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Our 1990s series gets underway with the first three seasons at the RDS. We relive the John McNamara era and the move back to the south side at Ballsbridge, huge crowds, horse injections, FAI Cup final heartbreak, the top six/bottom six and Rob Jones' debut with Justin Mason and Tommy Tormey, recorded at the Four Provinces.
We've got the big Galway review, with the inevitable win and craic, and 'Members Corner with the McConvilles', as Eamonn and his dad Brian stop by the Lair to talk all things Rovers...and resurrect Conor's Corner while they're at it.
Ahead of Rovers' first trip to Galway in five years, there's interviews with Dublin-based Galwegian Julian Canny, and their captain Conor McCormack, a former Hoops midfielder, along with a Galway and German themed TFTES Hotline as 11 people, including SRFC TV commentators Con Murphy and Barry Murphy, call in to answer all our questions in under seven minutes somehow.
We talk the 2-2 draw with Derry on Monday night, Hannah Dunne interviews Rovers women's goalkeeper Amanda Budden and goalkeeping coach Karl Coleman, with their new season kicking off tomorrow, and there's a double author feature - David Proudlove concludes our Milltown series with his highly regarded book "When The Circus Leaves Town", about football clubs leaving their traditional homes, and, as we head to the Showgrounds on Saturday, the other one is Paul Little's "In the Shadow of Benbulben: Dixie Dean at Sligo Rovers", when the star centre-forward came to town at the start of the Second World War.
We talk Tolka Park, last Friday and 37 years ago as it's part 2 of our 1980's special with Jason Maloney and Jim Conroy on KRAM, the boycotts and everything in between for those three years.
We have a story of two wing-backs against Dundalk last week, and, as we look ahead to Tolka Park, dubbed "The Stadium of the Future" in 1987, there's a quick look at the KRAM campaign by Con Murphy and an interview with former Rovers player and manager Dermot Keely, about the four-in-a-row team and the leaving of Rovers' old home at Milltown, which was fraught with controversy. The last 1 hour 50 minutes of the show is Dermot and our reaction.
A bumper show for the new season and we have pure darts at the President's Cup final, Aaron Greene amongst the nine callers into a season predictions and 'love' themed TFTES Hotline, plus an interview with Newry-based documentary producer Ally McKenzie, who made 'Twice In A Lifetime', a short film on Rovers' four-in-a-row.
We've got #DartsGate and President's Cup coverage, and interviews with two former Hoops players. Sam Bone talks Maidstone's FAI Cup upset over Ipswich Town, and with Super Bowl LVII this Sunday, we hear Neil O'Donoghue's remarkable story: From Shamrock Rovers to the NFL.
We have a bit of chat about our theatre show behind the scenes, Pico and Thursday's quiz, before Rovers assistant manager Glenn Cronin drops by for a lengthy interview about his time at the club.
We ring in the new year with a theatre themed TFTES Hotline ahead of Saturday's live show, asking way too many questions of Bill Gleeson, John Coady, Colm Nolan, Denis Donohue, Donal Dunne, Fiachra Ó Brolacháin, Glenn & Hannah Dunne, Ryan McDyer, Karen Connolly and David King.
It's the TFTES Christmas show and last episode of the year as our guests Jason Maloney and Jim Conroy pick their most memorable games from the original four-in-a-row, in the first part of a 1980s special recorded at the Four Provinces.
We're back with some Christmas cheer and three interviews - two more authors in Ben Jackson and John O'Shea, who wrote 'The Africa Cup of Nations: The History of an Underappreciated Tournament' and 'Republic of Ireland Women: A Biography in 9 Lives' respectively, before Rovers fan Nico Crowley tells us about his life after winning the Tallaght Person of the Year award. We also reveal which guest players will be joining us on stage at our live podcast in the Civic Theatre. Get yizzer tickets.
We have a month's worth of news to catch up on, ranging from transfers and awards to the Prof's love life. There's details on our first ever live podcast on stage at the Civic Theatre in Tallaght on January 13th and the much anticipated quiz final between Gary O'Neill and Jack Byrne, hosted by Harry Moore in Malahide. Paul Weafer pops by to talk Focus Ireland's 12 Days of Christmas Voucher Appeal and our author series continues with 'League of Ireland: An illustrated History 1980-1990' by Bartley Ramsay and Peter O'Toole, a fanzine about 80s kits.
Champions. 4-in-a-row. History. We've got recaps from the St Pat's and Cork games and all the celebrations, before our interview with Estonian midfielder Markus Poom on his first season in Tallaght.
Not one, not two but three quizzes this week as an exhibition match between Rovers women's players Lauren Kelly and Scarlett Herron is followed by the Questions From The East Stand semi-finals: Gary O'Neill vs Aaron Greene and Simon Power vs Jack Byrne. We review the 5-0 win over bogey club Drogheda as the Hoops are just one win away from the title at Richmond Park on Friday.
We've got a round up of all the news this past week with Toblerone Truffles and a record breaking Pico Lopes, before Collie O'Neill and Glenn Dunne share their thoughts on a big FAI Cup semi-final for the women's team in Tallaght this Saturday. Plus: Lee Grace vs Jack Byrne and Graham Burke vs Simon Power in the quiz quarter-finals.
'Tiftees two sixty' offers no clarity on next year's budget but it does have a review of a big win over Shelbourne last Friday, more info on Steve Bruce's murder novels, a birra culture in the Sunday Times and the Civic Theatre in Tallaght and two quarter-final quizzes - Gary O'Neill vs Dylan Watts and Aaron Greene vs Markus Poom.
We try to make sense of a scoreless draw at UCD last Friday and there's nine brand new callers into an overseas fans edition of the TFTES Hotline, living all over the world - Scotland (Craig Sives), Germany, Finland, USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Vietnam.
There's a bus that just about made it to Derry last week, a quiz between Johnny Kenny and Dylan Watts, our author series with Irish historian John Dorney and another instalment of In Memoriam: My Dad, including UCD manager Andy Myler as Rovers head to campus on Friday.
The unofficial (?) Shamrock Rovers podcast finally returns to recap a great night against them lot and look ahead to the trip to Derry with the help of a native, Ciarán Roddy. Plus: Harry Moore has his yellow and red cards ready for Jack Byrne vs Rory Gaffney in the quiz.
We've got a recap of the Dundalk win, our first Friday night in Tallaght since June, and two brilliant quizzes: Simon Power vs Gideon Tetteh, and Dan Cleary vs Aaron Greene. We look ahead to the derby, and the women's game away to Cork, whose manager, former Hoops full-back Danny Murphy comes on for a chat about his career and the WNL.
Tales From The East Stand #255 No game to review and yet still a longer show than last week because the Members Corner returns with Giggsy Hand to talk club membership and his good friend Bobby Best, and our author series continues with Louth based journalist Barry Landy and his book 'Emerald Exiles', an analysis of Ireland's mark on world football and the individual stories behind it.
This week is all about photographer and Hoops fanatic Bobby Best who sadly passed away last weekend. There's an interview with Bobby, recorded for the documentary a couple of years ago that's never been aired before, our Tolka Park review and Graham Burke vs Sean Hoare in the quiz.
We talk the Ferencvaros and Cork games in Tallaght which ended the goal famine, and the TFTES Hotline returns for the first time in three months with 10-ish questions put to 10 supporters about Europe, superstitions, favourite podcast episodes, movies and TV.
We've only got a half hour on Budapest and all that. The remaining two hours? Five SRFC Ultras, from the older and newer generation from 2001 to present day come together to discuss The Origins of an Irish Ultra.
We talk Champions League and FAI Cup misery before the returning Kevin McCluskie helps preview the Ferencvaros tie, Lee Grace takes on Liam Burt in the quiz and there's a chat with Jess Hennessy and Justin Mason about Ireland in the World Cup and our Ringsend Rover, Abbie Larkin.
Gary is back from Turkey, along with Karl's Tallaght Time co-author Macdara Ferris in the Lair. We've broken the record for longest podcast ever but it's #TFTES250 so it's allowed. We talk about writing the book, published 10 years ago this week, there's our Worst XI's since 2009 and short, older interviews with Michael O'Neill (from BBC) and Ryan Thompson (Con Murphy for SRFC TV) on their time at Rovers. Pico Lopes takes on Markus Poom in the quiz, we painfully relive the Drogheda and Breidablik games and look ahead to the trip to Iceland, where we have a mountain, or possibly volcano to climb. From 3 hours 9 minutes onwards is our own exclusive chat with Dessie Baker, whose last career game was Rovers' 16th league title win in Bray 2010, before we pick our combined all-time best XI of the Tallaght era.
With Karl on his own again, there's an Icelandic theme to this week's show as he chats to Breidablik fan Hafstein Arnason, and there's a return to the podcast of two special guests, the goalkeeper who played in the 7-0 aggregate win over Fram Reykjavik in 1982, Alan O'Neill, and the man who scored Rovers' winning goal away to Stjarnan in 2017, Gary Shaw. Big Al remembers that week long stay in Iceland, alongside his friends Robbie Gaffney and Jacko McDonagh, and also discusses Gavin Bazunu and The Boot Room and Alan Mannus taking his club record of 120 clean sheets. Shawsy helps review a poor game in Dundalk last Friday, before taking a trip down memory lane to Bradser's first European win six years ago. Plus, #RTEGate, news on next Friday's landmark 250th episode and the last 16 of Questions From The East Stand gets underway with Gary O'Neill vs Sean Kavanagh - hosted by quizmaster Harry Moore.
Dan Fulham steps in as guest co-host in Gar's absence for reaction to the Champions League draw. He talks the Bohs and Derry games, even though he was at Glastonbury for both, DJing with EMF, European travels and causing international incidents.
No international break for TFTES as we're back with John Byrne and Martin Moore in the Four Provinces for part 2 of That 70s Show, covering the emergence of disco, punk rock, Johnny Giles and Eamon Dunphy in the second half of the decade with the help of some more Con Murphy narration from 'Who Stole Our Game'. The lads ditch the flares and dodgy moustaches as they go from teenagers to young adults and witness Rovers' rock bottom of 63 paying customers at a home game in Milltown to three Cup final wins in the space of a year.
