Episode 222 - Las Damas - Mike Bassett

[00:00:00] Welcome to The Other 3 Amigos, Bloss Damas, your weekly unofficial SSE AirTrisby Women's Premier Division podcast with Declan McCormack, Eileen Ring and Jon O'Sullivan. Find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. So sit back put the feet up because it's toe tap time.

[00:00:19] And this week's toe tap las damas. We look back at the last two weeks in Irish women's football. We update you on all the transfer news. We also check in with all the academy games. We review this week's league action and look ahead to next weekend's Cup games.

[00:00:35] The mailbox generates a sligo rovers discussion and Eileen gives the league manager a new nickname. All and this week's toe tap las damas. Mike Bassett. Hello and welcome to this week's toe tap las damas season 4 episode 18 episode 222.

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[00:01:43] by Eileen Ring and John O'Sullivan. Guys, we weren't here last week so it's been two weeks Eileen. Did you get up too much while you were missing? I know it was a glorious break despite you trying Monday evening to rope me in for a

[00:01:57] men's podcast at late notice again but I had a lovely week off from you. What happens in the men's pod stays in the men's pod Eileen. You should know that later. John, did you enjoy your holiday? Sorry about that Declan, sorry. I endeavour to do better.

[00:02:12] It's nice to have a week off. There's still a bit going on but it was nice just to be, you know, not panicking about trying to remember everything on a Sunday evening.

[00:02:21] We have been away, there has been an awful lot happening. I guess the first thing we need to go back to is that Marvis Knight and Parky Queeve, Ireland Tree, France One, but really it was Cork Tree,

[00:02:35] France One. It was just really a big Cork Knight, Denise O'Sullivan getting the opener, a full Parky Queeve. It was a sight to behold really John, wasn't it? Yeah, it was a brilliant night. Yeah, like whatever it was, over 18,000 people inside in the Park

[00:02:54] all cheering on the team. Denise getting the opening all written to stars. Just a fantastic night and even at the end, a bunch of songs that would be very familiar to the Cork public being

[00:03:05] played over the PA and everything. It was just a real celebration of football and it happened in Cork and it was fantastic. Yeah, obviously it was a brilliant game and a brilliant result but

[00:03:15] a brilliant experience as well. And look at the show, the value maybe of having a look outside of Talon, outside of the Aviva for games because it was a massive success. I think that's what I was going to ask you, you know, following on from the night in

[00:03:28] Parky Queeve and everything else, should all games now be played in Cork or should we allow some to occasionally travel to other parts of the country? Like being completely biased obviously,

[00:03:38] I think I never want us to leave Cork. But I do think Dublin will be the main base but there's certainly a lot to be said for moving games around when the infrastructure is in other

[00:03:49] places and you could see it's not cut, there's not going to be issues with crowds and like it has a knock on effect because I know people who went to that game who'd never go to a

[00:03:57] women's game that have said to me like can you let me know when Galway are playing Cork City because my small one wants to go see Julianne Russell and this is how we build our league as

[00:04:06] well. And I think it can be a huge help but it's up to clubs to capitalise to be fair to Galway, I think they're doing an incredible job of capitalising on it already. But like that's

[00:04:15] what you want and it's what John always says and he's spot on in that you make the players superstars and he said if like X amount of kids down there decide when Galway are

[00:04:24] coming to turn his cross they're going to go because they want to see Julianne Russell but they'll inevitably stay because it's Cork City and they'll start idolising Cork City players and it just has a really positive effect so I think like if you look at every other country

[00:04:38] especially in the women's game they move games around no matter how successful the team is they move games around because that's how you build a game and you let people see it and

[00:04:48] that it doesn't have to be a massive ordeal for anybody to get there travel wise, cost wise things like that so I just think it was a brilliant success and I think it was such a success

[00:04:59] I'd be really surprised if we don't see men's friendlies down here as well because I said it was a brilliant it's a brilliant venue, I know people talk about maybe issues getting in

[00:05:07] and out but like it's less than a two kilometre walk from the city do you know what I mean? You have the market on the way down if you're coming from the other side there's pubs

[00:05:16] there's restaurants stuff like that so no hopefully as he said I'd be really surprised if we don't see games back down there. Jan are we going to see the playoffs down there do you think or will those games go back to Dublin?

[00:05:29] I'd expect they'll go back to Dublin to be honest I think you've got the George game like I mentioned move back to Tallah and then the Wales games so the possibility of the Aviva but

[00:05:40] overall I think it's yeah it's much enough to see it I think they'll just go back because obviously there's a cost as well involved in in Parking Queeves that they probably have to

[00:05:48] factor in but I'd be great to see us but yeah I think we unfortunately will be back up in Dublin. Unfortunately is right okay while the seniors delivered in Cork by the Indian under 19 European

[00:06:03] championships were held as well you know we had spoken about it before it started and you know we had said it was a very tall order especially with the group

[00:06:15] that we were in and as it turned out Spain and Holland were born in the group and ended up in the final which I believe Spain won so kicked off with a little little draw against Spain then

[00:06:26] defeats Germany and Holland but I mean absolutely no shame in the results and some of the performances were actually probably much better than we might have expected heading up. Yeah I suppose like to be fair overall I think it was a really good tournament like

[00:06:44] as you said like the final was between two teams in our group and I think that says it all and the fact that obviously we held Spain scoreless like Katie Keane was absolutely incredible

[00:06:54] you'd have to look a lot of players were really good but I think she made the record for most saves in a game and I think at halftime in the Germany game she was up she'd been on the

[00:07:03] receiving end of 40 45 shots or something like that so that's pretty remarkable but like huge credit to the squad and everyone involved there because it said like even compared to the other

[00:07:16] side of the group I know like England and France were in that but the other two teams in that like would have been a lot more I suppose maybe we might have got to see a bit more from Ireland

[00:07:24] as an attacking sense because luckily for us we are supporters of this league so we get to see all these players and we know what they bring as an attacking team and I suppose we didn't get

[00:07:33] to see that but no one said there was they certainly I think did themselves their clubs their families and the league really really proud and their players I think players in that

[00:07:44] squad are players we mentioned week in week out here and some of them are going to go on and have really really big careers like like the last under 19th squad that got to the European

[00:07:53] Championships have obviously all gone on a lot of them are playing at a really really high level and are such a strong basis for our current senior squad so you'd hope to see more of that

[00:08:02] yeah John absolutely no shame in the performances no shame in any of the results and it's a very good reflection on the the league here at the moment isn't that yeah it is I mean

[00:08:17] it is a young league but that means that players that when you go to European Championships under 19th they're they're already playing senior football week in week out I think everyone Bar one of the squads actually plays in the women's Premier Division and I look like

[00:08:35] like come back to the point Spain won the tournament after extra time against Netherlands we were in an absolutely hellish group but both Spain and Netherlands made short work of England and France in their semifinals like it's you know a different draw and you know who knows what

[00:08:53] could have been but look they like I was looking up to see all the games and I thought they were excellent obviously had to be pragmatic in how they set up but look it just tells such a

[00:09:03] positive story about the the league here and the quality of players we have when you look at the infrastructure that the population size the history that women's football has in those countries

[00:09:15] that we were competing against it's um it was a great achievement to be honest and fair play to everybody involved yeah absolutely fantastic at home domestically last Wednesday night we had the two Avenir all island cup semifinals um Galway beat Wexford on an Appellente shoot out

[00:09:33] haven't been tuned in up and Wexford brought that game back to two all so Shamrock Rovers went to Talca Park beat Shelburne 2-1 Eileen the first time all year that Shelburne had conceded two in a game

[00:09:45] but I mean there was a touch of Robin Hoods and daylight robbery about the whole thing really wasn't there yeah I think there was a lot of heads being scratched in Talca Park after how they

[00:09:54] didn't win um the absolutely perforate Shamrock Rovers goal like from now I thought Shamrock Rovers started brilliantly um the opening 25 minutes they thought they were excellent but once Shelburne came into the game like they had chance after chance after chance and not just chance

[00:10:10] but they'd sit her after sit her after sit her and like Amanda was on the end of it or they were getting blocks in or they were just missing like some of the deliveries from Jess Gargan like

[00:10:20] her dashby meet and drink for a striker like they're like absolutely incredible deliveries like a striker's dream and at the other side of it I did think and I think I said in the

[00:10:30] group anytime Shamrock Rovers got the ball you kind of had the impression that they look like scoring like they are dangerous with the players they have they're always going to be a threat and

[00:10:38] they were probably look a little bit lucky I think with their first goal probably was a handball by Leo Larry um but their second goal the winning goal from Joy Ralph was a brilliant brilliant finish but yeah I think from Shelburne's point of view

[00:10:52] like I suppose following on from the Wexford game that Nill Aldraal like where they'd missed an awful lot of easy chances as well like there has to be concerns there but obviously look if you have a centre half they could finish like Pearl Slattery maybe just

[00:11:05] draw her up top going forward and her quest for the Golden Boot because yeah look I suppose from Shamrock Rovers point of view it was a huge win and like they're right in the mix

[00:11:18] obviously now for their first trophy so I think they probably judging by their line up I think they're they obviously I think put that ahead of the league in Witsity at the weekend in

[00:11:28] terms of obviously you have to manage those 19s players game time and stuff and they went with I suppose what is more important to them and the league is so far out of their reach that I

[00:11:38] think that that was the sensible call and it worked out for them yeah John they'll play Galway in the final you know Galway looking for back-to-back victories in this competition as I said tune it up a home to Wixford Wixford pulled the back to two all but

[00:11:54] Galway got it over the line in the penalty shootout yeah and deserved it overall really Wixford were playing some lovely football you know in their own third and managing the press well

[00:12:07] but Galway really had the bulk of the play and deserved to be tuned up when it came look it did to pull it back to two two so late on I mean look it was a crowd said them

[00:12:17] they never stopped going and I suppose look Rihanna Jerica one of them and you know it's good to see her back scoring as well but it was an absolute you know nail bitered in with the

[00:12:28] penalty shootout and look a lot you've got young players on both sides stepping up to take penalties as well so it's tough like but um look Galway I think overall deserved to go through and look

[00:12:38] to be honest should be great final I think it's going to be an absolute dinger possibly and you know I think I said in the group at the time probably a better final being Galway

[00:12:49] Shamrock Rovers than Wixford Shamrock Rovers I think it's probably going to be a better one for the neutral possibly a little bit more exciting no disrespect to Wixford but um yeah look I

[00:12:58] Galway deserved it overall but I think having pulled it back to two two Wixford will be got us the way to lose in the penalty shootout then yeah I mean that final is um Saturday

[00:13:07] the 17th of August so I think it's three weeks time isn't it this so the Galway Galway would you to play Cork City that day so while your Julianne Russell fans will have to wait for a

[00:13:19] another trip to Turner's Cross and Shamrock Rovers were due to play DLR but both those games have been cancelled now finals in Tala it's live on TG Carr and the Saturday night

[00:13:30] we previewed that um the week that it's coming to it but very quickly I do wonder if the league should play Cork City and DLR in Turner's Cross on that Saturday seeing as they're both off they are

[00:13:42] both they're due to play each other in Turner's Cross I think it's the second last game of the season sometime like that maybe the third last but I do wonder if that fixture should be pulled

[00:13:51] forward because you know Turner's Cross suffered a lot in the heavy rain and you don't know in September or October what's going to happen and I do reckon just play games when you can and

[00:14:03] you know remove them from the calendar and get them out of the way but there doesn't seem to been any talk even to it and both games have just been called off yeah I think it just would mostly

[00:14:12] make sense for the reason you've said they're in relation to Turner's Cross like I think City did they only play does they play a game in September there and then they were out

[00:14:19] Turner's Cross for the rest of the season they never got back in there and like there's not like if Turner's Cross starts getting it if we get start getting the rain I was going to say

[00:14:27] start getting the rain if we keep getting the rain we're getting at the moment like that is going to be a case again and obviously I think you want your games in Turner's Cross you want your

[00:14:34] games in the big stadiums so yeah for me it probably makes sense but I'm sure there's a method to all this madness at some point it also means that there's a possibility that like Galway

[00:14:44] have to come down to Cork on a midweek Galway are in a title race as well I think there's they already have a midweek game a treaty maybe so you know all these things kind of add

[00:14:54] up and they affect a title race as well and like City and DLR are two sides that while they're not directly in the title race there are certainly two sides that'll fancy that they can have

[00:15:03] a say in it because there are two sides that are capable of taking points from other other teams as well but um from like a Cork City fans point of view I'd love if it got moved because we were

[00:15:13] we're very stop start at the moment and we're on week we're off a week we're on a week we're off a week I think that's hard especially when again bias is a city fan like we're kind

[00:15:22] of finding a bit of form or in good form and you kind of don't want to be stopping for a week but your look is that it is what it is yeah so look does anybody in the league office listening

[00:15:35] lads please play that city DLR game on the 17th of august it's it's makes perfect sense as far as last time is concerned um finally transfer news Eileen you had said all window that

[00:15:50] Erin McLaughlin would most likely end up in England before the window shot she has done she's gone to Portsmouth you also said Sirsa Nounan would end up back in the UK she's gone to Celtic on a three-year deal um both good moves for the girls you think

[00:16:08] yeah like Sirsa's one stands out in particular that's three-year deal I think is massive like it's really rare to see a new women's game and that just shows what they think of her as well

[00:16:16] and look I I know Sirsa there she's a Celtic fan like family or Celtic fans um so it's it's a massive move they're a massive club like I mean I'm not I never really massively bought into

[00:16:27] the whole Celtic thing personally but like a lot of my friends are big fans so it always kind of keep an eye on like Parkhead obviously is one of these incredible stadiums in Europe and

[00:16:36] it's where their women's team plays some of their games so like what an incredible opportunity and like for her family and friends it's only a flight away as well um I was ordered a small

[00:16:46] one a noon and 20 Celtic hit it it's en route so um and for Erin McLaughlin I probably thought she might have went she might have went up a level but like at the same time I suppose it's a good move

[00:16:58] because she's going to Gwynn she made her debut today and a friendly she came off the bench and like I suppose the big thing and it's something I always say is that like if you are

[00:17:08] making the move that you're going to go play where you go so like she can adjust to life as a professional footballer I suppose with a little bit of pressure off her that would come if

[00:17:17] you were at a championship club and look obviously ports but they're investing in their women's side and it's only one step below championship in terms of the pyramid there so yeah I think a good

[00:17:28] good move for her because I think she'll play there and that's important for her to develop because it's it's another world like it's a complete other world and you're going over it and and you're playing professionally like with the best will in the world to everybody here and

[00:17:41] I think with some incredible talent and within the league but it's another thing to I play at a high level or wanting to actually live and train like an athlete and elite athlete is another world apart

[00:17:54] and I think that's what I suppose separates the very very good players from the excellent players I think yeah I was in Parkhead once I booked a trip to Glasgow for Corks of the

[00:18:07] Rangers and Europe League I think wasn't it on the Tours tonight. Oh my god. Corks said he didn't Corks said he didn't beat Progress Neatercorn in the previous round so I ended up in Parkhead

[00:18:18] on the Wednesday night watching Celtic beat some Paulist crowd in the Champions League qualifier I honestly say once there was enough to go there I'd be perfectly honest with you. Why did you

[00:18:29] have to remind us of that? Ah look for God's sake how could you lose to Progress Neatercorn anyway we won't worry about it we continue with the women's football. John, Michelle Dunan and E for

[00:18:41] Brophy bought left P-Mount sorry bought left DLR to join P-Mount good moves for the two players involved but so destroying for DLR I'd imagine. Yeah it's look two very good players two very good move from their point of view P-Mount obviously playing champ music football especially for

[00:19:03] Michelle Dunan P-Mount needed someone in that position I think just that has that capability to lead the line and get goals for them but yeah for Laura Heffernan and DLR as they were finding form

[00:19:15] and then starting to you know kind of move through the years a little bit it takes a little bit of replanning now and kind of you know how they approach the rest of the season because a lot

[00:19:26] of the game was built around Michelle Dunan as an outball but look it's the reality of the league that you know players are going to move when these opportunities pop up and P-Mount and Champions

[00:19:40] League football you know look it's it would be very tough to turn down and I think look it makes sense for Michelle Dunan as well because I think we did speak about her possibly moving

[00:19:49] out in the season and the thing there was would she play and I think with P-Mount she will and that's that's probably one of the key things in the move yeah just very quickly on DLR and they

[00:20:02] didn't announce it but they took a girl out of Shamak Rovers under 19 squad Shannon Hanlon Cody and she started up front against Shelburne on Saturday and I have to say especially first half

[00:20:18] I thought she was quite impressive you know I know she was young and she was stepping in but you could see there was quality there that would give her a chance in this league it's just a pity

[00:20:29] that DLR didn't announce her and give her some little bit of a G up before she just appeared in the team as Atalca Park on Saturday afternoon. Treaty United were another club who were making

[00:20:43] moves they brought in Mara McLeary from Canada Talia White and Kayla Coyle have both gone home as has Isabella Flakini. They also released Shawna Pearson and Fiana Bradley. Fiana Bradley has since joined

[00:21:02] Waterford and we know that Shawna Pearson has joined Cork City under 19's but I don't know whether that news will be out or not by the time the bad comes out but I presume what will be

[00:21:14] what you're making it goings on as Treaty I mean and I guess especially like Kayla Coyle and Talia White were the starting two centre backs since they came in at the start of the season so

[00:21:28] there are two big losses straight out to get out straight out the door. Yeah big losses and like Talia White was the captain there as well so like she obviously was a big character and

[00:21:36] a big leader in the dressing room and Van Dholder has obviously stepped into that role Look I suppose that's the nature of bringing players from especially from further away like they're a long way from home and like other opportunities might come up or

[00:21:50] that are maybe are closer to home for them but I suppose it's funny in a week a few weeks where obviously we spoke about Treaty and there are times maybe people are questioning stuff players the quality of player they bring in. Like Claire Wintersgansthe Orlando Pride

[00:22:04] like this time last year she was playing in the league here like you can't question the quality of player they're bringing in I mean that's that's an incredible now I know she went and played professionally in between as well like when she went from

[00:22:17] Treaty in the summer window last year but I suppose for Dominic, for Kira and for Treaty like the thing with bringing in players and I know Danielle Steer said to you in the interview

[00:22:26] she's there for long term I think that's something that they have to aim for because it's really hard for a club to progress as well if you have these players they're doing really

[00:22:34] well and then suddenly they're gone after three or four months so I think that's something that I think they probably will look to address because it said it happened last summer as well

[00:22:42] where they lost a couple and so I look I don't know what contract situations are up there but I presume like they're going to maybe start looking at you know that if you're coming in

[00:22:52] you're there for the year because I think it's hard but again like the girls they brought in I thought it very well they brought in a Dutch girl as well and I think she was excellent

[00:23:00] she was really really good probably the best player in the pitch for me apart from Ellen Malloy in the game on Saturday but look as I saw people who listened to this podcast before we were just National League will know we're big fans of Fiana Bradley and

[00:23:16] I think her move to Waterford is brilliant for her personally because it said I think it's important for her that she's playing week in week out she's a really really young player

[00:23:26] with a big future and I think Jess Lawton's probably got the best out of her as a player in the past and she's obviously a manager that Fianna is very comfortable with and I said Jess

[00:23:36] knows how to get the best out of her and I think she goes back in now she plays 19th for the rest of the season and hopefully then we'll see her kind of kick on at senior level next year

[00:23:45] and so just want to wish her the best and said we're big fans of her here always have been and I was always I was raging that time she left City but he said beyond kind of my own personal bias I'd like to see her kick on.

[00:23:57] Finally John Eileen said two weeks ago just keeping a young Becky Kasson Becky Kasson was in Turner's Cross there was something like that she said anyway but Becky lined out for Becky lined out for Cork City yesterday so I'm gonna I'm gonna chalk that one up to Eileen

[00:24:14] again anyway but was there anything any move in particular John that caught your eyes on this window one that really stands out I mean obviously Emily Carr but went to Rovers as well. Yeah I think the one that probably stands out really is Michelle DeMond I think that's

[00:24:30] probably the one where it's probably got the potential to have the biggest impact on both sides and both teams involved in the transfer but look from a personal point of view to see

[00:24:41] Becky back at Cork City looks like obviously she was brilliant for weeks for years came to Cork City captain the side did so well with us so from a personal point of view that's

[00:24:52] my move for the window so far but I think from a put a neutral's hat on and looking at the league I think Michelle DeMond to P-Mount is is a really interesting one but I would agree with you Decius

[00:25:02] I thought um Helen Coley did really really well on her on her debut for DLR at the weekend and definitely want to watch I think with games under her belt and getting used to the side of

[00:25:12] the player she's going to do very well. Yeah look and it's a nice link into the underage stuff so I've seen the Shannon Hannon Coley just came out of the underage setups um we'll take a

[00:25:24] look at the under 17s I guess in the tier one games this weekend it was Shelburne two Bohemians two Waterford one Cork City one Shamrock Rovers one Athlon three and Wexford four three to

[00:25:40] United three and what sounds like a belter I'm just going on the score lane it's on its own in the tier two south P-Mount two Kerry one Kovramler's one Bray Wanderer's one and St Patrick's athletic

[00:25:56] one DLR one then today in the under 19s um sorry the under 19 tier one Cork City B Bohemians three one Wexford Beach Shamrock Rovers four one and Athlon Beach Shelburne six two in tier two north

[00:26:17] it was P-Mount two Finn Harps four and Dun Dalk Nill DLR waves Nill and tier two south and another cracker CK United four Bray Wanderers four and 3D United B Kovramler's five Nill I guess without

[00:26:32] being biased obviously Lauren McCabe has generated a lot of interest in boas under 19s John but it was a former boas player Ifa Robinson who scored two leg goals to win that game for Cork City.

[00:26:45] Yeah look Ifa obviously is isn't under 19s and she's coming back trying to guess you know back might be a match shot but been a match fitness after injury so as you're allowed to do using

[00:26:57] the 19s um to to you know to get to get minutes in her belt and yeah look it looks like she was well able to last the 19 because it was the 18-19 and the 19 third minute she got her two goals so

[00:27:08] I think that I think that's a you know positive for Cork City and obviously a good result for them on the day as well but positive in the longer run to have Robbo kind of you know back

[00:27:17] back in playing and look I suppose the other thing to pick up on is um that uh that Wexford Shamrock Rovers win today um I mean in in in phase one Shamrock Rovers and that loan were to stand out

[00:27:30] teams in you know in in their section um on the phase one but I mean Wexford going up to to Dublin today and beating Rovers 4-1 is like he's a standout result for them and again I think

[00:27:44] it's it's coming up it's probably gone past a year now since Wexford have lost a game on the 19 level um to just keep on winning um so it's an interesting one to keep an eye on how

[00:27:55] long they can keep that going as long as they keep fishing well trolling well they'll do all right at the 19s don't worry um so look we park all that stuff there Saturday's fixtures

[00:28:09] I even kicked off in Talca Park as we've alluded to already Shelburne 4 DLR and NIL you know we've alluded to the players that have left DLR and how difficult it is anyway but when you defend

[00:28:23] how they defended for the first two goals you know Shelburne went didn't have time to nail up game is probably over at that stage but both goals now Perl Slattery's opener is an

[00:28:35] unbelievable finish from her from a centre back to take the ball down kind of parallel like turn and strike at home but she has so much time and space from the corner kick and as the as the corner

[00:28:53] was cleared there's five DLR players in that kind of half arc but none of them moved to Perl none of them moved to pick her up none of them are aware of what might happen off the second ball

[00:29:05] when it comes back in and she has all the time and the space to do what she did and then the second goal is just a disastrous goal from a defensive point of view so I'm rambling now again

[00:29:16] but it's so difficult to play anyway but when you're gifting goals to Shelburne like the LR did in that first half you're beating yourself fundamentally Eileen you know yeah and I think what's got to be extra frustrating is obviously going on from Shelburne's previous two games

[00:29:31] we're struggling to score so you know if you can keep them scoreless they're going to get I they're going to get frustrated because they're going to be thinking here we go again

[00:29:38] so look as you said look it's incredible from Perl it really is like I I believe she played a lot of her underage career as a striker so that probably explains it because I'm not sure too many people

[00:29:51] who've played their entire playing career at centre half would be doing that for you to be honest but um it's an unbelievable goal and then as you said like the second one like they handed

[00:29:59] to Noelle on a plate and again like she's not going to she's not going to let that chance go and then it's kind of game over because like as you said earlier like I know they conceded two

[00:30:09] on wins tonight but that's the first time they have and like DLR in the absence of their main striker now who has been their main striker all season were probably going to struggle to get

[00:30:18] two like so I thought once I thought really once Perl scored Shelburne complete control I don't think they were spectacular by any means but they didn't have to be I just thought they

[00:30:28] I think Owen Wernel would be really pleased with it in the manner that they went about it it was professional and it was about like I think like Kate McCarron who gets their fourth goal I think

[00:30:40] dear the games for her when they're two or three nil up and there's not pressure on her I think she's a really young player and she scored goals for fun at underage level but it's really really

[00:30:49] hard putting her in to a situation where it's like nil all in the game and you're kind of desperate for a goal that's a huge amount of pressure especially considering they're a team that

[00:30:58] are competing at the very very top like whereas you'll probably get more change from her and more like a better developed player if she's kind of getting these opportunities in games that are won

[00:31:09] and it said maybe then get your big moments from her in big games as well instead of I think the last few weeks there's been an awful lot of pressure on on her as she's a young kid

[00:31:17] like Rebecca Devros injured Kate Moon is not in yet Noel had been out the previous few games so like they obviously were lacking heavily in that centre forward area and like what I said

[00:31:28] I think Wednesday night was probably a big kick up the airs for them of all like not to be disrespectful to the All Island Cup but I think if clubs are looking at the start of the season

[00:31:37] they're going to say league, FAI Cup, All Island Cup you want to win everything you're in but in terms of I think where they were want to be I think the league is number one so

[00:31:47] I think for them they probably would rather have that loss in an All Island Cup than in the league like from DLR it's just going to take a little bit of adjusting now again because

[00:31:57] Dunan was such a focal point for them but again like the two of you I was really impressed with Shannon Cote I thought she was excellent and like a handful and it's not easy against that

[00:32:06] Shelburne backline because look we've signed our praises and rightly so all season but like she's she was a handful and she's obviously not in there long I think it's awful that she's not announced I said this to you like all the clubs announcing players do better seriously

[00:32:22] like all the players are swapped on FAI Connect so everybody knows these transfers are happened it's the women's game and no one can hold her piss anyway so we all know everyone

[00:32:30] has moved just announced them like because like again we want to build the league so like look at like for argument say Cork City's with Rory Keating and the men's today like nobody knows

[00:32:41] that and it's announced and it's this big thing and if that happens in the women's game you could get the same thing if we didn't all know if all of the transfers before because they're

[00:32:49] not announced till a week or two after they're done like and even like Eva Brofio from P-Mount she's played a game already and they announced her like she played before the break so like or at least like don't swap them on FAI Connect until you have like it's

[00:33:07] it's bananas that's annoying me but anyway back to the game job done for Shelburne as I said I think I don't think Laura Heffernan will be too worried about it I think she'd be frustrated

[00:33:18] as you said especially those first two goals because it's essentially a game over then and half time yeah can I just say because you just reminded me there Noel Murray's suspension the two suspensions recently obviously nobody knew that she was out on Wednesday night for the Avenue

[00:33:31] of Cups and we find a leader against Llamar Grovers so I did email the league office and I emailed to a normal email and they emailed me back to say somebody else looks after

[00:33:42] the women's game so I then sent my email again to them just and basically just inquiring as to why the suspensions aren't part of the as we spoke about before and part of the

[00:33:52] the suspension that goes out and whatnot and I didn't get an answer so I followed up again on Friday saying look and I still haven't got an answer so I know there's no league there's

[00:34:01] no women's team at a week out yet either this week so that's twice now that they haven't announced when it was all was out about seven o'clock on Sunday so I'm starting to get a bit

[00:34:11] paranoid no that's there's poor communication even within the FAI because the league account had run a thing about like players who are going to be influential today and had a big clip of Noel up and then

[00:34:22] she was suspended so like they don't even tell the people running their social media and that's not fair in that person either like do you know what I mean so as you said if it was now also

[00:34:29] Noel there was three group games how did you manage to get suspended like I thought I I thought now when I played there was one referee who shadowed my nameless

[00:34:41] and when we used to be in the dressing room he'd be like well I just book you now and I would like what like like you just have to keep your mouth shut you're not going to like but you know that's it that's an impressive suspension like

[00:34:59] yeah I was also just going to say that you need to show the avenue all out in sports cup the respect that it deserves know the chamois grovers on the verge of winning it

[00:35:07] it is the biggest competition in the Irish sporting calendar and should be treated with with with respect I'm a big fan of mine big fan we move on boas one slide going there another goal another assist for Sarah McKevitt another goal for Kelly Malone Eileen again it's that

[00:35:30] 442 get the ball in the box and kevitt makes it to the boy line cuts it back bang it's not Tom and I close probably should have won the game by a lot more than the one that they they just did with it

[00:35:44] by they say they missed a lot of chances yeah I think yeah like boas really are turning into the yeah and I think boas are turning into that team for the purists aren't they the Wayne Mullins

[00:35:55] 101 442 as you said get the ball in the box Mike Bassett let's recall Ken Kearn and Mike Bassett from now on sorry Ken um but it's just you know it's great to see like I it's it's different isn't

[00:36:07] it like football is becoming everyone's every team is just a clone of the next team and like there's you know it's just the simplicity of their goals at times as you said like but

[00:36:17] like Sarah McKevitt her cross is brilliant her it's a brilliant brilliant assist and I heard Tony Magner saying he had been talking to an interviewer for the program and she gets more of a kick out of

[00:36:26] getting an assistant she went out of scoring and she's certainly showing that because yeah like they could have had a lot more and she could have had a couple of more assists and a few goals

[00:36:34] on the day but um yeah and I think the thing is that like they don't score it a second and then that for it like sligo every time they kind of went forward you're like oh maybe do you

[00:36:44] know what I mean because they have players that are capable but I just think it's so hard for sligo at the moment um with the players they've lost they've lost an awful lot now since since

[00:36:53] they were last out to the north and obviously Emma went to Galway um so I do think it's quite hard for them but um I suppose for balls they'll be delighted to bounce back I thought defensively

[00:37:05] again like they deal with everything that comes at them and like it wasn't that sligo didn't offer anything they really did and John's favorite Lisa Murphy I thought was excellent again

[00:37:14] and she is turning into one of the best center halfs in the league isn't she and I think probably just probably underappreciated because of where she's playing um as in club wise and the fact that

[00:37:24] they're not challenging but she was really really good again. I feel for Tommy Hewitt because I said I think it's a hard it's a hard job and it kind of reminds me of Cork City a few years

[00:37:35] ago and I don't want to get ahead of myself because I think a change manager at Cork City could change a lot there but like I said like it's you have to just kind of put your head

[00:37:44] down and kind of keep motoring and know that it will improve especially like I know Jess Farry said that she was honest like it's only this year that they have senior football up there club wise so like that's gonna you'll have hopefully a filter through from that again

[00:37:58] in the coming years for them um but it is I think case of this season in particular it's going to be really hard and then you have like the lacqueries you have Mirren Devaney and they're all probably ambitious players themselves and I don't think anyone like

[00:38:11] you know you want them to stay at Sligo but like at the same time if players move on you understand why they do so it's kind of a really hard circle and I said I only empathize with them

[00:38:20] because I'm a Cork City fan and I've seen this kind of rinse and repeat situation for years but like I said yeah I just I think it's really hard to see first Sligo this season

[00:38:31] where they go but um they're never at the same time well I could probably go into every game now nearly you're as a sport of the league half expecting them to lose like they never make it

[00:38:42] easy for sides either like they're never they're not being hockeyed like they're staying in games like and they are a very very well coached team and you could see that but I just think it's

[00:38:51] really really difficult for them yeah John like we deal more with Sligo Rovers later on because we did get a DM from a Sligo Rovers supporter and um we've come to that in the mailbox but

[00:39:06] just fairly quickly we should know as well that Yvonne Hedigan made her first start in nearly three years since she broke her leg in the Oscar trainer playing for Boas I think it was almost three years

[00:39:17] ago you know it lasted 66 minutes it's great to see a player come back now obviously she played for Sligo on Saturday not for Boas but she broke her leg while she was playing for Boas

[00:39:27] it's great to see a player come back after that length of time and get back to the level that Yvonne has managed to get back to on Saturday. Oh yeah no look it's a great new story for her

[00:39:37] for Sligo as well but um obviously particularly for her look it's a long way back after a serious injury and look you love to see players the quality coming back into the league and that she's had

[00:39:48] the support to you know recover and get back playing so I look brilliant and to get I look to get 66 minutes under her belt first game back after been out for that long probably will

[00:39:58] stand tremendously so a nice story to for Sligo this weekend and for Yvonne obviously herself. Absolutely absolutely. Then headed down to Treethie John down to your girls the Wexford girls

[00:40:18] like what you say I mean they went to Heads a big defensive mix mixed up from Treethie a little Kiehleberg and to get in and get an early goal for them and I think a penalty was the 88 minute

[00:40:30] 81st minute something like that won by Daniel Stair talked away by Daniel Stair and then almost last kick of the game Ellen Dolan what and I mean she literally was given the freedom of

[00:40:42] markets field but waltz through to the edge of the area super strike top corner to one Wexford game done game over I guess I should just mention just before she got that winner just before Ellen Maloy got that winner Daniel Stair did miss an brilliant chance for

[00:41:01] Treethie which would have probably ended the game Treethie to Wexford one but on such things do results turn. Yeah no it was it was a really good game and to be honest from a Wexford

[00:41:14] point of view probably was quite close in pattern to the game on Wednesday in the All Island League our All in All in Cup Treethie were probably the better team to be honest overall I thought they

[00:41:26] they did most of the running in the first half they put Wexford under pressure Jane Murn was the busier keeper Wexford played some lovely football you know around the press again

[00:41:40] and getting the ball kind into the middle third but didn't get forward a huge amount I mean like one of their best chances in the first half was Maeve Russell making a run from right back

[00:41:50] and to just you know onto a true ball but then like just at the start of the second half you have like it's just a horrible mix up from from Dan Falling from Treethie's point of view

[00:42:04] you have two defenders and the keeper looking at each other and Keola Bergen just doesn't give it up and flicks it in and suddenly I don't know where Wexford are you know won a lot won a

[00:42:14] lot and probably against the run of play. Yeah look it's it was it was a funny one um Danielle Steer was absolutely brilliant the whole game to be honest and she was beating

[00:42:26] herself up over that that heritage that was the chance laid on but um it was it was a funny guess you know Keith was the referee and it's probably the most physical game I've

[00:42:37] seen this year like no no malice no bad tackles but just in terms of like you know a lot of physicality a lot of quite a robust game you know a lot of using the body not not too much in

[00:42:51] terms of you know nothing crossing the line but just there was a lot a lot left go and it really did keep the the tempo of it up um and the second half you know it was it did end up going

[00:43:01] into in for the last 10 minutes as both teams went for it but look Ella Malloy when she picks up the ball um you know laid on and she can't get for that much space like she picks it up you know

[00:43:12] maybe 40 45 yards out and they let her get to the edge of the box to have the shot now and look it's what you expect of someone with her ability pings it into the top corner but um yeah Wexford

[00:43:24] would be delighted but yeah overall it was it felt like they a draw possibly would have been a fair result but treaty certainly didn't deserve to lose us and yet they did I mean

[00:43:36] and like they kind of they really only have themselves to blame it's you know as I said the defensive mix up for the first goal and then like you just can't give a player of Ella Malloy's

[00:43:49] quality that space and time so just basically watch through your defensive your defensive setup and have a free shot of goal it's it's madness like Dominic Foley must be tearing his hair out

[00:44:00] he must because I said something yesterday and actually I was thinking about last night I actually think it's like a correct statement like in terms of performance treaty probably been the most consistent sides in the league like they're quite good every week um but they're not getting the

[00:44:13] results um I look I said I think that first goal is a calamity of errors like it's it's such a dead ball Kylie Murphy has actually turned away and is like expecting a goal kick like it's it's comical stuff and then as you said like with Ella Malloy

[00:44:29] like she'll find that space herself so don't give it to her like she's going to definitely take it if you give it her um but like I just he's got to be frustrated I get with steer like

[00:44:40] she scored three in three but like look it's it's a game of really small margins and like she misses that header and 30 seconds later Ellen Ella Malloy does what she does um and it's

[00:44:51] said like it's three points for Wexford but it was going to get to a point I saw for Dominic and for treaty it doesn't matter how consistently good they are like it's it's the results business and

[00:45:02] no one's going to look back on this season and say treaty played really well all season like they're going to say they had X amount of points because at times like performances while

[00:45:12] at times you can say it's a really good indicator it's a league table and as you obviously Declan league table doesn't lie and they are where they are but like I suppose to give them credit

[00:45:24] I think that defensive mix up and there was another one I think in the second half um where they just it's just a lack of communication and I think it's the fact that you have new signings in there and they're into the team again um and like those

[00:45:36] it just takes a little while to click to get to know what your watcher keeper does what your centre back does um I think they'll be glad they're going into an FAI cup next week

[00:45:45] where not being disrespectful but like they have a chance they're going to score a couple of goals you would imagine against the non-league side and look look to kind of push on from that um but

[00:45:56] yeah it's like they're a good side when they're a very good side and they perform really well and they're great to watch but it's it's not really worth much to them either at the end of the

[00:46:05] day is it no no it's not not at the moment anyway speaking of league tables don't lie eighth place shamrock rovers um got a probably deserved point at home what they are eight I mean what do I mean you do

[00:46:24] I'm not telling lies it's like you know um earned a good point at home to a side of you know three places above the minda league um so they must be happy with that a one all draw

[00:46:37] especially scoring laid on John what did we make of it all yeah I I didn't think it was a great game I thought the first half was a bit flat to be honest I thought rovers were the better team um

[00:46:50] but unifoil did quite well the first half I mean anything that came away bar one kind of in the opening minutes there was one um kind of error that she recovered to make a very good

[00:47:01] save from but apart from that um she was the busier keeper rovers rovers played quite well they put us under pressure but there was no tempo to it really I felt I thought they were a little

[00:47:12] bit flat and they could have gotten an awful lot more out of it um like against we sat deep let them have the ball in defense they didn't do a great job of breaking us down

[00:47:24] second half is a bit more open um but overall I did just didn't think there was a lot of quality to game and to be honest the two goals kind of showed like I mean the first goal is

[00:47:37] like it only comes from Colleen Kennedy O'Connell's just been a pest in running like like it's it's a it's poor ball back Colleen latches on to it Amanda Buddon's well off her line which probably she probably doesn't need to be there because Jesse Indian gets back

[00:47:57] wins back control the ball off Colleen but then Colleen has a chance to tap it in Jesse needs to get the ball then knocks it in under pressure it's just it's a

[00:48:07] an awful awful goal like from rovers point of view obviously City will take it um yeah look I didn't look at the rovers equaliser later and I think City will be really unhappy with that

[00:48:20] I think it felt like the game had been seen out um rovers were huffing and puffing but not really not really getting anything clear cut on target and in the end um look it's an

[00:48:30] absolutely brilliant delivery from Leo Leary but it hits it hits Joy Ralph's standing foot she doesn't even know the ball is there to be honest it bounces in past the unifoil but like I suppose

[00:48:41] that's what Stryker has to do put themselves in the right position it's a fantastic ball in but someone from City has to go and attack that ball put ahead on us get it out of there um

[00:48:50] I think overall like rovers would have been very hard done by if they had come away with a loss but look look it's it's it's um so it's a good point to suppose away from home from Cork City and the run continues

[00:49:08] Eileen I'm actually going to dip into the mailbox here an hour early um because it just suits Donnie Canoone in us whose fault was the goal Amanda Budden, Jess Hennessy are a bit of both

[00:49:21] I think he actually misses out the main yeah he does suspect but I'll let you go Yeah um he does I I'm not sure what Maria Reynolds is at with the back pass um

[00:49:34] there's clearly no one there like that's why Amanda so far off her goal she has to come out to meet it do you know what like and it's an outside of the ball is it it's a little bit arrogant

[00:49:43] it's not it's a it's a massive bit arrogant you're trying to pass the ball back at the outside of your boot like a Hollywood pass come on like I mean it's just like all her and she's been so so

[00:49:54] good the last couple of weeks like to then do something like that and it totally rattled her because she knew what she knew it was wrong um I think Jess Hennessy does everything right and I don't know then does she think in her head I've everything done right

[00:50:10] and her brain switches off for a second and she scores um like yeah it was it certainly was a calamity of errors I look not because I'm biased towards her um but I'm going to leave Amanda off

[00:50:20] the most I think she comes out and she pushes Colleen wide onto her left side which she then if that if she if Colleen's on her right foot she shoots herself a lot earlier I just

[00:50:30] think she's not comfortable taking her on her left um so I'm going to give Amanda some credit but yeah look it's a calamity of errors they're going to be they're going to be pissed off because

[00:50:40] I think with Rovers they've like that back three um Hennessy Fox and and Reynolds have been really really good um they have improved so much and as a trio I think they've come together um

[00:50:52] and kind of know each other's game so that's why it's kind of a little bit bizarre to see and but like Colleen's a pest lad she's like she's she's incredible and like to be fair Dani kind of

[00:51:03] changed the way they played it didn't have that really high intense press from the get-go and I think that that worked um because then in the moment when she they're kind of not expecting her

[00:51:13] to be as alive as she is but like she has been incredible this season she really has and it's it's kind of one of those things that like she's as a young player coming into the league

[00:51:23] like if you are willing to just work hard non-stop like you're going to get your awards like and she's she's proof of that this season um for me I think a draw was a fair result but I think sometimes

[00:51:36] like players maybe go on to the radar like beyond their own club because I know I know I certainly know she doesn't go on to the radar at Shamrock Rovers but as soon as you take

[00:51:45] Efa Kelly out of that Shamrock Rovers side they're quite ordinary looking like she's she just does all that donkey work she's that kind of in the style of like a Karen Duggan Rachel Graham or Kylie did on Wexford for years and she's absolutely outstanding I think Kate

[00:51:58] Thompson is another one over at Galway who does it um and when she came on I think she steadies things up a little bit for them um again she's not a player who's going to be putting a ball in

[00:52:08] like assisting goals every week but as said she's the player I think the best compliment you can ever pay a player is that your team looks like a totally different side as soon as you're

[00:52:17] out at the lineup and you know how good she is as soon as she's removed from it so um yeah I think for City I know Declan they're the eighth place team of the league but it's not easy to go to

[00:52:26] Tallah for any side we all know that um unfortunately um from years as City fans but um it's a great result like no we've had some work we've had some great nights up there but we've had some bad

[00:52:38] nights up there as well um so I think it I think it's a good point on the road for City personally especially when you bear in mind they're off the back of a massive win on the Wednesday

[00:52:48] night like that I think that's what will piss Shamrock overs off the most that they didn't build on that momentum that they had yeah I know I know you're keen to remove any blame from

[00:52:58] Amanda Budden but can I just say that like Amanda was so far out of her goal she ended up in PLR Park watching P-Mountain at Lone in our later like um it's like I just want to say

[00:53:09] actually one other thing as well because you spoke about Yvonne had Hedigan earlier on and Brilliancy her back but it was Brilliancy Savannah came on as well for Svanum Kheri came

[00:53:17] out for Shamrock overs and Brilliancy did a really tough time as well and Brilliant to see her back absolutely and I was going to give a shout out to Ella Kelly as well who made her first

[00:53:26] senior start for in the league for Shamrock overs and was really like she looked like a really very good player oh god really good top player um anything else that came out of that game that we

[00:53:40] need to to touch on no I mean sorry I was going to say because we know John a couple of weeks back the guys at the Shamrock overs part of the East End part of whatever it's called East Stand well

[00:53:53] I can't genuinely can't remember no um Taylor's from the East Stand isn't it um they did up the video and why not and I genuinely I was doing up the video yesterday of the goal and I was putting

[00:54:03] the Benny Hill music over it and I was like this is it's sensational when it's done but we didn't put it out because and the reason it didn't was I was going to tag them obviously and um let them

[00:54:15] at it but when you put it together it focuses too it focuses too much on Jess Hennessy and her touch to put the ball into the net and it just felt like it would all everything would be focused

[00:54:27] on her and it would look like that we were having to go off her muck in her so she was she was blameless in the whole thing really I mean she did so well to get back and put herself and I to be honest

[00:54:38] I think if I think if she falls over there cut this possibly a foul against Colleen Jenosa not she did good that's I think you're gas to be honest which uh Eileen wants to

[00:54:48] apportion no blame to the goalkeeper who's 35 yards off I said I didn't I didn't say she came out to get the ball Declan like what was she supposed to do? And John doesn't want to apportion and he blamed the player who's kicked it into the

[00:55:01] bucket empty net from from her own six yard line like I mean and I actually know how I change my mind I've changed my mind I'm excited that Maria Renett's tried to do a back pass at the outside

[00:55:16] of her boot from within the other half I don't want to blame anyone it's all Colleen it was just Colleen's brilliance yeah best one lover's move according to a couple of publications after the game yesterday there was a Colleen and gold there was no mention of Jess Hennessy

[00:55:35] ever being an OG like which is just incredible like I mean that's like I'm all for benefits of adults when it comes to things like it's an OG it's a clear and you can write an article for

[00:55:45] extra time and call it a Colleen Kennedy goal if you want but like you're not calling anybody like you know it's it's an OG there's no getting away from that anyway before I get called a crank again

[00:55:56] and everybody comes looking from my head again as I said there's two ways of looking at this if you analyze Shamrock Rovers as the eighth place team then it's a good point for them

[00:56:09] which they got at home against a better team and you know they got an equalizer with two minutes to go if you want to analyze them as being a top team whose squad is much much better

[00:56:20] than the position they find themselves in the league then it's an absolute shambles of a result again with a shambles of a performance but I leave it up to the people out there themselves

[00:56:29] what way they want to judge Shamrock Rovers because obviously I'm not allowed to judge them going forward because just everybody gets upset so I'm going to stay away from judging and everybody listening all the totappers can take their own space in this and judge it for themselves

[00:56:46] and decide whether it's a good point for Shamrock Rovers or a shampalic effort from Shamrock Rovers I won't influence the one way or the other leading the witness your honor I'm glad me and John were able to add a bit of balance

[00:57:02] after all that after all that we all follow the Amanda Budden to PLR Park to watch P Mount against that loan cracking game lads it was a cracking game terrible refereeing performance but

[00:57:16] cracking game yeah I was it was it was brilliant like I put into the chest like why we were all watching us that I uh I was really enjoying it but I had no idea how we were going to sum it up

[00:57:30] but it was it was brilliant I like and I think probably the thing that made us a little bit better than you might have anticipated was P Mount really win for us um they you know they were they were

[00:57:42] aggressive they were they were attacking um they were very very lucky to be one in the down a half time like I thought they were slightly if you took Maddie Gibson out of the game

[00:57:52] P Mount were probably you know the better team in the first half she was excellent but um no it was a cracking game cracking game so I know one said the best player on the park

[00:58:01] oh did he came just say P Mount look at that I just said if you take her out of the game no that's fair Maddie did Maddie Gibson was excellent they mean especially first half look she

[00:58:16] should have had a stonewall penalty I mean like we haven't spoken about referees and all this year but Christ on mighty like you that that's a penalty all day every day yeah but like all we ever

[00:58:27] ask for referees it's not that they're good it's that they're consistent and he was consistently bad yeah I should have been the first time because P Mount had this stonewall penalty not given as well so

[00:58:41] look as he said all we want is consistency and he was consistently bad for the whole game for both sides um yeah like I was it was a really good game another brilliant game for TG Carr like and

[00:58:53] someone said to me all the games at TG Carr are great and I'm like that's because all the games in the league are great like probably like City and Shamrock Overs is probably the poorest game

[00:59:00] like as um quality and as spectacle wise yesterday um but all of like the other four games are all really really good to watch um I was really impressed with P Mount I thought like as an attacking

[00:59:12] side it's the first time we've seen them kind of with a bit of urgency like they've been very labored all season whether that's just a lack of that obvious focal point up top or not I'm

[00:59:22] not sure um but like to me they look like a totally different side last night and I think that's really important for them because again like they have Champions League coming up and I was a little

[00:59:32] bit fearful that they were kind of going to go over and not do themselves justice because of the way they've been playing but I think they're going to take huge heart from that result last

[00:59:39] night and not just the result but the manner of the performance instead I thought they like they looked at threat anytime they went forward um look Michelle doing an obvious she will take

[00:59:48] a little bit of time to settle in properly but like she hit the ground running I thought she was really really good and she's a handful and you know what you're going to get from her but

[00:59:57] like Athlon and Maddie Gibson gave a really honest interview afterwards like and she said look we lost the first game of the season and that was kind of uh like a kick for them and she's hoping

[01:00:06] maybe that last night's they used that as the same going into the the last like there's eight league games left they have eight league games left I think she said um because I suppose

[01:00:14] Athlon hadn't the previous few weeks probably hadn't hit the heights that we'd seen them earlier in the season um kind of stumbling over the line one or two nil are just seeing out games we haven't

[01:00:24] really seen them as like I mean fragmented when they beat P-mounted in Athlon earlier like it was just this brilliant free-flowing open football and of course you can't do that every week but

[01:00:34] like they do have the players that they have the capability there and they're after adding a few more players I know absolutely nothing about any of them um but I presume like they're going to

[01:00:45] offer something or Curaon wouldn't it wouldn't have signed them um but it's just like the league is just so interesting because no matter what I know Declan thought you think she'll burn kind of home

[01:00:55] and holes now but like I don't because I just think any side is like so capable of beating it another one on a night and it's there's an awful lot of twists and turns and like Galway if

[01:01:07] they win their two games to hand they're only three points behind those two and like they're all to play each other again so it's going to be a brilliant brilliant running like I think

[01:01:14] it's going to be a running like we haven't seen before because this is the first year in the league where you could honestly say like any side like is capable of beating another side

[01:01:25] like I mean she'll burn come to turn us cross in the next league game like and they're the one side that remain for us to take points off we never do we always are

[01:01:35] absolutely hockey by them like um so look maybe this is the season now that's just said we can upset Shelburne I hope John the goals in this game like it's one of the best OGs you've ever seen

[01:01:49] what a cracking strike and I don't say that in a in a disrespectful way or anything else like it's it's just a quality I know that's not what she's trying to do but like it is a sensational

[01:02:00] strike I think it's right P-Mon kept themselves in the game and probably deserved our equalizer to be fair when it comes but it's a foul on Brennan I mean like there's just no getting away it's a

[01:02:13] two hands in the back push her over blatant foul and again the referee so there's two penalties and a foul for the goal that he's missed and but from the time I felt from the time that

[01:02:26] the equalizer was awarded I just felt P-Mon when we only wanted the two sides were actually going to go and win the game um I don't know if that's how you saw it at the time or not as well yeah

[01:02:36] no I think I think P-Mon we're just getting better and better as the game went on um and I think I think it's probably the best game I've seen just with Sturdle play in a while I think she had

[01:02:48] a freedom there to get forward that that possibly is you know she hasn't had um for the last couple of months but I but yeah I know the longer it went on I I feel you it increasingly looked like

[01:03:00] P-Mon were going to be the ones that got the goal but yeah look I mean I think the only thing you can say in the ref's defense for that goal the first P-Mon goal is uh is that none of the

[01:03:13] outlaw players make make a fuss of it um but it's it's it's like it's like I I'm you know you're watching in real time they're they're wheeling away and in my head I'm kind of now

[01:03:26] obviously only for a couple of seconds but my my head is automatically going oh they're going to be so disappointed because that's clearly a free out you know you could see it in real time

[01:03:34] two hands in the back push over I mean I don't know how it was awarded to be honest like I mean not taken away from the fact P-Mon deserved it but it's it's 100% a free kick all day long

[01:03:43] like it just is doesn't know what a word for it yeah and I mean it's one of those if they don't get the first then obviously they don't get the second and etc etc that has it's a huge

[01:03:54] changing point in the game we keep sending him obviously the referee was Lucas Keating um fellow carcaman as I said we haven't spoken about referees all year just so happened for a lucas had

[01:04:06] a poor game last night in front of the TV cameras the winner from Eileen the queen of Ireland gets the winner it looks like a soft cut or it doesn't look like much of a goal but there's a touch

[01:04:18] where she moves the ball from her left foot to her right foot before she strikes it and it's the sensation of it's just like blinking you miss it but it just opens up so much more space for

[01:04:28] a car and dug into a lower to roll the ball home and it's just that touch of class that actually gets the goal far though that's it and class is permanent isn't it but like I thought she was

[01:04:38] brilliant all night at centre half again I thought she did really really well and she's always a threat from corners um if it's not the if she doesn't win the initial header

[01:04:46] she's always there like for someone who would said isn't a striker um she just is in kind of the right place at the right times and she's always alert to the that breaking ball and she scores

[01:04:57] quite a lot of goals from it as well and always has done but it's a very very good finish but as you said I think it's probably one atlone like their line was the line was going nuts

[01:05:07] but I agree with John like I don't think the player is making off about it um maybe they're maybe they're a little bit too honest um like you need to be shouting and roaring if that's

[01:05:18] one of the Dublin sides they're shouting and roaring about it and they're getting in his head over it and that that's what should be happening like not that it should be happening

[01:05:26] but that's what the game is um in an ideal where that doesn't happen but it does and if like sides do it and get an advantage from it like it'll go against you when you're not doing

[01:05:37] it to an extent I'm not saying be abusive or anything like that but you have to call for stuff because no matter what referees say like they are influenced by these things and instead

[01:05:46] there were some big calls and if you end up losing this league by a point like you're going to kind of go back and say Jesus Christ do you know what I mean likely it can hinge on things like that and

[01:05:58] I suppose why we haven't had to talk about referees a huge amount what there's never repercussions in that I suppose that's for me the really agitating thing um where referees not just at National League level but across the board the referees perform poorly like there's never a

[01:06:14] repercussion like he'll probably end up doing a Premier Division game next week like do you know what I mean it's just that kind of annoys me a little bit um but brilliant win for P Mount and

[01:06:24] as said I think for Atlone a little bit like the All Island Cup last for Shelburne it might be a kick up the air set of time um then and rather than kind of further down later on in October

[01:06:36] where you're really running out of games yeah can I just pick up one thing there yeah point sorry can I just pick up a one thing there like Lene said about you know if it was a

[01:06:47] Dublin club they'd be roaring at the referee I mean you saw that live in the game like no disrespect to Chloe Maloney like but I didn't know how you know she was you know

[01:06:56] she was constantly in the referees here um and you know I know she got booked in the game like but that's if that if that push had been in the other box P Mountside and Chloe Maloney

[01:07:08] and Neve Reebok and Karen Duggan they're they're in front of the ref not necessarily abusing them but making them at least second guess his decision whereas Atlone just took it like it was it

[01:07:19] was very strange for such an obvious foul I thought I had a question written down here but you've probably dealt with this all in the last three minutes but the question was basically do Atlone have enough street wise are they street wise enough do they have enough

[01:07:32] know-how to actually see out the league and win a title I think I do think they do in that I think they a lot of and we've seen the pickup points where like games where you have no right to but

[01:07:44] it's said like in situations like that last night where you need to be that little bit mouthy you need to be a little bit saucy for one for better term like and it's said it's part of the game

[01:07:53] like and it's a bit it's a little bit of cuteness and it's knowing what that line is and that you don't cross it to kind of it said getting yellow or red carat territory but like question these

[01:08:03] decisions when they're so obviously against you said I don't think if like that show that Dolan does happens anywhere like on the other side as John just said there's big enough characters in there that will speak up like like Neve Reebok like Chloe Maloney like I

[01:08:19] wrote in the group last night was like she never shuts up like I actually called her a winch sorry Chloe but look I said I was winning myself on the pitch so it's not an insult

[01:08:26] it's the highest compliment and you have to do that like you have to because as I said it's it's part of football and whether we like it or we don't like to see it and I know people are like

[01:08:35] oh like this is what happens and it's awful to see and I know Shamrock Rovers had an issue with Cork City doing it in the game and Turnit Cross but this is football and so I do it and it

[01:08:46] happens and until such a time and look maybe FIFA I think I tried to change at the moment we're only captains can talk to referees but at the moment that's not in here so it said I think

[01:08:55] that little bit of kind of as you said a ruthless streak from Athlon and a willing to be a bit bold will we call it will you say a bit bold they need to be a bit bolder

[01:09:04] basically yeah they're too nice okay cool cool that does leave Shelburne top of the league for the first time this year I think so it would be interesting to see whether they give it up or not going forward next weekend there are no league fixtures to worry about

[01:09:24] there are seven cup fixtures because Athlon are already in the next round so congratulations to them but we do have Sligo and Terri Neure, Cork City Douglas Hall, Bows Pee Mount, DLR White Hall are all three o'clock on Saturday, Shamrock Rovers versus Wexford is four o'clock,

[01:09:48] Treity against Ferns is five o'clock and the big one, Galway against Shelburne is seven o'clock in Aimee DC Park. Eileen we won't cut through them individually every year I ask you this and you

[01:10:01] say no is there any chance of an upset in any of these seven games so any of the non-league sides have a genuine shot at winning again? I actually think Terri Neure, I think had they not won an

[01:10:14] Intermediate Cup today and will presumably be on the piss for the week I would have thought Terri Neure would have had a good chance to beat Sligo but alas they did with the Intermediate Cup today

[01:10:22] and I presume will be on the piss for the week but that Terri Neure side is really really good they have Caroline Thorpe is in the centre of the park for them they absolutely destroyed Douglas

[01:10:32] Hall in the semi-final of that and I think she's brilliant Caroline Thorpe was one of the best players in the league in her day here when she was playing like she was absolutely incredible incredible

[01:10:43] footballer so like I'm with the way Sligo are but I do think as said it always comes down to the big difference at the moment is fitness it's fitness and it's physicality well maybe you could match a League of Ireland side for 60 70 minutes technically I think there's

[01:10:59] physicality in the levels of fitness that we see in this league that we take for granted because every team has it and it's probably what sets them aside like and I said look I go to Douglas

[01:11:10] Hall games I'm obviously a big Douglas Hall fan although I'm not involved there and like I do like they're going to struggle against Cork City like I think they might stay with them for

[01:11:20] 20-25 minutes and instead I think City will kick on then I think the same I think is who treaty like Whitehall like Whitehall in the past I think they were in the Intermediate Cup final

[01:11:31] today like they have a quite a strong side as well and they're going to DLR but look we know what DLR are capable of on their day as well so like you would think DLR live too much

[01:11:41] for them I suppose it's Sligo turn your is the one that stands out but it depends on turn your celebrations this weekend I suppose yeah so John are we kind of saying so that the best chance of an upset in the round is Shamak Rovers beat Wexford

[01:11:57] they'll never talk to you they're never going to talk to you why'd you give me that one no Wexford you know they were briefly in third place in the league there on Saturday as predicted by me earlier in the season and I think they're going to

[01:12:16] beat Shamak Rovers so I don't think that's I don't think that upset is coming but I'll always pass side with Wexford you said we're Wexford FC sorry sorry everyone down in Wexford okay very quickly because we are getting on in time I mean Galway-Shelburn do Shelburne go to

[01:12:35] Galway and win or how'd you see that going no I think the fact that it's in Galway I think Galway are going to win it and I also think like Galway had 600 at that All Island Cup

[01:12:46] that's on a Wednesday night like that was more than most of the attendance in the men's first division like they're doing some really good stuff up there look I think Galway is probably a good

[01:12:54] play I know now they last an All Ireland final today but like Galway United are doing well in the men's they're doing well in the women's their women's are in Komogi All Ireland final

[01:13:02] in a football All Ireland final in their men are in the football All Ireland so like it's it's just sports mad up there at the moment and it's also positive that that's having a good

[01:13:09] knock on effect and I said to get 600 at a Wednesday night game is I think that's incredible and I think they'll have a good crowd there and that'll I think that that will help them get

[01:13:19] over the line as well but it should be a good game it was a really interesting game in Talca Park in the league where they kind of cancelled each other out and it was just a moment from

[01:13:27] Roman McLaughlin but I think that they Galway will probably feel they didn't offer a huge amount going forward and I think they look to rectify that and look with emidarity

[01:13:36] in the side now maybe you would expect to see em I suppose a different a different Galway as an attacking threat because I think it's only now we're going to see her come in start and she's

[01:13:47] had a couple of weeks to settle in to get to know everyone training wise and stuff like that so em yeah I'm just really looking forward to it because I think it'll be a really really

[01:13:55] good game. Well look this time next week we will know who the last eight are in the FAI Cup so something to look forward to right let's go here that's enough we'll be here I need we'll be here I need listen to it

[01:14:33] Guys, just a couple this week, Philly Crowley wants to know who has been the best foreign player to play or how has had the most impact in the league. Now I thought that was going to be this season, but reading it there now, it could be anytime.

[01:14:53] So Eileen, I normally try these ones to you first because your in-depth knowledge is unsurpassed. Well if you're going to sort of argue the biggest impact, it's going to be Kira McCormick because of her role now with Treaty, but I suppose like on the pitch, I suppose

[01:15:10] impact head or Riley when Shelburne signed her, drew a huge amount of extra eyes to the league. But in terms of I suppose impact on the pitch for their total duration here, maybe Gloria Douglas that was at Shelburne, that's that season. Do you remember her, Jan?

[01:15:24] She was excellent. She was an American striker. I was about to call her Gabby Douglas, the gymnast. Also from a city point of view, we had a girl, Megan Burke who played with us in 2017. Here we won the cup. Incredible, incredible player. Another Canadian.

[01:15:39] We love the Canadians in this league and obviously look, I suppose Claire Winter is all the fact that we see what she's capable of and like she's now a teammate of Martha at Orlando Pride.

[01:15:48] So like, but we've had some, I do think the leagues had some really good players. Maggie Pierce obviously at Shelburne as well, but I think they can all be very hit and miss. Like we've had some, some stinkers in there as well, but we won't speak of them.

[01:16:03] Go on, give us your biggest stinker now you have to. You open the door. I just think Hark City football club last year. 15 goals a season. That's all I say. Right, okay. Look, I can't even think of the name. No, it's Jan. I'm just kidding.

[01:16:21] That's what you said that. Yeah, yeah, I can't. That's how little impact was made. John, do you want to throw any names in the ring for the best or most impactful foreign importance?

[01:16:32] No, I, to be honest, I don't think I could go up with anyone that Eileen hasn't already come up with, to be honest. I think Heather O'Reilly is a good shot actually because that, that, that, I know she wasn't

[01:16:45] around for long, but the focus and the attention that brought for while she was here was just mind-boggling. Like, you know, and then she was like, she was a genuine worldwide household name in women's football.

[01:16:58] And you know, I remember when they announced that she was coming, like most people Jackson was like, wow, how did that happen? You know? So yeah, it was, yeah, I think, like, I know it was short lived, but probably Heather

[01:17:12] O'Reilly, alright, John, I think that's a good shot. Okay. Right. We leave them at head or side. But she had no impact on the pitch to be fair. She scored in the Champions League. So you were just not a women's football fan long enough to appreciate Heather O'Reilly,

[01:17:28] I think. Like, I genuinely, like, I don't mind saying it, I genuinely nearly ship myself with excitement when they announced her, like, I don't mind saying it, like, I was like a small child. I was thrilled.

[01:17:43] And I had just started watching the women's game because we had started doing last amours. And Eileen was taking me to games and I was learning and this Heather O'Reilly thing happened and Eileen was absolutely delali deluge. Like, this was the greatest thing ever.

[01:17:58] And that's why I say no, she had no impact on the pitch because I remember looking at her like, okay, and I Google, and I was like, oh my God, like, this is a massive sign.

[01:18:06] And then I was kind of like, I didn't do much in the league. Like, you know, I don't know. Grand like, well, that could be my ignorance. I'm quite okay with that as well, if it's my fault. Yeah.

[01:18:21] And if I was up there and there's probably capital and palm sign for Dublin City. Except to the power of 100. I need to get to this, D.E.B. How's things, folks? Just a message about seriously concerning things happening here in Sligo and the

[01:18:42] women's side of things, in my opinion. First, I must say the club are doing tremendous work in the community with its men's teams and boys academy teams producing players and they all deserve the praise they get. However, it just feels like the women's teams are being completely forgotten

[01:18:57] about for the last number of years, the women's under 17 and under 19 teams have been consistently pulling from the same group of players. Yes, you'll have that. But this year, the problem seems to have escalated.

[01:19:11] There have been situations where players play a full 90 away at the Pats or away to DLR or whoever and then have to go away with the 19s on the Sunday away to Bray or whoever and maybe play 30 or 45 minutes there.

[01:19:25] No more than Cork City, most away games are taken by bus which adds to its which adds in itself to the fatigue. A number of 19s have pulled out of games for whatever reason, leaving them reliant on the 17s and even some who don't get into the

[01:19:40] senior matchday squad don't seem to want to play for the 19s. Despite recruiting the best man we probably could get to replace Steve Feeney and signing some quality on paper editions, this season has been dire for the women's first team.

[01:19:55] Yes, injuries have played a problem but I just don't know what's going on. It's great that we're promoting through the academy but they just haven't made the step up. Injuries have played a certain part but it just doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

[01:20:09] Two winter signings in Crompton and McGlynn have gone back to Northern Ireland and then Mindaugrity has jumped ship to Galway. Other clubs have moved on and gone up a level but we've actually got worse. I'm seriously concerned with despite the rich heritage of women's football has in

[01:20:25] the region there won't be women's football in the showgrounds sooner rather than later and then it follows up. I also forgot to mention a few weeks ago the 2019s played away to P-Mount. There was no 17s or 19s but they only had 11

[01:20:41] players. They had no goalkeepers so had to put an outfield player in goals despite there being at least five or six goalkeepers in the club. In an area where players are playing multiple sports you can definitely see why they couldn't be bothered playing football.

[01:20:55] I carumba, I don't know who wants to go first but I guess you can see a lot of what that person is saying coming to fruition on the pitch at the moment. Yeah, I look very much so and I suppose I touched on it briefly earlier.

[01:21:11] It's kind of maybe shades of Cork City in the past or Cork women as they were then. My big thing is that I think regardless of how things are going it'll be very hard for Sligo to pull their women's team from the league.

[01:21:26] Like just as in I don't know will the FBI necessarily allow it? I think again the fact that that is concerning like you're playing an outfield player in goal. We've seen this recently, I've given out about Cork

[01:21:39] City a few times for having no goalkeeper on the bench and it's that all or just put a Gaelic footballer in but it's summer time so you could see Cork City a few times because I'd look going and look at their

[01:21:51] team sheets. They haven't had very many subs particularly at under 19 level because I think it's summer and it said people are away and things like that. But like that person obviously is well informed and I don't know the going

[01:22:03] to answer. I just have to take them at face value. I think like I said earlier on it's kind of a bit of patience. It's like the fact that they had no senior football until this year is absolutely massive so that meant there

[01:22:15] was never the reality is girls were playing until under 18 and then they had nowhere to go so they naturally were going playing other sports. Now they have somewhere to go so you would hope that that filters down

[01:22:28] and it is just about being patient because I think things will get worse before they get better because it said like you still have some really good players there. It's like who I think could potentially move on.

[01:22:39] I think judging by the sound of what that person is saying they definitely will move on because it sounds bleak enough at the moment but it's about having the right structures in place. I said the linking with the local Sligo League up there and

[01:22:54] I know the Jess Various, Catherine Heidemann was very involved in setting up that league and like she's come from the League of Ireland. She's a real football person and she's really passionate about football around Sligo as well and having someone

[01:23:06] like her as maybe a point of contact with the league will really help and it's about and we've seen it here in Cork like if there's no relationship between the league and the National League club in the area absolutely pissing in the

[01:23:17] wind because everyone's at each other's throats because they don't want their player going here or player going there whatever it is. I just think it's about being patient and leaving it built.

[01:23:28] I said I'd rather judge what's on a bench for an under 19 side in September than they would during the summer because it's said just with holidays and things like that but I think the most important thing there is like Sligo has a history of producing

[01:23:43] really good players and you could see that throughout the league and I think it's so important that there is football in the area and said like they pull from Dunneagal as well and the fact that there's no national league club up there at senior level

[01:23:57] so I certainly would be really disappointed to see them go by the wayside and I hope that won't happen. I think they have a very very good manager there at senior women's side that hopefully can kind of keep the show on their own as best he can.

[01:24:10] John it has to be a huge concern if you're pulling from the same pool of players for both under 17s and under 19s and if what is said there that there are people involved in the

[01:24:21] senior squad who don't want to or won't play under 19s when required are needed to do so. Yeah I think a lot more clubs than we might think have that situation where there's

[01:24:39] a significant over and between 17s and 19s and players playing twice or part of two games in the weekend and it's something we touched on. We've touched on a bit of x for last year we've

[01:24:50] touched on a bit of x city of times where there was players that were doing that or are playing a senior game on a Saturday or 19s on a Sunday. Things like not having a keeper at a game obviously shouldn't be happening but

[01:25:07] if you know these things are coming you kind of have to look at the admin there and like if it's a holidays thing why aren't these games getting postponed? Why isn't there some kind of

[01:25:18] worker on the back going to go look we can't play that this weekend. The main thing is players getting games pushed out of it. I do tend to agree with Eileen. I mean you look at the end of

[01:25:27] the day you're an amateur league reliant on young players and this time of year like no matter what the sport is no matter what the level is holidays you know competing priorities like a lot of these

[01:25:46] players are probably wanted by multiple sports it's going to be an issue but yeah look I think I think what Slige or a very young club really in the women's national league and to Eileen's point

[01:25:59] they've had to build that from nothing because there isn't really a there hasn't been a feeder system in local football there really so I wouldn't be I think the one positive thing

[01:26:12] about that DM that you read out was like that the recognition that Tommy Hewitt is a really good person in there and I do think they've got a fantastic person in there I think probably

[01:26:19] just needs a bit of patience but you do need you do need to have like even if your 17s team has to be that little bit younger so that those 17s can play up until the 19s like I know I know

[01:26:33] that's the situation that they've had now with a couple of years because because they've advanced so many 19s eligible players into the senior side they've actually got quite a young 19s team and they've got quite a young 17s team because of that so maybe cast an

[01:26:47] edge a little bit wider that's you know players are in that 14 15 16 bracket I mean Slige or they had a really good I remember like I remember watching them in the Kennedy Cup they've got

[01:26:57] to they had a very good Kennedy Cup site so there's players in the region there always has been and they'll come true probably just needs a little bit of patience but also needs support from

[01:27:07] the club as well just to make sure that the supports and the facilities are there for the players that are coming in but yeah I guess look that person obviously is closer to what

[01:27:15] it knows more about us so yeah it's worrying that someone who would appear to be close to the club has those concerns all right yeah I think it's massively worrying because the way I read it is

[01:27:29] like when they say there's five or six goalkeepers at the club and they didn't have I read that as those five or six goalkeepers chose not to go to the game or not to show up not that they were

[01:27:39] on holidays or they were unavailable and I think maybe like Slige was a rural club it's probably the most rural club in the country if that makes sense and I think like people in Dublin

[01:27:52] that listen to this know population density I think is definitely a thing here and that's how to explain this if you're in Dublin so if you're in Shells Academy or what there's so many people

[01:28:02] and so many kids living in the area you end up with 20 or 24 players who are committed to soccer that's what they want to play whereas in an area like Slige because everybody is trying

[01:28:14] to do everything they're trying to play GA and they're trying to play come on trying to play basketball they're trying to play soccer trying to do everything because they have to keep their

[01:28:20] friends teams going and you don't want to leave people down and all that kind of stuff and I think when you get out into that level of lack of population density I think it becomes

[01:28:30] much much harder to keep players especially if you're going to insist that they're one sport players which you probably are by the time you get 17 and 19 national league level and

[01:28:42] I don't know I think a lot of it comes back down to lack of support from the FAI lack of support from the league lack of money being generated all those things that we've spoken about a million

[01:28:54] times but I do I don't like reading that yeah I don't like hearing that story because I tend to lean towards having massive concerns about what might happen in Saigo over the next 12 18 24 months to be honest

[01:29:11] yeah I suppose if it's a case like you kind of said there that you have and I suppose it was in the DM as well that you have senior players who maybe aren't getting senior minutes and not

[01:29:25] willing to drop down and maintain their match sharpness and their match fitness in a 19s game that's that's probably one for time you to deal with directly to be honest there's there's probably players at every club that don't want to do that but look we saw it

[01:29:43] even look at example Cork City today Heidi Macken, Claude Fitzgerald's board haven't started a city game now and you know three or four weeks board started for the 19s today their board was still under 19 and Eva Robinson's working her way back from

[01:29:57] you know injury trying to get match sharpness up and she's played a full 90 with the with the under with the under 19s as well so that's players have to have that you know level of commitment to

[01:30:09] themselves as well to make sure they're getting their minutes they're staying sharp and yeah but no it's it is a fair point about the population density because like I would imagine that every girl

[01:30:18] that's on the Saigo and women's under 17 team is probably as happens in areas like you said with low low population three probably are also the best gaming football players or kibogie players

[01:30:33] or hockey players for their local clubs as well and that's that's the way it works and look again look I'm in cashland to parry we like we you know we see that at a micro level you know the

[01:30:45] best the best soccer players are the best athletics athletes the best harler or kibogie players and harleys the best gaming footballers the best hockey players it's just the way it goes yeah so yeah look I guess in that context yeah maybe I was a little bit too blasey

[01:31:05] not at all not at all um I think we'll have to wrap it up guys I'd say we're done and dusted hopefully we won't be back here talking about the demise of Saigo Rovers women's

[01:31:18] football club in the next 12 or 24 months and um yeah as I said I think there's a lot that can be done around grants and travel grants and all that kind of stuff for the likes of Galway, Slago, Cork City

[01:31:31] everybody gets the same grant for their academy it's not done by mileage and you know when you're going from Tala to Talca Park it's not the same as going from Slago to Talca Park or Cork to

[01:31:43] Talca Park but you're fundamentally getting the same money for it so I think there are areas that can be looked at that would allow clubs to reinvest money as well and and try and make everything

[01:31:55] better as I said I think we're done unless there is any more Eileen that you want to discuss with the toe toppers actually before we go we should just say um obviously Eileen gave her speed a

[01:32:07] couple of weeks back about how she felt regarding Cork City and how things were going currently and I have to say on a personal level I'd just like to say thank you to everybody who got in touch

[01:32:20] I got some DMs from managers and the league players volunteers at other clubs all saying you know don't take any notice keep going we love the pot etc etc so

[01:32:32] um I appreciate that one manager told us we wouldn't I wouldn't have to interview him and the foot pad outside we could do it on the lovely club bus that would be parked up nice and warm waiting for us

[01:32:44] to do our interviews on so I look forward to that whenever that happens but Eileen I know you also got some messages of support I suppose if you want to put it that way that you just wanted to acknowledge yeah just thanks for everyone who got in touch

[01:33:01] people I know and people I think that I don't know is that like I was genuinely taken aback by it and just a general kind of outrage that a club are expecting top women's players in this country

[01:33:13] to stand on a footpath to be interviewed was the kind of overwhelming thing I think it's just a really bad look for a football club but it is what it is and I think it's important that we

[01:33:23] got it out there because I said this is the situation and we're looking at a time when we're hoping to build a women's game and we want to give players a platform and

[01:33:32] said obviously one club doesn't doesn't want to allow that happen and I said that's that's fine but just I said I'd say every other club got in touch with us and um and look people from within um

[01:33:43] Carxley weren't touched as well and we were equally disgusted by it and so I said look just thanks for all the messages because it is appreciated and sure we'll plow on and

[01:33:53] if we've to interview people in the middle of the road so be it Declan was a great interview so it's all good we keep going the way we're going we'll be in the end no one from Sharma Grove

[01:34:07] just like to talk to you but they might talk to me and Jan you wouldn't know yeah we're balanced we're balanced Declan I could have a guess I could have a guess I could have a guess

[01:34:19] right until next week when we come back we'll have a look at the cop games and see if there was any upsets I won't say it's not I'll leave it go until then adios everyone and we will

[01:34:31] hopefully talk to you all next week adios up the hall adios lost damas your weekly unofficial ssa air trisby women's premier division podcast with Declan McCormack Eileen ring and John O'Sullivan find us on facebook twitter and instagram