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Munster Council have a dictate that all their championship games must be played within the province
Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 01/07/2018 18:55:09 2117326 Link 1 |
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15% of the Leinster final gate goes into the Munster coffers now..I dont think there 'll be more than 25000 at next week's game in Thurles. PeggyShippen (Limerick) - Posts: 300 - 01/07/2018 19:24:45 2117338 Link 0 |
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Agreed, I reckon O'Moore Park could have held it comfortably
Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 01/07/2018 20:15:27 2117364 Link 1 |
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Odd that Leinster final will be in Thurles, there are at least 2 venues in Leinster that could hold it. county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1102 - 01/07/2018 20:17:28 2117366 Link 1 |
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Playing in Thurles might encourage the two teams to play abit... PeggyShippen (Limerick) - Posts: 300 - 01/07/2018 20:23:15 2117370 Link 0 |
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Pity Limerick didn't play Clare there so....
county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1102 - 01/07/2018 20:35:25 2117381 Link 0 |
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Once Croke Park wasn't available thurles was the common sense venue, open to correction but nowlan park is the biggest venue in leinster outside of croke park at 24k, tullamore and portlaoise both hold around 17 or 18k, there was 40k at the game today
bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 01/07/2018 20:49:05 2117392 Link 0 |
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Fair enough, probably does make sense so.
county man (Limerick) - Posts: 1102 - 01/07/2018 21:04:10 2117403 Link 0 |
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O'Moore Park holds 25'000, you had a lot of "hangers on" in Croker today being brought in as guests and ones just using their premium or corporate seats, if you take the actual supporters I'd say O'Moore Park would hold the replay comfortable and would be a belter of an atmosphere
Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 01/07/2018 21:15:10 2117409 Link 1 |
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Good luck to all the teams left, They are their because they deserve to be. We will not use a a crutch that we failed to move on. However all should be equal and fair at the start. All this bullish-t about who can host games should be sorted before a ball is struck in either code. That was not the case, Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2662 - 01/07/2018 22:16:56 2117429 Link 0 |
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This is gas, no one wants to play in Croke Park, too big, no atmosphere etc etc and then we have others moaning about concerts being held in it? I think most of you need a lesson in basic (and I mean abacus basic) economics. arock (Dublin) - Posts: 4897 - 01/07/2018 22:43:47 2117435 Link 0 |
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Yes portlaoise did have a capacity of 27k but once the health and safety brigade got there way it was moved down to 18k, similar story at other venues across the country, plenty of room behind one of the goals at a sold out Newbridge Saturday same at our leinster semi final against kk in 2017, a half full terrace in a sold out Wexford park
bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 02/07/2018 01:40:44 2117470 Link 0 |
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Nothing to do with economics, its about playing in suitable venues, Croke Park is the place for a Leinster Final, it's not available, utilise another ground in Leinster and don't give 15% of a gate away to Munster Council, don't see how any lessons in economics are needed there.
Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 02/07/2018 04:27:50 2117474 Link 1 |
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All arguments against Waterford their homes in Nowlan Park are now utterly gone. Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4321 - 02/07/2018 08:32:03 2117488 Link 0 |
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Funny seems players want to play in Thurles......so now what do we do??? Say no and play it in Leinster??? Lads it is impossible to organise all this and keep everyone happy. witnof (Dublin) - Posts: 1604 - 02/07/2018 08:51:40 2117499 Link 0 |
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Galway and Kilkenny both border Tipperary. Thurles is still a good spin from Galway but I'd imagine it would be handier for both counties than Croke Park. There were 40k at the draw, I'd imagine 5k were there for the Carlow Westmeath McDonagh Cup final leaving a healthy 35k for the Leinster final. I don't think they would get the same again for the replay in Croke Park given that both Counties will be still in the Championship regardless of the result. I wouldn't be surprised if Thurles draws a big crowd though. There is no where quiet like it for hurling!
dahayeser (Cork) - Posts: 338 - 02/07/2018 10:13:18 2117550 Link 0 |
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That €1 million upgrade to the terraces Brought the capacity back up, new aisle ways, stairwells and access routes at the back of the terraces and new toilets but I agree with your overall point, this H&S lark is pure annoying and is being used as an excuse a lot of the time
Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 02/07/2018 12:02:06 2117631 Link 1 |
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One thing about the GAA is their consistency at being inconsistent. Different rules on different days, weeks, years, provinces, competitions, suspensions, refereeing etc. The list goes on and on.
Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 2662 - 02/07/2018 22:44:02 2117945 Link 0 |
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Canuck were you listening to WLR this morning?,if you werentyou should listen on playback
mooncat (Kilkenny) - Posts: 534 - 03/07/2018 18:55:03 2118179 Link 0 |
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yeah there is more than the capacity of the terrace taken into account though. they also have to think of access (big crowd turn up 5 minutes to throw in,can they be got in on time),egress (particuarly in the event of fire but also after match),facilities(toilets being a big one in wexford park),and health and safety around the ground. people complain about the h&s brigade like they are ott,killjoys,etc but then they would be the first to complain and sue when there is an incident. perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 04/07/2018 09:11:48 2118312 Link 0 |