GAA Season - Impact of Garth Brooks Concerts

Past30Now · 06-02-2014 3:08pm #1

Normally the All Ireland Football quarter finals are played as two double headers on the August Bank Holiday weekend. There is now only 4 days between the last concert and the Saturday of the BH weekend. Will the pitch be ready in time?

Clareman · 06-02-2014 3:22pm

Apparently the concert won't have much of an impact on the pitch

http://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/garth-brooks-turns-croker-cash-flow-into-flood-257597.html

Vinz Mesrine · 06-02-2014 3:24pm

Just wait for the week long heavy rain shower which will make **** of the pitch, covered or not.

Kristopherus · 06-02-2014 3:39pm

Very unlikely that we'll have a week's rain in the Dublin area. Has'nt happened for years.

bruschi · 06-02-2014 3:59pm

dont they just take up the whole grass and pitch anyway and store it off site? thought thats what they did for U2 anyway.

Grudaire · 06-02-2014 4:27pm

U2 had a massive stage in the middle of the pitch though - I assume Garth will go for the more traditional stage on the hill?

rpurfield · 06-02-2014 4:47pm

wasnt there less time between the concerts in 09 and the matches the following weekend? I remember Meath and Mayo being on before the Kilkenny Waterford hurling semi and it seemed fine for them games.

iDave · 06-02-2014 4:50pm

rpurfield wrote: »

wasnt there less time between the concerts in 09 and the matches the following weekend? I remember Meath and Mayo being on before the Kilkenny Waterford hurling semi and it seemed fine for them games.

Surface didn't look great tbh

We won that day though so no complaints

CrabRevolution · 06-02-2014 8:12pm

The surface didnt look great, but I remember at the time the players saying it was absolutely fine to play on when you were down there.

Great day for us, that that mayo match, along with the Kilkenny-Tipp minor match and the Waterford-Kilkenny Hurling match, it was great value for a ticket.

blue note · 06-02-2014 8:20pm

iDave wrote: »

Surface didn't look great tbh

We won that day though so no complaints

We lost that day, I think the surface was a disgrace.

The players said it was fine though.

iDave · 06-02-2014 8:32pm

blue note wrote: »

We lost that day, I think the surface was a disgrace.

The players said it was fine though.

Was the surface sh1t in 08 too?

rpurfield · 06-02-2014 11:17pm

yeah i ment the playing of the surface as opposed to the look of it if you get me. The residents are kicking up over the amount of concerts now too, heard them on the radio talking about injunctions and all sorts.

Syferus · 06-02-2014 11:20pm

Past30Now wrote: »

Normally the All Ireland Football quarter finals are played as two double headers on the August Bank Holiday weekend. There is now only 4 days between the last concert and the Saturday of the BH weekend. Will the pitch be ready in time?

The AIQFs aren't going to be played as two double headers on one weekend this year regardless of any number of Garth Brooks concerts.

If they could book up 12 of them I'd be completely delighted. The GAA is the biggest winner in all this apart from Brooks himself.

chinguetti · 06-02-2014 11:41pm

I was trying to remember if it was Brooks or U2 in the late 90's that played Croker and it rained heavily for a few days beforehand.

They drove the stage trucks up the center of the pitch from the Cusack/Canal end, built the stages and drove out, had the concerts, dismantled the stage and drove back in and out across the pitch and destroyed the pitch for about 18 months.

Ever since then, the GAA have become far smarter in staging concerts and minding the pitch so doubt they'll mess this up as they're really gunning for a American Football game.

GAA Season - Impact of Garth Brooks Concerts

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