Croke park is fairly obsolete now. Getting on for 30 years old soon. Work started on the design of the current Croke Park in 1984. The then Hogan Stand had been completed in 1959, 25 years before that, so the time is approaching when Headquarters will have to consider another upgrade.
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Was just thinking the same.
Pretty sure I was in the lower deck of an unfinished Cusack for the All Ireland Semi final in 96.
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It isn’t international standard for football.
This will be a blow to the ego of the GGA. @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy
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I was in the old Nally stand for the final in 94. Would the Cusack lower tier have been built for the semi in 94?
The Cusack Stand now is as old as the Hogan Stand was in 1987.
That doesn’t mean the current stadium is obsolete or anywhere close to it.
From the GAA website
1996
In 1996 Phase One of the Croke Park redevelopment is completed with the opening of a new Cusack Stand.
It was half built for the A.I. finals in 94 and fully built sometime in the first half of 95
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How do you go about redeveloping a stadium of that size?
In particular when there’s nothing really wrong with it?
Not sure you could justify a massive investment in it at this point.
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Dublin v Meath on July 31st, 1994 was the first time the lower deck of the Cusack Stand was open for spectators.
Limerick played Antrim in the hurling semi-final the following Sunday.
I think some of what would become the premium section, ie the middle tier, was open by the time of the All-Ireland finals.
Dublin v Meath on July 30th, 1995 was the first time the entire stand was opened, but only after some agreement was made with Dublin Corporation to leave 500 seats or so in the middle tier empty due to some problems with obtaining a fire safety certificate.
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That’s the game I was at alright. I shouldn’t have doubted you.
yes. massive mistake by the gahliban not finishing it when they had the chance
There won’t be the same levels of lotto/government money/bribes available for it next time out either. They won’t be able to finance a redevelopment unless Garth Brooks comes out of retirement.
they really should have built and finished a 60k stadium and spared no expense on the seats etc
this shit now where the average attendance is 25k & its very dated is awful
Croke Park remains one of the finest stadia in Europe. There is very little that needs to be done to it. It was built to endure and it has.
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It’s in the model of 1980s/1990s design. American sports teams are already bulldozing those style of stadiums and you only need to look at Old Trafford to see the issues with them.
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You don’t. There’s fuck all wrong with the stadium. You maintain it, that’s what you do.
I’ve been in the Stade de France twice and in the newbuilds for Euro 2012 in Poznan and Gdansk and for Euro 2016 in Bordeaux and Lille, and they aren’t all that. The Stade De France is apparently deemed fit for Champions League finals and Olympics, and it’s a shithole. I’d rank Croke Park well ahead of it.
It can get a bit windy up on the concourse section of the upper deck of the Hogan but that isn’t a major problem.
And unlike the new Lansdowne Road, you don’t have a massive big steel beam coming down and obscuring your view in the upper deck.
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It’s incomparable to Old Trafford, which has been adapted many, many times and is not in any way uniform. Croke Park is uniform on three sides.
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