GAA Infastructure

I think some of the rugby people would not like a trip to windsor park. When clones gets its upgrades it will be alot better. RDS is far worse than many GAA stadiums

"RDS is far worse than many GAA stadiums"

It's in a whole other universe in terms of food, drink and corporate hospitality which fans of most sports are used to.

I'm happy enough for the GAA to keep things low budget and therefore low ticket price but no point pretending the rugby crowd or any soccer crowd above LOI level would be happy with our stadia outside of Cork and Dublin.

Depends on the stadium. RDS has a big showground to hold a food court which many GAA stadia don't. It also has corporate facilities around the stadium and I assume media facilities which people forget. International sports need a lot more media facilities than GAA.

For instance you are not going to be able to ask the premium ticket holders, box owners and corporate sponsors to take a step down from what they are promised to go to Clones when Lansdowne is practically easier to access from Belfast and has all the stuff their ticket pays for.

There is a YouTube channel called 'The Wide World of Stadiums' who recently did a video on the top 10 GAA stadiums. He usually concentrates on soccer stadiums throughout the world.

It is a lighthearted channel but he has previously covered lower league soccer stadiums in other countries which really show where we are at with the GAA.

I think for the most park it only highlights what we already know is that GAA stadiums for the most part are very poor as a spectator experience.

I wish that county boards concentrated on lower capacity stadiums that have better facilities.

Sounds like he hasn't actually been to any of these places and also has a snobbery against terraces. Suggesting that terraces of vastly different quality like Hill 16, Limerick, Thurles and Cavan is way off the mark.

He does touch on population and amateur status though which are important parts of the conversation. For instance Cavan and Monaghan would probably not even have a seperate team in most other sports never mind 2 25k+ stadia.

We must have been in different parts of London because in 10 years I met hardly anyone who even knew it was the same country never mind understood the situation in any detail.

So no it's not some republican myth. It's lived experience.

I'd be in fairly middle-class circles allright. They certainly knew their geography. Finchley , Muswell Hill. I'd say you'd probably be more working class up around Harlesdon and Kilburn or down around Bromley?

You would probably know nothing about me and are way off the mark both geographically and demographically on the London I lived in. Never even been to Kilburn or Bromley and haven't heard of the third place.

Exactly. England is full of good stadiums so the very English Westminster parliament will be happy enough if Casement doesn't go ahead. No one will care except a few Unionists who for the millionth time are shocked to be sold down the river by Britain.

Good to see.

Good spot. Cavan didn't seem the obvious choice but I'de say you have it.

I wonder do Ulster rugby fans still bring Ulster banners to games, I know they used to because I saw one in a photo in 1999. I also remember seeing footage of a Tyrone fan flying an Ulster banner as a joke at the 2003 final. I think that was a disgrace flying a loyalist flag a short distance away from where one of the players was shot in Bloody Sunday 1920.

This one? The Ulster rugby flag

Because its vastly different to the Ulster GAA flag

Any word on the Louth Stadium. The county board said they would update last month but its gone all very quiet

Its insane I remember hearing Daniel Flynn the Kildare footballer saying when he was out there they went to Dubai for pre season training, went out to the desert for a hundred 100 metre runs.