Stadium Updates (All Clubs)

**oriel** · 27/07/2011, 6:15 PM

Are there extra seats going into the Showgrounds for Sligo's euro game, anyone got any photos?

Also will Bray be keeping that stand in place behind the goal, assume it was installed for the Liverpoolo xi game, I thought it looked great on MNS.

**peadar1987** · 27/07/2011, 7:02 PM

Originally Posted by oriel

Are there extra seats going into the Showgrounds for Sligo's euro game, anyone got any photos?

Also will Bray be keeping that stand in place behind the goal, assume it was installed for the Liverpoolo xi game, I thought it looked great on MNS.

I drove past the end of the Carlisle yesterday, and it looked like it had already gone. I doubt the cost of renting/buying and then maintaining a new stand would be offset by the 3-4 times a year we'd ever actually need it to cope with overflow.

**A face** · 27/07/2011, 7:12 PM

Originally Posted by redobit

Unfortunately bluewhite you wouldn't be the first fan to post a nice shinny 3D image of a proposed ground up here. Going by other clubs This could be a lot longer process than people think. That said a good design and plan is a start at least and best of luck with it.

Hate saying it but your dead right .... i wouldn't shoot it down though. I mean we can all picture it happening and from the outside it looks very well intended but the jury has to be out until we actually see it happen. I think we're all a bit too long in the tooth, seen it all before to believe everything we're told.

If that youth structure happens and they start all the coachs off to get all their badges it will leave something tangible for the club to use if they do up sticks and leave in a few years time. And if all the hype helps attract a few more fans then you could nearly say that 5% of the average will end up adding to the core support of the club as it is now, thats got to be good.

**punkrocket** · 29/07/2011, 9:43 AM

http://www.greyhound-data.com/fotos_...12024_4big.jpg
http://www.limerickleader.ie/webimag...2637956876.jpg

A couple of pictures to put the plans it into a bit of perspective

**nigel-harps1954** · 29/07/2011, 2:53 PM

Will the ground be as it is next season or will the pitch be moved?

**DannyInvincible** · 31/08/2011, 2:38 AM

Carál Ní Chuilín confirms there will be no money to develop the Brandywell until at least 2015: http://www.derryjournal.com/news/loc...opes_1_3009926

The North’s Sports Minister has confirmed that there will be no money to develop Brandywell Stadium until at least 2015.

Caral Ni Chuilin has also revealed that she will meet with local MLAs, City Councillors and representatives of Derry City FC to discuss concerns over the future of the stadium.

The minister said the meeting would take place after a study of stadium developments is completed.

She said that, when the Executive endorsed funding for regional stadium developments in March, it also endorsed funding of around £36 million for association football’s strategic stadium needs at the sub-regional level, which would include the Brandywell.

She insisted that, in doing so, the Executive agreed that this should be taken forward as a priority area of spend in the next budget period, which will commence in 2015.

**legendz** · 31/08/2011, 2:33 PM

Rovers and the SDCC have gone the right way about developing their stadium. At the same time though, it was a bit ridiculous of the FAI to be using the stadium of an example of improvement in the league when it currently doesn't meet UEFA grade 1 requirements. This isn't a pop at Rovers or the SDCC, they've gone about their business in the right way for their needs. Future work on any grounds, especially Premier clubs, should keep the UEFA grading requirements in mind.

**Mr A** · 27/09/2011, 9:49 PM

Some pictures of the initial filling work ongoing at Harps new stadium HERE

**Lim till i die** · 27/09/2011, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by Mr A

Some pictures of the initial filling work ongoing at Harps new stadium HERE

I miss Hogan Park

**redobit** · 28/09/2011, 9:20 AM

Originally Posted by legendz

Rovers and the SDCC have gone the right way about developing their stadium. At the same time though, it was a bit ridiculous of the FAI to be using the stadium of an example of improvement in the league when it currently doesn't meet UEFA grade 1 requirements. This isn't a pop at Rovers or the SDCC, they've gone about their business in the right way for their needs. Future work on any grounds, especially Premier clubs, should keep the UEFA grading requirements in mind.

Ya, start stop for 10 years is really the way to go on a major construction development.

**passinginterest** · 28/09/2011, 2:33 PM

Just on the SDCC and Tallaght stadium, there was a piece in the Tallaght Echo a couple of weeks ago stating that the Council were seriously considering looking for funding to complete Tallaght as a 10,000 seat stadium as they felt there was a genuine gap in the market for a stadium of it's type in Dublin. They also want to improve the path way from the Luas stop to the ground.

**horton** · 29/09/2011, 9:53 AM

Originally Posted by passinginterest

Just on the SDCC and Tallaght stadium, there was a piece in the Tallaght Echo a couple of weeks ago stating that the Council were seriously considering looking for funding to complete Tallaght as a 10,000 seat stadium as they felt there was a genuine gap in the market for a stadium of it's type in Dublin. They also want to improve the path way from the Luas stop to the ground.

Does Dublin really need another big stadium?

**BonnieShels** · 29/09/2011, 10:49 AM

???

Only the gaa has stadium of a near equivalent size.

Otherwise its Lansdowne or the rds.

This would be a great investment for sdcc.

**horton** · 29/09/2011, 11:15 AM

No I was just wondering if the cost to bring it up to 10,000 would see enough return via actual "bums on seats" for games. Given the avg attendance for most of Shams games is well within the current capacity, would temp seating not be more cost-efficient for the few times where the extra seats are needed?

**TiocfaidhArmani** · 29/09/2011, 11:39 AM

Harps fan on here saying they could go under if they get a small fine but they're building a new ground?

**BonnieShels** · 29/09/2011, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by horton

No I was just wondering if the cost to bring it up to 10,000 would see enough return via actual "bums on seats" for games. Given the avg attendance for most of Shams games is well within the current capacity, would temp seating not be more cost-efficient for the few times where the extra seats are needed?

I see.

Well other uses as a concert venue etc could make it viable. It was planned to be all four sides wasn't it.

**Mr A** · 29/09/2011, 12:29 PM

Originally Posted by TiocfaidhArmani

Harps fan on here saying they could go under if they get a small fine but they're building a new ground?

The financing of the stadium is entirely separate to the club's financial situation. Basically the new stadium is being built by a combination of grant money and revenue from the difference in value between the old and new sites.

**TiocfaidhArmani** · 29/09/2011, 2:59 PM

Originally Posted by Mr A

The financing of the stadium is entirely separate to the club's financial situation. Basically the new stadium is being built by a combination of grant money and revenue from the difference in value between the old and new sites.

Revenue from the difference of the value of the old and new site is theirs though, so a small fine is not gonna sink them as a Harps fan claimed here like they shouldn't get the standard fine everyone else gets out of pure pity.

**Mr A** · 29/09/2011, 3:02 PM

No- the situation is complex, but the ground is owned by trustees and not the club itself. The club does not have any access to cash from the project.

And nobody that I saw claimed we should not get the standard fine out of pity- we shouldn't have got any sanction at all because the player was not technically suspended. But clearly the FAI saw it differently.

Although a €2500 fine is pretty steep for many clubs in the league.

**L.T.F.C.** · 29/09/2011, 4:28 PM

I don't know if it has been mentioned yet, but LTFC have just finished underage dressing rooms, and an extra changing room for female referees. I think there is extra office space there too.