LOI Central

It's the final show of the season and two of LOI Weekly's most consistent performers, Shane Supple and Ger O'Brien, joined the lads in studios to reflect on the year that was and outline their hopes for the year ahead. Are Dundalk streets ahead of the pack? Will the FAI repeat the same fixture mistakes? Why can't everybody just get along? Ger talks changes at St Patrick's Athletic and the challenges facing younger players who have reached a crossroads. Shane outlines his frustration at another exodus from Dalymount Park after a season that hinted at so much promise. We also discuss the early transfer business with a new addition to Johnny's wardrobe setting him up nicely for the winter.

Ger Lyttle, whose time at Sligo Rovers came to an end recently, calls to the studio to discuss his time in the League of Ireland and his future plans – including a job in the league that appeals to him. He also discusses the FAI Cup final with Dan and Johnny as the three guys agree on who will win the 2018 decider. Dane Massey speaks about the baby boom at Oriel Park and the reason to be excited about another game with Cork, Dan implores football fans in the southwest to get out and watch Paddy McCourt for the last time.

It’s awards season on LOI Weekly with Stephen McGuinness from the PFAI in to reveal the candidates for player of the year, young player of the year and the team of the year - as voted by the players themselves. Waterford’s Bastian Hery discusses Irish weather and why the League of Ireland climate is not attractive to some outsiders. And Bohs flier Daniel Kelly discusses his speedy rise from amateur football

'O amor está no ar’, which is Portuguese for ‘Johnny ain’t here’. He’s a long gone Johnny and he’s left Dan with the extremely capable if somewhat Aviva weary Aidan Fitzmaurice from The Herald. No goals in two games at Lansdowne but we have Dundalk assistant manager and serial head nodder Vinny Perth to agree again with Stephen Kenny and why shouldn’t he? Dundalk are top of the pile again and probably would’ve given Wales a better game. Bray’s John Sullivan juggles working in a Ben Dunne gym with a playing career, and Bohs marketing director Daniel Lambert on the plans for Dalyer 2. All this and no 4 minute hangover spiel from a lovesick racing hack. They’ll be all over twitter looking for it now, wait 'n see….

From the bowels of eir Towers comes episode thirty five-five-ive. Shane Keegan, once of Galway United but now a scribe of the gin swilling, trenchcoat wearing fourth estate, lists all the players he tried to sign and mostly failed to. Kevin Doherty from Drogheda takes the M1 south to the Dublin 8 postcode and 'delivers' his verdict on an All Ireland league as well as life as a postman. Our anchormen Dan and Johnny report on Gypsies in Cork, Theresa May and Boris Johnson, Dundalk Success and Waterford taking their place in Europe. No, it's not the Six One News, it's journalism, but not as you know it...

The gloves are off today when Shamrock Rovers defender and Andros Townsend stand-in Roberto Lopes talks tackles, derbies, past misdemeanours and Cape Verde. The gloves go back on when Johnny gets sent to Coventry and talks about the International setup with all round Portsmouth nice guy Ronan Curtis. We keep it brief this week, and with just over an hour played we finally put to bed the latest FIFA bribery scandal that was really all our own doing. Happy Birthday Sligo and it was never a peno!

Leaves get browner, evenings get shorter and teenage boys start to glaze over, because every autumn we do an outside broadcast and EA Sports launch the annual upgrade of their FIFA game. Wounded gunslinger, Johnny Ward, gets the miranda rights from twitter over last night’s Hobangate on the wireless while Sheriff Dan does verbal high fives with Sean Gannon after Dundalk all but secure this year's title and maybe next year’s too? We nab Ian Bermingham to get his two cents on the departure of manager Liam Buckley, Darragh Leahy on the greatest Bohemian revolution since the 1989 Velvet Revolution in…Bohemia (look it up) and David Cawley on the season in Sligo, which, by the way, was never in Czechoslovakia. We have Rovers' revival, the Dutch Gold Cup, LOI lunatics, RTA premonitions and the big semi final on Sunday! Oh, and go and do a better review than this and you may end up getting your digital arse handed to you by 10 year old Ronaldos. Yes, “It’s in the game”!

Dan’s back from the east and there’s a storm a brewing. Considering a second career as a tennis umpire after his 17th rehabilitation and nearly as many podcast appearances, compulsive score checker Stephen O’Donnell becomes the first player to endorse a marriage preparation type course on the pod whilst screaming for new balls please in Derry. Fresh from his celebratory glass of Pinot Noir, Drogheda native Collie O’Neill is settling into his new south Dublin persona as he steers a triumphant UCD class of 2018 to the First Division title. We have audio from Neal Horgan as Cork self destruct in Dalyer and a post match interview with another of last weekends winner's, Kenny Shiels from Derry. There’s the last days of Romanian Dictators, Keepers taking penos, the Johnny Ward proposed 16 team league and Whats a WhatsApp Wolf Whatsapping in the Week? Try saying that three times with a can of Dutch Gold Dinny….

They say that Journalism is a craft that takes years to learn. It's like golf. You never get it right all the time. It's a game of fewer errors, better facts, and better reporting. Well, that said we have two Johnny Caddys in eir Towers today. Johnny McDonnell picks the clubs and Johnny Ward yells ‘fore’ for 9 handicapper and grade 2 jockey Eoghan Stokes, who sometimes plays for Bohemians as a side gig. We have WhatsApp audio from Derry maestro Aaron McEneff on the week they play in the EA Sports Cup Final. We ask if managers should be allowed tog out in shorts, discover how pester power from a 6 year old can result in a debut for Leeds, and tee up the great LOI Weekly Golfing Challenge. All this and Dan on the phone from Poland to discuss the recent shenanigans in the Irish camp. At least no one was left in Newry this time…..

Following Dublin’s win on Sunday we have more missing persons than a 1970’s milk carton. Paddy Kavanagh is still AWOL and so is our Location Manager. You’ve heard of the Old Ronaldo and the new Ronaldo, well this week we have the Underestimated Ronaldo who sometimes turns up at UCD and calls himself Gary O’Neill. No, not THAT Gary O’Neill! The one from Kerry, where he was the only soccer player in the village. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! Luke Byrne ankled it into the ground floor studio to weigh in on the Declan Rice affair, Johnny quizzes Dinny Corcoran from Bohs on the Irn-Bru cup and when THE big question is answered we get all gastronomical about Dutch bastard cousins and pretentious pale ales before Dan’s day gets ruined when he finds an expired 'Fosters Dollar' in an old sock drawer. Oh and there’s some football in there somewhere too….