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Alright then non lunatic. What's your grand plan? Corrigan Park forever?

Already said it many, many times on the thread. But for your benefit.

- Replace the old main stand with a new one, covered seating. All the facilities they could ever want could be placed underneath this as the new structure could be far more significantly hollowed out relative to old, and the back of it could be extended over the road to add further floor space. No big difference to light on houses to the West of Casement as the existing stand already blocks it.
- Stick a roof over the (renewed) terrace on the far side of the pitch. The back end of this structure can hold the badly needed amenities. It'd be relatively low profile though.
- Renew the terraces at both ends of the pitch. Don't cover them. If there is sufficient demand - as determined by polls, one of the ends could be uncovered seats.

Capacity of 30-40k for the one or two times a year it may be needed - which would be during the summer. Comfortably sufficient covered capacity for during the autumn/winter/spring. 3 or 4 significantly different price tiers.

Basically the stadium that the GAA needs at a cost that will benefit all in the long-run.

Instead we're getting an expensive to build, expensive to maintain milestone, which will come with astronomical ticket prices.


But hey - the Ulster Council might be able to hold a few concerts. That's what this is about right? Otherwise it makes no sense to build what they are trying to build.

There were 3.5k in Páirc Uí Chaoimh last Saturday for Cork v Cavan and it looked absolutely awful. Would Antrim draw a bigger crowd for a league game in either either code? Corrigan Park is more than adequate. 

Don't bother with sense in this thread.

Its full of lunatics that think the white elephant will somehow attract people in with absolutely no historical evidence to back that up.

The same lunatics think this money will magically fall from the money tree, and won't affect other government funded services elsewhere.

Somehow most of them think the GAA deserve to have their funding doubled or trebled from what it was, despite the farce that took us to where we are being wholly the fault of the Ulster Council and their appointees.

so it's not as if there is no GAA drive or ambition in the school.

Maybe things have changed, but there wasn't much application when I was going through.

A bit of enthusiasm, but no direction to it. Even back when there was men that clearly could coach, the actual standard of training was abysmal.

Biden is a shambles. Sophie's Choice in the US.

Representative democracy is a shambles.

Look at the state of those being elected across the world. If it were a professional position that required submission of CVs and interviews, how many would pass the first stage of vetting?

[Security Council]

Time to abolish the United Nations Security Council as it can only do what Bidenetanyahu allows it to.

Probably more accurate.

Short memory Wobbler. It's not long since the debacle of Burrenbridge that cost £500k. Paid a massive non refundable deposit of £450k. Who do you think paid for that and are still paying? THE CLUBS.
Why do you think similar could not happen again?
Waken up and .........

So your agreed it would make sense for the clubs to pay it down now rather than continue to pay interest on the county debt to the banks. 

In NI the big two, who never agree on anything, have decided to throw the civil service under the bus for doing this without their knowledge. Which is of course horse shit and the real reason is has happened is because the civil servants in question were bullied and likely bribed into taking it on the chin.

This approach allows the blinkered supporters of each party to believe that the behaviour of their leaders is different to that of the crooked Boris Johnson. And they will lap it up.

I don't particularly want to defend either SF or DUP - both are two sides of the same turd in my view - but....

If the civil servants had either a semblance of balls or brains, they'd have backed the stuff up. Its not as if the politicians could touch them.

But they have neither. You'd have to travel a long way to find a more gormless bunch of fuckwits.

That's the worst thing they could do

They're outnumbered 50:1

They need to deescalate before it becomes 500:1


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Nah, send in the Army and fuk them up properly.

Ye could almost see the Rangers salivating from here at the chance of laying fists on some of these scrotes.

This is where the undue influence of lawyers leads to.

In an environment where anyone and everyone is open to legal action for the square root of fuk all - then the guards are afraid to do anything.

Proper order would be to baton charge the hoors and break at least one arm or leg on every one of them. Then not bother to provide hospital treatment. Let the c**ts learn to appreciate what actually happens if they were rejected by society.

Dunno if this has been mentioned yet, surprised if it hasn't.

[Casement should only be used if a near capacity crowd is expected, or at least 20,000 and up.]

Casement should only be used if a near capacity crowd is expected, or at least 20,000 and up.

I've been waiting on this....

Indeed. Surely the likes of weareros can't be that stupid they dont realise the ulster council are going to try and fit everything they can think of into casement to try and justify it.

Scotstown vs. Trillick for instance? If Casement were built that's probably where it'd be.

Well... I suppose they are insisting on a relatively high maintenance cost millstone around the neck of the Gaa to little net benefit... So maybe they are that stupid.

You don't need to worry. There's nearly 2,00O GAA pitches in Ireland where you can stand. I recommended one stadium in each province to be a modern all seater. The grey concrete empty terraces in Páirc Uí Chaoimh look ridiculous. Casement if built to designs will look so much better.

... and if its a provincial game (club or county) that I want to see and it happens to be in Casement?

[which you know the Ulster council are going to flog to death to try and justify it]

I'm guessing you're a replica of the stereotypical small angry Irish man/Leprechaun the Americans envisage us all to be

Small leprechauns wouldn't get much of a view in the terrace.

Although I'll freely admit I'm pretty angry at the farce that was and continues to be Casement Park.

all seating stadiums like Casement is the way to go for the future of gaelic games.

Fuk off.

You sit and watch a game if you want. Don't deprive others who'd want to stand.

I agree with your point but it's not all seater so you would assume there will be (slightly) cheaper tickets

It effectively is if your replacing one person sitting with one person standing. Which is what the folding seats do.

Spectator density doesn't change so price changes come at effective loss to organisers. Which the Gaa won't wear for the first reason of the original post - paying for it!