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You can retrofit a terrace to standing pretty easily

It is much harder to change seating areas to terraced

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Russ wrote:You can retrofit a terrace to standing pretty easily
No need to retrofit - terrace is already for standing pretty easily!
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Cap'n Grumpy wrote:
Russ wrote:You can retrofit a terrace to standing pretty easily
No need to retrofit - terrace is already for standing pretty easily!
Seating. Blame yesterdays pimms and stout

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Maybe Dawson's hands are tied a bit (not defending him btw) after all isn't it the RDS that are building the stadium with Leinster just a long term tenant. I reckon the stadia owners have an eye on other events outside whether Leinster can fill the 25,000 seats every week during the league.

A stadia that size helps fill a void in Dublin and provides a balance of seated stadia from Croke to the Aviva to the RDS. On top of the Horse Show it may provide for other events… not sure what the FAI agreement is with the Aviva but it could provide for some smaller football matches plus it will add to Irelands RWC bid as well with an additional all seater stadium. Plus maybe a host of other sporting or music events so more a case about benefitting Dublin more than Leinster specifically.
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Cockatrice wrote:Maybe Dawson's hands are tied a bit (not defending him btw) after all isn't it the RDS that are building the stadium with Leinster just a long term tenant. I reckon the stadia owners have an eye on other events outside whether Leinster can fill the 25,000 seats every week during the league.

A stadia that size helps fill a void in Dublin and provides a balance of seated stadia from Croke to the Aviva to the RDS. On top of the Horse Show it may provide for other events… not sure what the FAI agreement is with the Aviva but it could provide for some smaller football matches plus it will add to Irelands RWC bid as well with an additional all seater stadium. Plus maybe a host of other sporting or music events so more a case about benefitting Dublin more than Leinster specifically.
Spot on CT. Leinster are stuck with Donnybrook which is too limited for their needs so the RDS is their only real option and they probably have limited say in what configuration the stadium owners pick.

I liked Donnybrook in the old days.
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Snipe Watson wrote:
Cockatrice wrote:Maybe Dawson's hands are tied a bit (not defending him btw) after all isn't it the RDS that are building the stadium with Leinster just a long term tenant. I reckon the stadia owners have an eye on other events outside whether Leinster can fill the 25,000 seats every week during the league.

A stadia that size helps fill a void in Dublin and provides a balance of seated stadia from Croke to the Aviva to the RDS. On top of the Horse Show it may provide for other events… not sure what the FAI agreement is with the Aviva but it could provide for some smaller football matches plus it will add to Irelands RWC bid as well with an additional all seater stadium. Plus maybe a host of other sporting or music events so more a case about benefitting Dublin more than Leinster specifically.
Spot on CT. Leinster are stuck with Donnybrook which is too limited for their needs so the RDS is their only real option and they probably have limited say in what configuration the stadium owners pick.

I liked Donnybrook in the old days.
snipe…...only been to it once a Black Sabbath gig in the 80's I think… they were poor never took to Gillan as the lead singer
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Gillan was magnificent in Deep Purple and poor with every other band including his own. I was never a massive Sabbath fan.
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Went to Donnybrook only once to play against Bective. Was awful wet underfoot and we ended up very mucky by the end.

I think they might have improved the drainage when they tarted it up a few years ago.
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Snipe Watson wrote:Gillan was magnificent in Deep Purple and poor with every other band including his own. I was never a massive Sabbath fan.
Fantastic musicianship throughout Purple. Loved Jon Lord's Bach inspired keyboards which was a huge part of their unique sound. A minor gripe is the sometimes cheesy lyrics which never matched the standard of the playing or the tunes imo.
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big mervyn wrote:
Snipe Watson wrote:Gillan was magnificent in Deep Purple and poor with every other band including his own. I was never a massive Sabbath fan.
Fantastic musicianship throughout Purple. Loved Jon Lord's Bach inspired keyboards which was a huge part of their unique sound. A minor gripe is the sometimes cheesy lyrics which never matched the standard of the playing or the tunes imo.
If you talk of the classic Purple lineup of Lord, Blackmore, Glover, Paice and Gillan.You are talking about a band with absolute excellence throughout. It's just a pitty Richie Blackmore is madder than mad Jack McMad. They really should have been the greatest rock band of all time.
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Snipe Watson wrote:
big mervyn wrote:
Snipe Watson wrote:Gillan was magnificent in Deep Purple and poor with every other band including his own. I was never a massive Sabbath fan.
Fantastic musicianship throughout Purple. Loved Jon Lord's Bach inspired keyboards which was a huge part of their unique sound. A minor gripe is the sometimes cheesy lyrics which never matched the standard of the playing or the tunes imo.
If you talk of the classic Purple lineup of Lord, Blackmore, Glover, Paice and Gillan.You are talking about a band with absolute excellence throughout. It's just a pitty Richie Blackmore is madder than mad Jack McMad. They really should have been the greatest rock band of all time.
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One of his former band colleagues (can't remember who) put all the internal aggro down to Ritchie's Pre-Minstrel Tension :lol:
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big mervyn wrote:
Snipe Watson wrote:
big mervyn wrote:
Snipe Watson wrote:Gillan was magnificent in Deep Purple and poor with every other band including his own. I was never a massive Sabbath fan.
Fantastic musicianship throughout Purple. Loved Jon Lord's Bach inspired keyboards which was a huge part of their unique sound. A minor gripe is the sometimes cheesy lyrics which never matched the standard of the playing or the tunes imo.
If you talk of the classic Purple lineup of Lord, Blackmore, Glover, Paice and Gillan.You are talking about a band with absolute excellence throughout. It's just a pitty Richie Blackmore is madder than mad Jack McMad. They really should have been the greatest rock band of all time.
He plays the lute these days.

One of his former band colleagues (can't remember who) put all the internal aggro down to Ritchie's Pre-Minstrel Tension :lol:
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big mervyn wrote:
Snipe Watson wrote:Gillan was magnificent in Deep Purple and poor with every other band including his own. I was never a massive Sabbath fan.
Fantastic musicianship throughout Purple. Loved Jon Lord's Bach inspired keyboards which was a huge part of their unique sound. A minor gripe is the sometimes cheesy lyrics which never matched the standard of the playing or the tunes imo.
Merv….Great keyboards and Lord was the master of that sound...
Snipe Watson wrote:
big mervyn wrote:
Snipe Watson wrote:Gillan was magnificent in Deep Purple and poor with every other band including his own. I was never a massive Sabbath fan.
Fantastic musicianship throughout Purple. Loved Jon Lord's Bach inspired keyboards which was a huge part of their unique sound. A minor gripe is the sometimes cheesy lyrics which never matched the standard of the playing or the tunes imo.
If you talk of the classic Purple lineup of Lord, Blackmore, Glover, Paice and Gillan.You are talking about a band with absolute excellence throughout. It's just a pitty Richie Blackmore is madder than mad Jack McMad. They really should have been the greatest rock band of all time.
Snipe… we are at one with the best DP line up although there is a Gillian -v- Coverdale argument to be had there.. Gillian was so poor that day he maybe tainted my thought that he was the better in DP…. anytime since that I seen Coverdale in Whitesnake he was a master of what he does and I got to I got to know a few of them so maybe I am bias.

Simply can't deny Black Sabbath their place at the table and OZZY is the man despite a half decent effort from the dwarf that was DIO.. Rainbow were a decent band with DIO & Blackmore………. Best band I ever seen live was Zeppelin
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Ronnie James Dio was an awesome rock singer. Rainbow were a great band with Cozy Powell, but the song writing was well below the Purple level with a few exceptions like Stargazer which is a bit of an epic.
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snipe… theres no sun in the shadow of the wizard

seen DIO once at Antrim Leisure centre of all places. Loved his Heaven and Hell with Sabbath.
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