Delaney's Duds

Irish football opinion. Some right, some wrong, some poorly researched, some not researched at all, but always twirling twirling...

Kenny Sympathetic

[Delaney's Duds @DelaneysDuds]

The only diplomatic solution to this that I can see is if Trump, Starmer, Merz, Von der Leyen, Netanyahu and all of their lackeys are arrested and put on trial in the Hague for war crimes. That's the 'off ramp'.

Like this

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@FadIreland @JohnnyLoganBohs So not a qualifier then.

If you win a friendly, you can get a higher FIFA ranking so that gives you a chance of being in a higher pot for the draw for the qualifiers.

But a friendly is also not a qualifier

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@Larkinite1913 They lost two games and scraped past Haiti, and they think they should be in the knockout rounds of the World Cup.

What business would they have there?

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Canada and Switzerland are teams that I wouldn't care about if they were playing a game of consequence.

A game to determine if they play South Korea or a team like South Korea is where a 48 team World Cup starts to apart like wet cake

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I quite like this co-commentator on RTE for the Canada Switzerland game. He keeps his mouth shut unless he has something to say.

Most analysts talk like they're being paid by the word.

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Remember when we were 2-0 up against Czechia

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The Konsa penalty shout was not reviewed because VAR thought the offside was from the initial pass forward, not the shot that hit Semenyo.

VAR got confused because they thought the offside moment was before the foul, so the foul did not need to be reviewed.

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Darragh Maloney knows that the winner of the England Ghana match will go through to the round of 32 with a game to spare.

That seems to be all that he knows. He has absolutely no knowledge or information about the match, the players, the group or the next round.

It's remarkable

[Delaney's Duds @DelaneysDuds]

Aw come on lads. You can't talk about the first 45 mins from this France Iraq match indefinitely. You should have a plan for this.

Preview the later matches. Talk about Gianni Infantino, 48 teams, VAR, it being ten years since Brady vs Italy. You can't talk about France anymore

[Delaney's Duds @DelaneysDuds]

That Football Unites the World ad is supposed to have subtitles, but no one gives a shit, because it's such absolute total bollocks.

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@pyjamas_black Should they be even allowed to have a football team? Did they not vote to just be assimilated into England? Why would they want a separate less good football team? Who would they even support if Scotland had to play against England? Make it make sense

[Delaney's Duds @DelaneysDuds]

Niamh Fahey, Lisa Fallon and Karen Duggan are RTE's best soccer pundits.

They got their jobs because their analysis is good, unlike Kenny 'Cringe Dunphy Imitation' Cunningham and James 'as i said before' McClean, who got the job because they used to play football

[Delaney's Duds @DelaneysDuds]

Peter Collins needs to ask James McClean right now who Germany are playing, or he is not doing his job properly.

James has absolutely no idea

[Delaney's Duds @DelaneysDuds]

Fans have more Friends.

I have so many questions. Why is Friends capitalised? Why is there that effect on the narrator's voice? How many people live in 43? Why is he standing beside his front door? Do Fans have more Friends? I know plenty of fans who have very few friends

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John Kenny should be commentating on the highlights of the last game on that premier league highlights show RTE used to have, not a Brazil World Cup match.

He doesn't know what's going on, or any of the names of the players

[Delaney's Duds @DelaneysDuds]

@gcooney93 Cutting away from the stadium and the noisy stadium atmosphere while players are on the pitch, to show an ad for some bollocks is jarring in a way I wasn't expecting.

Game's gone

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@DuHast68691406 Even for twitter this is inane

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One country is guilty of genocide, so the FAI says to punish it, we will give up home advantage.

This makes no sense. It's like we're apologising to Israel for Irish people being against shooting toddlers in the head.

Shame on the FAI

[RTÉ Sport @RTEsport]

The Republic of Ireland's home Nations League fixture with Israel will be moved to a neutral venue, RTÉ Sport understands, pending UEFA approval.

https://t.co/5wW1zKQ9BE

[Delaney's Duds @DelaneysDuds]

Kenny Cunningham on commentary, the stupidest man in Ireland, does not agree with the protest and says there are plenty of other avenues for the protesters to get their point across.

A friendly football match shouldn't be delayed for 2 minutes for a protest against genocide

[Daniel McDonnell @McDonnellDan]

Tennis ball protest at the Aviva interrupted game briefly - Palestine flag produced behind the goal in tandem with it and a Stop The Game banner was produced

Security wading in quickly but maybe just a little taster of what’s to come down the line

[Delaney's Duds @DelaneysDuds]

Mannix Flynn getting 157 first preference votes is extraordinary considering how loud his voice is in Dublin politics.

It's as if the car parks he represents want his voice heard more than the people of Dublin, but the car parks decide who holds the microphone

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Let me tell you something that you probably suspected but didn't know for sure about Ivan Yates:

He listens to reels/tiktoks on the bus out loud on his phone. Those AI dramatic voice ones and all. He loves them