The disgraced John Delaney

seanyshuffler wrote: What happened Rea Walshe? Is she gone off thr board?

That was John Delaney in a costume.  Can't believe you fell for that

In fact, beyond the desire to immediately appoint independent directors, they haven't even suggested a direction for the FAI to go in (other than fcuk off away from here). I think its a dangerous limbo, because if the FAI do obtain short term funding from elsewhere (UEFA maybe), they are unlikely to take on too many other Government suggestions.  Rightly or wrongly, as there's only so many times the new board will decide they're quite OK with being humiliated repeatedly, for no particular reason other than tis politically easy for the politicians to do so. Appointing independent directors, even by tomorrow, isn't going to solve much of the immediate financial issue, which presumably is what the FAI are concerned with in the short term. 

On the other hand, if the Govt do think there is a possibility of winding up the FAI or the FAI going bust, this is a massive opportunity to put in place whatever reforms they see fit, complete with terms & conditions attached, so it looks like an opportunity missed too. The Govt itself and Minister will likely change somewhere between Feb & May next year, might not be hard to imagine we get a better Minister than Ross, but tis equally likely we get a worse one. 

The way its looking, the next FAI board meeting won't be a public one, it will be a private one with the IRFU to see how amenable they are to buying half a stadium at a knock down price. Surely the Govt/Sport Ireland should be advising on things like this, where decisions taken today will affect the future of football for decades rather than doing the same shoulder shrugging they have been at for the last 15 years and pretending JD/FAI were doing a great job. 

 

lest ANYONE FORGET who considered JD the great man these people adored in this video.

 

 

Utterly utterly unbelievable stuff, except in Ireland.

 

 

I got as far as 6mins in,I cannot physically stomach the rest atm.

55m in end of 2018 books. 15m UEFA loan. 8m loss in 2018 so can  probably expect similar for 2019. There's your 80m roughly. 

I was under the impression it was for to keep the association going on a day to day basis.  

Of debt????