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#1
Actually someone post up a revenue and expenditure estimate for how Casement will be run and if it works I will hold my hands up and say by all means work away. A great stadium like that would of course be wonderful.
#2
OK Trailer you tell us how Casement will make the 10 million a year it will need to wash its face?
Thats based on a 200 million spend with 5% running costs per annum.
#3
Most people I know don't think Casement is a good idea.

If built to current spec it will be an enormous drain on resources.

For example if Ulster Council make circa 1 million from an Ulster final in Clones they can spread most of that around.

In the future all of that and a whole lot more will have to go to the upkeep of Casement. It will be some burden for Antrim GAA in particular.

For vanity purposes it would be great to see it built but the GAA don't need it.
#4
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling original
February 06, 2024, 12:49:35 PM
Celtic Park is a great venue to watch a game. Could do with some upgrades that are easily sorted, toilets, PA, clock, more shops etc and better traffic control.

Omagh could do with some upgrades. The likes of Armagh and Newry are very good grounds.

Antrim need a good ground but do they or the GAA really need Casement as proposed?

Once it is built and paid for in time for the Euros (which is hard to turn down) how is the upkeep going to be paid for and will this be to the detriment of other grounds?

Would it not be better for Antrim to have a ground like the Athletic grounds and other counties to get cash to make some upgrades?
#5
General discussion / Re: The DUP thread
January 19, 2024, 08:21:33 PM
On Thursday the DUP get walloped by strikers and a resignation so on Friday they change the narrative to take away the negative headlines.......if they don't go back they should br further vilified for taking publicity away from the strikers. They have no shame!
#6
General discussion / Re: Ulster Workers Strike 2024
January 18, 2024, 02:04:49 PM
Why would anyone vote for the DUP?

The DUP are now seeing NI public services in the worst state ever

The DUP now have the worst relationship there has ever been with Westminster

The DUP have no friends in Europe

The DUP shunned the US President when he visited

King Charles had a warmer relationship with Sinn Fein than he did with the DUP when he was at Hillsborough

The DUP are isolated among all the main parties here. They don't want to share power even though Martin McGuinness was prepared to be deputy first minister under Ian Paisley.

And most of all the DUP brought all of this upon themselves by advocating for a Brexit that the majority of people here didn't vote for.

#7
General discussion / Re: The DUP thread
December 19, 2023, 01:10:09 PM
The NO brigade would rather go back to the troubles and have soldiers on the streets, the RUC, UDR etc.....take a few casualties
to keep stoking tensions..... not a forward looking mind between them.
I know people have been saying for years that schools have failed them but it is really showing now!
#8
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
October 16, 2023, 03:17:45 PM
If the game was not on TG4 would the county board have been stronger?
Agree that the statement leaves a lot of unanswered questions.
On the match itself Kilcoo were miles ahead. Paul Faloon would have done well to make the difference!
#9
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
October 15, 2023, 01:05:10 PM
Surely Laverty is going to struggle to go back to Down after this club season. Will all the best players in Down play for him?
#10
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
September 19, 2023, 12:35:21 PM
Will it be a straightforward ratification tonight? Presumably so with possibly a few dissenting voices.
A major thing in whether this goes well or not is in who fills out the backroom team. Harte and Devlin are obviously McKaigues men but Mckaigue cannot be allowed to dictate everything that happens. Needs tk be someone else from Derry having an influence e.g. Gilligan
#11
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
September 17, 2023, 05:12:59 PM
The ref is winning this game for kilcoo.....they looked in trouble but played the ref like a fiddle
#12
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
September 12, 2023, 10:51:57 AM
If somehow they wriggle Gallagher back in what will his backroom team be? Meenagh and Hughes are gone and they played very significant roles.
If they want Gallagher so badly and it doesn't work out will that put off ORourke? Will he want to leave Glen anyway?
Mickey Harte and Gavin Devlin is a good shout but they have committed to Louth.
Mickey Moran and his Kilcoo men maybe but has Gilligan committed to Armagh?
#13
Derry / Re: Derry Club Football & Hurling
September 12, 2023, 08:37:50 AM
If not Gallagher or ORourke then who?
#14
GAA Discussion / Re: County Manager Merry go round
August 24, 2023, 04:28:38 PM
Itchy I already said county level is £1m a year!
There wouldn't be a senior team in Tyrone not spending £50k a year, or Down, or Derry........even the clubs with an in house man at the front back them with everything they need.
On physios.......say they charge £25 per appt and £50 match cover which are both very reasonable.........even only 4 appts per week (if you head down to your local pitch a physio will be there for hours) is £150 a week for 9 or 10 months which os £6k.........some clubs have 2 physios.......use outside physios for bigger injuries......use rehabilitation gyms.......have massuese available.

Listen I am only highlighting what is going on and the industry that has been built around GAA. Sure the Cavan backroom team announced just reinforced it. And top clubs aren't far off that level.

Not saying its right or wrong but over the last 10 years this has built and built and you cannot put the genie back in the bottle....
#15
GAA Discussion / Re: County Manager Merry go round
August 24, 2023, 03:45:59 PM
By the looks of things yous are about to find out how much it is to run a team Itchy.......a team with no chance of winning anything major!