Bowl

[Bald Student]

Article in the big paper today quoting macker as saying that the bowl will have 1,500 seats by 2007. That's an increase of 840. Planning permission has been applied for.
Also, wheelchair & ambulance access, turnstiles, propper toilets and administrative offices.

[Student Mullet]

That's an increase of 840.

Did the articel state wheather they're new seats? That sounds a bit too identicle to the current capacity of the A B bank stand for my likeing.

[Poor Student]

If the big paper the College Observer? I scanned through it rapidly today and didn't notice that. I guess this is our last season at Belfield Pk.

Mullet raises an interesting point. I'm not sure if he's joking but given our history with used seats I wouldn't put it past the club.

[CollegeTillIDie]

I recently saw an article from a Monthly Irish soccer newspaper called the Soccer Reporter from 1978 I think it was. A brief interview with the late great Dr. Tony O'Neill , talking about developing the bowl for soccer and it had the amphitheatre aspect etc and how the club was looking forward to moving there. Seems he was 30 years ahead of his time .

[Bald Student]

I recently saw an article from a Monthly Irish soccer newspaper called the Soccer Reporter from 1978 I think it was. A brief interview with the late great Dr. Tony O'Neill , talking about developing the bowl for soccer and it had the amphitheatre aspect etc and how the club was looking forward to moving there. Seems he was 30 years ahead of his time .

Check out the issue of UCD Sport from before my time which is on display in the forum bar, oops I mean the centre bar, oops I mean the 'New Sports Bar'. It confidently predicts that a 20,000 capacity multi sports stadium will be built on UCD's new 300 acre 'Belfield' campus, which is only 2 miles south of Dublin.

As an aside, I look forward to seeing our marketability and potential support increasing as the project gets underway.

[Bald Student]

http://www.stigonline.com/bowl.pdf

[Schumi]

Belfield Park will no longer be used as a sports facility. Its future is uncertain.

Would have thought its future was well known.

[CollegeTillIDie]

Would have thought its future was well known.

Well it's now unclear as to whether apartments or a faculty building will be built on it.

[Bald Student]

Would have thought its future was well known.

You're assuming that student journalists research their articles.

[HarpoJoyce]

Did the articel state wheather they're new seats? That sounds a bit too identicle to the current capacity of the A B bank stand for my likeing.

Mullet raises an interesting point. I'm not sure if he is joking but given our history with used seats i wouldn't put it past the club.

But very valid points. I can't remember the green seats provinence either, maybe St. James's Gate or Crewe Alexandria or maybe neither.

But there will only be a few traces of Belfield Park in the Bowl, so it's important to have the history right, at least at the beginning.

We may bring over that Hack 'gallows' type Bunker- type thing from the far side aswell. But maybe not.

[CollegeTillIDie]

But very valid points. I can't remember the green seats provinence either, maybe St. James's Gate or Crewe Alexandria or maybe neither.

But there will only be a few traces of Belfield Park in the Bowl, so it's important to have the history right, at least at the beginning.

We may bring over that Hack 'gallows' type Bunker- type thing from the far side aswell. But maybe not.

The Green seats are retired bucket seating.... isn't it obvious?

[HarpoJoyce]

The Green seats are retired bucket seating.... isn't it obvious?

em... yea now it is. But I'm usually in the far corner of the East Stand Upper so don't recognise them from close in.

I do like the little holes hand-drilled into the seat, is this to let snow melt through the holes like what they have in central Europe?

[Poor Student]

So are we going to build the world's largest extendo-tunnel to go from the dressing rooms to the pitch?

Would this natural amphitheatre style be conducive to a better atmosphere? Are we going to have one stand or two after this extension?

[CollegeTillIDie]

So are we going to build the world's largest extendo-tunnel to go from the dressing rooms to the pitch?

Well they are not going to be changing in the Sports Centre if that's what you are referring to. They will in fact be using new changing rooms that are to built on the Bowl precincts.

[Poor Student]

Well they are not going to be changing in the Sports Centre if that's what you are referring to. They will in fact be using new changing rooms that are to built on the Bowl precincts.

There's some new state of the art dressing rooms built in that vicinity with lottery money. They also have top physio facilities. I think someone told me that the rugby players trek out from it into the stadium. What's the point in those dressing rooms if they stadium will have another set?

[Bald Student]

CTID hits the nail on the head when he refers to the precincts of the bowl. They're just outside the stadium. That's fine for rugby but I'd imagine either a long extendo-tunnel or new changing rooms are needed.

[Schumi]

There's some new state of the art dressing rooms built in that vicinity with lottery money. They also have top physio facilities. I think someone told me that the rugby players trek out from it into the stadium. What's the point in those dressing rooms if they stadium will have another set?

Pictures here. I very much doubt there'll be new dressing rooms built. A new exit from these ones is more likely.

[Bald Student]

What are we going to sing when someone hits a 'Glenomena'?

"Brady's Gym, Brady's Gym!!"

[CollegeTillIDie]

There's some new state of the art dressing rooms built in that vicinity with lottery money. They also have top physio facilities. I think someone told me that the rugby players trek out from it into the stadium. What's the point in those dressing rooms if they stadium will have another set?

Sorry I didn't realise they were already built. Yes Schumi is correct unlikely extra setwill be built closer to the field. Extendo tunnel may well be the answer. Wow our new ground will look like a decent stadium from at least one aspect!

[Schumi]

The thing with the current dressing rooms is that the rugby players enter through the stand unless that's been changed recently. I doubt that'd be acceptable for us.