Aviva height?

curry_person

Can anyone tell me how high the second tier is in Aviva?? me and my friend have never being we got tickets for second tier by accident and she is scared of heights.
Is it very high? any rough idea how high it is??
Thanks

.ak

curry_person wrote: »

Can anyone tell me how high the second tier is in Aviva?? me and my friend have never being we got tickets for second tier by accident and she is scared of heights.
Is it very high? any rough idea how high it is??
Thanks

Do you mean the middle tier? Not very high at all.. But it's all subjective I guess. For example, if you sat at the back of the tier it doesn't feel high, but if you were sitting at the barrier it may seem high because you can look straight down.

curry_person

can ya give me rough idea how high you think it was? just so i can have atleast an idea would be brillant! thanks! and yes middle tier

.ak

curry_person wrote: »

can ya give me rough idea how high you think it was? just so i can have atleast an idea would be brillant! thanks! and yes middle tier

I'd say roughly 15 meters, maybe 20 at the highest? I'm not great with guessing heights, I'll try and find and official answer for ye.

.ak

You can get an idea of the view from here.

Podge_irl

Middle tier is neither particularly high nor particularly steep. The top tier is both however.

[Jackass]

As above, the top tier is quite steep and very high, but I would be amazed if someone with a great fear of heights would be uncomfortable in the middle tier. It's like standing on the top of a very gradual slope down about 20 feet. No sheer drop and not a great height either.

Larbre34

Ive known two different people who had to leave the upper tier before they even got to their seats because of the height issue. both were older people. it is quite high but its the rate of climb on the stairs that gets people more

the best idea is to arrive with a skin full on board, she will handle it much better then

Gargled

If you mean the top tier (which I presume you do) then yes it is quite steep. I steward at the home rugby internationals and was in the top tier last year. If you are anyway past E or F then it gets quite high. If in the double letters then you are just above the international space station...

I too have seen people not able to handle being up there. Try it and see and if not able then ask a steward

JJ

I sat in the nosebleeds for one of the summer internationals last year. After I took a pic and posted it online, one of my friends on Twitter said he got vertigo just looking at the photo.

Jame Gumb

Where's this "Aviva" you speak of?

Only major Dublin stadia I know of are Lansdowne Road and Croke Park...

Podge_irl

We're talking about the stadium that Aviva injected €40m into Irish rugby to have named after them.

hardCopy

Jame Gumb wrote: »

Where's this "Aviva" you speak of?

Only major Dublin stadia I know of are Lansdowne Road and Croke Park...

Cross the East Link at the O2 and head South East.

Dravokivich

Jame Gumb wrote: »

Where's this "Aviva" you speak of?

Only major Dublin stadia I know of are Lansdowne Road and Croke Park...

Why do you have to do this? Loads of stadiums world wide get sponsored and sell naming rights for development and maintenance. Get over it.

Jame Gumb

Podge_irl wrote: »

We're talking about the stadium that Aviva injected €40m into Irish rugby to have named after them.

The punters don't have to buy into that though.

Fans should still call it Lansdowne Road IMO.

To have the oldest rugby ground in the world called the Aviva Stadium by fans upsets me actually.

Prick!

Jame Gumb wrote: »

The punters don't have to buy into that though.

Fans should still call it Lansdowne Road IMO.

To have the oldest rugby ground in the world called the Aviva Stadium by fans upsets me actually.

The fans call it what they want. Why should you tell them what they want to call it?!?!

Get your head out of your arse.

Call it Lansdown if you like, I'm calling it The Aviva.

Jame Gumb

Prick! wrote: »

Jame Gumb wrote: »

The punters don't have to buy into that though.

Fans should still call it Lansdowne Road IMO.

To have the oldest rugby ground in the world called the Aviva Stadium by fans upsets me actually.

The fans call it what they want. Why should you tell them what they want to call it?!?!

Get your head out of your arse.

Call it Lansdown if you like, I'm calling it The Aviva.

If people like you want to be lemmings doing whatever the corporate bullsh1t artists tell you to, feel free.

But using the term "Aviva" to describe the oldest rugby ground in the world smacks of JohnnyComeLatelyism and bandwagonism.

IMO no real fan calls the stadium "The Aviva". It's a term generally used by "event junkies" in my experience (i.e. people attending matches to be seen there rather than to see the relevant match).

Podge_irl

Jame Gumb wrote: »

The punters don't have to buy into that though.

Fans should still call it Lansdowne Road IMO.

To have the oldest rugby ground in the world called the Aviva Stadium by fans upsets me actually.

Course they don't. I generally call it Lansdowne. But being bull headed about it us stupid. Aviva have contributed more to irish rugby than any of us I imagine.

Prick!

Jame Gumb wrote: »

If people like you want to be lemmings doing whatever the corporate bullsh1t artists tell you to, feel free.

But using the term "Aviva" to describe the oldest rugby ground in the world smacks of JohnnyComeLatelyism and bandwagonism.

IMO no real fan calls the stadium "The Aviva". It's a term generally used by "event junkies" in my experience (i.e. people attending matches to be seen there rather than to see the relevant match).

Ok.

It's official name is the Aviva. Lansdowne road is, you know, something you walk on now. Not a stadium.

What do you call Arsenals stadium? You call it the Emirates?

Jame Gumb

Prick! wrote: »

Jame Gumb wrote: »

If people like you want to be lemmings doing whatever the corporate bullsh1t artists tell you to, feel free.

But using the term "Aviva" to describe the oldest rugby ground in the world smacks of JohnnyComeLatelyism and bandwagonism.

IMO no real fan calls the stadium "The Aviva". It's a term generally used by "event junkies" in my experience (i.e. people attending matches to be seen there rather than to see the relevant match).

Ok.

It's official name is the Aviva. Lansdowne road is, you know, something you walk on now. Not a stadium.

What do you call Arsenals stadium? You call it the Emirates?

Emirates is in a totally different place to Highbury?

Emirates wasn't something else for well over a century.

Prick!

Jame Gumb wrote: »

Emirates is in a totally different place to Highbury?

Emirates wasn't something else for well over a century.

The Aviva is a new stadium. They knocked the old one down, if you remember.

I'm calling it the Aviva, and I'm right. That is a fact.

Jame Gumb

Prick! wrote: »

Jame Gumb wrote: »

Emirates is in a totally different place to Highbury?

Emirates wasn't something else for well over a century.

The Aviva is a new stadium. They knocked the old one down, if you remember.

I'm calling it the Aviva, and I'm right. That is a fact.

They knocked Wembley down...don't see that called the McDonalds Stadium.

It'll always be Lansdowne Road to the purists.

Gargled

I've been to every Irish home game for the last 9 years. Sometimes I call it Lansdowne, other times the Aviva. Really whatever comes to my mind first...

Am I a bandwagoner, jonnycomelately or corporate sell out?

Prick!

Jame Gumb wrote: »

They knocked Wembley down...don't see that called the McDonalds Stadium.

It'll always be Lansdowne Road to the purists.

Yeah they called it Wembley, because they called it Wembley again.

Accusing people of calling the stadium by it's actual name of "just wanting to be seen" is ignorant. I won't continue with this anymore as it's not relevant to the OP.

hardCopy

Jame Gumb wrote: »

They knocked Wembley down...don't see that called the McDonalds Stadium.

It'll always be Lansdowne Road to the purists.

Purists? Go away with that nonsense.

The oldest and most dilapidated rugby stadium in the world was torn down and replaced with the Aviva Stadium.

The naming rights will be back up for sale in 2020, if you don't like it you can buy the rights and call it what you like, assuming you have €44 million to contribute.

Clareman

This thread has degraded into a slagging match about who's the best supporter or what it should be called, the Op has been answered as far as I can see and I don't see the point in allowing the thread continue.