John Delaney

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Originally Posted by Bosco

Was fairly hungover this morning in Spar and saw his mug beaming from the front page of one of the tabloids.....had to look it up there to see if it was actually a story or whether I had just imagined it..


http://www.evoke.ie/reviews-entertai...-emma-english/

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€360K a year can do that for you alright.
My first thought is "Do I really care ?"

Part 2 of the main yoke: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30565166.html

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Inspired, certainly, because the nation’s recession-darkened mood seemed to lift almost magically with the arrival of Martin ‘n Roy. “I notice, even now, when you walk down the street in Ireland, that there’s a positive vibe. That’s got to be good for the country. People are excited about Martin and Roy.

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So JD pretty much lifted the country out of recession. Sweet good Jebus this is awful, awful stuff.

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Originally Posted by Mr A

Part 2 of the main yoke: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30565166.html



So JD pretty much lifted the country out of recession. Sweet good Jebus this is awful, awful stuff.

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God that's awful stuff.
Lucky I had my lunch before I read it.

I see Dunphy is already getting his claws into O'Neill after his interview with Tony O'Donohue last night.
Won't be long now until Roy pipes up :D

I don't have much time for Keane, but if he were to burst into the studio after the Gibraltar game, throwing O'Donoghue's broken body on the floor before administering a prolonged, violent beating to Giles and Dunphy in front of an incredulous and horrified Brady I could forgive a lot.

Edit: May have got a bit carried away and gone off topic a bit there, sorry.

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Originally Posted by marinobohs

Had to misfortune to fall upon SKY Sports 'piece' on our own living legend JD :rolleyes: difficult to imagine a more cringeworthy bit of television than the Dr Gobbels rubbish spouted by Johnnie Boy.

The part that REALLY (and there were many contenders) annoyed me was his assertion that he is judged solely on how the International team do.

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Let's be honest, that's all he cares about. Once he has the love and affection of the 'olé, olé brigade' and the national team, John is happy. The creep!

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Originally Posted by Mr A

Part 2 of the main yoke: http://www.independent.ie/sport/socc...-30565166.html



So JD pretty much lifted the country out of recession. Sweet good Jebus this is awful, awful stuff.

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:frown::frown:

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Originally Posted by Mr A

I don't have much time for Keane, but if he were to burst into the studio after the Gibraltar game, throwing O'Donoghue's broken body on the floor before administering a prolonged, violent beating to Giles and Dunphy in front of an incredulous and horrified Brady I could forgive a lot.

Edit: May have got a bit carried away and gone off topic a bit there, sorry.

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I'm looking forward to a serious Keane v Dunphy row. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Bosco

Was fairly hungover this morning in Spar and saw his mug beaming from the front page of one of the tabloids.....had to look it up there to see if it was actually a story or whether I had just imagined it..


http://www.evoke.ie/reviews-entertai...-emma-english/

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WOW....just WOW!!! I didn't see that coming.

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Originally Posted by Mr A

I don't have much time for Keane, but if he were to burst into the studio after the Gibraltar game, throwing O'Donoghue's broken body on the floor before administering a prolonged, violent beating to Giles and Dunphy in front of an incredulous and horrified Brady I could forgive a lot.

Edit: May have got a bit carried away and gone off topic a bit there, sorry.

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We can but dream :cool:

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Originally Posted by disgruntled

€360K a year can do that for you alright.
My first thought is "Do I really care ?"

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My disbelief wasn't so much as the woman he's with but the ridiculousness of seeing his mug on the front page giving an interview about his love life considering his ongoing refusal to be interviewed about his job.

Anyone else reckon she looks like a younger, slightly plastic, version of Anne Doyle?

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Anyone else reckon she looks like a younger, slightly plastic, version of Anne Doyle?

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No, I don't think she looks younger than Anne Doyle.

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

No, I don't think she looks younger than Anne Doyle.

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No but she looks like she's had the same amount of work done :o

Not to knock Trappatoni's CV but I found it comical that Delany listed the fact that he marked Pele before as one of the factors for giving him the Ireland job.

If you haven't listened to Monday's Second Captains on the man himself it's a good laugh.

https://soundcloud.com/secondcaptain...ia-waynes-wane

No reaction to his interview on RTE tonight?

http://www.rte.ie/sport/player/813/649089/

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Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

No reaction to his interview on RTE tonight?

http://www.rte.ie/sport/player/813/649089/

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I didnt think he came across too badly - which annoyed me in itself.
A few things did manage to annoy me...... when questioned on the leagues facilities
"Look at Athlones ground, look at Deasy park, The RSC, and Tallaght.... they're the main ones"

He's a smarmy pr1111ck and was able to dance around everything

"John today i researched the salary of other football association bosses and your salary is higher than a lot of them "
"ah look, we dont know what other people are being paid.....i've been offered higher salaries"........

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Originally Posted by desaintsno.12

"Look at Athlones ground, look at Deasy park, The RSC, and Tallaght.... they're the main ones"

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Lissywollen has a lovely stand. But the rest of the ground looks awful. I'd love to see someone put some money into that and improve the all round look of the place. While I don't expect three more stands to be built, it could look a lot better.

Deacy Park in my view, as I have not been to Turners Cross, is the nicest ground in the league. The old stand could do with a bit of TLC, but aside from that, it's one of the few grounds that can be called top class.

The RSC is annoying as feck. Two nice stands, great pitch, but jesus feck, that running track is an annoyance and a hindrance. A better perimeter wall and turnstile facilities would make that ground a lot nicer too.

Tallaght, is lifeless and soulless without the two ends. At least one end on it, similar to that of Deacy Park would make a big difference. Feels too open. Fantastic facilities though.

Showgrounds in Sligo is better than Galway. As are Tallaght and Turners Cross

He doesn't mention that half the grounds he mentioned aren't owned/run by football too

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Originally Posted by desaintsno.12

I didnt think he came across too badly - which annoyed me in itself.
A few things did manage to annoy me...... when questioned on the leagues facilities
"Look at Athlones ground, look at Deasy park, The RSC, and Tallaght.... they're the main ones"

He's a smarmy pr1111ck and was able to dance around everything

"John today i researched the salary of other football association bosses and your salary is higher than a lot of them "
"ah look, we dont know what other people are being paid.....i've been offered higher salaries"........

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Ha yeah agree. Pity it took so long to ask a half decent question from the interviewer. Would have liked to know who the hell in the media he was on about?
He takes a lot of credit for the natural order of things. LOI sounds like a great league in Johns eyes.

He played the interviewer (Hugh Cahill) lovely through out. he may look ike an absolute gobsh11te, but he is a shrewd operator. He had complete control the entire time and Hugh ended up being the flustered party while John boy sat back and played the hero

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

Ha yeah agree. Pity it took so long to ask a half decent question from the interviewer. Would have liked to know who the hell in the media he was on about?
He takes a lot of credit for the natural order of things. LOI sounds like a great league in Johns eyes.

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Heard from a journo that he has a designated lawyer who trawls through the various papers looking for any reference to John Boy and will lash out a legal letter at the drop of a hat when his name is mentioned

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Originally Posted by desaintsno.12

Heard from a journo that he has a designated lawyer who trawls through the various papers looking for any reference to John Boy and will lash out a legal letter at the drop of a hat when his name is mentioned

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Well its obvious from his Indo spread he wants to be loved. Bit late for that me thinks, ha.

Edit: See Cahill is a rugby correspondent, but still.

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Originally Posted by bennocelt

Well its obvious from his Indo spread he wants to be loved. Bit late for that me thinks, ha.

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He's an ego maniac, of course he wants to be loved !! ....................... the *****

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JD's inspiration.

Agree with Dodge that some of the good grounds are not owned by the clubs or FAI. The ground in Drogheda is FAI owned however. Terryland has had a lot of public money (including gaeltacht funds) in its development, the GUST guys would know better than me on this, same with Sligo, and Tallaght has been built completely from the public purse. Same with the new Markets Field in Limerick.This btw is the best way to have it for soccer in my opinion.
In relation to Turners Cross I am reminded of Flower Lodge, now known as Pairc Uí Rinn. Sadly when compared to the GAA and the Rugby Union, JD's organisation are the men of no property. Tony Inzenco reckons Terryland is the nicest LoI ground he has been too.
The Phoenix Magazine had a bit on the Lansdowne R loan a while back; the fantastic deal for Irish soccer, fans should have a lot at it.

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-30632101.html

Hmm.
http://www.irishpost.co.uk/sport/joh...allback-option

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Originally Posted by Deckydee

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-30632101.html

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He also said the FAI seemed to be the “least well organised” of the three main field sports bodies.

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The FAI are better organised than any of them, only they are organised to serve themselves, not football.

'Why John Delaney has a fraught relationship with League of Ireland': http://www.theguardian.com/football/...gue-of-ireland

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Originally Posted by Alan Smith

The dust had barely settled after Ireland’s hammering of Gibraltar when John Delaney, the FAI chief executive, appeared on RTE’s prime time Saturday chat show. With his shirt collar undone and in giddy mood, Delaney was introducing his new girlfriend to the nation.

This was the leader of the country’s football association delving into the world of celebrity but nobody was surprised. He was recently the subject of a Partridgean online documentary called “John the Baptist” (because he has resurrected Irish football, apparently), and last year Sky ran a soft feature on him in which he claimed he could earn three times his salary of €360,000 elsewhere. Delaney remains at the head of Irish football as a “labour of love”. He has not given an interview to a football journalist since the aftermath of Euro 2012.

Delaney had been earning more than €430,000-a-year before taking pay cuts in 2010 and 2011, while many of the association’s workers on the ground were made redundant. In July, he agreed a new contract to take him up to 2019. There are incessant murmurs of discontent within the domestic game when it comes to the CEO. He is an expert in dealing with the convoluted politics of grassroots football and retains plenty of support from smaller clubs who have benefited from FAI investment – but his relationship with the League of Ireland is fraught.

Recently, he described the league as a “difficult child”. However this season’s total prize pool of €241,500 is eclipsed by Delaney’s annual income by more than the €100,000 the winners will receive when the season concludes in a fortnight. Little wonder there is a long history of financial problems, with the association often accused of neglecting its own clubs.

But it cannot be ignored that there is a long-standing image problem when it comes to the League of Ireland which runs far deeper than misplaced priorities. English football has been more alluring for the average Ireland fan for decades; apart from a hardcore support base, the domestic game commands little interest. It does not help that the clubs stumble from farce to farce, struggling to stay afloat.

There are sporadic success stories: Limerick have restructured and built solid foundations with a return to their original home at Markets Field in the pipeline next season, courtesy of substantial funding from the horse racing magnate JP McManus. Cork City’s return from the brink of extinction, when the club was saved by a supporters’ trust but subsequently relegated in 2009, could become a fairy tale if they can overhaul Dundalk with two games left in the season. They face each other on the final day – it should be an event which requires no promotion.

And for all its existential crises, the impact the league has on the international team is constantly understated. Five of the starting XI which faced Gibraltar honed their trade on home soil. The squad, which has travelled to Germany before Tuesday’s meeting, contains nine former League of Ireland players.

Among that group is Shane Long, who joined Reading from Cork for around £30,000 as part of the deal for Kevin Doyle in 2005. His combined career transfer fees passed £30m with a move to Southampton this summer. The first choice goalkeeper, David Forde, disenchanted following a failed spell at West Ham, was about to quit the game before the League of Ireland gave him a second chance. And that’s before Seamus Coleman at Sligo Rovers is mentioned.

Yet the league’s struggle to be respected is neatly encapsulated by a line in Roy Keane’s book in which he discusses how he treated Cork players harshly when in charge of Ipswich, memorably telling Colin Healy, who had been lined up to replace Keane at the 2002 World Cup and was signed by the current Ireland assistant manager from Cork City, that “he was moving his feet like a League of Ireland player”. Keane, lest we forget, cut his teeth at Cobh Ramblers, and still goes along to Cork City games when home. Healy was back at City again two years after joining Ipswich, where he is enjoying the footballing equivalent of an Indian summer.

Another pair of former international midfielders, Keith Fahey and Stephen McPhail, returned home this season, joining St Patrick’s Athletic and Shamrock Rovers respectively. The league is as much a retirement home for players past their peak as it is an avenue for youngsters to create an opportunity to move on to something better.

But there is a dearth of quality available to Martin O’Neill, confirmed by the addition of Brian Lenihan to the squad last week. Two months ago, the 20-year-old right-back was playing in the League of Ireland and has yet to make an appearance for Hull since joining for less than £200,000. Steve Bruce said he was a player for the future and was likely to spend time with the Under-21s on Humberside, though he has since impressed when training with the first team squad.

O’Neill was flummoxed when asked about Lenihan’s key attributes after announcing his inclusion – suggesting the manager was not too familiar with a player whose rate of development means he is capable of following in Coleman’s footsteps. It later emerged that some of Lenihan’s new team-mates at Hull had dropped his name in when the original squad convened in Dublin at the beginning of last week.

Yet the Republic of Ireland’s problems extend far beyond a lack of quality. Interest has dwindled alongside rugby union’s surge in popularity over the past decade, and Gaelic football and hurling remain the true love for the majority of Irish sports fans. Euro 2012 provided a short boost but that soon evaporated following the mess which unfolded on the pitch.

The FAI said more than 35,000 were at the Aviva on Saturday despite swathes of empty seats around the ground. The stadium, which replaced the decrepit Lansdowne Road, remains a financial burden, even though Delaney insists the FAI will be debt free by 2020. But interest in the team is so low that it is desperately struggling to fill seats – to such an extent that Delaney gave a free ticket to everybody in the audience on the Saturday Night Show for next month’s game against the USA. It’s just a pity he’s not as keen to promote the country’s clubs.

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I thought it was a pretty shallow article with some over-simplifications that are probably misleading/wrong, but I suppose it is written for outsiders.

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Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

'Why John Delaney has a fraught relationship with League of Ireland': http://www.theguardian.com/football/...gue-of-ireland

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In fairness, you should probably post the first paragraph of this and a link so he as least gets the hits from it. It's nice to write for such a big newspaper, I'm sure he'd want them to see his article being read as much as possible.

Excellent article. I do feel however, following the result against germany and with a huge game away to scotland next on the cards, the interest in the national team is set to surge again although the USA game may still struggle to sell

Some points good, some points bad. Overall, not a great article. It doesn't really describe in any way why Delaney has a 'fraught relationship' with the league.

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Originally Posted by nigel-harps1954

Some points good, some points bad. Overall, not a great article. It doesn't really describe in any way why Delaney has a 'fraught relationship' with the league.

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I did think he could have delved into that a bit more myself, considering it was the title of the piece and all.

I thought it was a good read but was most likely written for an audience who wouldn't have a great deal of knowledge on Irish Football. Hence, the lack of a detailed analysis on why the LOI and Delaney aren't BFFs.

That's one of the problems with journalism today.
No in depth analysis & no proper research.
Looks good on paper but to anyone with a good knowledge of football in Ireland it looks like what it is superficial.
Touches on a lot of things but doesn't really examine any of them.

Anybody doing any real analysis can kiss their media access to anything FAI related goodbye.

I suppose that`s a choice people have to make.
Do you want to be a real journalist or a copy & paste merchant.
The difference is anyone can copy & paste.
You just use Google.

Delaney was on Today FM this morning. He was asked about the league he described as a problem child. He stands over the comment regards when the FAI took over the league. He said the clubs collectively were losing €7m a year. He said after the hard steps of implementing regulation that the clubs collectively broke even last year. He made a point that if he was running a club in the league he would look to build up connections with the schoolboy teams in the area.