This is the South African one I was talking about.
Unfortunately, it won't be seeing any World Cup action this year...
I don't exactly want to derail the thread so this will be the last odd one I post. It's the Bazeilles Municipal in France and I believe it's nigh on impossible to get a ticket for the big games, such is the compact design.
Hadn't been aware of that. That's pretty cool. Who would have thought an unused quarry could be converted into something so spectacular?Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
The architect.
All in all I think it will be a tough place for teams to come in and play.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
A little off topic but found the following clips on the Pathe film website - the 1949 game in Goodison and the 1964 game in Dalymount (very different to the new Lansdowne Road.....
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=27131
http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=43285
Last edited by EastTerracer; 18/05/2010 at 3:40 AM.
"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet" - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
although not affected to the same extent as lansdowne, the millenium stadium in cardiff is restricted at one end due to the presence of the old Cardiff rugby club.
only building on a green field site can gaurantee a proper four sided stadium. would far rather the stadium we have in a decent part of town for atmosphere etc than having to go to the middle of nowhere where there are no pre / post match facilities etc for our stadium (eg abbotstown)
Last edited by jbyrne; 18/05/2010 at 9:04 AM.
Is the 3 sides and one small piece at the end of the stadium a metaphor for the 3 provences of the country and the 4th one up north thats not fully all ours at the moment but we hope some day we might be able to take it over and make the country bigger
Its really not that complicated!!!
My first game at it. Pity that at one end there is only a small number of seats as it does take away from the overall effect of the stadium but I am aware of the reasons for this.
Organisation wasn't great as it took me a while to find out exactly where entrance F was - perhaps that was just me not reading the instructions. Huge queues for the loo - don't remember that at Croker. Two screens a bit smaller than at Croker.
They are the negatives. The rest is obviously positive. Even with just the singing section making noise, they could be heard all over the ground. I am looking forward to the competitive games when the noise should be phenominal. I was in the lower West and the view was great. I wonder what it was like elsewhere.
A huge number of stewards at the end. Seemed a bit of an overkill.
We lost but if my memory serves me right we had a bad start at Lansdowne as well. Hopefully, we'll kick off with a win for the first competitive game.
Is there no place for a flag pole? The players faced a flag stuck on the roof as far as I could see or was it flying elsewhere with the Argentinian flag.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
The flags were hung from the roof alright; looked a bit silly, but I don't know where there's space really.
I liked the old Lansdowne - think it had character - and generally dislike modern grounds for being uniform, bland constructions (the Liberty Stadium in Swansea is awful, for example). I'm in the middle on this one though. The dip on the North Terrace gives it something identifiable, and it does look well from the outside. Not as good as what it replaced in my opinion (aside from capacity), but it's not bad either.
Anyone else think the toilets were a problem? huge queues to get in and out.
A couple of the lads in work were at it, one had seats behind one of the corner flags and said view was OK at best, the other 2 were in upper East stand I think and they said they had a very badly obstructued view and couldn't see the goal at one end at all without standing up (I think they were behind a railing).
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After quite a bit of debate with my mates over the last few years over the Croke Park atmosphere issue - I personally didn't think the atmosphere last night was much different to any of the friendlies in Croke Park. I always felt people made too big an issue of the relation between the atmosphere and the pitch being a little further away in Croker. By and large the meaning of the game (competitive v friendly), the performance of a team and the willingness of supporters to be bothered to sing are the crucial factors to contributing towards a noisey atmosphere inside a stadium. The France and Italy games last year showed that Croke Park can be deafening for football when the above factors come into play.
However, I do think the new Lansdowne has the potential to be even louder due to the design of the roof, etc. Wins against Andorra and Armenia and the Russia game will be rocking if we manage to take the game to them.
Yep, I was to the left on East stand upper. My view was highly obstructed by a metal barrier and the fact that I was right beside the section entrance.
You've got no fans.
just to add to the thread, I had a purple ticket for the East Stand Upper, so instead of walking the few hundred yards down Lansdowne Road to the turnstile N, I had to continue down Shelbourne Road, cross the bridge, and come back in Beatty's Avenue to cross Herbert bridge. This added about 15 pointless minutes to the trip to the stadium.
Does anyone know why this route was changed, and will it be changed back??
I was in the upper tier of the west stand and in row W which is at least half way up.
I have to say my view of the pitch was fine. However, my view of the 2 screens was completely obstructed. Had to stand/lean to see the screens through gaps in the metal beams.
Compared to what preceded it the stadium is fantastic, however the roof is quite poor really. By supporting the roof from below instead of above they sacrificed the sightlines of spectators in favour of the aesthetics of the exterior. I think that was a serious mistake.
My uncle was at the rugby opener and had similar complaints about the impaired view. Are the upper tiers especially steep? He suggested they were a health and safety hazard and the whole thing had been done on the cheap. Or a poor job done at a rip-off price even. I've heard complaints about the long walk to the ground as well. My uncle was especially critical of the fact that huge crowds are forced to squeeze through a dangerously claustrophobic tunnel on their approach to the ground. From what I've read of last night, little has been done to alleviate any of this since the rugby opener.
Presumably it was changed to equalise the flow of spectators coming from 4 directions and cut down on crowding. The large numbers on Lansdowne Road, particularly when the rail barriers were down were an obvious problem in the old stadium.
On the basis this entrance is on all the printed maps, I'd say thats the way it will stay. If you're coming from town, you've certainly got the short straw. But for those leaving their car in Sandymount/Ringsend etc. its a handy way in.
I presume there's no way to walk down the Dodder from Bath Avenue bridge along the new Red route and then skirt round to the Purple entrance?
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