John Delaney at the FAI Thread - (Mod Notes in OP)

shanec1928

well done to the fai for all that work they are claiming credit for... Im sure they could solve the housing crises and hospital overcrowding too...:rolleyes:

thecretinhop

Wow they are going to fillabuster the committee with guff to use up time

Gavin "shels"

The report verified by Grant Thornton not available from Conway... Just LOL

Richard Hillman

Meeting suspended for 20 minutes. They need to get copies of Delaneys statement. I can imagine some FAI intern will be strolling down to Reeds of Nassau Street to queue up and get some printing done, along with a quick coffee break and 2 fags.

Dubh Geannain

Gavin shels wrote: »

The report verified by Grant Thornton not available from Conway... Just LOL

You couldn't make it up.

He did say the statement was from Grant Thornton too and then went on to spout his FAI propaganda piece, but the committee to their credit picked that up.

alta stare

That was some load of waffle. Lets hope the questions put to JD and the FAI are relentless but i fear they wont be.

Gavin "shels"

Richard Hillman wrote: »

They need to get copies of Delaneys statement.

"The money was just resting in my account".... repeated 1000 times.

Laois_Man

Gavin shels wrote: »

The report verified by Grant Thornton not available from Conway... Just LOL

Grant Thornton's audit work only began last Tuesday

Dubh Geannain

Also a pertinent riposte from O'Dowd was to their statement that they get so much funding from UEFA and FIFA versus what they get from Sports Ireland was that the state themselves donated 52 million to to organisations and so are therefore funding the FAI via that route also.

I wasn't aware of this personally. Is there a source for this? Or did I pick it up wrong?

Gavin "shels"

Laois_Man wrote: »

Grant Thornton's audit work only began last Tuesday

Don't think he clarified that though... just trying to sweeten things up with these mentions of reports and propaganda on Irish football.

Necro

alta stare wrote: »

That was some load of waffle. Lets hope the questions put to JD and the FAI are relentless but i fear they wont be.

I'm not following live as I'm working but was Conway talking about the funding the FAI provide alongside Sport Ireland?

As in, basically describing what the board are actually tasked with doing?

Jesus Christ. Talk about a bunch of top class spoofers.

Tockman

Tockman

We're not gonna get much today out of him! lol

Dubh Geannain

The Kerins case ?

Someone needs to photoshop a mullet on him for the craic :pac:

emo72

In private session again. These are brilliant delay tactics being used by the FAI.

mugsymugsy

emo72 wrote: »

In private session again. These are brilliant delay tactics being used by the FAI.

He deliberately handed that doc in late so they would then waste time.

How long do they have today to go through this?

He is going to get away with it

Necro

Unbelievable behaviour by a publically funded organisation.

Sebastian Dangerfield

Surely it's very simple. John Delaney stood over all this mess at the time. He now claims he is not willing to discuss a single element of it. For as long as that position remains, just withhold the funding they claim they so dearly need.

He is then presented with three options; i) resign completely, for the good of the game he's apparently so passionate about, ii) answer the questions due to be asked, for the good of the game he's apparently so passionate about, or iii) sit tight in silence til he gets his coveted UEFA gig, to the detriment of the game he's apparently so passionate about. If he chooses option 3, which I expect he would, surely the board have to act if they are proceeding in the good governance model they claim to be.

It's ironic that while the FAI sit and publicly declare they will do better, they actually behave in the very manner that has brought them to this point.

j8wk2feszrnpao

Sebastian Dangerfield wrote: »

It's ironic that while the FAI sit and publicly declare they will do better, they actually behave in the very manner that has brought them to this point.

The ego within the FAI. Delaney's failure to actually take questions on the whole thing, sums them up. Withhold the funding.

SeeMoreBut

How can the committee not say John and all you better make yourself comfortable as we are here until we get our answers instead of these deliberate delay tactics.

Delaney saying he'll turn up and then comes out with this statement. Should be told to ....

Whatever company law he may have broken should be checked and the book thrown at him.

He's turning this into a joke

SeeMoreBut

munstermagic11 wrote: »

The ego within the FAI. Delaney's failure to actually take questions on the whole thing, sums them up. Withhold the funding.

You can be sure the only ones who wont suffer from this is the board who'll pay themselves and whats ever after that will go to senior men's team and then the leftovers to rest

Corholio

The FAI know that if they keep withholding funding, the shortsighted people will blame Sport Ireland and the government with 'but the kids need it,' etc etc. Would rather short term chaos than long term spoofing with these crowd.

thecretinhop

The guff out of this lad breathtaking....

Get up the yard Delaney

shanec1928

this is crazy, they are basically just telling the government to f... off

thecretinhop

shanec1928 wrote: »

this is crazy, they are basically just telling the government to f... off

Yes unreal

Laois_Man

What I find amazing is that the CEO of an organization had no idea they were close to the cliff edge of their overdraft limit until they were literally about to go over the edge!

SeeMoreBut

Does Delaney model himself on Kim Jong or Putin?

thecretinhop

It was managedin the way it was managed

overpronator

Father Ted stuff here

Cyrus

Laois_Man wrote: »

What I find amazing is that the CEO of an organization had no idea they were close to the cliff edge of their overdraft limit until they were literally about to go over the edge!

what do you think a CEO does exactly? it delaney didnt know thats a failing of his CFO more so than him.