Tales From The East Stand

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 (2 hours 50 mins).

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 TFTES In Memoriam (1 hour 33 mins).

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.

We're back from the mid-season break to talk a 96th minute winner in Longford and the emotional return of a thousand supporters in Tallaght this Friday. Gary O'Neill and Leon Pohls reminisce about European nights and go through all our potential opponents in Tuesday's Champions League draw while there's another edition of the Rovers Worst XI, chosen by 11 different fans.