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I fully completely support the FAIs' Ignore Des Cahill initiative and I hope it is taken on by the country as a whole.
I never had much time for John and his merry band of idiots and arselickers but with this one brilliant initiative they've done more to foster goodwill among right minded people than has been done by the FAI in the last 25 years. :ball:
Also, northwestexile, when you get your lunch break above in Abbotstown I suggest reading up about the chicken and the egg. x
My issue is not that a journalist asked questions about delaneys salary my issue is with the general negativity that the print and broadcasting media always spin on an FAI/Irish football related story.
No, the point is determining whether the kinds of questions being asked / points being raised by Des Cahill were relevant and valid. If they were, the FAI are acting like bullies.Quote:
Originally Posted by passerrby
But yet you applaud them for singling out one guy, (who, according to soccerc on another forum, was making perfectly relevant points) and banning him, with a possible legal action?Quote:
Originally Posted by northwestexile
Chicken and egg, chicken and egg........Quote:
Originally Posted by northwestexile
Give us a half dozen examples of negative spin in the last twelve months, should be easy enough if it's a regular thing.
Every great journey starts with a single stepQuote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Seriously, is that your reply to my point?Quote:
Originally Posted by northwestexile
Delays salary is larger than the entire prize fund for the league of Ireland . He has surrounded himself with yes men who are in their positions thanks to him .I fear that when the bubble bursts the true debts will be astronomical .Quote:
Originally Posted by osarusan
Enjoy watching another championships at home without ireland in it, underage football is pants (spain 5-0 ireland) and Delaney has never cared for the LOIQuote:
Originally Posted by northwestexile
U obviously work within abbotstown:mad:
Wrong, wrong and wrong - if you'd heard the exchange instead of reading biased comment then you would know the first two wrong points were nothing about being anti-FAI or Delaney, they were simple questions regarding how it's being run.Quote:
Originally Posted by passerrby
The same man has openly questioned and tackled issues regarding the GPA (he backed them and took alot of private flak from the GAA), and he has also questioned contentious issues like the winter training break (a sham), players expenses for "weaker" countie (he illustrated this using the Louth hurlers), he took onthe Kilkenny Co Board over their poor treatment of football and he has reguarly highlighted the need for transparency in manager payments. Actually he fed Pat Spillane a few times who ran with it.
We cannot make any comparison between the GAA and FAI, the GAA are rightly taken to task when there is violence on or off the pitch and they react and deal with it. They are not a shower of freebie chasers and moneygrubbers - for what is JD paid 400,000e per year? Why?
This is about the FAI, sneaky leaks from anti-GAH people will try to draw comparisons - oh they and easier ride etc, crap! JD and his cronies in the FAI have been spinning yarns and hiding in Abbottstown, running down the league, telling lies and making it worse for themselves. This story will run for a while yet.
It's a Gaaliban conspiracy!
JD is worth every penny of that 400 grand. :p
Des always comes accross as a pretty decent bloke - compared to buck toothed, bottle tannned, hair dyed, chest waxed Marty whatever his name is who kowtows to everything GAAAAAA. I remember I had that awful committee room on in the background when trawling the web and when marty was lauding the GAAAAAS 'community work' even one of his own GAAAAA guests had to bring him back down from planet bogball in the stickfighting universe to point out that 'soccer' and rugby also do great work in the community.
To be fair Des reports accross the board on sports when doing the RTE sports bulletins on the radio - of which I'm sure he has some editorial input.
Re: Delaney. Did anyone else think it a tad weird that when Sligo were doing the great work they did to get the Showgrounds up to standard for UEFA inspection he came out and said something along the lines of "sure i'll give them 5,000 cash out of me own pocket to pay for ............". That is the type of comment I'd expect to hear from Stanislas ****ticova from the Begorabegorastan FA. Then again it was a few days before the kaka hit the fan in regards to his salary. Hmmmmmm.
Des has a bottle tan too in fairness.
Ah yeah but Marty's is more of an oompa loompa shade and his tippex white gnashers just add to the overall cosmetic effect.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jinxy
Thanks lads. Marty gaa meltyface gives me nitemares. Won't sleep for days now.:-(
Ah come on now, he has a soft spot for the Farney and all things/people thereof - comes from his days of learning Paddy K's poetry by heart!Quote:
Originally Posted by Magicme
To get to the semi finals of the european u 19's was a great achievement for a small country, underage football is in good shape based on qualifying for the tournament in the first place and then getting to the semis and been beaten by an excellent team.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennocelt
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Originally Posted by Cuyahoga
Yeah....and the 5th goal was never a peno:p
Since I am from Oriel and not the tiny bit of my county known as Farney I don't care. He still gives me the heebee jeebees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudulika