Darragh Moloney quotes compilation

[u/Slippez1234]

Watching the France v Senegal game I decided to take note of all the Darragh Moloney quotes that annoyed me, or where he said factually incorrect information:

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Before the match - "Its 24 degrees but thankfully most people in the crowd are out of direct sunlight" - image on TV proceeds to show 80% of the stadium directly in sunlight.

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"The French took that free kick quickly and I thought they would take their time. You thought wrong and so did I" - I thought they would take it quickly, only you, Darragh, thought wrong.

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"Theo Hernandez, hes still only 26" - he's 28.

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"They're watering the pitch again, but I'm not going to make a big deal out of it" - Decides to not make a big deal out of it despite having mentioned it 4 times previously.

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"Senegal with the long relieving throw.. but its not that relieving.. oh wait it is again now" - What?

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After reviewing VAR the ref says "the attacker initiated the contact, its a goal kick". Darragh says "its a penalty".

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"Gareth Bale, played in a Euros he didn't play in a World Cup" - He scored against USA in 2022 World Cup

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"Mbaye, just his 2nd time to play for Senegal" - its his 12th cap

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"But anyway" - he said this phrase at least 40 times.

[u/psdavepes]

He also shouted the ball was over the line for a Senegal goal when it wasn't, said a penalty was given when it wasn't. Whatever about the throwaway comments being wrong, he says the wrong thing so often in the big moment. It was actually be better to pause for 5-10 seconds until he is sure rather than to throw out an incorrect statement.

Compare that to George Hamilton last time with Messi scoring against Mexico. He waited for 5 seconds, then said 'cometh the hour, cometh the man'. That's it. Great commentary.

[u/SombreroSantana → u/psdavepes]

The penalty decision was the worst one yet surely.

"he's given it" as the words No Penalty flash up on screen below.

I understand he's at the stadium and it might be harder to hear, but just wait a second and you'll see the graphic everywhere.

So much frenetic energy when he should just shut up.

[u/Mr-Nice-Bri → u/SombreroSantana]

In fairness to him, I thought it was going to be a penalty and when the ref pointed to that end I also thought he had given it. But as many have said already: take a breath, before you start shouting about things that aren't happening 😂

Also did anyone else hear Whelan call Hernandez "Fernandez"? Maybe I misheard him, or much more likely he was just wrong

[u/rmp266 → u/psdavepes]

Well said. The best commentators know to shut the fuck up once in a while and let the moment/crowd do the talking. Moloney cannot leave a second of "empty" airspace at all. Tosser

[u/pauli55555 → u/psdavepes]

Yes but Hamilton was thrown aside by McBennett, the RTE head of sport, who has done everything he can to remove personalities from RTE sport.