From reading the topic about the roof I'd be interested to see how many poeple want and dont want the hill in its current form.

I expect most dubs want it kept while a majority of others may like a uniform stadium.

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 24/09/2015 14:25:14    1791823

I want it to stay just the way it is. No change.

avonali (Dublin) - Posts: 1990 - 24/09/2015 14:38:53    1791827

They looked at that when they were redeveloping Croker 20 years ago and there was a difficulty in putting a stand in there with the railway right behind it. The Cost/history and logistical difficulties all meant that it stayed as a terrace.

JackoDub (Dublin) - Posts: 458 - 24/09/2015 14:53:44    1791838

Easy fix this build a new stand but with a standing area in the bottom tier and seats above. Continue the roof around and the job is done.

Nothing to stop you using the existing hill if people want to keep the stone because of historical reasons. Just put it the old concrete through a breaker and reuse it and everyone's happy.

Mancirish (UK) - Posts: 2200 - 24/09/2015 14:53:57    1791839

it's not broke and doesn't need fixing, even if planning permission was cleared, which is unlikely to ever happen.

Gavvygavgav (Dublin) - Posts: 383 - 24/09/2015 14:57:59    1791841

Would be great to see it finished the whole way around. But can it actually happen with the railway so close behind? Doubt there would be space for it??

sligoNo1 (Sligo) - Posts: 45 - 24/09/2015 15:05:33    1791849

What, and have patrons having to miss large parts of the match to go to a toilet. Away with you...

Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 24/09/2015 15:08:37    1791852

It's not just the railway, the houses directly behind on Clonliffe Road would be plunged into darkness, which is one of the major obstacles.

Gavvygavgav (Dublin) - Posts: 383 - 24/09/2015 15:09:16    1791853

"Would be great to see it finished the whole way around. But can it actually happen with the railway so close behind? Doubt there would be space for it??"

Anything is possible if you just BELIEVE

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 24/09/2015 15:11:12    1791854

sligoNo1
County: Sligo
Posts: 41

1791849 Would be great to see it finished the whole way around. But can it actually happen with the railway so close behind? Doubt there would be space for it??

Yes it would it looks unfinished to me, regarding the railway just put it under ground is surely an option.

someday (Limerick) - Posts: 1104 - 24/09/2015 15:13:49    1791860

ha ha i liked that one Offside_Rule

DoireCityFC (Derry) - Posts: 1580 - 24/09/2015 15:16:51    1791868

If you just believe.

That, and pay off all the householders on Clonliffe Road. Who pull out of the deal when they hear what Maureen in No. 163 got offered. Then Maureen pulls out because you had no right telling Paddy the details of her offer. So you offer Maureen more and she says no dice. etc. etc.

Gavvygavgav (Dublin) - Posts: 383 - 24/09/2015 15:17:40    1791869

Ah id keep it, its a feature. Finish it the whole around and its just another bowel stadium.

yew_tree (Mayo) - Posts: 11550 - 24/09/2015 15:26:18    1791877

heh, "bowel" stadium :-)

Gavvygavgav (Dublin) - Posts: 383 - 24/09/2015 15:38:17    1791886

I would rather in was finished like the rest of ground, who really wants to stand in the nally it can be done even with railway there.

Yourjoking (USA) - Posts: 744 - 24/09/2015 15:42:59    1791891

I love the hill but they should go with the times and make Croke Park all seater.

OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 24/09/2015 15:45:16    1791897

I think they should get rid of the Davin stand and make a Kerry only terrace.. Gooch hill maybe or Moran mound

KY4SAM2015 (Kerry) - Posts: 898 - 24/09/2015 16:51:26    1791944

It's a bit of an eyesore, especially the way it ends in the corner, and the stepped back wall. I love the hill and it gives croker a lot of character, keeping the terrace is a must, sure theyre more and more popular in the continental leagues, where everyone agrees they contribute disproportionately to the atmosphere. Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, change it, cos it looks manky, but keep it as a terrace, with more or less the same spirit that it has. Fix the corner and the back wall, put some kind of roof on it

flack (Dublin) - Posts: 1054 - 24/09/2015 17:45:12    1791992

Over my cold dead body!

MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13796 - 24/09/2015 17:47:04    1791994

You could make the Hill a single all seater stand, make it a seated area and cover it at the height that it is at the moment and that would stop Croke Park neighbours from being plunged into darkness and it would make that part of the ground a safer place to be in. But the current GAA President stated on a national radio station 3 weeks ago 'we have no plans to touch Hill 16 with all the history and the dubs etc' that statement puts the deathnail on any idea of improving the area and making it all seated or a roof. I would love to know though what did he mean by 'and the dubs' we know the history of the ground and why it was called Hill 16 but what has 'the dubs' to do with safety, no disrespect to any county but 1 group of supporters cannot have a monopoly on the rest of the country, I know of a lot of Dublin supporters who swear they would never set foot in the Hill

riverboys (Mayo) - Posts: 1389 - 24/09/2015 18:18:55    1792012