Last Wednesday's county council decision saw the authority's cabinet vote against progressing to the next stage of a process that would have seen studies take place in search of a suitable location for an underground nuclear dump.
Nottingham must now win away at the Exeter Chiefs next weekend in order to stand any chance of progressing to the semi-final stage of the Championship play-offs, and Delaney recognises that most people will now write his side's hopes off.
And now, the drug, in combination with the chemotherapy Taxol, allows patients with early-stage breast cancer an average of four months without their disease progressing.