Definitely full for the Italy match, don't know about the atmosphere. The stands are too far back from the pitch.
Given the bad news re seeding I've been thinking about the athmosphere in Croke Park. Do you think the athmosphere for Italy on Saturday will be special. Can it match the intensity of Lansdowne against Holland, or a key GAA match.
My thinking at this stage - amongst so much doom and gloom - is that a win against Italy would be monumental for us. I know it probably will not get us automatic qualification even if we win both games. But think about it, a win against Italy would definitely worry all the 2nd places teams. They would not like coming to Dublin one bit after that.
If we win both games there is the very remote chance Italy slip up against Cyprus and we top the group or we move up the standing enough to become one of the top seeds - given favourable results elsewhere.
So a few questions:
Will Croker be full for Italy?
Will it be full for Montenagro?
What will the athmosphere be like?.
Come on you boys in Green ...................
Definitely full for the Italy match, don't know about the atmosphere. The stands are too far back from the pitch.
I've been in Croker for 'key' GAA games, rugby and football internationals and I've yet to experience anything approaching an atmosphere. It'll be full for Italy and maybe 3/4 full fir Montenegro, the atmosphere will be poor for both games, as it usually is.
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well i agree that win against the italians will be huge - it will send a strong message out to the other second placed teamsOriginally Posted by mjpcc
Given the bad news re seeding I've been thinking about the athmosphere in Croke Park. Do you think the athmosphere for Italy on Saturday will be special. Can it match the intensity of Lansdowne against Holland, or a key GAA match.
My thinking at this stage - amongst so much doom and gloom - is that a win against Italy would be monumental for us. I know it probably will not get us automatic qualification even if we win both games. But think about it, a win against Italy would definitely worry all the 2nd places teams. They would not like coming to Dublin one bit after that.
If we win both games there is the very remote chance Italy slip up against Cyprus and we top the group or we move up the standing enough to become one of the top seeds - given favourable results elsewhere.
So a few questions:
Will Croker be full for Italy?
Will it be full for Montenagro?
What will the athmosphere be like?.
Come on you boys in Green ...................
as for the atmosphere - i have to agree with the others - dont think it will be monmental - think it will be good for parts of the game then die down
cant see it being anything like the atmosphere in lansdowne or like the one against the dutch in 2001
the only really good atmosphere i have seen at an ireland game in croker was against slovakia in 2007 and that was only for parts of the game
i agree with colbert - just think the way the stands are affects the noise level also
but all in all i cant wait to get back home to lansdowne road
Why is it taking so long to renovate Landsdowne road? They built 2 freaking new baseball stadiums here with the most crooked unions in the world faster.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
Atmosphere will be good from the away section anyway. I've been to 90% of the games since Germany in 06 and never really had a great atmosphere for the full game.
Looking forward to both games.
Italy will defo be full the Montenegro attendance rests on the Italian result. A win against the Italians and it will be full IMO
1) Lansdowne Road is being rebuilt not renovated.
2) It will be completed on schedule which is a rare occurence in Ireland.
2) The stadiums in New York did not require any major demolition work in advance as they were built next to but not on top of the existing stadia.
3) Yankee stadium cost $ 1.5 billion (approx EUR 1 billion). Lansdowne Road (even with cost overruns) will cost about half that.
4) Take a look at how long it took to build Wembley.
5) No-one else on here is complaining.
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I'm sure we could get the atmosphere going if all the EPL + "big game" supporters got off their bee-hind & added to it rather than the usual - "I've paid 50euro for this crap - now entertain me" attitude of some of them(& i do stress some of them). At least the lot of that other forumare making an attempt to create an atmosphere & good on them!!!
Colbert I think its more the fact the "rowdy, 100%" fans are to far spread around the ground. The Slovak game was good because in my own experience almost everyone around me(lower davin) was p****d as a fart & all were up for having a sing song!!!
8 o clock in Dublin on a Saturday night, country boys up in the smoke all day,I reckon most of the 70.000 fans will be making a day of it, Croker will be swayin'....literally!
Oh. Well that totally explains why it would take a long time. Thanks. Bloomberg is lucky you are not running against him here. VERY lucky.
No Somos muchos pero estamos locos.
Oh yeah, there'd be no difference in the time it takes for those two completely different things to be completed.
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Only been there once for a Rugby match, thought the atmosphere was good, had a decent seat though, the first row of the Cusack upper. If you were at the back of the hill on a freezing wet night id say that might take away from it a bit!
Not sure if it will be full for the Italy game though, the way they are selling the 2 tickets together only suits people living in Dublin. I would have went to the Italy game but I cant make the Montenegro match so thats one empty seat anyway....
Lads just go out with the idea that you are going to enjoy yourself , then leave the rest to the boys on the pitch .
Now as funny as this may sound when we got the second goal againist Greogia the whole place went mental .
You're still under the misapprehension that it is taking a long time.
The new Yankee stadium took nearly three years to complete (August 2006 - April 2009).
Lansdowne Road will take three years to complete (May 2007 - April 2010).
"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet" - Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Off topic but the view from the back of the hill is actually pretty good. I was there for the two Six Nations games this year and the Heineken semi and the view was better than from my seats down the other end for the football internationals.
And still only 3/4s finished.
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I feckin hope not. The grabbers will have the begging bowl out looking for compensation from the government. All PAYE workers will have a GAA levy of 0.32% imposed on them. Delighted we only have 2 or 3 games left there.
Agree with that, Ireland games don't really have a decent atmosphere, certainly nothing to worry an Italian player.
The truth hurts, but the atmosphere at Ireland games is crap.
HAHA i was waiting for the post from reder, pete, etc etc to come on and take a swipe at the GAAon an uncompletely related matter to the title of the thread
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In terms of atmosphere I reckon most international matches have crap ones. There is no cohesion like there is at club level and especially in Irelands case you have the vast majority who never go to football matches unless Ireland are playing or they go to see Manchester United once a year.
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