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

ozzy jr wrote: »

They really are.

The way they go on about their "singing section", you'd swear it was like a Boca v River Plate game, yet you barely hear a peep out of them all game

season tickets are sold from the FAI with a singing section

People from the inner circle coming out of the woodwork now to criticise Delaney remind me of Republicans doing similar when it became clear Trump wasn't going to win re-election.

Not a peep out of any of them when he was in power. All just a face-saving campaign.

NIMAN wrote: »

Man Is an absolute idiot.
No doubt he would still stand by his comments too.

How that man can get so much support in this country speaks volumes.

He is an idiot but more people than would care to admit subscribe to his "I'm alright Jack and f**k the bigger picture" mindset than you would think. If you doubt me, take a look on this forum at all the people throwing their toys out of the pram about not being able to play golf or go to the gym during lockdown while cases of the virus were spiking.

Corholio wrote: »

Also having been at one of the Festival of Football events in a work context, they were every bit as ego massaging as the short clips suggest. A small story about it, because the entrance to the football ground at which it took place wasn't wide enough, Delaney was extremely annoyed that the bus couldn't be driven in to the awaiting people that had come and instead they all had to walk the long entranceway in with much less chariot like effect :P

The only thing that surprises me about that story is that Delaney was arriving in a bus and not in a stretch limo

It might have been mentioned in the thread before but it wasnt in the book about the Dave Langan testimonial dinner.

Some of the lads on YBIG were trying to get a Testimonial Dinner by FAI for Dave Langan, a former international. Langan had his career ended with injury and was struggling to work a normal job because of that injury. He was in a fairly bad way becsuse if it. They eventually got the FAI on board, charged a few quid for the tables and the like of Niall Quinn, Ray Houghton etc turned up. Delaney put on a free bar. Everyone drank well into the night, had a good time and raised lots of money for Langan.

When Langan asked the FAI for the money they told him they will pay him in instalments. They had to fight the FAI to get the money and when they did get some of the money, the FAI charged him for the "Free Bar" and took it out of his testimonial money. The people that attended were disgusted. They had no problem paying for their own drinks if they had have known.

Healy-Rae

Kerry mafia

It's not always the Dubs with their fingers in the jar.

Some very soft yellows being handed out in here?! Var needed!!!

Have the two docs taped and looking forward to watching them.

Zebra3 wrote: »

Gets his support the same way Delaney did.

Birds of a feather.....

Do you live in a cave?

maybe its not delaney related but only being guaranteed 5% of away seats is really very little, I wasn't impressed with Regan saying they didn't allow more to dampen irish support.


Delaney over egged it all though

Zebra3 wrote: »

He wasn't trying to impress you, he wanted more of his own fans at their home match.

schoolboy stuff

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Eh, he only has support in Kerry. Don't be tarring us with that brush.

There's plenty of other embarrassing politicians that get elected elsewhere as well.

I reckon if he stood for election in his native Waterford he’d probably get in. Definitely would have if he got out before the shít hit the fan.

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

YBIG lads are odd bunch.

I'm pretty sure plenty of them took their tickets and sang Ole with Delaney

The sad truth is a lot of fans sold their soul for a warm can of carlsberg in Poland. People use to use stuff like that to prove Delaney was "one of us"

TheCitizen wrote: »

I reckon if he stood for election in his native Waterford he’d probably get in. Definitely would have if he got out before the shít hit the fan.

Politics would have been a massive paycut for him.

Umaro wrote: »

I have zero issue with what the Scots did and it was a bit pathetic the way certain Irish people reacted. We're not mates, this is qualification at stake so why would anyone expect they open the floodgates and lose their partisan support.

Delaney had likely promised around 10k tickets to various clubs and grifters, then was caught out badly when he couldn't get them. Tried to bully the Scottish FA like he'd been doing to people in Ireland but it didn't work out for him.

His actions when the Scots came to Dublin showed how petty and childish he was. Kerr was bang on when he said Delaney is like Trump.

That whole thing is probably the most cringiest thing about the whole Delaney Era.

You'll never be stuck for brown nosers in Ireland so the "grassroots" and fans he bought off were no surprise, but that episode involving a foreign association... :rolleyes:

Brock Turnpike wrote: »

"Oooh John Delaney. He used to be a wanker but he's alright now."

Never forget that song was being sung at the Euros by groups of fans.

That's nothing new and as bad as it is, pales into insignificance compared to the board giving him free reign.

I almost felt sorry for that auld lad that he threw under the bus at that hearing with the politicians (PAC meeting?), but people like him were part of the problem and could have had him out of the FAI years earlier over his corporate tickets failure or behaviour at Euro2012.