Stadium Updates (All Clubs)

**SalvadorSanchez** · 21/11/2015, 11:45 AM

Who are we?

**forza** · 22/11/2015, 4:37 PM

Originally Posted by Kingswood Rover

AFAIK OUR the new stand is to be constructed in 2017.

Do you mean the council's new stand?

**ger121** · 22/11/2015, 8:18 PM

Originally Posted by forza

Do you mean the council's new stand?

Same as when Pat's fans say 'our club' and what they mean is Kelleher's club. Somebody else always owns it...

**Dalymountrower** · 26/11/2015, 10:17 PM

Deal on Dalymount signed off with DCC, Zurich paid, all other debts resolved
Shels to come on board.

**Mr A** · 26/11/2015, 10:22 PM

Great news for Bohs. Time to spend, spend, spend.

**Dalymountrower** · 26/11/2015, 11:05 PM

Back to having no money and no debts is an improbable outcome from where we have been over the last five years.

**Charlie Darwin** · 26/11/2015, 11:13 PM

Originally Posted by Dalymountrower

Back to having no money and no debts is an improbable outcome from where we have been over the last five years.

Iceland?

**Philosophizer** · 27/11/2015, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by Dalymountrower

Deal on Dalymount signed off with DCC, Zurich paid, all other debts resolved
Shels to come on board.

Good news for Bohs.

I was hoping Shels would come on board eventually but last I heard their fans weren't happy about the possibility of a move. What's changed?
Any info on when they'll move? Will they wait for the redevelopment work to be completed on Dalyer? I remember hearing that they still had a lease on Tolka for another 50 yrs or something.

**Longfordian** · 27/11/2015, 12:03 PM

Wasn't the hold up with Shels the fact that DCC want Tolka and Shels have already sold their lease on it to a developer who wasn't prepared to give it to the Council at a knockdown price?

**Dodge** · 27/11/2015, 12:22 PM

DCC effectively wanted the lease on Tolka to be handed back to them for nothing

Shels are looking for some angle to relieve their debt

**Dalymountrower** · 27/11/2015, 3:54 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

DCC effectively wanted the lease on Tolka to be handed back to them for nothing

Shels are looking for some angle to relieve their debt

Wouldn`t be confident that anyone knows exactly how many genuine and other creditors out there that Shels owe money to. The Tolka lease is the only card Shels have to play unless they fold and re-form a la Derry/ Rovers etc. Some of their less public creditors might not be as forgiving as Revenue though. Glad to see that they have opened up discussions with DCC again after the disastrous hardball negotiating stance they adopted earlier this year.

**Philosophizer** · 27/11/2015, 3:59 PM

Originally Posted by Dalymountrower

Glad to see that they have opened up discussions with DCC again after the disastrous hardball negotiating stance they adopted earlier this year.

Haven't seen this reported anywhere. Have you heard something through the grapevine?

**manic da hoop** · 28/11/2015, 8:45 PM

Originally Posted by Dalymountrower

The Tolka lease is the only card Shels have to play unless they fold and re-form a la Derry/ Rovers etc. .

Rovers never folded.

**Nesta99** · 28/11/2015, 10:44 PM

Always felt that Shels made things tough for themselves by not going in to examinership and negotiating a few cent in the Euro with their creditors like Rovers and others. Was it out of a sense of duty to creditors or did they think that they would eventually be bailed out? Ive forgotten the details of the lease on Tolka if it was ever clear cut. I was of the opinion that it had been sold off to developers so how can it be used as leverage? Unless there was a very sensible clause in the sale that the lease is only handed over when an alternative ground is provided by the developer. Besides being broke the way Tolka has been left to crumble would imply that they werent responsible for its upkeep at all. Their hopes to have debts dealt with via a move is understandable but you would think they would jump at a move to a modern newly built ground that wasnt going to cost them. Anybody able to shine some light on the background on the Tolka lease?

**punkrocket** · 29/11/2015, 4:49 PM

Good article although maybe not so relevant to what we live with in Ireland.
If the author or some of the posters fancy a bit of gritty romanticism I'm sure we can sort out a bit handily enough.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/...lympic-stadium

**Mr A** · 02/12/2015, 10:00 AM

More detail on Dalymount plans: http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepa..._-Imageandlink

**White Horse** · 02/12/2015, 10:10 AM

The pitch will be rotated? I didn't realise that was part of the plan. It will be a very different ground.

**Mr A** · 02/12/2015, 10:52 AM

I wondered about that. Wouldn't the Jodi then be too wide, or is it being demolished? Would love to see a plan for this.

**White Horse** · 02/12/2015, 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Mr A

I wondered about that. Wouldn't the Jodi then be too wide, or is it being demolished? Would love to see a plan for this.

"Two smaller stands, each of which would hold between 500 and 700, would be built on the Connaught Street and North Circular Road sides".

That would mean the Jodi is to be demolished.

**Philosophizer** · 02/12/2015, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by Mr A

More detail on Dalymount plans: http://www.thesun.ie/irishsol/homepa..._-Imageandlink

I guess this means the Jodi will be demolished. Pity. I had hoped they'd keep the Jodi and keep pitch in the same position as before (or possibly even bring it a bit tighter to the Jodi), and just rebuild the other 3 sides. Would have been nice to keep something of the history of the ground, but maybe it just wasn't feasible given the site.
Would be a pity if they turn it into a modern soulless soccerdome. Although the fact that they're keeping bars (plural) in the stands is a major positive!