You clown. Look at the first thread on this forum and you will notice that our attendances are higher than Rovers and Pats. Stop living on past glories and get your facts right
By an extra 300 for a club with the best ground, the most expensive team and recent CL qualifier gamesOriginally Posted by sfc red
If we had all that there would be no comparison. BTW letting the toddlers from the nearest creche in doesn't count
KOH
you had 250 in dalymount against rovers, your biggest rivals and the game 3/4 of a mile from your home ground.
similar story against the bozos.
we are talking about dalymount, not tolka.
now **** off.
That stand is like Mini Mnini Me Jodi.
What will Bohs do when more land to sell off? What next chop the side of the Jodi off & build block of flats?
Its better than a kick in the arse but is presumably driven by the fact someone else is going to build it for them and they get some money for selling the land. Beggars can't be choosers etc.
Think the boxes are a waste of time behind the goals. People who will pay for boxes will want a decent view of the pitch from along the side of the pitch.
Suppose it looks better than what's there anyway...
In fairness, the stand fits the ambitions for boz.
300 people..says it all really
Is this being built by the shopping centre crowd at no cost to Bohs?
Also, there's a roof on the Connaught St seats in the pic at the top of the thread. Is this planned?
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Hmmmm......Pot....Kettle....Black....
I think its a good plan. The eL needs good facilities, not big ones. If the guys doing the flats are paying for this, so much the better. I don't know about Corporate Boxes behind the goals, but Bohs aren't going to get any corporate boxes any time soon if they don't put them in here.
It would make a very good away end, but I don't know if they'd want to do that because of the boxes.
If, in the future, Bohs need to up the capacity (however unlikely) there's plenty of scope to do the Connaught St. side.
What a bunch of whingers youse all are!
Look what is there at the moment is right - a crumbling old throwback. Bohs obviously don't have the money there to put a 3/4,000 seat stand in so if they are getting money for the land and a seated section behind the goal with a view to bringing in extra revenue from the boxes then good on them.
And has anyone thought that this stand will be where the away fans might go? Seems none of the eL clubs take much travelling support for the regular games anyway according to you lot, so yeah 400 sounds about right in terms of ambition. Its not as if the league is overflowing with grounds that have completely seated stadia on all 4 sides?
Someone made the point that the stand would only be 5/6 rows deep. How deep does the stand go in the Cross that the camera always picks up? Not much deeper than ten rows I'd say.
Its one thing to debate new issues like this, but it would be no harm to take a step back and look at these things constructively. Fair enough its not as big a stand as most would like but it fulfills a purpose, its all they need, and more importantly, its possibly all they can afford from the land deal.
Here they come! It’s the charge of the “Thanks” Brigade!
It's no more than 6 rows deep.
Yeah about 5-6 rows deep. However that is restricted by space no funds to do an IRFU & buy houses behind. We didn't sell the land behind to fund small stand.
maybe they should just sell up for good and relocate to the outskirts of Dublin a la Shels?
it must make sense for the club to do what they are doing with the stand but to be honest, could they not at least make it stretch all the way across behind the goal?
Winners are workers,
Losers make excuses.
It will actually be 400 but then Shels fans are never very good with numbers. So how is this stand any worse than your legoland one you built a few years ago. You'd want to think before you write in future.
The point is that there are huge fixed costs involved in building a stand. Therefore - to put in say 600 seats, rather than 400, wouldn't actually cost a whole lot more. The additional seats would probably only need to be used once or twice a year (a Cup final ?) for their incremental installation costs to be recovered. Hey presto - bigger stand, better stadium, no real additional cost.
As for the idea of putting away fans in there - are Bohs proposing that their only Corporate boxes should be for away fans, or are these designed for Bohs own corporate fans ? Firstly - as ORA pointed out, to get decent money for Corporate Boxes, you'd want them to be on the sidelines. Secondly - would a handful of Bohs Corporate Fans really want to be stuck behind up-to 400 away fans for every game....? I can't see the attraction in it myself.....
Who are the Dalymount Trust, btw ? Do they own the ground, and are they entirely separate from the Club ?
You don't own your own stadium either!!!
Sitting pretty!!!
The Dalymount Trust are an independent fans group, set up in May of this year to raise funds for capital projects in the ground. The first inititative is to raise €20k to part finance the refurbishment of one of the clubs three bars, work which gets underway next Tuesday.
The stand at the Tramway end of the ground will [possibly] be built by the developer at no cost to Bohs, but it will have space to extend the seating capacity to about 800.
The corporate facilities will be of use in a variety of ways.
The stand itself only goes as far as it does, but thats not the issue. I am sure Corkies will be on boasting about the great crowds they get but they have got crowds of 2000-2500 for recent league games agains UCD and Drogheda.
The bottom line is it will be an added facility in Dalymount if it all happens, and will be a huge boost to Bohs. This is part of the land deal that was undertaken some years back to part fund the Jodi stand.
http://www.dalymounttrust.org/about.htm
That link should answer your questions.
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