Tales From The East Stand

Aside from a scoreless draw in Tolka Park, we have 6 goals from the Rovers women's team and an interview with captain Aine O'Gorman, plus Justin Mason remembers the Leinster Senior Cup final against Bohs on Paddy's Day 30 years ago.

We talk the Burke family, 8-goal thrillers and Con Murphy's dreams with another all-female TFTES Hotline starring Sarah Whelehan, Amy Woods, Laura Glackin, Paula Kearns, Ellen Kearns and Emma Wheatley.

Hear all about our trip to Drogheda on the WAC Express, with more red cards, a history of Shamrock Rovers Ladies FC since 1996 by Hannah Dunne, Robert Goggins and Declan Hughes, plus there's an interview with former Rovers and Cork winger Billy Woods ahead of the big Tallaght double header.

There's Saturday's league opener in Sligo to review, Ronan Finn vs Leon Pohls vs Sean Hoare in the quiz and the "Members Only Corner" as Winston Meets The Gaffneys - the return of 70s player Robbie to the podcast along with his son Jason.

We talk the President's Cup defeat in Derry, there's another quiz game between Pico Lopes, Sean Kavanagh and Gideon Tetteh and February's TFTES Hotline: Season Predictions and Valentines Day edition.

We have a cappuccino and a Leinster Senior Cup report from Belfield, and ahead of the President's Cup in Derry, there's an interview with Rovers wing-back Neil Farrugia, who talks his career so far (and more importantly, Matt Damon movies), while Head of Women's Football Jason Carey chats to TFTES' youngest reporter, Hannah Dunne about our new WNL senior team this season.

We have all yizzer news, the return of 'Questions From The East Stand' with Gary O'Neill, Neil Farrugia and Sean Gannon, and a near hour long interview with Darren Dillon, who was strength and conditioning coach for 5 years under Stephen Bradley.

Last month it was Pico Lopes and Robbie Horgan...this time Boccer Bayly, Dave McAllister and Hooperman are among over a dozen diallers into the TFTES Hotline with topics such as World Cup pundits, cooking, pre-season friendlies, bad refereeing decisions, iconic celebrations and how LOI managers would fare in a fight.

It's our last show of the year with lots of news, World Cup chat, the return of Conor's Corner and an interview with former striker Noel Hunt about his career, including the 2001-2003 spell with Rovers.

We have a round-up of all of the off-season news and a number of surprise guests on our winter edition of the TFTES Hotline.

It's our belated end of season wrap up show with thoughts on the Djurgardens and UCD away games and a brilliant TFTES Player of the Year awards night in Liffey Valley. There's also an interview with Ray Kenny, the fireman and 2006 First Division winner for Rovers.

We've got the Gent and Derry games and all the memorable trophy celebrations afterwards. With our last group game away to Djurgardens on Thursday, there's an interview with Swedish goalkeeper Oscar Jansson about his spell with Rovers in 2012.

We talk the Pat's game and the days that followed that saw the club seal a 20th league title. And back again on TFTES, our other two stars, it's Con Murphy and Graham Gartland Part III. Con and Garts talk all things Rovers from the past week and look ahead to hosting the Player of the Year awards on November 11th.

Prof battles Covid coughing over Zoom to give our take on the Molde and Drogheda games and there's a photography edition of the TFTES Hotline with a starting XI of Rovers photographers sharing their favourite photos over the years. Macdara Ferris, David Hoare, Paul Weafer, Mark McDermott, Andrew O'Connell, Luke Faughnan, Jonathan Daczkowski, George Kelly, Bobby Best, Pat Kehoe and Robert Goggins d...

Better late than never. We've got thoughts on Molde and Shelbourne, with an epic comeback win in Tallaght, and TFTES In Memoriam: Tony Eustace.

We have an outstanding performance in Sligo to discuss and two interviews ahead of today's European game in Molde, with Stig Berlid, the creator of 'Moldepodd', and Gary Hogan, an Irish former goalkeeper who has been playing and coaching in the Norwegian lower leagues for nearly 15 years. Come for the Nordic knowledge, stay for the Joey N'Do remix.

Only one goal to talk about in our Shelbourne and UCD reviews. We interview former Hoops player James Keddy, and Rovers fan Anto Wilkes, who travelled to Mexico for the 1986 World Cup and ended up staying there.

We talk all about our journey to Ghent in Belgium and another defeat in Derry which saw the Hoops go out of the FAI Cup. With it being an international week, former Rovers full-back John Keogh shares the remarkable story of his one and only Ireland cap against West Germany in 1966. The last hour of the show is an interview with Billy Dennehy, who helped Rovers to two league titles and the 2011 Eur...

There's our Yoo Gordon and Finn Harps reviews and a Belgian theme to the show, with journalist Alexandre Braeckman and then former Ireland international striker Dominic Foley, who enjoyed seven years with KAA Gent and Circle Brugge.

We talk a dire derby and preview our group stage opener with Djurgardens with the help of Philip O'Connor in Stockholm and a new edition of the TFTES Hotline, about European travels, regrets, Hoops Scene, volunteering and BEES.

There's the wins over Ferencvaros and Drogheda and the Conference group draw to discuss. Winston Meets Terry Eviston, a hero of our 1994 title winning team to talk his career with Rovers, Bohs and Dundalk.

We have a difficult night in Budapest Thursday and a very enjoyable night in Tallaght Sunday to review, and two special guests in studio to help us do it - Chef Ray Whelan and Ray Whelan Senior. The Rovers cooks give us a peek inside the dressing room and talk their famous curry, fussy eaters, Shannon flights and this summer's other trips to Malta, Bulgaria and North Macedonia, where Ray Senior st...

No goals to talk about this week with our Derry report, an interview with Kevin McCluskie from Budapest ahead of Thursday's tie with Ferencvaros, and Part 2 of the TFTES Hotline Overseas Supporters Edition, from USA, Mexico and Australia: featuring Eamonn McConville, Paddy Flannelly, Yailenne Llanas, Gary Armstrong, Sean Fields and Ste Seery.

A bumper show to celebrate group stage football with an epic 97th minute goal from Gary O'Neill in Tallaght and almost an aggregate tonking after success in Skopje. We also have Part 1 of our TFTES Hotline Overseas Special where you'll hear from Hoopers living in England, Europe and Canada - Johnny Wilson, Alan Honeyman, Niall Keenan, Podge Amond, Gary Warren and Mick Fallon.

There's an FAI Cup TONKING to discuss, Angel Kostoski joins us from Skopje ahead of Thursday's big Europa League game and we interview Tommy Stewart, who famously scored Rovers' winner in Israel in 2010.