Quote from: Sportacus on August 11, 2022, 04:18:24 PMQuote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on August 11, 2022, 03:24:19 PMQuote from: Spike on August 11, 2022, 11:58:59 AMi am hoping they are exploring all opportunities here though I appreciate we are not privy to the business case of the GAA but it is getting to that stage where something needs to be constructed on the site. Business case aside you would expect the ring fenced money to be able to provide something. Are they exploring phased construction? 1 stand, 2 stand options with the closing in of the two ends at a later date as part of an overall 10 year plan?How much would it cost to get the old Casement Park operational again with a new single stand down either side of the pitch with media & conferencing facilities, even just 1 stand down 1 side? 25 to 35mill? £5 to 10mill just to get Casement Park operational again? The problem with a lot of this is that we don't know how much of the ring fenced money is going to be automatically hoovered up by consultants who require to be paid for their work to date. if someone has the business case presented by the GAA, can they post the link? it would be nice to see Casement opened in some capacity which is not beyond us. The shiny glowing new Casement Park appears in front of us like a mirage that we can never get near toUnfortunately, the only people to see any merit in getting Casement operational, in a guise other than big new shiny, are those in Antrim GAA clubs. Our say on this matter was surrendered a long time ago. And we can have no complaints as we allowed it to happen in front of our very eyes.Unforgivable, made worse by the white elephant ego project that was then conceived.In fairness, I didn't hear too many complain when it was first announced.Problem started with the decision to close it off for games and left to rot before and plans got made etc.After that, it was one balls up after another and turned into a farce.
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on August 11, 2022, 03:24:19 PMQuote from: Spike on August 11, 2022, 11:58:59 AMi am hoping they are exploring all opportunities here though I appreciate we are not privy to the business case of the GAA but it is getting to that stage where something needs to be constructed on the site. Business case aside you would expect the ring fenced money to be able to provide something. Are they exploring phased construction? 1 stand, 2 stand options with the closing in of the two ends at a later date as part of an overall 10 year plan?How much would it cost to get the old Casement Park operational again with a new single stand down either side of the pitch with media & conferencing facilities, even just 1 stand down 1 side? 25 to 35mill? £5 to 10mill just to get Casement Park operational again? The problem with a lot of this is that we don't know how much of the ring fenced money is going to be automatically hoovered up by consultants who require to be paid for their work to date. if someone has the business case presented by the GAA, can they post the link? it would be nice to see Casement opened in some capacity which is not beyond us. The shiny glowing new Casement Park appears in front of us like a mirage that we can never get near toUnfortunately, the only people to see any merit in getting Casement operational, in a guise other than big new shiny, are those in Antrim GAA clubs. Our say on this matter was surrendered a long time ago. And we can have no complaints as we allowed it to happen in front of our very eyes.Unforgivable, made worse by the white elephant ego project that was then conceived.
Quote from: Spike on August 11, 2022, 11:58:59 AMi am hoping they are exploring all opportunities here though I appreciate we are not privy to the business case of the GAA but it is getting to that stage where something needs to be constructed on the site. Business case aside you would expect the ring fenced money to be able to provide something. Are they exploring phased construction? 1 stand, 2 stand options with the closing in of the two ends at a later date as part of an overall 10 year plan?How much would it cost to get the old Casement Park operational again with a new single stand down either side of the pitch with media & conferencing facilities, even just 1 stand down 1 side? 25 to 35mill? £5 to 10mill just to get Casement Park operational again? The problem with a lot of this is that we don't know how much of the ring fenced money is going to be automatically hoovered up by consultants who require to be paid for their work to date. if someone has the business case presented by the GAA, can they post the link? it would be nice to see Casement opened in some capacity which is not beyond us. The shiny glowing new Casement Park appears in front of us like a mirage that we can never get near toUnfortunately, the only people to see any merit in getting Casement operational, in a guise other than big new shiny, are those in Antrim GAA clubs. Our say on this matter was surrendered a long time ago. And we can have no complaints as we allowed it to happen in front of our very eyes.
i am hoping they are exploring all opportunities here though I appreciate we are not privy to the business case of the GAA but it is getting to that stage where something needs to be constructed on the site. Business case aside you would expect the ring fenced money to be able to provide something. Are they exploring phased construction? 1 stand, 2 stand options with the closing in of the two ends at a later date as part of an overall 10 year plan?How much would it cost to get the old Casement Park operational again with a new single stand down either side of the pitch with media & conferencing facilities, even just 1 stand down 1 side? 25 to 35mill? £5 to 10mill just to get Casement Park operational again? The problem with a lot of this is that we don't know how much of the ring fenced money is going to be automatically hoovered up by consultants who require to be paid for their work to date. if someone has the business case presented by the GAA, can they post the link? it would be nice to see Casement opened in some capacity which is not beyond us. The shiny glowing new Casement Park appears in front of us like a mirage that we can never get near to
It’s time for casement to be handed back to Antrim to sort out
Moving on from the never ending Sh*tshow which is Casement, any predictions for the weekend?Lisburn v Sarsfields- Sarsfields by 7Glenavy v Antrim- Glenavy by 5Rasharkin v Glenravel- Glenravel by 9Teresa's v St Pauls- St Pauls by 4Dunloy v Ardoyne- Dunloy by 2St Galls v Creggan- Creggan by 7Brigid's v Moneyglass- DrawGorts v TNN- TNN by 3St Enda's v Rossa- Rossa by 2LD v St Johns- DrawAhoghill v PG1- PG1 by 8Have you ever been to a Portglenone v Ahoghill game? Ports by 8 🤦♂️
