Why support an association or league who doesnt back its fellow clubs. What has delaney done for the LOI, NOTHING and never will hes more interested in himself than any club on the Isle. Wasnt he the one who appointed Steve Staunton ( someone who never managed a club before ) a cheap option a few years back.
flexy i feel your pain but dont stop supporting your country or your next door neighbours just because your club fcuked up.
I wish i did not know then what I dont know now
If it rids Derry City of the directorship that presided over this affair and enables the City of Derry to have a club in the near future that they can once again be proud off, then I salute Darren Quigley.
That's some phone signal Sean Connor has in Killybegs. It took over the whole North West of the country.
Rico's little speech was interesting, when he referred to the cleansing of the league
Nice to see everything is Still rosy in the garden, despite what has happened
Most Oppressed People Ever.
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
I'm what? I'm ants at a picnic?
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Crazy post in my opinion...you wont support your country(pressume your Irish?) in the biggest game in years because of John Delaney??..thats rubbish first of all...
secondly, i never thought id be on here defending Delaney but people seem to only associate him with the success(or lack there of) of the National team and also lately with the domestic league(which already had many problems before The FAI took over)..but there is much more to his job then that..the developments in grassroots soccer in this country under his tenure have been great..with Rugby also up there with GAA as alternatives for our kids to play now this work is vital...i've been involved in youth soccer in sligo/Leitrim for a few years now and the improvement in access to coaches,coaching courses,better facilities etc has to be mentioned...its the only way we progress the game and breed the next generation of players...Counties having their own development officers who travel to schools and clubs coaching youngsters and encouraging them to play our sport...providing courses from Kickstart 1 up to your UEFA badge courses which provide people with the oppurtunity to become qualified coaches....i think these dramatic improvements brought about under Delaney deserve a mention.
Delaney my hat - no development of teams in Mullingar despite all the FAI handouts
Just teams broken up
Firstly, I know this was posted before the various statements last night, so maybe it no longer reflects your current point of view, and if not that's fair enough.
However, I just wanted to point out that according to the FAI, they did discuss the evidence they had with Derry. The Derry board denied that, but the reality is it has now been proven that they were lying through their teeth about a number of points over the past few days, so I'm fairly happy to accept the FAI's account on this one.
This much is not in dispute: the FAI handed down a punishment to the DCFC board face to face in the first instance, and the DCFC board knew full well that they were guilty of all accusations. The FAI only took the extraordinary route of showing evidence to the media after the Derry board brazenly pleaded their innocence via the media even though they knew they'd been caught red handed.
IMO, Delaney just chose to fight fire with fire, and succeeded in doing so. I'm afraid the fact that it ended up being "death by a thousand cuts" via the media is, just like the rest of this debacle, entirely the fault of the DCFC board.
Players have admitted their dual contracts today:
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/2009/1111/derrycity.html
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