They don't have the "DON Delaney"Quote:
Originally Posted by TonyD
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They don't have the "DON Delaney"Quote:
Originally Posted by TonyD
Better than any of us could have written
https://ewanmackenna.wordpress.com/2...e-teflon-john/
Great piece. Very comprehensive, and, of course, damning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Good god, when you write it out like that...Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Yet, this sort of thing will not be reported by the media. John Delaney will be paraded around as the saviour of Irish football, he'll be on Sky Sports again talking about how he took down Delaney and that Irish football is in a great state.
Sickens me really that he cannot be held accountable for the mess he has overseen.
In fairness, from the bottom of the article -Quote:
Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954
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Abridged version in Sunday Business Post 14 June, 2015
I'll slightly alter it to 'more significant media' so!Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
In "more significant media" Vincent Hogan is far more positive about JD
http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-31299232.html
I see pics from the CCFL end of season shin dig with JD looking 'in great tune' :wink: from Friday night last. Still out sweetening up all the grassroots folk I suppose
Some facts and figures that demonstrate the sorry state of Irish football: http://www.balls.ie/football/wes-hoo...ootball/297196
(Interestingly, since Jack Charlton's first squad in 1986, a total of 177 players have played senior football for Ireland.)
I read that earlier actually, what's with the stuff about McGeady's accent? There's surely no truth in that. I've always been a big fan of McGeady but he's an infinitely more frustrating player than Hoolahan, and it has absolutely nothing to do with his accent.
I'd say McGeady is more frustrating because he tries more things. Hoolahan is a creative player who can split defences open but a lot of them time he is just spreading the play, which isn't really something that'd be tolerated in a winger.
Agreed, nothing to do with his accent.
Aye, I've never heard anyone ever question or doubt McGeady's credentials - Irish or general ability - on the basis that he's Glaswegian/not Ireland-born. People have questioned McCarthy's commitment on those grounds, mind. When he was injured for the Glasgow fixture, doubters were saying it was really that he didn't have it in him to face Scotland. There were no problems on that front last weekend, which just goes to show what wild imaginations some football fans have.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
We've used 122 players since then (qualification games only).Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
Yeah, so what?
But why didn't you say "So what" for Danny's statement that we've used 177? The figure 177 on its own means little but when compared to the North, I think it is an interesting contrast and shows we have a bigger pool than the North (ok, hardly a surprise) but we haven't been afraid to use it and experiment.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wolfman
Exactly! I'm actually curious as to what Danny found interesting about the first stat? Seems like a lot of players or very little? I must say the figure means nothing to me one way or the other without giving it much thought. The comparison between Northern Ireland's figure and ours is pretty useless seeing as friendlies, I presume, are included in ours.Quote:
Originally Posted by OwlsFan
I loved seeing the bloke dressed as JD in the singing section, as per D69er's blog. Very funny.
I should have clarified. It was smaller than I casually assumed it would be for some reason, considering that's over nearly three decades (and probably also because it's a figure I hadn't really properly thought about at all until I saw it), but it makes sense when you do think about it as there isn't that high a "turnover rate" in senior international football. There is significant and long-term continuity between squads.Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
How many senior internationals might we have had throughout the entire history of the FAI then? Around 600 or so?
Who can name them all?!
Hmmm, let me see: Glen Whelan, Alan Quinn, Kieren Westwood....Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
soccerscene have a pretty conclusive list here: http://www.soccerscene.ie/ss_gen/ind...level=ssseniorQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
although they've included the managers as players and managers!
There's only two Marc Wilsons!Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
Note to Tets. Not every question is to be taken literally. As my daughter says, what do you get if you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
Anyway, since JD assumed the top position what has been our best win? Slovakia at home?
For a guy whose strategy is to focus on the senior team and hope the rewards can pay for the rest of the game, the senior team hasn't actually done that well. It's a bit like New Labour's reliance on the City to provide the tax revenues to pay for everything else. When the City blows up the strategy is laid bare. The same can easily be said for Irish football.
Paul O'Shea?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
A paradox?Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
It requires no answer! That's the joke.
The Pope on global warming?
Sorry for dragging you off topic, lads. I mentioned it only because 1986 was the end/ start of an era for our teams, in obviously different ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by DannyInvincible
DI's right about continuity. Aaron Hughes has been around for nine qualifying campaigns, Roy Carroll eight. Nine of our current squad played regularly in Euro 2008 qualifying.
PM for ya Danny ;)
http://i.imgur.com/D20j8hw.pngQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
Caught canvassing with a Labour TD: http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakin...ly-716115.html
Isn't he a Fianna Fáil man through and through?
More like Me fein through and through
Delaney is starting to become a somewhat popular first name for girls....im kinda on the fence.
I'm no political analyst, but isn't he the direct opposite of everything Labour stand for?
Labour stand for something? :p
Didn't realise, but this was actually front page news today. Seemed like such a minor report online.
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/polit...ning-1.2500194
The part about it being in his personal time is a bit laughable really.Quote:
The Sunday Times reported Mr Delaney had visited local soccer clubs and a barber shop with Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly in his Tipperary constituency and urged people to vote for him.
Independent TD Mattie McGrath said Mr Delaney’s canvassing for Mr Kelly was “highly unusual and inappropriate’’.
Speaking in Dublin on Sunday, Tánaiste and Labour Party leader Joan Burton said if Mr Delaney was advising people to vote for Mr Kelly she supported that.
She said politics was full of people from various sporting bodies who had particular political allegiances, or who expressed a particular political viewpoint about how somebody was doing, without it necessarily being party political at all.
“I’ll say, really, that is a matter for John Delaney,’’ she added.
Speaking on Newstalk, Minister for Sport Paschal Donohoe said what people did in their personal time was their own business.
“I would be certain John, or anybody else involved in a public body, would not be using their public offices to advance any candidate,’’ he added.
An FAI spokesman said Mr Delaney had no comment to make on the matter.
The only reason his 'personal time' is valuable is because of who he is professionally.