Not yet, but a sh!tstorm of negative publicity that Three can do without. And it's a story that looks like it can run and run.Originally Posted by OwlsFan
Accounts release to be delayed till tomorrow. JD's payout, presumably enormous, is going to dominate headlines.
There has to be a decent chance that they'll actually get released late in Friday, to avoid the weekend press
Looks like the news on the accounts will be at least as bad as expected.
@FAIreland: FAI ANNOUNCEMENT
Donal Conway is to step down as President of the Football Association of Ireland at an EGM on January 25, 2020
Statement to follow...
Press conference delayed by an hour. They need a bigger calculator.
" I wish to God that someone would be able to block out the voices in my head for five minutes, the voices that scream, over and over again: "Why do they come to me to die?"
Conway stepping down is another of the old guard going. Potentially a big step forward in getting government backing restored.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
Concerning too that it has been reported that Airtricity are considering their future sponsorship.
Glad to hear the Conway announcement. His manner at the Oireachtas committee hearing was enough to convince me he had to go.
Edit: SIPTU making noise about likely strikes from FAI staff.
Last edited by NeverFeltBetter; 06/12/2019 at 11:05 AM.
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Press conference to be shown on the rte news Twitter and Facebook.
The accounts
https://www.fai.ie/domestic/news/2018-fai-accounts
Setting the actual numbers aside, the presentation to the press is so amateurish. Is that guy the FAI treasurer?
What happened with the 2017 numbers!?
460k payout for JD.
God, that’s a shambolic set-up for a crisis conference. Bad lighting, cramped, backs to the wall, a visually distracting backdrop with the TV screen and wooden pillar, clutter on the table… Amateur hour.
€57,000,000 in debt.
Conway gone, so Shane Ross will be happy (though I think the FAI could nominate the Pope and the Dalai Lama as independent directors and he’d still find reason to reject them. Roll on GE 2020!).
Anybody think that we’re seeing the start of the last days of the FAI? A crisis of this scale warrants a new association, or at the very least a root and branch reform with new board and senior executives, an amended rule book and modern way of doing business. Swim Ireland, Olympic Federation of Ireland … Football Ireland?
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
- E Tattsyrup.
And cracking jokes to start it all off.
What was most cringing was watching his attitude and facial expressions towards the technician looking after the PowerPoint. He admitted himself he was late, so it was his own fault that he hadn't done a run through of his presentation, not the technician. His arrogance was shocking and his presentation was awful.
Only in Ireland....
Paying Delaney off. FFS
The guy is a clown, but for me he has probably done more for Irish football than anyone since Jack Charlton.
Whether the structure of the FAI survives or not, in the long run the game will end up better run for all this pain.
What was the original Aviva mortgage? Less than this €57 million I think. So much for debt free by next year.
those debt free by 2020 reports were a complete con job as was delaneys 10% pay reduction only for him to take it away immediately with the other hand by getting paid the equivalent in a rent allowance...... on which, by the way, he paid no BIK and has left the FAI with an additional €1m revenue liability it appears.
it looks like delaney just wanted to hang on come what may until after the 2020 euros before heading off to a cushy UEFA job and leave others with a big mess to clean up after him..
Wouldn't like to be the Finance Manager/Director going on some of the reports I was getting this afternoon (from someone watching the stream; not any inside knowledge)
Delaney's salary upped to €1m for last year once all "expenses" were taken into account - that's literally incredible.
2.7m tax liability as a result, and 3.6m in professional fees.
The accounts note Delaney had two contracts - Derry City will love that.
9m in losses last year alone.
Conway denying knowledge of things right to the end.
And all while the LoI is the problem child and is paying money into this *****'s coffers.
I actually hope Delaney goes to jail over this.
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