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More game time for Paul O'Hehir this week as he sits in as a number 6 keeping the house for Johnny and a true League of Ireland legend, Robbie Benson. Benson goes wide in this weeks episode and laments the lost final year of his career whilst contradicting Johnny on his finest moments in front of goal. There's Dublin Derby summaries, Derry City woes and a lot more summer beer garden chat that Rascals new Chido six pack could aid and abet. Yes, tune in, suncream up and drop out with Future Ticketing, Collar&Cuff, Planify.ie and Rascals while we take you towards the real summer which everyone knows only starts when the leaving cert does!

Decisions, decisions, decisions! Whether it be where to have a sneaky joint in Alkmaar or whether its a late penalty in Waterford, there's no better man than Johnny Ward to seek advice from. This week we have another welcome co-hosting nixer for Paul O'Hehir as Dan slips off on holidays, but still manages to keep the quiz business in order after talking to both Daryl Horgan and Ciaran Kilduff. The mailbag is chock a block with talks of the same penalty as well as a left field take on New Zealand's chances in the World Cup. It's episode 15 and there's way too many topics to mention here and it's all done in tandem with Rascals Brewery, Collar & Cuff, Planify.ie and Future Ticketing. Oh and the big lad from Alkmaar they couldn't remember? That was Wout Wegorst.

Johnny is away in sunnier climes this week so Dan skips out to the southside of Dublin to catch up with friend of the show Eoin Doyle to get his impressions of the season so far. They talk best signings of the season and the best finishers in the league before unpicking the problems with Shelbourne and Derry City and delving into a mailbag that veers from student dilemmas to Graham Coughlan's impressive communication. All of this and more in association with our friends from Future Ticketing, Collar & Cuff, Planify and Rascals Brewing

Dan is reunited with Johnny this week for a remote rundown of the talking points raised by the Bank Holiday weekend. Have Bohs forgotten how to win? Does complacency explain the Shamrock Rovers crowds? What's happening with Cork City? What does Waterford's appointment of Graham Coughlan say about the road ahead? Our mailbag included a fair few Kian Leavy related observations and Johnny spoke with St Pat's playmaker Chris Forrester about the rough treatment handed out to his team-mate and his own personal quest for 100 club goals. It's a serious conversation that's more relevant than irreverent and it's brought to you by our friends at Collar & Cuff, Planify, Future Ticketing, O'Reilly Sports and Rascals Brewing.

We literally dial it in this week as Johnny combines Punchestown duty with LOI duty and Paul O’Hehir stands in for Dan whilst not getting his annual jolly to the KIldare racetrack. There’s reaction to Joey O’Brien’s reaction to Shelbourne’s capitulation at home to Drogheda, lots of Sligo Rovers debate and a bumper mailbag to boot where Bohs feature highly again with the long walk to the tunnel. So we’re still in the section of the season where Shamrock Rovers don’t fire on all cylinders, but Rascals Brewing, Planify, Collar & Cuff, O’reillys Sportswear and Future Ticketing are firing episode 12 straight into your headphones!

We swap one Dan for another this week as Daniel Lambert ankles it down to Oliver Towers on the back of his 40th birthday celebrations. After a derby defeat for Bohs we look at the weekend game in Tallaght, as well as back on a storied career for the Bohemians CCO, taking us from Dunsink in Finglas to Bohemians shirts at Coachella. You'd never have guessed, but we take a few sidetracks on the way through music festivals in Phibsboro, new versus old stadiums, Joey O'Brien's difficult second album, and sea swimming with ex players. If all that weren't enough we talk to Aidan Keena before we get to the Israeli elephant in the room. This 80-minute Dan & Johnny with a twist, is brought to you by Rascals without the lime, Future Ticketing, Collar & Cuff as well as O'Reilly's Sportswear and Planify.ie! It's episode 11 and it's available now!

After a decade of terrible mainstream media fuelled lies, we land on an existential discussion about the importance of football, the futility of fandom and the repeated death of a title race that doesn’t seem to really matter anymore anyway. Money, money, money, to win or break even? That is the question, and what is the answer? Is it 50 +1? Or is it £50 to rename Finn Park as Fun Park? To discuss this and more we have the unshaven but fully prepared Barry Murphy for a general ‘spiel’ on the state of a goalkeeping nation with an unexpected sidetrack to an Indian Sibin. Come and join us for an episode that has more twists and turns than a James McClean walk through the forest. With thanks, as ever, to Rascals, Future Ticketing, Planify, O’Reillys, and Collar & Cuff for guiding us along the way.

We are ten games into our tenth season and whether you're in Vietnam or in the shower, we hope there's something for you here as we wrap on a dramatic weekend where there was courage and controversy in Dundalk, more Galway joy, a bit of Bohs and Shels angst and unexpected days off in Derry. Dan was at Oriel Park and brings some Ciaran Kilduff and Stephen Kenny into our discussion with some praise for Johnny and split opinions around a tackle. There's more cat content, Meath FC's unveiling, Cillian Murphy, Daniel O'Donnell and a bad weekend for pirates. All of this legal content is brought to you in association with Planify, Future Ticketing, O'Reilly Sports, Collar & Cuff and Rascals Brewing

Some walk by night, some fly by day, nothing can change us, 'cept and sure of the way. We are moonlighting back into the LOI scene as the Prague hangover looms over all strands of Irish football. This is the show you've kinda all been expecting. The one where Agnes Dipesto and Burt Viola call Gary Cole about a murder involving an out of breath Brian Lenihan. The perfect hangover cure at midnight on BBC 2 as the boys discuss the national fervour, how it's relevant for the league's next step and begin the countdown to Saudi 2034. Johnny dials Derry to check in with Carl Winchester ahead of a big week on the road for a club that could do with an Easter rising. There's also lunchtime pints, bridesmaid free weddings and the latest update on the passing of time. All of this philosophising and more is brought to you in association with Collar & Cuff, Rascals Brewing, O'Reilly Sports, Future Ticketing and Planify

It's St Patrick's Night and Dan and Johnny are just two fortysomething dads recording a pod and debating the mechanics of the passing of time. They spend less than a hour of their existence picking over the talking points of the double header with Johnny enthused about his Galway PALS and Dan wondering if Dublin dominance is an inevitable consequence of a season where supposed regional powers are underperforming. We hear a snippet of Derry City's Tiernan Lynch who is struggling to get fans on board but did get a 12th man on the park on Monday. There's birthday shoutouts and Waterford's Blues in a relatively serene mailbag with all this philosophical fun brought to you by our friends at Collar and Cuff, Rascals Brewery, Planify, O'Reilly Sports and Future Ticketing