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What's he done over his tenure? Was he treating it like a going concern? It doesn't seem wholly sensible to rush in the board of directors quota. It's like tomorrow saying we want 50/50 male to femal primary school teachers or in banking we want 50:50. You'd lose huge experience overnight
Lads, I don't know about anyone else but the start of this year has filled me with some optimism. More players seem to be on the brink of a breakthrough, other players establishing themselves further, depending on who comes in but breaking up the boys club in the FAI can only be a good thing and of course, it looks like we'll be getting a new, competent senior manager. 2023 will be the start of something great. You mark my words. I feel it in me waters.
BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!!!
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2023...-betting-levy/
Found this article good, someone finally calling out the horsey industry but to get money you have to spend money and that's what that industry does.
Lads Im aware we dont link The S*n stories here, but I think the following is worth highlighting. Well written by Neil O'Riordan who I do trust more than the average reporter there, Ive linked his tweet about the article.
https://twitter.com/noriordan/status...676014081?s=20
In my opinion this needs to be followed up on, where did the money go?
I get the sense they're hinting at what they think the answer to that question is without requiring you to click on the link in the tweet.
Exactly. The lawyers have restricted what Neil can say but I think the meaning is clear.
He used to be a w**nker but he's alright now
Sorry I couldn't resist
havent seen much about this on here or in general. Sounds promising (like many plans and promises in the past).
https://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2023...ilities-audit/
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65836095
I was talking to 4 TDs prematch across all parties and they said they fell around laughing at the FAI plan and the FAI had done feck all lobbying for it
One of them said straight out that getting €50 for the local GAA club was worth about 1,000 votes versus if he got the local soccer club €100k it was worth 10 votes.
He also said the FAI don’t know how to lobby at all and whoever is doing the PR is robbing a wage. This is total soccer nut who has no time for the GAA bar the votes.
I think the FAI are doing all right, they are not going the quiet way around it but given the size of the underfunding I think they had to go big. For the first time there has been a spotlight on the poor funding. The government will find it hard to ignore it and my experience is all politicians love nothing more than a capital project in their area. The key for this government will be those that can have a ribbon cut before the next election. I don't think everything will be funded but the government will fund some things. Football is up and coming again if your political pals dont realise this the last laugh will be on them at the ballot box.Quote:
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I think you’re absolutely right and I think the political establishment is behind the curve on this issue. Varadkar seems positively hostile to supporting football. I posted here ages ago that I wrote to him asking to investigate the governance of the FAI around 2011 and I got a letter back saying the internal affairs of a sporting institution are none of his business (he was the competent minister at the time) and referring me to an Oireachtas Committee chaired by John O’Mahony TD (now senator). Big John ignored several emails yet the same committee was quick to seek attention after the Rowan/Tighe stuff came out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Thewhitepele
I do wonder if the WNT have a good WC if it’ll create momentum among the political classes. “We did well but we could be even better if…”
they sound like buffoons tbh.Quote:
Originally Posted by ltfc_2004
rapidly heading towards being the fattest population in europe, mental health issues on the rise, crime on the rise...... and we are represented by these sort of eejits who cant see the benefits in growing all our sports and only have an eye on the next vote. shower of wallies
FWIW I did a podcast a year ago with Aodhan O'Riordan. He said the same thing - that the GAA and IRFU are streets ahead of the FAI when it comes to applications for grants.Quote:
Originally Posted by ltfc_2004
https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soc...r-joe-delaney/
No better thread...
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Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
He said the same again on LoI Central a few weeks back iirc. That episode, I think, preceded the actual request for a grant. I think his point was that they are brutal at lobbying, aren't really trusted for obvious reasons and have never come to the government with a plan. One of those things has changed at least?
I went out to Italia 90 with a couple of Scottish pals, but stayed on for a bit when they (predictably enough) went home after the Group matches. I ended up in Genoa on the day of the Romania/ROI game, but no ticket. Got chatting to a couple of Irish lassies who'd flown out on the day, similarly without tickets and told them I was going out to the stadium early, to see what I might pick up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Anyhow, when we got there there was a big crowd of ROI fans surrounding a fella in an FAI blazer. He had loads (hundreds?) of tickets in bundles, bulging from his pockets, which he was giving out free to all and sundry - I nabbed three, but probably could have got more.
It's very possible that that was the late Joe Delaney.
It's also possible it wasn't. I got given plenty of tickets for Holland v Egypt by another senior FAI figure outside the stadium just before KO on condition I only gave them to Irish fans. Dr. Tony O'Neill, a guy whose reputation remains fully in tact. In fact, I've said before his premature death was probably a "sliding doors" moment for Irish football.
There's a memory! O'Neill (ex-UCD, if we're talking about the same man) was always great for the tickets, stutts... and yes, I only heard good things about him over the years.
https://m.independent.ie/irish-news/...375344883.html . Horse racing doing its bit to get the football a better chance of getting a bigger slice of the betting tax pie
Saw that. And IRFU dragged into the RTE Barter Account scandal, if only in the sense that public money was being spent on the IRFU in an undisclosed manner. Good day for the FAI all round :)