Delaney: should he stay or should he go?

[geysir]

I don't have any particular agenda for Delaney. I do not find that there is any compelling reason why he should go just now after the appointment of a new management team. The big surprise for me is to find out that the ex FAI accountant is the power hungry back stabbing silent assassin.
(unlike any accountant I know.)
It will be by accident that Delaney is associated with the success of a football related decision that he was involved in.

[lopez]

You want some strategy consultancy, geysir? I'm happy to send you my day rates by PM. I'll even give you a ten per cent discount due to your "patronage" of foot.ie. As for the other question, I've given my views clearly enough. I invite you to draw your own conclusions from here on.

PP, speaking from my own experience, a cv counts for nothing. Perhaps it's different where you work , but having applied for management positions on the Underground for the last 5 years I've been knocked back every time for people who have less experience, qualifications, and proven ability (as I've had a successful trial secondment) to do the job. True, when it comes to imcompetency, LUL and the FAI are markedly similar in this field, but I digress.

Also I've witnessed 'nepotism' and, to use the Spanish term, the 'Padrino' syndrome, just to help you through the process of course. And then there is the other bogey of HR: 'positive' discrimination. Officially it doesn't go on, but then neither does nepotism. Still, at least with LUL, it's good to see that they are still letting loose morons that aren't one legged black, Irish, Jewish lesbians.

I'm always told it's 'how you perform on the day'; making sure you hit those 'key' points that they are looking for in the interview. Perhaps that's what they liked about 'Stan' - I couldn't see Snowflake 'performing' in an interview looking at him struggling to remember Delaney's first name at the press conference last night. Like it or not, the FAI's approach to recruitment is not as pioneering - or unusual - as you all might think. It's an improvement on picking someone over a bloke who through a bun at you on the team coach a decade previously.

[geysir]

it's an improvement on picking someone over a bloke who through a bun at you on the team coach a decade previously.

Paddy Mulligan claimed innocence about that dire deed. Fai 'criteria' has its plusses though, couldn't have imagined that Paddy was up to the job.