Tales From The East Stand

Our first episode of 2022 is dedicated to two men - Pajo and Pico. We celebrate Pat Flynn's birthday with some of his best stories and another edition of the TFTES Hotline, and talk all about Roberto Lopes playing for Cape Verde in the African Cup of Nations.

It's New Year's Eve and time for our long awaited end of season recap, from the sold out Drogheda game in Tallaght, the trophy presentation, Jack's Back and Joey's farewell, to the Player of the Year Awards at the Four Provinces and Bohs losing the FAI Cup final in the same glorious weekend.

It's the official TFTES Christmas stop-gap episode~! Your hosts, back after a five-week hiatus, outrageously ask you to wait one more week to hear us cover all the good stuff, when Gar is out of quarantine. The best laid plans...etc. In the meantime, be distracted by some chat about fixture lists and contract signings, via a phone call from a Lucan lavatory, another Player of the Year interview wi...

We (briefly) touch on Dalymount Park and look ahead to the trophy presentation and party on Friday. On the 15th anniversary of the 2006 First Division title, there's a lengthy interview with former Rovers player and manager Pat Scully.

We talk the fireworks in Waterford and look ahead to the Dalymount Derby with no away fans. There's interviews with Barry Cotter and 2000/01 Player of the Year Tony Grant, who became a hate figure with Rovers supporters when he left for fierce rivals Bohs in 2004.

Champions again~! It was a night nobody will ever forget in Tallaght as Rovers sealed a 19th league title. We relive the celebrations and get an exclusive interview with Aidomo Emakhu after scoring his first league goal on Friday.

We talk the Longford trip last Saturday night (from 37 mins, everything except the game itself) and there's a book theme throughout the show, with a new edition of the TFTES Hotline (at 18 mins and again at 1 hour 1 min) and an interview with 'Ringsend To Tallaght' authors Macdara Ferris and Eoghan Rice (from 1 hour 39 mins). Finally, a chat about hopefully clinching a 19th league title on Friday...

Dude, Where's My Podcast? It's Prof's last day in isolation so it's the dreaded Zoom again and an extra long show to make up for last week, with Dundalk, Sligo and Bohs reviews.

We talk the Derry win, vaccines, away allocations and all sorts of topics plus there's interviews with Eamon Sharkey about Rovers' partnership with GOAL and former Hoops and Dundalk goalkeeper Alan O'Neill (1996 Player of the Year) as the two sides meet at Oriel Park on Friday.

There's another late, late show in Inchicore to talk about, an interview with ex-Hoops defender Dan Lafferty ahead of Derry's visit to Tallaght and In Memoriam: Jimmy Keane, AKA Big J, the former Rovers director who lead the KRAM campaign along with the late Brian Murphy.

We talk about a great trip and a big win at Sligo last Saturday. There's an interview with former defender Dan Murray, who captained Rovers to two league titles in 2010 and 2011.

What a difference a win makes as we discuss Waterford and look ahead to our trip to Sligo on Saturday. 9 Rovers fans call into the TFTES Hotline with topics ranging from tattoos, the 2011 Group Stages to Marc Bircham impressions.

Gary and Karl discuss a new four in a row...of defeats...after our first away day in 18 months at Ballybofey. There's also an interview with 2004 Player of the Year Trevor Molloy. The fundraiser for Trevor's Sheriff Under-18s player Cian is here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-cian?qid=502f6f889898d91e1a3f038336528d91.

The Hoops going out of Europe and the Cup in the space of a few days leaves us deflated but Big Gav's penalty save against Ronaldo, a Gentleman becoming 'LOICurious' and 'Winston Meets Pat Byrne' (Player of the Year series, 1984/85) soon puts a smile back on our face.

10 years to the day since Rovers became the first Irish club to reach a European group stage, we talk the 4-2 play-off round first leg defeat in Tallinn (from 37 mins) and look ahead to a massive game in Tallaght tomorrow (2 hours 14 mins). You'll hear from eight people who were in Belgrade a decade ago (6 mins) and eight Hoopers who knew Mícheál Ó Brolacháin AKA Rennie, in another edition of TFTE...

Together again in Crumlin, we talk our wins in Albania and Drogheda this past week and look ahead to Tallinn on Thursday, with 2011 memories from Macdara Ferris and Alan Mannus and a look at the current Flora side with the help of Nath Broughton from the Estonian Football Podcast.

There's more of the Late Late Show and the TFTES Hotline as we talk Aidomo Emakhu's injury-time winner over Teuta in Europe (from 11 mins), take our first five callers (52 mins), review Sunday's last gasp win over Longford (1 hour 15 mins) before another five Rovers fans - one being Mick Byrne - call in to answer our questions (1 hour 45 mins).

Former Hoops player Mick Kearin shares his memories of the six-in-a-row team, who came within minutes of beating Bayern Munich in the 1966 Cup Winners' Cup. We talk all about a great 3-1 win over St Pat's and look ahead to Thursday's Conference League tie with KF Teuta, with the help of Albanian sports writer Ermal Kuka.

We talk a game of two halves against Galway, look ahead to Friday's top of the table clash with St Pat's and there's In Memoriam: Jack Wilson.

We report on a great 4-2 comeback win in Derry, there's a #LoveRoversHateRacism chat with Pico Lopes, Dan Moynihan and Adam Spollen while Galway keeper Conor Kearns returns to TFTES ahead of Friday's FAI Cup first round tie.

We battle the stifling heat in D12 to try and sum up our heartbreaking Champions League exit on Tuesday night. Plus: An interview with SRFC TV commentary team Con Murphy and Graham Gartland.

We talk a brilliant performance against Dundalk and there's a special European edition of the TFTES Hotline after more Alan Mannus heroics in Bratislava.

We review the Drogheda draw, Winston Meets Terry Palmer (Player of the Year series, 1999/00), we talk Richie Towell and Friday's Dundalk game and look ahead to next week's Champions League tie with Bratislava based Thanos Michael (@slovak_football).

We have Waterford and Bohs away reviews with two very different streams and In Memoriam: Paddy Delahunty, a much-loved Hoop who passed away in 2014.

We talk about football coming home and the Champions League draw. There's another edition of the TFTES Hotline and an interview with 2003 Player of the Year Glen Fitzpatrick.