Cawley's Call

The lads chat to Stephen about his past 12 months with a brutally honest discussion about his experience fighting cancer in the toughest battle of his life so far. 

Stephen also discusses the current shape of the league and where we might be heading over the next few weeks with big news for next season regarding its starting date! 

This week Shels league winning manager Ian Morris joins the lads to discuss highs lows and highs again as he’s guided his team back to the top flight. 

He also chats about his influences what he’s learned over the past season and his leadership group and how he’s celebrated since last Friday night!  

This week on Cawleys Call Derry City manager Ruaidhri Higgins joins us for a very open, honest and engaging chat on his role at the club, the influence Stephen Kenny had on him and his hopes & dreams for Derry City in the future.

Also on the pod, the lads look back at the weekends action as Shamrock Rovers took another massive step towards the title with a late win over St Pats, Dundalk got the better of Bohemians on Monday and Sligo last Friday and we look at semi final draw in the FAI cup.

This week on Cawleys Call Alan & Stu look back at last weekends action including a solid performance from Shamrock Rovers away to Sligo and a cracker of a game in Dalymount on Monday as Bohemians shared the points with Derry. 

And in Cup action a great win for Waterford over UCD, handy wins for St Pats & Bohs gets them into the hat for the semis and Finn Harps and Dundalk will have to do it again tonight! 

This week on Cawley's Call Alan sits down with Bohs inform striker Georgie Kelly.

Georgie chats about some of his former clubs Derry, UCD, Dundalk & St Pats. Plus of course lots on his current side Bohemians where he’s flying including the fantastic run in Europe and hopefully getting his hands on the FAI Cup.

A great chat this week as Alan & Stu are joined by Shelbourne CEO David O’Connor and Media officer Gavin White. 

The lads chat about the challenges of growing Shels over the past number of years, the season so far in the first division and their hopes going forward with new facilities on the horizon.

Alan and Stu also look back at the weekends action with the FAI cup taking main stage and a classic thrown up at Dalymount that saw Bohemians progress to the 1/4’s with a 2-1 win over their nearest and dearest, Shamrock Rovers.

This week the lads are joined by Ireland's legendary defender Kenny Cunningham. 

Kenny looks back at the return legs of the European games last week with a good win for Shamrock Rovers but defeats for  Dundalk & Bohemians. 

They also review all the weekends action as the race for European football heats up nicely.

And Kenny tells us about how he was looking forward to a long car journey listening to some of his old CD’s ……only to discover the new car had no CD player! Raging he couldn’t hear the Killers Alan gave us a few bars of his favourite tune! 

Roy tells us about his time at Cork City under Damien Richardson, explaining that England isn’t the be-all and end-all for young players and how things didn’t exactly get off to a flyer in Australia! 

The lads also look back at what was an unbelievable (and we know it’s only half time) week for Irish teams in Europe. Another Bohemians superb performance at the Aviva, a viral goal scored by Dundalks Patrick McEleney against Vitesse and what  a moment for 17 -year -old Aidomo Emakhu in Tallaght, grabbing a 91st min winner for Shamrock Rovers! What a week! 

Marc talks about his playing days at Millwall and QPR and also chats about his management career and how he ended up at Waterford. He also gives his views on our league and it’s standard, plus the referees.

Also this week Alan and Stu look back at Shamrock Rovers convincing win over St Pats in Tallaght and they look ahead to the European action taking place this week. 

Alan & Stu are joined by former UCD, Brighton & Kilmarnock midfielder Gary Dicker. 

Gary looks back with fondness on his time with Brighton and gives us a great insight into just how progressive they are as a club. Also tells us how good their underage setup is with him now taking up a role as Under 23 player/coach.

The lads also look back on the weekends action in the Cup with wins for Cork City over Sligo, Dundalk beating Treaty and St Mochta’s getting the better of Crumlin to name but a few. Also a big preview on Bohs massive clash at the Aviva tomorrow night against Dudelange. 

And finally they also discuss how NOT to make a cup draw as Alan forgot to keep the big guns away from each other in the next round of the FAI Cup!