THE FOOTBALL SHOW: LOI PD Preview with Vinny Perth | Who can pip Rovers to the title? | Are Dundalk the real deal? | OFF THE BALL
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What teams are expected to perform well in the League of Ireland season?
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Welcome along to Thursday night's football show. And I'm pretty sure this is the first time the football show has ever happened while Ireland are playing a Six Nations game. So it is a first here. Vinnie Perth is with us in studio as well. Vinnie, are you buzzing for tomorrow night?
Yeah, can't wait. Yeah, it's been Christmas Eve stuff. It feels a little bit like that. Yeah. It's another year on the scrap heap for me. So it's brilliant. I'm loving it.
How close did he get to getting removed from the scrap heap?
I don't know. What's the word? A veteran? Anyway, I'm done. I think coaches now, this is the difference. Pre-season is grand. There's no real pressure. And then all of a sudden you've got to be ready for Friday night and results come and you lose sleep if you win and you sleep well if you, or do the way around, you lose sleep if you lose and you sleep well if you win. So there'll be a lot of people excited for tomorrow and nervous at the same time. Getting off to a good start for a lot of clubs is really important. You think of the teams at the so-called bottom half of the table going into it, they'll feel a little bit of pressure, certain managers will. it is a relentless league in the sense of very competitive and teams are very evenly matched outside maybe the top and the bottom but all the way in the middle and we've seen that over the last couple of years a lot of teams will beat each other so there's a bit of pressure comes with that you know sure
Tomorrow night, we're hoping anyway that it's going to be Shamrock Rovers versus Dundalk. Hopefully the rain will have subsided by then, the tal is all good and the surface isn't holding as much water as maybe it's done in the past. The easy sort of prediction on Shamrock Rovers in a general sense is that they don't always start the season in flying colours, particularly when they've got a later conclusion to the season with Conference League over the past two years. Probably have enough in them to beat a Dundalk side though at home on the first night.
Yeah, you would say you'd expect Rovers to win. You'd expect them to win the league. All of them different bits and pieces.
How does Vinnie Perth feel about the upcoming Shamrock Rovers vs Dundalk match?
Dundalk have recruited very well this year. Normally, or the last certainly number of years, the team that have been promoted probably being everybody's favourite to go down. I don't think that's the case this year. I think Dundalk have done really well. Conor Cairns in goal. And what they've done is Ciarán Conduff has recruited really strong down the spine. Conor Cairns in goal is a very very good sign and he'd be one of the better keepers in the league Cornwell from Bowles experience end of half Buckley experience in that midfield Mullum from Derry really good up front and then they've got Daryl Horgan and Senna Mullen, young Kenny as well so they've a lot of sort of talent around there but having that spine right down the middle will give them a chance you feel to staying up and I think anything for Dundalk is success is ninth up and just slowly rebuilding and we look at what has happened to Cork
And a lot of teams, they've come up and down, up and down. But just staying up for a year or two gives you a chance to build and that'll be the key for Dundalk. I think the big question around Shamrock Rovers is we all expect them to win the league and...
biggest question mark around them is probably have they improved enough I'm not so sure they have but has anyone else got enough about them to sort of steal the title back off them not sure We'll come to the contenders in just a moment but in terms of Shamrock Rovers a couple of additions on the pitch which we'll get to in a moment but in terms of the reshuffle at boarding level with Ronan Finn coming in replacing Stephen McPhail how significant is this?
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What teams are expected to perform well in the League of Ireland season?
0:00–2:33
2
How does Vinnie Perth feel about the upcoming Shamrock Rovers vs Dundalk match?
2:33–9:55
3
What are Shamrock Rovers' strengths and weaknesses this season?
9:55–19:51
4
How is Dundalk preparing for their season in the top tier?
19:51–25:59
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