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GAA Discussion / Re: Casement Park in line for major overhaul - 40,000 all seater Stadium.

« on: Today at 12:02:14 AM »

Has anyone actually run any numbers whatsoever in terms of capacity versus cost.
How many times would a 30k seater stadium be expected to sell out over the next 20/25/30 years versus a 25k seater versus a 35k seater.
How much would a 25k/30k/35k seater costs versus the expected extra revenue they would bring in.
I would say most of the GAA stadia in Ireland rarely if ever hit full capacity.
From what I could find from a quick search PuC in Cork has only sold out to its full capacity of 45k once since it opened as a sports venue and that was for the Liam Millar charity gig.

The following are the attendences for all the championship games in hurling and football

Cork v Limerick 2018 hurling 34,607
Wexford v Waterford 2017 hurling 31,753
Cork v Tipp 2019 2017 hurling 30,274
Tipp v Clare 2017 hurling 28,567
Cork v Kerry 2018 football 27,764
Cork v Waterford 2019 hurling 26,521
Cork v Clare 2018 hurling 24,490
Cork v Kerry 2019 football 18,265
Clare v Wexford 2019 hurling 10,225
Cork v Limerick 2019 football 3,128

So far it looks like a 35k seater would have been sufficient.

Sold out any concerts?

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GAA Discussion / Re: Casement Park in line for major overhaul - 40,000 all seater Stadium.

« on: February 28, 2020, 09:54:15 AM »

There are just far too many more pressing priorities.  As a tax payer and an Antrim gael I don’t want £33mn extra spent on this. Spend it on schools and hospitals, give nurses, doctors and teachers a pay rise. 

Swallow your pride, go back to the drawing board and build an Athletic Grounds size stadium in west Belfast which will have a good atmosphere for Antrim GAA.

Spend whatever’s left on Clones.  If we ever get back there, the drive down the road will be part of the craic.

No point stopping at Casement for poor use of government funding, they paid wages for over 3 years to MLA's for feck all, the lack of infrastructure throughout the north is terrible, the links between the M1 and M2 need sorting out and while they are sorting that a bridge linking the M3 would be a good addition also. also getting to Derry on

Building a stadium in Belfast isn't a bad thing, most major cities have multi sports stadiums, we currently have two,  soccer and rugby, why not have a decent one for GAA? yes the plans are probably way over the top but building something like the Athletic grounds isn't looking into the future, if we get to the point that the GAA grows and grows the way we want it, surely some foresight into building a decent modern stadium would be the right thing to do?

25k would be my size of stadium, but the plans and infrastructure needs to be in place to facilitate all needs, safety being the being the main one. Its not going anywhere but Casement

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General discussion / Re: Man Utd Thread:

« on: February 27, 2020, 10:57:27 PM »

A job well done for United tonight. Sending off made it a much easier contest than it could have been but sometimes playing against 10 men can be difficult. Did the Brugge lad think he was the goalkeeper?

Bruno has fitted in well and he seems to be bringing out the best in the players around him. First start and first goal for Ighalo, a rare sight to see Fred scoring nevermind twice.

Round 16 draw on tomorrow I think. Wouldn't surprise me if United draw Inter Milan.

Closed venue for that draw if it came up! Probably likely to draw Rangers seeing as they know how to navigate through the latter stages of Europe 

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General discussion / Re: Man Utd Thread:

« on: February 27, 2020, 10:40:42 PM »

Thursday night is the night for football  I've read in several places that Bruges are blighted with injuries so I expect us to make it as difficult as possible for ourselves and go out on away goal's....

They must be really blighted by injuries.

A man down early on wouldn’t have help then in fairness

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General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus

« on: February 27, 2020, 09:22:41 PM »

Fuuuuuck, this is the start of it 😧

BBC: Enniskillen South West Acute Hospital have confirmed a case of coronavirus within the town. Check to follow updates:
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BG48ENgCEAAIDl9.jpg

That’s a serious case of Corona! Do you swell up like that?

Don't you be sneaking into the hospital ward trying to catch the virus!

Apparently 60% of the worlds population will look like The Refrigerator from the  Chicago bears his birthday suit!

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General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus

« on: February 27, 2020, 08:32:44 PM »

Fuuuuuck, this is the start of it 😧

BBC: Enniskillen South West Acute Hospital have confirmed a case of coronavirus within the town. Check to follow updates:
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BG48ENgCEAAIDl9.jpg

That’s a serious case of Corona! Do you swell up like that?

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General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus

« on: February 27, 2020, 07:01:39 PM »

This virus is not from the same family of viruses as the seasonal flu so there is no underlying immunity that you're referring to

Which is precisly the problem. When a dose went around 10 years ago it was a first cousin of a variant from 1968 and many older people had some protection as a result. Nobody has any immunity to this, which is why the experts expect 60% to get it.

60% of the world population?

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General discussion / Re: European Leagues.

« on: February 26, 2020, 11:05:14 PM »

7/1 for Liverpool! Great price

Great price if Man City were out of the competition and there is still the issue of getting past Athletico!

It’s not a great start but if Liverpool get the first goal it’ll drop that price significantly. It’s worth 40

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General discussion / Re: European Leagues.

« on: February 26, 2020, 10:43:09 PM »

7/1 for Liverpool! Great price

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General discussion / Re: European Leagues.

« on: February 26, 2020, 09:46:14 PM »

City currently winning and Ramos will miss next game, so that’ll be at least Liverpool and City through to next round

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Antrim / Re: Antrim Football Thread

« on: February 26, 2020, 01:54:07 PM »

No Belfast teams in Reserve this year or have
games been called off? Hopefully games are not off because of county games, 40 players could be missing out over 1 or 2 players & this would be a poor way to start leagues. Can anyone shed any light on this
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Maybe the club or the managers don't want to start the new season without their county player? And possibly their teams mates feel the same, just a thought.

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General discussion / Re: Things that make you go What the F**k?

« on: February 26, 2020, 09:21:12 AM »

Careful where parking.

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2020/0225/1117448-rathcoole/

Mother of 3. Christ.

Medical and psychiatric assistance is being made available to her in custody.

Maybe if these services has been available to this young woman beforehand this would never have happened. Tragedy for everyone concerned.

Not disputing the fact that anyone that randomly kills someone over a parking space isn't barking, but id say that giving someone professional psychiatric help is standard in such cases, as a lawyer defending her, he would do that as a matter of course. But she may have had no problems or signs that gave any indication that she do something like that.

Agreed on the psychiatric help, it seems to be minimal at best, I was in A&E the other week and the amount of people in for what i can only assume from observation for mental health issues was very high, a lot of concerned frighten looking parents, at their wits ends and it seems A&E is their only option, there were no immediate signs of a physical problem.

One has to question why has this not be acted on firstly by the NHS and secondly by even the private sector? If it was my child going through those issues I wouldn't be expecting a lot from the NHS and would go down the private route straight away

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General discussion / Re: China Coronavirus

« on: February 25, 2020, 10:09:36 PM »

Hopefully it’s finished by July! Holiday booked and paid ffs!

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General discussion / Re: Premier League 2019/20

« on: February 25, 2020, 09:37:03 PM »

Chelsea getting outclassed.. Unless City do something tomorrow, its been awful from the English sides in the first leg

Could come back in second league

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General discussion / Re: Things that make you go What the F**k?

« on: February 25, 2020, 08:56:11 AM »

Someone has too much time on their hands

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-51618159

Planked for 5 minutes before, body was shaking for a minute before I dropped, over 8 hours and 15 minutes is madness! And he's 62!