He has taken it down, unsurprisingly. Not a shock to see that this chap is, like the rest of the McQuaids, a lying, devious, pig ignorant piece of shit.
Nicolas Roche is due on OTB tonight.
Of course McQuaid should step down. But he well knows he probably hasnât a hope of getting a position half as good anywhere else again. Heâs too much of a coward to hold his hand up and recognise he fucked up, so heâll deny deny deny and cling on til the bitter end.
Andrew McQuaid is Roches manager/agent to best of my knowledge. The thick plottens
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Good interview with Scott Mercier from yesterday in case anyone didnât hear it.
Seems like an absolute gent, by the way.
I think Nicolas Roche found debating whether Pat McQuaid should resign or not a bit, well, awkward.
You see my post above? Am I right yeah?
Heâs his agent.
That Roche lad shouldnât be allowed to speak for himself anymore. What a shambles of an interview. The one conclusion you could draw is that he is a company man to the end. He wouldnât even condemn the UCI taking the 100k from Armstrong.
Roche junior hasnât done anything like enough to distance himself from tainted people. Makes it impossible to even tentatively support him.
Roche senior is sickening to listen to at this stage. Itâs a shame because thereâs an appetite now to forgive dopers who face up to what happened and are forthright about what happened. Heâs the very opposite.
Bjarne Riis should be hounded out of the sport with McQuaid. And there should be sanctions against Spanish cycling until they get their house in order and make some efforts to keep pace with anti-doping moves elsewhere.
Roche is a terrible speaker, he bumbled through Prime Time the other night aswell. Reading his twitter feed heâs only semi literate.
His âdiaryâ obviously has the shit gostwritten out of it after itâs mumbled down a phone line.
In saying that I donât know what people expected him to say. He was up front in criticising McQuaid to an extent. Even regardless of agent relationships, how many footballers have called for the resignation Sepp Blatter? How many Irish internationals have openly called for the resignation of the FAI president?
I donât think that appetite extends to the uninformed general Irish public, though. Heâd be ruined. We donât have many sporting heroes, and he was and still is one.
Ah it was pretty ridiculous in fairness. He was really bad on the Armstrong question the last time he was on as well, reluctant to even make the most basic, mild criticism.
Tonight he refused to say heâs any sympathy for the journalists whoâve been demonised, he said the people that annoyed him the most were the cyclists whoâve admitted that theyâve doped, he refused to criticise the UCI accepting Armstrongâs money, and he refused to acknowledge that the UCI werenât doing enough to catch dopers.
I thought it was an absolute car crash. The strop he threw when McDevitt asked him about McQuaid just topped it off.
He is a terrible speaker as well. For the most part he didnât sound like someone who was fluent in the english language.
[quote=âThrawneen, post: 152075â]Stupid that theyâre sacking him.
In Tylerâs book he mentions that Armstrong didnât like Julich and that Julich didnât give a flying fuck what Armstrong thought about him.
Which makes him, quite probably, very much an alright sort.[/quote]
Yeah lance was seething when Julich finished third. No point sacking him, it will only discourage others from coming clean.
[quote=âSidney, post: 152076â]
He has taken it down, unsurprisingly. Not a shock to see that this chap is, like the rest of the McQuaids, a lying, devious, pig ignorant piece of shit.[/quote]
Spot on.
Is he anything to the Archbishop?
Thereâs also the question about the team he has just joined and the unsavoury history of its most prominent members.
Also, whatever anyone thinks of Delaney, there are no parallels between his governance of soccer in this country and the destruction of cycling under McQuaidâs watch.
The Roches are cycling royalty. It is still Stephenâs meal ticket and they will never rock the boat. Nico is as thick as pigshit. Like 99,9 percent of the peloton he is afraid of shit to condemn doping. And if they donât condemn then they condone. Even a cynic like me is surprised at the carry on of the Spanish this week.
Ah come on mate-how many people do you know with even a passing interest in sport consider him a hero now?
[quote=âRocko, post: 152092â]Also, whatever anyone thinks of Delaney, there are no parallels between his governance of soccer in this country and the destruction of cycling under McQuaidâs watch.
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Dude, JD isnât the FAI President though so you can relax.