Markets Field Renovations??

Originally Posted by thomas72

Can't see jackman getting a premier licence with one small entrance to the ground

Which is quite clearly why they say this bit.

working with the FAI to insure it would get a license with upgrades.

Originally Posted by Jofspring

Talk in today's local from Pat O Sullivan that Jackman is plan B for next season and they are working with the FAI to insure it would get a license with upgrades.

That kind of talk worries me a bit. It will be great to have a plan b but last thing we want is a handy fall back and excuse for not going into the markets field as soon as we can.

Do really think Pat O'Sullivan is the sort of person to look for handy fall backs and excuses?

Originally Posted by KevB76

Do really think Pat O'Sullivan is the sort of person to look for handy fall backs and excuses?

Nope but that doesn't mean it wouldn't give other people involved in the project and excuse or a handy fall back.

Lets be honest though it's hard to be optimistic about being in there for march when it started as we could be in their for the start of the 2012 season and our last game in Jackman has been played. Then no point in rushing as we are in the first division so lets continue in jackman and we could be in there for the last few games of this season. Now it's, it should be ready for the start of 2013 season if there is no objections but if not we can try get Jackman ready as a plan B. It was said about 2 months ago not to worry the planning was going in in a couple of weeks. A few months later and we are hearing the same line.

It's grand for most the regulars as we are going to be patient and trust what the club are doing but from the outside looking in it doesn't look too great and almost seems like a decline towards using Jackman again.

Hopefully work can just commence within the ground on work that doesn't need planning permission and we can see something physical happening to give everyone better hope of the move.

Originally Posted by Jofspring

Nope but that doesn't mean it wouldn't give other people involved in the project and excuse or a handy fall back.

These other people (presumably the LEDP, the VEC, and whoever else has some input or involvement) I would guess are more interested in doing their own thing to their own timescale and dont feel the need for any excuses or fall backs - if they cared about our timescale, I'm sure the project would be much further along already. At the end of the day we will be no more than a tenant in their ground, so they're the ones who are setting the pace of developments there and we just have to trust that when its ready, whenever that may be, that its worth the wait.

Originally Posted by Jofspring

Lets be honest though it's hard to be optimistic about being in there for march when it started as we could be in their for the start of the 2012 season and our last game in Jackman has been played. Then no point in rushing as we are in the first division so lets continue in jackman and we could be in there for the last few games of this season. Now it's, it should be ready for the start of 2013 season if there is no objections but if not we can try get Jackman ready as a plan B. It was said about 2 months ago not to worry the planning was going in in a couple of weeks. A few months later and we are hearing the same line.

It's grand for most the regulars as we are going to be patient and trust what the club are doing but from the outside looking in it doesn't look too great and almost seems like a decline towards using Jackman again.

As I said above, and I'm surprised more people on here dont seem to realise this, the club dont own the ground and arent running the show, Ive no doubt Pat o'Sullivan is doing his utmost to keep things progressing as quickly as possible but its not up to him. In the meantime it may seem that Limerick FC take all the flack and are seen as the ones breaking promises, but the mindset that see the club that way are almost a complete irrelevance by now in my opinion, the blue revolution is already way too strong to be affected by these types

Most people know it's ultimately out of their hands but that doesn't take away from what the general public have read in the media over the last year about when it would be completed.

Fingers crossed all goes to plan.

Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy

Awful.

Would it not be an option to have a few Saturdays after Christmas where the club can look for Volunteers to help out at the Markets field,whether paiinting,roofing,plastering etc.Im sure a lot of people would give their free time with the Premier league looming!!!!!!!

Sure, they could make a few Jobbridge internships out of it!

whether its still in the ..upgraded jacks or in the MF ..i like many of the fans will trust the present chairman to guide us in the right direction.

I think an upgraded jacks could be the real deal for the next 6 months to a year till the MF is ready. Second entrence by the flats. Wexford style agricultural stand or two. TV towers far side and behind one goals, extend the dressing rooms. Now its suddenly better then tolka, Dalymount, Carlisle, Drogheda......

Originally Posted by gael353

I think an upgraded jacks could be the real deal for the next 6 months to a year till the MF is ready. Second entrence by the flats. Wexford style agricultural stand or two. TV towers far side and behind one goals, extend the dressing rooms. Now its suddenly better then tolka, Dalymount, Carlisle, Drogheda......

The first three are stadia, but it would take at least three entrances before Jackman Park has better facilities than the entire town of Drogheda

Staying at Jackman park would be a missed opportunity, and opening a new entrance and a temp stand doesn't make it better than any of those stadia. you have been in the first division too long. The only ground jackman Park is better than is Fahys field.

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Staying at Jackman park would be a missed opportunity, and opening a new entrance and a temp stand doesn't make it better than any of those stadia. you have been in the first division too long. The only ground jackman Park is better than is Fahys field.

All the Carlisle is is a Temp stand hardly anything special.

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

Staying at Jackman park would be a missed opportunity, and opening a new entrance and a temp stand doesn't make it better than any of those stadia. you have been in the first division too long. The only ground jackman Park is better than is Fahys field.

You're a Cork fan travelling to an Away game.

Explain how a done up Jackman with your own entrance, toilet block, covered stand blah blah, would be any worse.

Just watched silgo and pats and with limerick hopefully moving into the markets next season the stadium silgo built up there is very very impressive copy silgo on how a club is run could Do Alot worse.

Originally Posted by bluewhitearmy

All the Carlisle is is a Temp stand hardly anything special.

I was really impressed by Carlisle when I was there this year. If Jackman converted the embankment to similar concrete terraces, similar covered stands on the far side, it would be fantastic imo.

Terrace idea is a bit of a dream though, I'll admit.

Originally Posted by NeverFeltBetter

I was really impressed by Carlisle when I was there this year. If Jackman converted the embankment to similar concrete terraces, similar covered stands on the far side, it would be fantastic imo.

Terrace idea is a bit of a dream though, I'll admit.

Whose gonna put up all this money to upgrade Jackman??i doubt very much the LDMC will,the dressings rooms are a disgrace for even junior football not to mind loi,and as for the toilets,enough said,can't see limerick investing money there when they'll be gone out of it eventually.

Originally Posted by Lim till i die

You're a Cork fan travelling to an Away game.

Explain how a done up Jackman with your own entrance, toilet block, covered stand blah blah, would be any worse.

I'm saying it wouldn't be better than those named above. I've been to every current LOI ground, imo Jackman is the second worst stadium in the league right now. Third if we include Drom. I don't see where ye plan on putting in a covered stand. On the hill? next to the Limerick District Methadone Clinic?

Originally Posted by thomas72

Just watched silgo and pats and with limerick hopefully moving into the markets next season the stadium silgo built up there is very very impressive copy silgo on how a club is run could Do Alot worse.

trust me on this, you don't actually want to copy how Sligo is run. the rest of the league hates the people running that place, out to screw anyone they can, no time for anyone but themselves.

Originally Posted by El-Pietro

trust me on this, you don't actually want to copy how Sligo is run. the rest of the league hates the people running that place, out to screw anyone they can, no time for anyone but themselves.

Spot on, Sligo fans don't see it. Heads well and truely up in the sky at the minute, but they will come crashing back to earth quicker than Felix Baumgartner in the next year or two.
They've built a nice stand, ground looks good, good team, but they've done absolutely nothing for the future of the club. Their under 19 team is woefully overlooked, no youth setup, no future planning. It's all about 'Win the league, get in the champions league'.

It's sickeningly like Shelbourne all over again.

What Limerick need to do, is get the right structures in place, get a good youth setup going, get good community involvement and community programmes, get the Markets Field up and running, have a plan in place for progression, not go absolutely gung-ho at the league straight away.

There is great potential for a very strong club in Limerick, as long as things are done right.

Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Spot on, Sligo fans don't see it. Heads well and truely up in the sky at the minute, but they will come crashing back to earth quicker than Felix Baumgartner in the next year or two.
They've built a nice stand, ground looks good, good team, but they've done absolutely nothing for the future of the club. Their under 19 team is woefully overlooked, no youth setup, no future planning. It's all about 'Win the league, get in the champions league'.

It's sickeningly like Shelbourne all over again.

What Limerick need to do, is get the right structures in place, get a good youth setup going, get good community involvement and community programmes, get the Markets Field up and running, have a plan in place for progression, not go absolutely gung-ho at the league straight away.

There is great potential for a very strong club in Limerick, as long as things are done right.

From the things on that we have everything except the ground right now and that will come. Pat O Sullivan has come out and said we wont be going mad to win the league so hopefully we stick to that.