The disgraced John Delaney

OohAah... wrote: Newryrep wrote: OohAah... wrote: This is gawling alright but to me  the Board should have done the same to him on the day. They cant be that inept can they? I know that almost sounds rhetotical but it leads me to believe they were complicit and up to their necks in it themselves and the convenient line is that they were thrown under the bus. How many cards were in use according to the book? 50?   Don't think it was 50 but I do find it hard to believe that they cant trace who the cards were allocated too and take the appropriate action   Who in reality would need an FAI credit card in their day to day operations  ? I can completely believe it, the perfect mess you cant untangle

Any way to catch up with this in the UK? Can't see it on the RTE Player 

belt wrote: engpad wrote: Any way to catch up with this in the UK? Can't see it on the RTE Player  If you have any interest, buy the book. I dont think these documentaries do the scale of what Delaney got up to justice

Favourite to take over the English FA according to reports

Trap junior wrote: Favourite to take over the English FA according to reports

Donegalman wrote: Augustus Gloop wrote: The hardest thing to stomach is the progress the likes of England and Wales have made in the past decade through vision and professionalism. Great players want to play with other great players, so you can't fault winners like Rice and Grealish for ditching a banana republic organization to be part of a well run operation.  By the time the debts will be paid off, we'll be back to square one, as 50 years from now, the Aviva stadium will become fully owned by the IRFU.  Apart from that Euro semi finals Wales are very similar to us. They relied on Gareth Bale hugely over the last few years and even last month we were the better team against them and they had a lot of championship players in their side aswell. The Sky commentators spent that whole match talking about Kiefer Moore who seemed like some up and coming youngster not a championship player closing in on 30.

International football for 90% of countries is basically "have you got any top class players". Every country has "non-Champions League level players", we had the Keanes, Duffs for our golden generation, wales currently have Bale and Ramsey and are going through their peaks.

engpad wrote: belt wrote: engpad wrote: Any way to catch up with this in the UK? Can't see it on the RTE Player  If you have any interest, buy the book. I dont think these documentaries do the scale of what Delaney got up to justice Read the book, so would be great to see the doc on the back of that.

One thing I’m surprised isn’t covered by the book or the documentary is the dwindling crowds under his reign. He could’ve escaped financial calamity if we had been filling stadia in the early 2010s and onwards. We had a situation in the early 2000s when it was near on impossible to get home tickets; albeit 30 odd thousand. That grew to upwards of 70k in some games in Croke Park when we weren’t even doing well under Stan. 

Edited by Pipkin - 13 Nov 2020 at 11:15am

Pipkin wrote: One thing I’m surprised isn’t covered by the book or the documentary is the dwindling crowds under his reign. He could’ve escaped financial calamity if we had been filling stadia in the early 2010s and onwards. We had a situation in the early 2000s when it was near on impossible to get home tickets; albeit 30 odd thousand. That grew to upwards of 70k in some games in Croke Park when we weren’t even doing well under Stan.  Fast forward 6 years to 2013 when we’re paying a manager ridiculous money to play hoof ball and we get 12k at a friendly against Georgia and 20k (of which many were freebies) at the Faroes match. The writing was on the wall and it was financially unviable to have managers on that money and they couldn’t even fill the stadium the CEO prides his tenure over.  Manager salaries had a huge part to play in the whole fiasco and we got very little value for the money going out

Good point. When ya look at the attendances, there was definitely a much bigger following back then. I hoped at the time the trip to Poland would get a new generation interested in going, but it never really materialised.