QuoteIf it can't survive a game every fortnight there's something seriously wrong.Originally Posted by DmanDmythDledge
The pitch looks in good condition. Probably get decimated once the rugby starts though.
If it can't survive a game every fortnight there's something seriously wrong.
Particularly bearing in mind the football will be on the Friday and the rugby on the Saturday, so the pitch will have the longest time possible to recoup.
Where do the other rugby teams play?
Well I was taking account the traditional tropical winter we always have.
They used to play on a big pitch between the Hockey Stadium and the Architecture Faculty Building called Richview which is sort of North West of the Sports Centre. I think some of that is now a car park . Not 100% sure.
Seats have been added to the left side of the stand extension. I'll get a photo tomorrow.
The rugby pitches around there have all been dug up, I assume to be reseeded.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
An all weather rugby pitch is being put in.
I was jogging past the bowl yesterday and they'd started on the floodlights as well.
Are they blue?
Yes. They're the same as the ones in the rest of the stand.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Have a look at this: http://www.independent.ie/national-n...s-1043545.html
It's the kind of thing Albert Speer would have designed to appease Hitler. I wwonder if a sexed up Belfield Bowl has a place in all this? It's a long way down the line though. Bye bye to the running track.
There's a new running track to be built behind the sports' centre. To be honest, the old track had had better days and is no real loss.
The plans for this included various plans for sports facilities including the running track and a 5,000 seater stadium. I don't think Hugh Brady has any desire to spend money on this type of stuff so it'll depend on whether the county council makes them a mandatory part of the planning permission.
I was over by the bowl today. It looks almost finished. The floodlights are on site and the mountings for them are set. The pitch-side fence and hard standing have started and they're all that's left, apart from kitting out the insides of the shops and toilets.
I took a few photos over there this afternoon, I'll post them up in a few minutes.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
"The new campus will be vehicle free, with buses stopping at the perimeter, and the surface car parks that are now near the entrance will be replaced with multi-storey and underground facilities to include the space currently used as the running track"
About bloody time. 20 acres of car parks. No wonder they keep building on sports fields.
Latest Bowl photos. I had the camera zoomed in a bit much on the panorama shots so it's a bit thin!
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
It's a lot neater looking than Belfield Park but it's too small of a structure to be the whole ground (even though it has more seats than we need!). Maybe the place will look more filled out when the other work is done?
I know what you mean but it's a bigger structure than the stand in Belfield Park.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Yeah, it's more rows backwards (perhaps twice as many?) but it's definitely narrower isn't it?
It's a nice neat little stand to start with. It leaves plenty of scope for more to be added around it but whether that ever happens is anyone's guess.
One thing I don't like is the two walls behind the uncovered sections. They close off the standing area to the back. Leaving them out would have opened up a nice little bit of terrace like the St. Annes end in Cork.
About the same width I'd have thought.
There are 14 rows, I think, compared to 8 in Belfield Park so a bit less than twice as high and the capacity is a bit less than twice as well (1500 v 850 or so) so the width should be about the same.
We're not arrogant, we're just better.
Does anyone else think it looks crap? The stand seems to go back rather than up if you know what I mean so the back of the stand would be not that close to the pitch.
When is the cover going on the new parts of the stand?
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