Stadium Updates (All Clubs)

**Schumi** · 05/06/2010, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

The new toilets are very nice - hotel quality almost - but for away fans, be warned - it's the part of the ground you can't get to, so you're still stuck with portaloos or facilities third world countries would be shocked at.

Ahh. I told Poor Student about the fancy* new jacks, he wasn't best pleased when he got back to the terrace!

*It's a bad sign for the league when proper urinals are considered fancy but there you go.

**danthesaint** · 05/06/2010, 2:03 PM

Originally Posted by dong

Seats look well in Oriel. Good to see any sort of development at LoI grounds.

yeah seats looked well last night, really think need to bulldoze the ground tho and build a new stand.

nice sausage rolls as well

**Dodge** · 05/06/2010, 2:08 PM

Originally Posted by Schumi

Ahh. I told Poor Student about the fancy* new jacks, he wasn't best pleased when he got back to the terrace!

*It's a bad sign for the league when proper urinals are considered fancy but there you go.

I think it says about the people who get excited about urinals

**thischarmingman** · 05/06/2010, 2:28 PM

George Michael?

**Doomofman** · 05/06/2010, 2:39 PM

The seats in Oriel are horrible... They look great yeah but they're far too low... The underside of the seat actually caught the back of my leg first time I sat down... Would be pretty uncomfortable if it was packed there... Anyone with long legs will be chewing on their knees...

**Ezeikial** · 05/06/2010, 8:30 PM

Originally Posted by Doomofman

Would be pretty uncomfortable if it was packed there... Anyone with long legs will be chewing on their knees...

Away section packed? Based on the Pats turnout last night, you will not get to test your hypothesis anytime soon.

Bohs and Rovers are the only ones to take a resonable travelling support (and they just don't do knee chewing)

**Dodge** · 05/06/2010, 11:08 PM

Originally Posted by Ezeikial

Away section packed? Based on the Pats turnout last night, you will not get to test your hypothesis anytime soon.

Bohs and Rovers are the only ones to take a resonable travelling support (and they just don't do knee chewing)

By using the word IF there, he implied it wasn't tested last night. Still, take the easy jab way to avoid his criticism

**HarpoJoyce** · 06/06/2010, 8:08 AM

Originally Posted by Dodge

By using the word IF there, he implied it wasn't tested last night. Still, take the easy jab way to avoid his criticism

I think it says about people who get excited about molded plastics.

**Ezeikial** · 06/06/2010, 2:52 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

By using the word IF there, he implied it wasn't tested last night. Still, take the easy jab way to avoid his criticism

Point taken, but hard to resist seeing how the numbers from St Pats were so disappointing.

The new seats fitted are full spec and are a significant improvement on spectator comfort right around the ground. The point that Doomofman makes is actually more related to the tiered terracing that they are set on. It would be ideal if this terrace was re-developed and this bigger job may be undertaken in the future.

Only 200 away fans attending the tie-of-round 80km from home explains why this may be down the list of priorities

**pineapple stu** · 06/06/2010, 5:06 PM

Carlow 1-1 Monaghan; Carlow led for a good while before Karl Bermingham equalised late ish.

Glenville 1-7 Bohs. Glenville had pulled back to 2-1 just before the break.

**Schumi** · 06/06/2010, 5:44 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Carlow 1-1 Monaghan; Carlow led for a good while before Karl Bermingham equalised late ish.

Glenville 1-7 Bohs. Glenville had pulled back to 2-1 just before the break.

What were the stadiums like?

**Cuyahoga** · 06/06/2010, 6:16 PM

Carlow's is just like Wembley Stadium and Glenville's is just like Richmond Park!

**HarpoJoyce** · 06/06/2010, 6:18 PM

Originally Posted by Cuyahoga

Carlow's is just like Wembley Stadium and Glenville's is just like Richmond Park!

Does there be an occasional Gardá on a white horse?

**Dodge** · 06/06/2010, 6:30 PM

Originally Posted by Ezeikial

Only 200 away fans attending the tie-of-round 80km from home explains why this may be down the list of priorities

246 apparently. Still brutal though obviously (and a marked improvement on the amount that went last season too...)

Isn't the plan for home fans to sit there during the Euro games or will that be the away end too?

**oriel** · 08/06/2010, 12:01 PM

Depends on who we get, if its a Welsh or NI team, (assuming these will take the biggest away support) it will be retained as an away section. If anyone else/small uptake of away support demand, I think it will be used for home fans.

Seating going into the shed side from tomorrow.

**pineapple stu** · 09/06/2010, 9:51 AM

Originally Posted by Schumi

What were the stadiums like?

Stupid BlackCurrants...

**John83** · 09/06/2010, 2:59 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Originally Posted by Schumi

What were the stadiums like?

Stupid BlackCurrants...

It's a strange criticism to make of a stadium, but there you go.

**thischarmingman** · 09/06/2010, 3:01 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Stupid BlackCurrants...

Is he a relation?

**pineapple stu** · 09/06/2010, 3:13 PM

Must...resist...temptation to infract...

**mastershake** · 10/06/2010, 10:58 PM

Interesting forum about football stadium developments in the north. Looks like there seems to be more activity going on there. Donegal Celtics ground looks tidy as does Portadowns. Any chance clubs here could get the finger out and start funding new developments.
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1131659