Tallaght Stadium?

Originally Posted by Dodge

Its not Rovers ground and they don't want people thinking its Rovers grounds.

The council are being so pedantic and to be quite honest childish, it would have cost less to get just green seats. If all the seats were green the staduim would look great and would also suit to have an underage international

UEFA or the FAI don't care about seat colours or the layout of them when it comes to underage games. They just care about facilities and location. Tallaght will be more than adequate I'm sure despite the different colours.

Originally Posted by Longfordian

UEFA or the FAI don't care about seat colours or the layout of them when it comes to underage games..

I wasn't even suggesting that.

Originally Posted by Billy-Green

If all the seats were green the staduim would look great and would also suit to have an underage international

Seems like you were suggesting they need to be green to me?. Maybe you didn't mean it to come across like that but that's how it reads to me. Anyhow, it's no big deal.

Think he was saying it would be far more suitable/sensible (green = Ireland) to do it.

Originally Posted by Dodge

Its very impressive when you see it first hand, even if the tetris blocks look rubbish

Good old Tetris. If can spin the yellow block above the Umbro sign can slide that down between the yellow & red block. Was the architects name Mr. Nintendo?

Originally Posted by Dodge

Nothing will happen, nor should it. Seats are expensive and the council don't have money to be wasting on new ones.

What's the story on this lads? Council's are cutting costs on all projects in a massve way. Is it nearly ready?

Its nearly ready, and the money to get it done will be provided, but there won't be anything extra in it.

SDCC expect this to become quite the moneyspinner. They'll receive rent from Rovers and high percentages of all revenue from the ground (ads etc)

Originally Posted by Dodge

SDCC expect this to become quite the moneyspinner. They'll receive rent from Rovers and high percentages of all revenue from the ground (ads etc)

Sweet deal as I believe hasn't costs SDCC a cent of their own money?

Originally Posted by pete

Sweet deal as I believe hasn't costs SDCC a cent of their own money?

You need to change your beliefs.

I think the sign explains some of the stadium payment

Will there be an official opening match? Maybe against a top English side?

The contractor is from Longford, relations of a friend of mine. I remember it was costing a fortune in security to keep the site under their control when things had stalled and they were owed a lot of money. Nice to see how far it's come on since then, even if the seats are oddly coloured.

Apparently they're letting Carlow GAA play a few games in it - hence the seat colours

I can't believe nobody is able to give a definitive answer as to the immediate plans for developing the ground.
For every person that says work will start shortly on the opp side, someone else will say it won't.
For every person that says there'll be 4 connected stands, another will say just 2.
Permanent stands... no temporary.
Timescale is in place... no its not.

etc, etc, etc...

What's the story??

There will be a temporary stand opposite the main stand erected by April-ish. It will be RDS grand stand style with a roof.
The original plan for the stadium is four connected stands. There is no timescale for this as of yet.

Originally Posted by Buller

There will be a temporary stand opposite the main stand erected by April-ish. It will be RDS grand stand style with a roof.
The original plan for the stadium is four connected stands. There is no timescale for this as of yet.

Cheers, I'll run with that prediction so.
As long as it's RDS style and not Bray Wanderers style it should look good

Any news on an official opening fixture yet?

vs Sligo Mar 14th
http://www.shamrockrovers.ie/fixtures.php

Lads when will tickets for this go on sale? Do ye reckon stadium will be ready to go?