Flags Taken down again last night

[Loadedscream]

That stadium was funded by my (Tax) money and i should have a say about what is played in it.

My god what absolute shi**e, if thats your reckoning then why dont you tell government buildings what carpet you want, tell FÁS what courses to teach, tell sonia o'sullivan what runners to wear!!!!!!

All of them are spending "my" money!!!!

[casso36]

The National Lottery was set up to fund sporting organisations of which I think the GAA is one. 1) Ametuer organisation that will have an expected €80,000,000 profit over 10 year period will they pay back the lottery so it can fund better sporting facilities? No didn't think so.

The FAI were well able to fund and build Eircom Park but we know what happened there. 2) Soccer is the second sport in this country, so the GAA people keep telling us. you wouldn't here us moaning about GAA been played at stadium.

How much of your tax is going into the redevelopment of Lansdowne again

3) As much as they like because as a country we need a proper soccer stadium, so we don't have to kneel to the GAA everytime we need to use their facilities.


I have nothing against the GAA, and go to see all Dublin games. It's there attitude towards soccer i have the problem with and there supporters reaction to us using Croke Park.

[casso36]

My god what absolute shi**e, if thats your reckoning then why dont you tell government buildings what carpet you want, tell FÁS what courses to teach, tell sonia o'sullivan what runners to wear!!!!!!

All of them are spending "my" money!!!!

Exagerating to make a point!!! ever here of it?

My point being they didn't need the funds from national lottery when they
were cappable to fund it themselves. And then they maon about soccer people using Croke park.

[sligoman]

they said taht all the Stewards were GAA and were under the command of the head Gaa Steward and the FAI had nothing to do with them.

That's bull**** what they told you. Their was hired security stewards, FAI stewards and gah stewards. I must say, the gah stewards were the biggest waste of space.

[Countyman]

3) As much as they like because as a country we need a proper soccer stadium, so we don't have to kneel to the GAA everytime we need to use their facilities.


I have nothing against the GAA, and go to see all Dublin games. It's there attitude towards soccer i have the problem with and there supporters reaction to us using Croke Park.

I dont understand your logic. You are complaining because government money (€19m ) was used to build Croke Park and yet you have no beef with the amount of government money being used to build Lansdowne which is far greater????

Please refer to my point about Eircom Park.

Anyway the point of this was about flags being taken down at Croker and I think its paranoia in the extreme to think its because the GAA dont want soccer banners hanging around the place.

[gufct]

That's bull**** what they told you. Their was hired security stewards, FAI stewards and gah stewards. I must say, the gah stewards were the biggest waste of space.

In our section of the Cusack upper it was all GAA Stewards and they were sound it was the Head Steward who radioed them I think they said his name was Sean Aylward. Ive been a steward at Landsowne for the last 5 years and I am also the event controller for Galway United so dont you worry i had checked out everything when they took them down.

The Fai should have organised that all the flags could be hung in a certain area or do like most civlised countries do and place them on the non playing areas like the German Police did in Stuttgart.

[Sumac]

I was in the upper cusack and my flag was taken down. Stewards warned me that they would probably get a call to take it down - Which is what happened about 10 minutes later. They said it was part of the agreement when renting croke park (the same for rugby matches).
I believe it is also the same for GAA matches, but there is not a strong tradition of overhanging banners in the GAA
It is not an anti soccer thing on the part of the GAA - More a corporate issue - which is a universal problem in all sports - We wan't their money, but don't like the conditions attached

[reder]

I think we can all agree that it was a directive handed down by the powers that be in the GAA that for whatever reason fans on Level 3 and 7 would not be allowed to hang banners. Ok some got away with it on both nights but most didnt. Just wondering why the announcer didnt say it on the day of the games in amongst all his other announcement.

I have no real complaints about the stewards, they didnt get in my way so I wasnt bothered. Outside the ground I thought the policing was poor on the way into the davin stand. Firstly the baracade on the walk up to the ground from that entrance was pointless, no-one got searched and it just created a bottle-neck. As one man said to mean, it was just a ploy to get overtime for 8 peelers. Also the entrance to the davin stand just before the turnstiles (that feckin gate) is a complete joke and it was managed by the smallest female peeler ever on wednesday (she was really cute but tiny).

[casso36]

I dont understand your logic. You are complaining because government money (€19m ) was used to build Croke Park and yet you have no beef with the amount of government money being used to build Lansdowne which is far greater????

Please refer to my point about Eircom Park.

Anyway the point of this was about flags being taken down at Croker and I think its paranoia in the extreme to think its because the GAA dont want soccer banners hanging around the place.

I am complaining about the people moaning about the FAI using Croke Park, and their reaction to people slagging off The GAA for not allowing flags to be placed aroound the ground. This was a part of the agreement on letting the FAI/IRFU Use the stadium. Now how childish is that? what harm are they doing, thats all i'm trying to get across.

[Mayo_Bhoy]

they maon about soccer people using Croke park.

Who exactly are 'they' ? The overwhelming majority of GAA people have no problem whatsoever with soccer in Croker. Granted there is always going to be some reactionary old idiot given time on the airwaves to vent his spleen, but they are totally unrepresentative of GAA people.

[DubJohn]

In our section of the Cusack upper it was all GAA Stewards and they were sound it was the Head Steward who radioed them I think they said his name was Sean Aylward. Ive been a steward at Landsowne for the last 5 years and I am also the event controller for Galway United so dont you worry i had checked out everything when they took them down.

The Fai should have organised that all the flags could be hung in a certain area or do like most civlised countries do and place them on the non playing areas like the German Police did in Stuttgart.

They may well end up doing that, hopefully they will discuss that possibility with the GAA. it would look a lot better than all the space between the back of the goal and the canal end/hill.

I suppose from the GAAs point of view, they'll feel they have to maximise their advertising revenue whilst they have a large global TV audience and stadium photos appearing in foreign newspapers during the loan of the ground.

[supasparx]

I was sitting in Cussack lower for both games, down near the Hill. I didn't bring my flag saturday as didn't know where I could hang it.
On Wednesday night I asked a steward if I could hang it off the small wall infront of row A. He called over his supervisor who asked what was on it. Told him it just said Dalkey, and up it went. Had to take it down 5 minutes from the end though, so they could hold up that stupid plastic mesh.
Wonder if it had said Dalkey United would it have been allowed?