Terraces on Hill 16 to go

[longrunsthefox]

Our beloved president promises that the Hill will remain a terrace. Following their capitulation to the GPA and promise that soccer and rugby in Croke park was only temporary until Landsdown Road is rebuilt, is now certain the Hill will be all seated in the near future...   


Hill 16 to remain a terrace, Cooney insists
GAA president Christy Cooney has insisted that Hill 16 will remain as a terrace.
It was revealed earlier this month that the GAA was considering turning the most famous terrace in Irish sport into a seated area in a bid to combat pitch invasions.
Temporary seating has been installed on the terrace for soccer internationals, and some Croke Park officials believe that seating the terrace for GAA matches would reduce the possibility of pitch invasions taking place.
But Cooney stressed: "We have no plans to change Hill 16. The tradition of Hill 16 is as a terrace and that isn't going to change."

[Trevor Hill]

I was watching a program on TV last night about Liam Mulvihill and I think Croke Park would look a hell of a lot better if they finished the job and made it into an all seater stadium. It looks unfinished at the minute, like its three quarters complete. I know there is a lot of history associated with the hill, but we need to look forward not back.

[longrunsthefox]

It probably will go all seater eventually. So be it, but when you hear the GAA hierarchy promising they will hold firm to some belief or tradition these days, you can be sure it will be next to go...

[TacadoirArdMhacha]

Tradition apart, the Hill provides a more affordable alternative for people who might find the prices associated with stand tickets for big games prohibitive. For that reason, as well as the tradition, I think it should be retained.

[Minder]

Tradition apart, the Hill provides a more affordable alternative for people might find the prices associated with stand tickets for big games prohibitive. For that reason alone, as well as the tradition, I think it should be retained.

Agree, as the prices for an All ireland Final head inexorably towards a €100 people should have the option of paying a bit less. Haven't been in the hill since the '96 hurling final it
is a hoor of a place with a hangover.

[BallyhaiseMan]

Hill 16 should never be changed,
Its a GAA treasure.

[Zapatista]

Tradition apart, the Hill provides a more affordable alternative for people who might find the prices associated with stand tickets for big games prohibitive. For that reason, as well as the tradition, I think it should be retained.

I agree for that reason above the tradition, you can always make a new tradition.

[WeeDonns]

The one thing that annoys me most about the hill at the moment is the TV studio boxes  breaking it up and then the way the nally side is so narrow.
It would have looked better if they just had the terracing all the way along, with the big screen at the back and put the TV boxes in a corporate box. Obviously there was little they could do about it being so narrow at the nally end because of the train line.


-Just thinking. For GAA matches RTE are in a corporate box but for Rugby and Soccer they are down in those boxes on the hill. Anyone know why:?

[INDIANA]

Tradition apart, the Hill provides a more affordable alternative for people who might find the prices associated with stand tickets for big games prohibitive. For that reason, as well as the tradition, I think it should be retained.

I agree for that reason above the tradition, you can always make a new tradition.

It should be retained in its current guise in my view. GAA fans are not English soccer hooligans.

[longrunsthefox]

Tradition apart, the Hill provides a more affordable alternative for people who might find the prices associated with stand tickets for big games prohibitive. For that reason, as well as the tradition, I think it should be retained.

I agree for that reason above the tradition, you can always make a new tradition.

It should be retained in its current guise in my view. GAA fans are not English soccer hooligans.

eh? That has nothing to do with it. The all seaters came into soccer because of the Hillsborough disaster, caused by the policing and stewarting of the match not hooligans. Sure Hill 16 survived the Dubs of the 70s and the Gardai baton charges at them.   

[Gnevin]

I was watching a program on TV last night about Liam Mulvihill and I think Croke Park would look a hell of a lot better if they finished the job and made it into an all seater stadium. It looks unfinished at the minute, like its three quarters complete. I know there is a lot of history associated with the hill, but we need to look forward not back.

Arrg major gear grinder . The stadium is finished , we didn't run out of funds or not get planning . The stadium is finished!

[Gnevin]

Tradition apart, the Hill provides a more affordable alternative for people who might find the prices associated with stand tickets for big games prohibitive. For that reason, as well as the tradition, I think it should be retained.

I agree for that reason above the tradition, you can always make a new tradition.

It should be retained in its current guise in my view. GAA fans are not English soccer hooligans.

eh? That has nothing to do with it. The all seaters came into soccer because of the Hillsborough disaster, caused by the policing and stewarting of the match not hooligans. Sure Hill 16 survived the Dubs of the 70s and the Gardai baton charges at them.

A Policing and stewarding culture of overreaction and treating soccer fans as animals caused by the Hooligans who supported the game at the time . Also by fencing installed to directly  too counter Hooligans

[longrunsthefox]

Tradition apart, the Hill provides a more affordable alternative for people who might find the prices associated with stand tickets for big games prohibitive. For that reason, as well as the tradition, I think it should be retained.

I agree for that reason above the tradition, you can always make a new tradition.

It should be retained in its current guise in my view. GAA fans are not English soccer hooligans.

eh? That has nothing to do with it. The all seaters came into soccer because of the Hillsborough disaster, caused by the policing and stewarting of the match not hooligans. Sure Hill 16 survived the Dubs of the 70s and the Gardai baton charges at them.

A Policing and stewarding culture of overreaction and treating soccer fans as animals caused by the Hooligans who supported the game at the time . Also by fencing installed to directly  too counter Hooligans

You've lost me Gnevin...are you talking about the Dublin 'supporters' on the Hill in the 70s and early 80s or soccer supporters?

[Donnellys Hollow]

Hill 16 is fine the way it is. I can't understand the obsession with all-seater stadiums. If they completed three tiers all the way round it would just look like every other stadium in Europe. The terrace at the Railway End gives the stadium a bit of character and uniqueness.

Its unlikely to ever happen anyway because of the Maynooth line behind the terrace.

[boojangles]

Hill 16 is fine the way it is. I can't understand the obsession with all-seater stadiums. If they completed three tiers all the way round it would just look like every other stadium in Europe. The terrace at the Railway End gives the stadium a bit of character and uniqueness.

Its unlikely to ever happen anyway because of the Maynooth line behind the terrace.

Exactly.