Second Captains Part II

No we couldn’t without spending a huge sum of money. The pairc is a GAA grade stadium, it’s nowhere near a UEFA grade stadium. The terraces aren’t even covered. You can’t have terraces or temporary seating and all stands have to be covered.

The GAA get a free or mostly free stadium, so from their POV what's not to like? and while it'd rarely be filled for matches, can be a concert venue etc.

Disgraceful how they let CP go to ruin and just sit there for that long though. Afraid they'd lose out on free money if they proceeded themselves?

Allowing any site in an urban area to become derelict is a disgrace.

Why bother? They won’t be going to the other side.

That’s a bunch of non-sequiturs to my post, but the suggestion that I’m some sort of Ken super-fan is wide of the mark. I criticised him a while ago on this thread for his screeching 180 degree turn on supporting Kenny as manager.

In fairness, Eoin used to be a lot more sceptical when the results kept being terrible but Ken didn’t stop drinking the Kool Aid until after the Greece match

Richard Dunne nailed it in that soundbite.

Laughed out loud in my car to that one.

When Ken was going on and on about what players exactly Dunne could have been talking about, I was thinking "stop stop he's already dead" 😀

Now maybe the TV guys would do a bit better, facts and figures wise, if they could google away during the show when somebody else is talking 😁

They were giving McGregor's motives too much thought today.

He's just an idiot expressing idiotic opinions.

Because he has a massive platform, and legions of easily-led young lads who hang on his every word. So there's a fear we could see him stand as a figurehead of this hate-driven anti-immigrant right-wing ideology and help it grow, which would be such a massive shame as it's a horrible destructive exclusionary world-view we've largely managed to avoid as a country up until now.

I thought they laid it on a bit thick with McGregor and suggesting Hearn would drop him as a sponsor. theyre usually on the money on where to call these things, but felt they were a bit dramatic on the whole thing.

I think a lot of Irish people are listening to Joe Rogan. It’s usually the most popular or second most popular podcast in Ireland. Even his idiot friends, Bert Kreischer are selling out the 3 arena because they are associated with him.

The intro music is enough to tip you over the edge in itself.

Bert Kreisher playing to a venue as big as 3 arena almost as bad a night for the country as Thursday tbh- I’m a hopeless alcoholic and take my top off his his entire act- can stand his flushed alco face- Jesus I hate rogan and the muppets he boosts

As a boxing fan I’m cringing at this Aviva/Croker discussion. Needs to be Croke Park. It’s the big one, the historic one and this is the biggest fight in women’s boxing history.

And the issue is the fee for policing and security, not the stadium fee so they’re just so off base suggesting the Aviva I don’t know where to even start. Murph as a GAA man should at least know this stuff, Croker rental is always a recurring topic in the Association.

Well, it's both surely. The cost of renting Croke Park is 400,000, and then you have to pay for security as well. The cost of the Aviva is up to around 300,000, again plus security. So I can understand the point in raising it as an option - if you reckon the ~55,000 you'd fit in the Aviva with added pitch seating would fulfill the ticket demand, you'd be getting the same attendance but with 25+% lower stadium rental cost.

Croke Park should be first choice, but if the costs look prohibitive - as they were deemed previously - the Aviva is at least worth a mention as a similarly grand-scale location at a lower cost.