QuoteUpdate on the new stand at the Brandywell.
Hoping to have 50% test capacity by the first or second home game of the season.
https://www.derryjournal.com/sport/f...e-wire-4981760
Probably didn't need to be that big really. If the Mark Farren stand, and a small one at the other side, are completed, it'll be plenty.Originally Posted by Dermobohs
Update on the new stand at the Brandywell.
Hoping to have 50% test capacity by the first or second home game of the season.
https://www.derryjournal.com/sport/f...e-wire-4981760
Fantastic news and delighted to hear it's nearly 3k. For some reason I thought it was going to be less than 2k. They really maximised the space, fair play.
It's about 2.8k standing or 1.8k seated.
Presumably only the lower value would be available as season tickets until such time as safe standing given ok for uefa games.
Ah that would explain it. Thanks for the clarity
With the new North Stand and the completed two wings of the Mark Farren Stand, the Brandywell would look quite a stadium, just a similar South Stand in the next phase and you would have a really fine modern stadium.
Probably number 2 after Windsor Park, if it was completed like that!
Fancying buying a few bricks?
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Ask the First Division Alliance
We're very sorry for putting their fans in a cage.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
The away stand at the Markets Field was closed on Friday and it looks like it will be indefinitely.
People will point the finger at Limerick FC and now Treaty United, but the problem always has been and always will be the ground owners - the LEDP.
The LEDP are absentee landlords who have allowed the ground to get worse in the ten years since re-opening.
where are away fans being housed?
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Older away fans were allowed into main stand to allow them sit. Others went onto the grass bank behind the dugouts. And then the younger fans kept pitchside behind the goal. Not ideal. Meant supporters well spread out for the late celebrations.
Now that Dundalk is in the First Division, and from what I’ve seen here, a lot of clubs with lower attendance have stadiums outside their town centers.
Urban planning really goes hand-in-hand for club development and it’s something clubs should be very conscious of. It might be far more cost-effective to increase support and attendances to work with councils/government to bring the town closer to the stadium or rezone the area to attract more people and amenities rather than just build out-right better facilities for supporters.
If LOI clubs were to Lobby for one thing, that would be what I would be doing.
Every club should be pushing local councils and the government to make sure they’re included in any urban renewal, development, or even public transport plans. I feel like we sometimes take a very American approach to stadium planning—wanting them in big open spaces with lots of parking. But that doesn’t really work for the LOI, which is a league built on routine and habit, and local identity - especially now that there are so many young people (with less accessibility) driving LOI attendances.
With the possibility of new teams coming into the 3rd Tier, I would say this is a near cornerstone of how they should look to develop in LOI.
You'd see nathing from behind that goal, view was crap as it was. Poor stuff
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That is shocking. LEDP have a lot to answer for it seems.
So when does the 'The new Dalymount needs to be bigger' discussion/thread start in earnest?
To be honest. Big game in the aviva start of season, and both rovers and bohs brought approx 11000 fans. If anything it proves that capacity of 8000 to 10000 is plenty for both clubs for 90% of matches.
You won't get neutrals coming to most Friday night loi games and normal away support is limited enough even where space available
How about the thing gets built first .
With the current state of the world , there's every possibility of major turmoil on the way which if it affects our economy , could lead to an end to current plans for investment in sport , meaning none of the shiny new stadiums get built . We've been there before.
No matter what goes on in the world, life still goes on. Things still happen, get built etc.
The problem with the current Dalymount design (or at the last one I saw anyway) is that it seems to rule out future expansion. Which would be extremely short-sighted if so.
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