosphere dosn't mean they planned to cause damage to the pitch and that if it was a grass once no one would be talking about it, Im the one who threw it. A pitch that goes on fire so easily shouldn't be allowed, you need to have fire certs to get flags into stadiums these days ffs.
The pitch is fire resistant so shows how hot those flares burn - seriously dangerous.
Where is the they did it with the intention of burning the pitch coming from though? Have they come out and said that? Flares get thrown on the pitch all the time I've seen it loads of times when they have been set off.
It's hard not to be aware of the impact that the concentrated, searing heat of a flare will have on a synthetic substance like artificial turf.
The question of whether it was done to cause damage is one thing, but whoever threw it could hardly claim they never imagined it would cause damage.
It's not the first time a flare has been thrown on the pitch and rovers aren't the only ones that have done it, dundalk do it themselves. Seams like just because it's dundalk precious astro that this time is worse than others.
Lads, this thread is for ground updates/redevelopments. The last page and a half has been about the flare thrown in Oriel last weekend.
I know it burnt part of the artificial surface but it's not really relevant. That topic is probably more suitable for a separate thread about the weekend's fixtures.
'New 3,700 capacity Brandywell taking shape and on schedule for completion by end of the year': http://www.derryjournal.com/news/new...year-1-8192055
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Originally Posted by Derry Journal
I expected the stand to be shallower with a greater elevation. That's some roof and another two wings to that in due course in will be the most impressive looking in the league. It would have to be a more expensive way of doing a stand development thugh?
That 955 seater new stand would be a perfect addition for behind the town end goal in Oriel Park, it looks great !
I took in a Sturm Graz game during a trip to Austria last month. About 10,000 attended the game in their 15,000 capacity stadium. The atmosphere was great. They have those rail seatings behind one of the goals.
My host felt a need to explain beforehand that the standard would not be like Germany or England! I could only show a picture of Tallaght Stadium to communicate the level football is at here in terms of facilities first of all.
Graz's opponents on the night were Altach. I think Cork City and Dundalk would have given both a good game.
The game itself petered out in a scoreless draw after Graz had a man sent off for a second yellow card before half time.
Supporters are allowed drink beer in the Stadia over there. People are going around selling beer as people do ice-creams at GAA games during the summer.
Graz and Cork would have a similar enough population size. Cork doesn't have any other professional sports team in the city. It had me pondering is it achievable for Cork in 10 to 15 years to expand their support base to about 10,000 or more? It's possibly the most achievable for leading clubs in reasonably sized urban areas.
Typical stadium build here again, one big stand and nothing else to surround the pitch, I always thought football stadiums had four sides, we seem to be happy with a project that offers one or two stands on each side with nothing behind the goals. The promise to add further structures never really happen and we end up with stadi like we have that offer nothing to the real football fans. Is it a case of just accepting the design what is offered and keep the mouth shut!
Tbf it is more the case in the larger and wealthier leagues where 4 sides are always enclosed. If you look at sides outside of the top 3 or 4 across the likes of Croatia, Poland, Iceland, Lux and the like, there are many grounds that just have one decent stand. We are obviously influenced by what we see on offer in England and Scotland and that is our benchmark - nothing wrong with that either.