Originally Posted by tiktok
So you were making the point that better training centres and acadamies would contribute directly to the crowds we get??
Would have been a lot easier to just say "better players"
Couldn't tell you, I've never been in Pittodrie.
I'd imagine that Ibrox would be more comfy than United Park though.
When I mentioned facilites, I was thinking more of trainign centers and academies than the stadia themselves.
So you were making the point that better training centres and acadamies would contribute directly to the crowds we get??
Would have been a lot easier to just say "better players"
Nonsense comparison.
Point I was making was how come the cross wont be bursting at the seams every week when the roof on the St. Annes end is finished??
But since you've said that you actually meant it's shiny academies which draw in crowds, whatever..........
Ha, I'm caught!So you were making the point that better training centres and acadamies would contribute directly to the crowds we get??
Would have been a lot easier to just say "better players"
I was actually thinking of facilities as a package though. What I know of Scottish stadia is from TV and a fleeting visit to Easter Road, but they appear to be in the main, covered on four sides, fully seated and from listening to those that travel there, good on food/drink facilities. That would give them an edge on most grounds in the LoI.
In terms of training facilities, they appear far ahead of anything I've seen in the LoI, players who've moved across (and some that have come back) confirm as much, then again, salthill devon are light years ahead of anything I've seen in the LoI.
Because the great Cork Sporting Public couldn't give a **** about the LoI.
That's a problem every club faces.
True, it's only once in a blue moon you see any in Finn Park. The apathy of langers towards Harps has been a source of great consternation at FHFC for some time.
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It's understandable, especially for anyone who remembers the 80's when busloads would make their way up from West Cork to support you. Those were the days! Why do you think we stopped travelling up, maybe because you ran out of sheep in about 1993?
You could also argue that the old firms co-efficients and results allow other scottish clubs get easier draws in europe. Celtic and Rangers in no way represent the average level of the scottish league.
Immensely, and I like the Cross. Pittodrie as a whole is well kept and the Dick Donald stand in particular puts anything in the EL to shame.
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The Howl of the North Sea, winds of 70 mph, rain, snow and sleet, ships from the carbon emitting oil industry setting off to sea as Aberdeen play East Sterling in the Scottish League Cup on a cold bleak Thursday night. Any takers anyone?
Is it any different to freezing rain as Cork City take on Bally-who's-it in the Munster Senior Cup on a Tuesday in late February?
Lots of grounds encounter bad weather.
Pittodrie has a beach right behind the Donald Stand no league of Ireland ground has a beach .
Bray...
There's a Dart line (and a road, I think) between them. And Bray's as cold as a long dead Polar bear in a snowstorm.
Yes compared to Aberdeen which is like the Sahara at times.
lol ye...id presume bray would be drier and milder than aberdeen.
The SFA have had to give a £300k payout to the 30 clubs this week as so many are struggling and couldn't wait until the end of the season.
£10k each.
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I think the average SPl attendance when all Old Firm games are removed is something like 6-7,000. Hearts v Hibs had 12,000 at it last year and that’s a "huge" game. I used slightly better because although I'd die for us to get crowds that average that, they're still pants crowds in real terms.
Maybe not big clubs going to the wall but Aberdeen, Hibs, Hearts and Both Dundees have been "saved" by benefactors in recent years. The Edinburgh clubs were talking about merging as neither could afford to continue on the path they were. As Candystripe pointed out the SFA has had to pay clubs money upfront as a lot of them are struggling.
Wage cuts nearly all round??
Big clubs going to the wall on an annual basis??
Not being flippant, just genuinely don't know.
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I can't imagine Bray being milder than anywhere. The Faroe Islands were warmer!
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Pittodrie is a sh!thole of a ground. Freezing cold all year round, and full of seagull cr@p
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