Here's the article on the move to the Market's Field:
http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/bu...k_fc_1_2460550
They'll have to include Waterford United, as far as I know the RSC is a Municipal Stadium as well?
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A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
Here's the article on the move to the Market's Field:
http://www.limerickleader.ie/news/bu...k_fc_1_2460550
https://foot.ie/forums/117-Kerry-FC
A Championship: 4 years - 8 first teams - 0 financially ruined. First Division '14: 7 first teams.
Opportunity lost for new clubs/regions to join the LoI family.
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This is great news for Limerick FC. Markets Field is where Limerick football should be and this COULD be the start of recovery in the city. Good luck.
Great news.
Will the track be left around the pitch?
The old popularside opposite the stand which was only ever used for football will have enough room to include a stand as well. Plenty of room on the stand side too and behind both goals if needed.
Fantastic news and it will be great to go home after 27 years (28 if it happends in 2012).
Markets is closer to the city that the other grounds you played in, is this right?
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After all these years, i'm so lookin forward to going home.One of the few here who spent many a sunday in the stand at the Markets Field.Have to say a tear was shed today!
"We've had a lot of good times, but you don't know how good they are until you have the bad ones" Tony Adams
yea if we had a federal system where monies were going directly into your local authority yes maybe....but this is ireland and all monies are going to fill a big fianna fail hole,limerick city council wouldnt have the money to lavish on such things as public amenities
I would've said he was quite happy to cosy up to FF, to be honest. I just don't get the collective Limerick creaming whenever he deems it necessary to do a bit of philanthropy.
Just to be clear, if I was a Limerick supporter I doubt I'd give a crap about the how and who, once the club had a secure tenancy for the stadium.
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
Fair play, best of luck with this Limerick FC.
For me JP more than makes up for any tax break he gets, he has given millions to the developement of the Gaelic Rounds, Thomond Park, now the Markets Field. He has given towards the regional hospital, the cancer center, 2 diaylsis units, mri machine, cat scan machine, has a college scholarship system setup with CBS Limerick, helps out the friends of the elderly and probably a lot more that I can't think of. He doesn't have to do these things but he does.
As you say though as a Limerick supporter and using the typial irish attitude I don't mind what he's done for everyone else once we get a decent home
I think people are getting carried away JP is no fool and he has always been generous to the people of Limerick through his charaties, However my belief is that for a start the current stand will get a face lift and the bar area the same to make it a more appealing place to spend a few hours on a friday evening watching senior soccer and that is going to be fantastic for the area. I'd imagine the attendances will tripple at least but that will bring somewhere in the region of 1500 to 2000 thousand supporters but developing a 7000 seater venue in a year is a big ask. Even if the facility was used by other sports ie. rugby league that would be suicide to put that much money into a facility the cost alone of security and maintenance would cripple any team using it.
With that said its great news for Limerick football.
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