bracknaghboy wrote:Well worth a read folks. Funding 80% complete. Final push now so the facility will be debt free when complete. Super work by all involved in this. Things are genuinely looking up in our county.
http://offaly.gaa.ie/2016/06/27/faithful-fields-fundraising-launched-dublin/
Hurlingtothebackbone wrote:Fields suppose to be in play from June this year I HEAR. At last something the board got right great vision by Padraig Boland and some legacy for him.
pigeon house biffo wrote:Does anyone know if there will be an astro turf installed at the facility? Surely to have a facility like this is a wasted opportunity if we cannot provide guaranteed training surfaces for squads year round, independant of weather conditions? It seems to me that this may have been overlooked and if so is a great shame as we all know that weather conditions are far from ideal between November - March and to have invested so much in a facility only for it to be unusable or certainly no better than facilities already available within a 15km proximity would be a great pity?
Bord na Mona man wrote:pigeon house biffo wrote:Does anyone know if there will be an astro turf installed at the facility? Surely to have a facility like this is a wasted opportunity if we cannot provide guaranteed training surfaces for squads year round, independant of weather conditions? It seems to me that this may have been overlooked and if so is a great shame as we all know that weather conditions are far from ideal between November - March and to have invested so much in a facility only for it to be unusable or certainly no better than facilities already available within a 15km proximity would be a great pity?
I'm not sure about warm up areas and the like, but there won't be an astro pitch. It would have added significantly to the overall cost of the project.
Lone Shark wrote:Bord na Mona man wrote:pigeon house biffo wrote:Does anyone know if there will be an astro turf installed at the facility? Surely to have a facility like this is a wasted opportunity if we cannot provide guaranteed training surfaces for squads year round, independant of weather conditions? It seems to me that this may have been overlooked and if so is a great shame as we all know that weather conditions are far from ideal between November - March and to have invested so much in a facility only for it to be unusable or certainly no better than facilities already available within a 15km proximity would be a great pity?
I'm not sure about warm up areas and the like, but there won't be an astro pitch. It would have added significantly to the overall cost of the project.
The cost was a factor, but there is also the fact that there are very high rates of injury on those surfaces - the jury is very much out as to whether or not they are suitable for Gaelic Games. Anecdotal evidence from both the St. Loman's facility in Mullingar and the one at Bray Emmets is that there are far higher rates of cruciate, knee dislocation and other twisting/turning injuries on that surface.
Also, and I can testify to this as I've been involved with teams that have used the Connacht COE at Bekan in the dead of winter, if you put in the proper, modern grass pitches with good drainage, they will be playable pretty much all year round. I've never known that facility to be unable to host a game - and while I accept that they are on a height to a certain degree so there is a huge amount of natural drainage, there are other similar facilities where the pitch is essentially playable all year round.
greenairfield wrote:Boland me hole fair play to the sub committee more like
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