New Lansdowne Road Stadium starts to take shape Pics here http://www.lrsdc.ie/gallery/photocat...CID=34&NCID=68
Cant wait for Football and rugby games to go back there. Croker is an amazing arena, but somehow the Lansdown roar hasnt really travelled as I hoped it would.
Starting to take shape thank god! Will look great when finished, but still can't understand why they didn't build bigger capacity stadium. Hopefully i'll be on the list for 10 year seats as filled out forms sent to me before build commenced. If not i'm still a block booker so hopefully i'll get seat's anyway!
You will definitely get your ten year tickets if you want them. But, personally i think you would be mad to pay €12,000 or thereabouts for a ten year ticket for 4 or 5 games a year. If you were a block booker before we moved to Croker you will be alright for your block booking at Lansdowne, but, if you got your block booking after we moved to Croker you may not be so lucky
The problem as you say is if i signed up for block booking just before we moved to croker i'd niot be garunteed a ticket in new stadium so my only option is to buy the 10 year tickets altho! they will be used as company corporate so company will be paying!!!
Wonder will it be vs. England in the first game at the new Lansdowne. The design is fairly class i have to say.
I doubt it after what happened in the last game against England at Landsowne! Not for the first game anyway - against Argentina/Spain/Brazil would be a good first game i think. Good to see Stadium starting to take shape alright - hopefully FAI will find the money to fund their percentage!
i'm delighted that they didnt go any bigger capacity wise. look at the atmosphere in croker ffs; too many spectators and not enough fans. its never been as hard to get a chant going at an ireland game as it is now. hopefully the reduced capacity will take care of that by cutting off the fat
A lad i play football with is head groundsman at Landsdowne road, he was saying they are flying along with it and are 1 month ahead of schedule already. I think he was saying the 1st match is to be played august 2010. Lets hope they keep up the fast work, cant stand going to croker
I actually agree with the sentiment that the sooner the move back to Landsdowne takes place the better. While you pack much more into Croker the atmostphere there compared to Landsdowne is crap. And I curse it even more for bringing that damn Mexican wave to Irish internationals!
I just curse the bloomin' Mexican Wave end of story .... As for Landsdown, looks pretty good alright, I just can't beleive they didn't push through a larger stadium. While I appreciate comments made sometimes, about Croker being a bit too big, I'd have thought we could have well used a (say) 60,000 seater. For the amount of money being spent, the extra what 4,000 seats or whatever is pure bullsh1t in terms of value for money & as for ticket availability, there's always the kids who might like to go to games too you know, help encourage sports with the next generation by giving a few thousand cheap seats out to the kids etc is the way I'd have gone.
I pass it every day on the Dart and it certainly is taking shape. I just cannot take to the Ireland games at Croke Park. The pitch is far too small for the size of the stadium and too much space behind the goals. Croke PARk is a great Stadium, but with a whole end open to the elements, some of the atmosphere is lost. Although when it comes to GAA matches I would rather stand on the hill than be in the seated areas. Doin get me started on the Mexican Wave, esp when its started after five minutes.
bring back landsdowne...... Croker just doesnt feel the same its true bout no atmosphere and poxy mexican wave!!
It must be the Irish soccer heads/ Rugger buggers creating the crap atmosphere cos nothing wrong with Croker as a stadium. Go on, off back to smelly landsdowne road with yis -we should never have let you into Croker in the first place Pack of ingrates!
I wished it never moved to Croke Park in the first place. The idea of our home games being played in cities like Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow, Cardiff, Birmingham or London actually appealed more to me back when a ground was yet to be found for Irish home games during the rebuilding of Landsdowne. And with two tickets for Croker costing €150, the cost of a trip away to one of those cities on a cheap Ryanair flight might not have been such a bad thing cost wise either.