Tales From The East Stand

There's a review of a dramatic derby at drenched Dalymount, Member's Corner with Sean Fields and an interview with Cork City fan Niamh O'Mahony ahead of our first home game of the season on Friday.

We talk about the doomed President's Cup final, Saturday's derby and our new Patreon. There's Member's Corner with Peter Murphy and the first round of a new season of the quiz between Jack Byrne, Aaron Greene and Sean Callan.

We're joined by Irish Daily Mirror journalist Paul O'Hehir and former Hoops midfielder John Toal. Paul gives his team by team prediction for this year's league table and the latest on the Rovers B team situation. He talks remaining impartial for his job and Stephen Bradley's relationship with the media in recent years. From the hour mark we delve into John's career which include Paul's fond memories of watching him play at the RDS. John recalls starting out as a teenager in the last season at Milltown, his penalty technique, his hat-trick in Galway and the 1994 title-winning campaign. Plus some great stories about Terry Eviston and an unusual Irish Cup trophy win with Portadown.

We kick off 2020 with Ringsend pals 'Mooner' David Kiernan and 'Staff' Ciaran Stafford and the return of '12 can' Karl Kearns and 'Beary Bear' Conor Foley, recording at CRU Tattoo in Temple Bar. While Gary and a few of the lads' limbs are being inked with Rovers crests and symbols, we round up the latest news at the club.

It's the TFTES Christmas Party, recorded at the Penny Black Pub! The last two Rovers captains to lift the FAI Cup, Ronan Finn and Pat Byrne, talk all about the Hoops winning the 25th Cup last month. The free Carling and Offbeat donuts provided by our sponsors to a large audience inspired a few fans to share their own stories from the final as well. This was a one off live experiment so unfortunately it was quite noisy throughout the show.

Gary and Karl try to capture the emotion of the FAI Cup final and the days that followed in glorious detail.

In the first of a two-part podcast on Shamrock Rovers' first FAI Cup in 32 years, some of the heroes from the final - Joey O'Brien, Pico Lopes and Gary O'Neill - join us in Johnny Blues Bar to share their thoughts on the Hoops' famous 25th Cup win at the Aviva Stadium. The lads also conduct the draw for Saturday's 5-a-side tournament at Roadstone.

Hoops legends Mick Leech and Paddy Mulligan drop by to talk the six in a row, playing and scoring in FAI Cup finals, the summer of '67 in Boston, making their debuts for Ireland together and what they hope Rovers will do in Sunday's final. Continuing into the 1970s, Paddy also discusses his time at Chelsea and Panathinaikos and coming within a thrown bun of becoming Ireland manager while Mick recalls three replays in three days against Athlone, his winner in the League Cup final and he explains how he's definitely not a winger. The last 40 minutes of the show is our usual reviews and news ahead of the big day.

There's the UCD game and Cup final news, All-Time XI striker nominations from Peter Fitzpatrick and Paul Donohue and the 2019 quiz final between Pico Lopes and Joey O'Brien.

This week there's a brief report on the Finn Harps game and Neil Farrugia's debut, the quiz semi-final between Ethan Boyle and Joey O'Brien and All-Time XI centre-mid nominations by Robbie Gaffney and Justin Mason.

Our guests in an unrecognisable Johnny Blues Bar (from 1 hour 7 mins) are Terry Palmer and Richie Purdy. The lads discuss their eventful careers, European games in Turkey and Poland, soulless Santry and Rico's rants. Terry talks about supporting the club with his Dad, winning Player of the Year, not getting paid, being forced out of the club by Roddy Collins and controversially signing for Bohs. Richie remembers his Dundalk and Derry days, coming back from a bad injury, scoring a brace against Bohs as a makeshift centre-forward but also his costly own goal against them. His two sons Daniel and Richard went on to play for the Hoops. At the start of the show we have our Sligo review and thoughts on the Member's Meeting before Mick McCarthy and Eoghan Rice select wingers for the All-Time XI.

We talk that perfect day in Phibsborough that put Rovers into the FAI Cup final and Ryan Usher's prank call. Tommy Tormey and Jason Maloney pick their centre-backs for our All-Time XI and there's a quiz semi-final between Pico Lopes and Aaron McEneff.

We discuss the St Pat's and Dundalk games going into tomorrow's semi-final derby, John Byrne and Emma Wheatley select their best ever Rovers left-backs and there's an interview with kitman Mal Slattery.

We look back on an epic night in Galway and Jack Byrne's Ireland debut. Our All-Time XI continues with Robert Goggins and Macdara Ferris picking their Rovers right-backs and it's the much anticipated quiz quarter-final match up between Joey O'Brien and Alan Mannus.

Your hosts are in a great mood after Rovers' first derby win in over two years. Hear all the analysis and reaction from Tallaght before we look ahead to Friday's trip to Galway. Jeroen 'Dutch Jerry' Pijpelink and 'The WAC' Mick Kearns kick off our new All-Time XI feature with their goalkeeper nominations and there's the next quiz quarter-final between Wexford natives Greg Bolger and Ethan Boyle.

We talk the home wins over Drogheda and Waterford from the past week, Rovers For The Cup, Daniel Lafferty and Bohs, there's an interview with Mark Keating plus: Pico Lopes v Sean Callan in the QFTES quarter-final.

Aaron McEneff stops by Johnny Blues Bar for a chat about his career so far and his first season at Rovers. There's the aftermath of our 100th episode special, Dan Carr, interviews with Ben Cleary and Ryan McDyer and the bus to Derry before Aaron arrives at 51 minutes. Aaron talks his time at Spurs and Derry, scoring belters, his relationship with the fans and their song for him. We have reviews of the wins at the Brandywell where he converted a penalty and Waterford on Monday night. Aaron discusses Europe and wanting to win a trophy with Rovers, he takes on Sean Boyd in our first quiz quarter-final and even participates in the return of CONOR'S CORNER.

It's our 100th episode spectacular at the Four Provinces pub in Kimmage and/or Crumlin. Pat Flynn makes a welcome return to TFTES and our live audience is comprised of Graham Merrigan, Justin Mason, James Lowe, Mick McCarthy, Glenn Dunne, Emma Wheatley, Ellen Kearns and John Delaney (!) with a bonus coherent Aussie Nate.

Gary is back to review the first leg against Apollon Limassol (from 30 mins) and the trip to Cork (1 hour) before Macdara Ferris joins Karl to talk Cyprus in depth (1 hour 31 mins). Plus lots more of our best ever podcast clips and news on Sunday's 100th episode.

Our guest co-hosts this week are brothers Karl Kearns and Conor Kearns, the UCD goalkeeper. From 20 minutes we review a special night against Brann in Tallaght, the pitch invasion, the greatness of Jack Byrne and the story behind his weasel celebration. From the hour mark there's interviews with some Norwegian fans and Jim Toner, old podcast clips and a discussion on quizzes, pranks and whether or not players should know their club history. From 1 hour 52 mins the lads talk about when they started supporting Rovers, Conor's career so far, recreating his overhead kick on Soccer AM, being starstruck by Alan Mannus and MIXED EMOTIONS. From 2 hours 15 mins we get into the Bohs incident from last week, his desire to play for the Hoops one day and things that grind his gears. From 2 hours 46 mins we look at Sunday's 7-0 win over the Students which Conor was suspended for, the poor crowd and barstool culture. Our preview of Thursday's Europa League tie against Apollon Limassol begins at 3 hours 10 mins with a chat w