The disgraced John Delaney

Think people need to get a new life.

See you around.

This is what I find so frustrating! This meeting being solely to buy him time being bad enough, but the only thing being talked about seems to be tickets! It is like that is the only thing he thinks is wrong. Tickets shouldn't be mentioned until all the real problems are addressed!

Already thinking of Kennys successor down the line, so maybe he's also thinking of when he'll walk from the FAI.

Personally I'd reckon he'll wait till the Euros have been in Dublin. Show what kind of event Dublin can hold, then after that focus on his gig with UEFA and try push for the 2030 world cup with Ireland and the UK. 

It wasn't the whole meeting but was way too much of it, lesson learnt for the next one. 

Just to point out I made a four person whatsapp group to invite people I knew who were anti JD and Darmack was on that. 

The schoolboy section is thriving as always and some schoolboy clubs have better facilities than every LOI

club except Rovers. The majority of the people producing our players are unpaid volunteers !!!

 

The issue is what happens to these players from 16 onwards whether it be in Ireland or the failed Academy system in England. I've been saying it for 20 years that I would like to see our players go to European countries (especially Holland where language would not be a problem). Look at the likes of Jadon Sancho at Dortmund. 

 

 

 

 

Yeah, that's fair enough. Checking out the English underage teams and even the Senior side, there is a lot of talent starting to filter through in the last couple of years. I'm just wondering if the tide has turned a bit. I don't see us being the beneficiaries of it though and to keep this point relevant to this thread, I believe that the LOI underage structure should be the gateway for our kids to professional football. That will require a lot more investment and love from the FAI and we need the introduction of u14's, u16 and u18s LOI leagues to fill in the existing gaps. 

This might just have a bit more to it to the last charade over the €5m bribe. This at least sees politicians coming at it from something they should be answerable to - Government funds.

Now no new questions will be asked and it’ll be the same rhetoric in response from Delaney but at least the governance issues are also to the fore and it may result in some pressure arising. End of the day the 80 year olds on the Board aren’t going to be physically fit to be re-elected too much longer so there, Delaney will whether he likes it or not have to shake up at some stage and knowing him the EGM in January is the likeliest spot for a political stroke to start initiating some reforms that he will be able to point to after he sets off for UEFA - and indeed at this summons to the oireachtais.