QuoteJD going for UEFA exec committee
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...ttee-1.2969608
You can watch the whole thing back on tets' link.
JD going for UEFA exec committee
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/socc...ttee-1.2969608
Does that mean he leaves the FAI position if elected? The answer to this question may or may not lead to me starting as "John Delaney for UEFA Committee" campaign.Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Don't shoot the messenger but
'As a general rule, the UEFA Executive Committee meets once every two months,'
Successfully elected. 2nd highest vote of candidates running
The mind boggles
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Not at all.
He's a genius at this schnakey stuff.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
I'm with bttw. I'm not even remotely surprised but yet my mind boggles. I know it sounds contradictory.
its being reported that he will earn another €100,000 on top of his current mad FAI salary. surely he should take a pay cut from his FAI salary if he wont have as much time to spend on FAI matters from now on??
To the outside eye though, he must be doing a great job. He's delivered the Aviva Stadium, overseen Shamrock Rovers and Dundalk become the first two Irish sides to break into European group stage football, seen Ireland qualify for successive European Championship tournaments, writing off massive debt in good time...
They don't see the mess that Irish club football is in, the disgraceful amounts of prize money 'awarded' to League of Ireland clubs, the lack of transparency in the FAI accounts, the hiring of his own missus to a cushy job, the enormous and ultimately ridiculous salary he has awarded himself, the shambles that is the Womens football team story that's come to light this week, the p!ss up's and lack of professionalism shown on Irish away trips, the refusal to take questions at FAI AGM's, the refusal to take interviews from Irish journalists, and probably a hundred other things I've forgotten about while writing this.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Daniel McDonnel's take on things
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-35594771.html
Delaney will go from strength to strength because those who keep him in power are well provided for.
As long as the blazers like Fitzgerard & his cronies are backing him we'll be stuck with him.
Fair dues to the International Womens squad for taking the stand they have.
If they didn't stand up they would still be waiting into the future.
Its like the mens team when the FAI blazers were travelling 1st class while the players were sitting in the cheap seats.
That's a really good post as it captures the disconnect between making headlines and making meaningful changes. JD is expert at the former and absolutely useless at the latter.
You could buy a lot of ladies' track suits with €100k. Pay the abysmally low bonuses that some of our national players deem sufficient compensation for their time and dedication. Maybe even pony up for some wifi access. I'm confident Delaney will do the right thing.
Last edited by Eminence Grise; 05/04/2017 at 9:15 PM.
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
An excellent post indeed Nigel. They're likely also unaware of details such as he's delivered a stadium the FAI will never own or derive non-football income from. That many at Rovers and Dundalk (and elsehwere) will say their successes are in spite of him. That the financial packages assembled to lure the big name managers have set a precedent that could haunt us for decades and leave us beholden to some right dodgy blokes -and that the debts have merely been 'restructured'.
He is made for UEFA. I only wish they'd take him altogether.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Perhaps it'll all go wrong for him and we'll look back at today as the day he flew too close to the sun.
Or maybe he'll use all his guile and duplicity to screw millions out of UEFA for Irish football
Last edited by backstothewall; 05/04/2017 at 11:17 PM.
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Yea the right thing for DelaneyYou could buy a lot of ladies' track suits with €100k. Pay the abysmally low bonuses that some of our national players deem sufficient compensation for their time and dedication. Maybe even pony up for some wifi access. I'm confident Delaney will do the right thing.
Knowing John Delaney he'll give the women's team everything they have asked for, then despite having ignored them for a decade or more he'll hold a press conference with the squad to explain how although he wasn't aware of the issues (despite countless letters, emails & phone calls), as soon as he heard about the press conference he acted immediately to solve all the problems. Then he'll spin the whole thing to show how he's a man of action and a champion for the women's game. On the back of the spin he'll end up being responsible for womens football on the UEFA Exec Committee, and use the position to bring the 2027 women's World Cup to Ireland. A mobile phone video will emerge from a do in the Aras after the opening ceremony showing him ****ed out of his head and pinching President Mary-Lou McDonald on the arse, but it'll be all smiles between them by the time the final comes round at Lansdowne Road
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The 100,000 euro hug of relief, our John and Zbig Boniek share the moment, with manly intimacy.
To be fair, I don't think he awards the salary to himself. Is that not job of the Council on which there are 60 members or is that the Board's function?
Has the FAI not also arranged for Dublin to be awarded three group games and a last-16 fixture at Euro 2020 which is a bit of a coup.
I have lived through the days when the FAI was the laughing stock of the country (you'll say it still is) and the international team played its games in a dilapidated Dalymount Park. The LoI was well in decline before Delaney took over, due mostly to the Big Match and Match of the Day, but it certainly seems to be in a better state than our brethren across the border. Live LoI games on TV were never shown (are they ever shown up North?) - in fact it took a long time before RTE would even show the Cup Final live. I may be wrong but the first one I remember was in the early 1970s between Cork Hibs and Shels and I remember cringing because it was a 0-0 draw.
That's not to say that a lot of your points are not well made but the truth in most things is usually somewhere in the middle ground.
I'll go off and get my asbestos jacket now.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
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