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With the news that Casement redevelopment is to go ahead and with the redevelopment down in Cork it will leave Connacht as the only province without a modern state of the art stadium. Now I'm fully aware of where the majority of funding for Casement is coming from but the GAA are contributing towards it and they've committed another 20 million euro's to the redevelopment in Cork. TheWestIsAwake (UK) - Posts: 529 - 28/10/2016 14:36:01 1929843 Link 0 |
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There is no logic in building any stadium in Galway considering people might have to travel the 'width of the county' (i.e 35 minutes on a motorway) to get to it from Leinster. onlyhurling (Galway) - Posts: 800 - 28/10/2016 15:02:24 1929851 Link 3 |
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With the news that Casement redevelopment is to go ahead and with the redevelopment down in Cork it will leave Connacht as the only province without a modern state of the art stadium. Now I'm fully aware of where the majority of funding for Casement is coming from but the GAA are contributing towards it and they've committed another 20 million euro's to the redevelopment in Cork. ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 28/10/2016 15:09:15 1929852 Link 0 |
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But they wont even let Galway have a game there. RoyalBadger (Meath) - Posts: 571 - 28/10/2016 15:14:12 1929855 Link 2 |
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There's plenty of stadiums in Connacht as there is. When was the last time any stadium in Connacht was filled to capacity? Pick a stadium and upgrade it perhaps. I think that due to pitch size sharing between rugby and soccer is best. Just because there are stadiums being built elsewhere doesn't mean you need to build now in Connacht and thats from a Connacht man.
Weary (None) - Posts: 249 - 28/10/2016 15:20:35 1929858 Link 2 |
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Sure didn't they build an all seater stadium in castlebar ain't that modern enough haha although mayo supporters demand for terrace tickets last month they might need to revamp hill16no1man (Dublin) - Posts: 12665 - 28/10/2016 16:52:32 1929886 Link 2 |
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Hyde Park because of its location should have been developed into the premier stadium years ago and all the Connacht finals played there. Pearse Stadium is a disaster. salvador (Roscommon) - Posts: 439 - 28/10/2016 17:49:05 1929897 Link 0 |
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Castlebar has been an all seater for ages now, if you can call slabs of concrete, seats. As for the Hill 16 ticket debate, that was done to death last month, move on.
Llaw_Gyffes (Mayo) - Posts: 1113 - 28/10/2016 19:36:42 1929918 Link 2 |
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How about putting money into games, numbers dropping out from minor onwards is huge. Clubs are struggling & you are advocating another stadium. Connacht is a basket case as none of the counties could agree so we have a number of stadiums but no stand out one. Even within the counties like Galway they couldn't organise or agree on stadiums. The floodlights are in Ballinasloe but facilities & stand are from the 50's/60's. Pearse Stadium floodlights were an absolute mess with planning & traffic management plan that is non existent. Tuam is another sad story & as a result there is no definite policy towards what should be developed & how. The Gaa need to stop all capital building projects & concentrate on games & clubs & coaching which is badly organised. moc.dna (Galway) - Posts: 1212 - 28/10/2016 22:58:44 1929958 Link 1 |
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Yeah because those 2 developments mentioned are hugely popular.
Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4210 - 29/10/2016 10:39:11 1929989 Link 6 |
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But its OK for Munster to have a 26K capacity stadium? Frankly I find this attitude amazingly insulting in so many ways. Wise up. Condorman (Dublin) - Posts: 983 - 29/10/2016 14:54:49 1930027 Link 1 |
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Have they built a decent road to Roscommon town yet? Also they could Tarmac the around it for some super size car park
Spoddgy (Mayo) - Posts: 660 - 29/10/2016 20:09:32 1930087 Link 1 |
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If thinking of building a new stadium then open up the Western Rail Corridor from Sligo to Galway and build the stadium where the Mayo Dublin rail meets the Sligo Galway rail line and that is Claremorris you have the N17 running alongside, you have Knock Airport nearby, Claremorris is fairly central from south Galway, east Roscommon, north Leitrim, north Sligo and north Mayo, it would be 1 and a half - 2 hours from those areas, make the plans now and maybe in years to come it could happen riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 29/10/2016 20:31:03 1930091 Link 0 |
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But its OK for Munster to have a 26K capacity stadium? Frankly I find this attitude amazingly insulting in so many ways. Wise up. ormondbannerman (Clare) - Posts: 13473 - 29/10/2016 21:02:09 1930100 Link 1 |
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Every province should have its white elephant. liner (Mayo) - Posts: 756 - 29/10/2016 21:27:51 1930103 Link 4 |
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Agree with Riverboys, if we could start from scratch then Claremorris makes most sense. But with attendances falling for championship football, and no home games for Galway in the hurling, then what's the point? Galway made a big mistake putting resources into Pearse and letting Tuam decline. If they could cash that investment out and redirect the money into Tuam or a site outside the city, then that could maybe be looked at as a possible quality provincial ground. As things stand Castlebar would be next best placed as at least halfway there in terms of what it has to offer. Ironically Pearse, purely because it's in Galway, is the only site I'm aware of which is being considered for upgrade in support of the rugby world cup bid. A real case of throwing good money after bad imo. Pericles (Mayo) - Posts: 2521 - 30/10/2016 10:57:21 1930142 Link 0 |
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You have to be realistic and if the GAA were looking to build a new stadium in Connacht then close to Galway City is the only viable option from a business point of view, think I saw they will be looking to hold 5 concerts a year in Casement and there's no way the likes of Claremorris or Roscommon could cater for such events. Mix in a possible groundshare with Connacht Rugby and there could be a stadium that is used enough to make it financially viable. TheWestIsAwake (UK) - Posts: 529 - 30/10/2016 17:54:53 1930224 Link 0 |
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Thomond is three quarters empty for most league games. They cant fill it for Heinakan cup games either.
salvador (Roscommon) - Posts: 439 - 30/10/2016 18:18:04 1930234 Link 1 |
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At the moment a large number of supporters that attend Connacht rugby matches in Galway are from the other 4 counties, if they decided to use Salthill then majority of those supporters wouldn't attend matches anymore, it's the wrong side of the city for traffic riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 30/10/2016 23:09:02 1930317 Link 0 |
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Comparing Munster to Connacht is like chalk and cheese. Theres well over a million people in Munster and whatever about Connachts great league win last year they are not in the same stratosphere as the Munster franchise. Connacht needs an upgraded Sportsground. I know Pearse stadium was a bad idea but its tge only show in town to get a few world cup games. Limerick because of its rugby tradition is going to get games in the Gaelic grounds and Thomond Park. The world rugby board have basically said limerick needs to be centrally involved as the only Rugby majority city on the Island.
bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 31/10/2016 20:09:33 1930495 Link 0 |