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John Delaney

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  • #32
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    The Rape of Lucretia wrote: »
    John Delaney could run anything. John Delaney could run UEFA easily. He could run FIFA as far as I’m concerned.

    1/10


  • #33
    Annd9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 262 ✭✭Annd9


    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    Fans have little to do with the game, fans need to get off their holes become members and get involved in clubs if they want to see change. Clubs are dying because of the lack of volunteers.

    Going to the Aviva and chanting a few olés is not getting involved

    I'm guessing you missed the part were I stated "Loi" as in League Of Ireland fans . Most clubs are run by volunteers some even fan owned and they have been protesting against not just Delaney but the whole FAI for years . Unfortunately nobody listened.

    I would agree with your last point , most people who attend national team games lapped it up for years , free cans , free trains , might even get to catch a tie .... Only when they got screwed themselves with away tickets did you hear any dissent among the support .


  • #34
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,605 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    TomasMacR wrote: »
    Also known as a misappropriation of funds


    Could have been spent dining clients. Also public funds account for four percent of their income.


  • #35
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    Annd9 wrote: »
    I'm guessing you missed the part were I stated "Loi" as in League Of Ireland fans . Most clubs are run by volunteers some even fan owned and they have been protesting against not just Delaney but the whole FAI for years . Unfortunately nobody listened.

    I would agree with your last point , most people who attend national team games lapped it up for years , free cans , free trains , might even get to catch a tie .... Only when they got screwed themselves with away tickets did you hear any dissent among the support .

    If the clubs were so upset with the FAI they could always have left and set up their own football association. They didn't though.

    Apart from a few vocal objectors, there was no problem with how the FAI was being run from the clubs perspective. The members and the clubs are responsible for allowing the organisation to get into the state it's in.

    But that is their business, not the states.


  • #36
    Arghus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,401 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    Thank heavens for the soccer forum needing people to request access. Otherwise, it wouldn't be much better than here.

    Delaney is a clown and he's surrounded by clowns and I strongly suspect there are many skeletons in cupboards that have to yet to emerge.


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  • #37
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭feargale


    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    I'm a citizen, therefore I have a stake in the running of and future of the country. I'm not involved in Irish soccer and the vast majority of people whinging (for years it has to be said) about Delaney haven't gotten up of their arses to get involved in running football either

    If these people really cared about football then perhaps they should join a club and get involved, indeed of cribbing and throwing tennis balls

    They've gotten up off their arses to take a stand on something that is bigger than sport, transparency, accountability and ethics.
    MrMusician18 wrote: »
    lThere is no suggestion that any of the public money they receive has been misspent. The public money is used for specific programmes only
    The vast majority of FAI revenue comes from private sources. Why should anyone outside of the organisation feel they have the right to tell them how to conduct themselves? It's their business.

    You will be able to tell us that when the taxpayer's money has dried up, which hopefully happened yesterday. My oh my, what a tendentious argument: "we are spending the taxpayer's money honestly and the taxpayer can buzz off and mind his own business about all the other money we spend." And I suppose the women footballers who were treated so shabbily can buzz off too.
    What is needed is a Swim Ireland solution, a whole new organisation.

    P.S. Isn't it time to restart that old chestnut of a thread that we haven't seen for ages: "What does the GAA do with all its money?" :D. :D. :D


  • #38
    dd973
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 625 ✭✭✭dd973


    Comes across as one of those tossers who was born under every favourable planet in the universe.


  • #39
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,094 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Why is anybody surprised by this John Delaney stuff? I have zero interest in soccer but almost three years ago in the Pat Hickey thread here I was able to say "Anyway, the surprising thing about the Pat Hickey affair is that John Delaney has not been toppled yet. 12 years at the very top of the FAI and all those commercial deals..."

    It's a human nature thing. Leaving aside the well established and longstanding poor performance of the FAI under Delaney, leaving somebody with so much power in any commercial organisation for so long is invariably a really bad thing. Most of us instinctively know this. Plenty of collaboration from the FAI's funders in keeping this guy's fiefdom going for so long.


  • #40
    corminators
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 91 ✭✭corminators


    There's another 1000 people like this at the top of Irish society.
    Audits never find anything, strangely.


  • #41
    Edgware
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    corminators wrote: »
    There's another 1000 people like this at the top of Irish society.
    Audits never find anything, strangely.

    If it want that 1000 it would be another 1000. Its the nature of these things. Right wing, left wing, amateur professional. The gravy train is always too tempting


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  • #42
    Phil.x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Phil.x


    He's one ugly mother!! Surprised he didnt get a facelift and neck tuck with all his money.


  • #43
    Phil.x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Phil.x


    He's one ugly mother!! Surprised he didnt get a facelift and neck tuck with all his money.


  • #44
    Mrcaramelchoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,789 ✭✭✭Mrcaramelchoc


    Phil.x wrote: »
    He's one ugly mother!! Surprised he didnt get a facelift and neck tuck with all his money.

    Post your pic And we will compare them.
    Wtf have his looks got to do with anything.


  • #45
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,311 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    I haven't been paying much attention to the whole Delaney saga as it's dragged on like brexit and was boring the arse off me but most of the criticism seems to centre on his salary. So what? When I see and hear knobs like Dunphy and Tony O'Donoghue being critical of him I assume he must be doing something right. They are about to force the one individual in this country who has clout and influence in world soccer out of the game, how clever is that?


  • #46
    storker
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,779 ✭✭✭storker


    The Irish women's team having to share tracksuits because the FAI wouldn't buy them their own. Meanwhile JD spends racks up eye-watering hotel bills.

    The amount the FAI is paying to cover JD's rent plus his credit card spending, are greater than total LOI prize money.

    The FAI becomes so strapped for cash that they need to go to JD for a loan.

    You don't need to be involved with football to see that this stinks to high heaven and is yet another example of low standards in high places.


  • #47
    storker
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    corminators wrote: »
    There's another 1000 people like this at the top of Irish society.
    Audits never find anything, strangely.

    "Never commission an inquiry unless you know in advance what its findings are going to be."
    - Sir Humphrey Appleby

    I can't help but suspect that this is what's behind JD's stepping-aside...he anticipates being "vindicated" and returning to business as usual.

    "Trebles all round!", as Private Eye would say.


  • #48
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,980 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    This was not how this was meant to play out. Delaney should be president of the Olympic Council by now thanks to his friend Pat Hickey. Damn meddling Brazilians!


  • #49
    Hurrache
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    The laughable thing is that he's not actually gone. He's trying to pull another stroke by saying that he'll just step aside until the investigation is complete.

    Will be be payed during this period? What does the investigation have to conclude for him to leave the FAI altogether etc.


  • #50
    MrMusician18
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭MrMusician18


    feargale wrote: »
    They've gotten up off their arses to take a stand on something that is bigger than sport, transparency, accountability and ethics.



    You will be able to tell us that when the taxpayer's money has dried up, which hopefully happened yesterday. My oh my, what a tendentious argument: "we are spending the taxpayer's money honestly and the taxpayer can buzz off and mind his own business about all the other money we spend." And I suppose the women footballers who were treated so shabbily can buzz off too.
    What is needed is a Swim Ireland solution, a whole new organisation.

    P.S. Isn't it time to restart that old chestnut of a thread that we haven't seen for ages: "What does the GAA do with all its money?" :D. :D. :D

    How many have actually gotten off their arses and done anything apart from whinging? How many fans are actually members of the clubs they support? How many take jobs volunteering and doing the hard work? Or are they there whinging and moaning at others saying "you must do better, but I'm not actually going to help".

    Yeah, as an outsider, it looks like the FAI is badly run and indeed it was awful that the women had to change tracksuits in the toilets because they wanted them back. Therese are not new revelations however, and the FAI members, for the most part, have been happy to let this poor management continue. And as a private organisation, they are well within their rights to run it in whatever way they see fit.

    The public only have oversight of the public money that the state invests in the FAI for specific programmes, and there is no evidence that this money has been misspent. The reason Sport Ireland need to know material changes in the FAIs financial position is so that the money it invests doesn't vanish in the event of an insolvency. While the public might care about how soccer is governed, the state has a very limited interest in it. If the FAI refuses to participate in state programmes in future it won't ever have to answer to oireachtas committees only to it's members. The fact that the FAI organise teams to play in green for Ireland doesn't mean they have to be more accountable than any other private organisation.

    And up to now, the board has had the support of it's members.

    So maybe the former CEO or board is not the problem, but the attitudes of the people that matter (and the majority up to now), the members of the FAI that have resisted change


  • #51
    DarTipp
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    even with john the new board will have a lot of improvements to make and it won't be along I'd before they will be wanted out by some fans !


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  • #52
    ethical
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 746 ✭✭✭ethical


    So the great Irish public are copping on at last,or at least I hope so.Someone had to be first and so its John Delaney!........and the two old boys (the 79 yr olds who are stepping down ,away or wherever they are stepping!),Do not say I'm ageist as I cant afford to throw stones being of a certain vintage myself!)
    When we have finished with Mr.Delaney perhaps we can then look at others in similar positions.White collar crime is rife in Ireland and yet the poor foreigner or ethnic minority can be put away for blatantly taking something that they havent permission to do!
    There is a group of "Untouchables" in Ireland,Business is full of them,Education is full of them (again there are a few here who have "retired " but are now receiving more than when they were on the payroll!).
    Wouldnt it be great if all this sh1t was sorted and we actually had more funds to go around so that our ladies team do not have to hand back their tracksuits after a match,so that we could have a level playing field and not be bullied by other sports who have loads of money,so that fair justice could be a factor in all walks of life and so that our children can get their much needed appointment with a specialist etc.................Go after the Fcukers,let Delaney be the first then follow the others in the big sporting organisations,the biscuit tin brigade and do a thorough investigation into the number of ETB staff who have "retired" but are still creaming it off. I reckon if you actually started with education you could clean up quite a bit of the sh1t that goes on and I'm not talking about chasing the poor teacher that has a 4 hour teaching job! The bast*rds that sit on the Boards need sorting!
    Whatever happened to "giving back a little " many superb sportspeople do it.Look at the wonderful Séamus Coleman,a role model supreme,unlike some of the old fcukin leeches that are bleeding their associations dry.They are the "UNTOUCHABLES",the dirty rotten shamless morons.


  • #53
    Cienciano
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,208 ✭✭✭✭Cienciano


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    I haven't been paying much attention to the whole Delaney saga as it's dragged on like brexit and was boring the arse off me but most of the
    criticism seems to centre on his salary. So what? When I see and hear knobs like
    Dunphy and Tony O'Donoghue being critical of him I assume he must be doing
    something right. They are about to force the one individual in this country who
    has clout and influence in world soccer out of the game, how clever is that         But I'll proceed with my ill informed opinion anyway and get numerous basic facts wrong about the entire story.

    FYP


  • #54
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    He's just trying to hang on how he can still be Billy Big Bollocks at Euro2020. No doubt this "investigation" will go on for about a year and 3ish months.


  • #55
    Ray Bloody Purchase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    How is his divorce coming along?


  • #56
    realdanbreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,311 ✭✭✭realdanbreen


    Ray Bloody Purchase wrote: »
    How is his divorce coming along?


    Classy post!


  • #57
    orourkeda1977
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,628 ✭✭✭orourkeda1977


    storker wrote: »
    The Irish women's team having to share tracksuits because the FAI wouldn't buy them their own. Meanwhile JD spends racks up eye-watering hotel bills.

    The amount the FAI is paying to cover JD's rent plus his credit card spending, are greater than total LOI prize money.

    The FAI becomes so strapped for cash that they need to go to JD for a loan.

    You don't need to be involved with football to see that this stinks to high heaven and is yet another example of low standards in high places.

    I have something of a problem with this whole situation.

    I'm no apologist for John Delaney or the F.A.I. However, when you are being lectured by the Irish Government on standards in corporate governance then you have reached a new low.

    These are the people who took twenty years to start the construction of a children's hospital and have allowed overruns to make it the most expensive hospital in world history.

    They cant manage an effective national broadband network.

    They cant manage an effective national planning system.

    Personally, I believe that high level politicians have a right pair of balls on them telling other people how to run their business affairs.


  • #58
    jiltloop
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    orourkeda1977 wrote: »
    I have something of a problem with this whole situation.

    I'm no apologist for John Delaney or the F.A.I. However, when you are being lectured by the Irish Government on standards in corporate governance then you have reached a new low.

    These are the people who took twenty years to start the construction of a children's hospital and have allowed overruns to make it the most expensive hospital in world history.

    They cant manage an effective national broadband network.

    They cant manage an effective national planning system.

    Personally, I believe that high level politicians have a right pair of balls on them telling other people how to run their business affairs.

    In other words because the government is incompetent we should let standards slip everywhere else?


  • #59
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,038 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    He is really in the sh1t now


  • #60
    kilns
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,525 ✭✭✭kilns


    If he goes he loses all his UEFA and FIFA privledges and he certainly doesnt want to give them up as that is where the real cash lies.

    He is waiting till he gets a elected to one of the big roles there and then he will resign from the FAI


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  • #61
    Ray Bloody Purchase
    Closed Accounts Posts: 689 ✭✭✭Ray Bloody Purchase


    realdanbreen wrote: »
    Classy post!

    Bit of light hearted ribaldry Dan, relax amigo.


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