Rovers finish 2025 in style, the year in review
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Chalk hands are good. Chalk hands are good. Chalk hands are good.
Hello and welcome back to the Middletown Way. This is episode 12 and it's our final episode of 2025. We're reflecting on a strong finish to the year with a 3-1 win over Hamilton Spartans, a result that brings significant prize money into the club. We'll also discuss the confirmation of Josh Honahan's move to Lincoln City and we'll take a step back to assess what 2025 has meant for Rovers on and off the pitch. As well as that, we'll start off with proceedings that took place last night, the final fixture of the league phase of the Conference League. Yeah, last game of the year as well. It's been a long time coming. It's sad, it's very sad. Yeah, 3-1 win over Hammer and Spartans.
There were times where it looked a little bit ropey.
Yeah, I was getting PTSD maybe of a game against Breedablick where Hammer and Spartans had a chance very quickly after Burke's penalty and then they ended up equalising. I'm sure the Rovers can't be signing off here with no wins under their belt. And then the red card.
How did Shamrock Rovers finish their 2025 European campaign against Hamrun Spartans?
The red card changed the game as well. Yeah. Rovers, in that second half, it could have been about 7-8-1 at that one point. Yeah, they were peppering the goal. They were peppering it. It just wasn't going their way, really, until John McGovern got that third in the 93rd minute. Yeah, like... There were points there with Gaffney's chances and stuff. It looked as if it was just harder to not score.
Yeah, it did. It made it look like that. It looks more difficult to not score than to score.
Yeah.
In the end, they won, but they're out.
Yeah. It's good to have the win for pride. Like, yeah exactly like it's it's it is at the end of the day it's 400 000 euro yeah into the rovers purse that can be used potentially for any potential january activity yeah and particularly it's going to be required now that obviously josh is headed the other way that nightmares yeah we'll get into that in a little while yeah but um So that's where that comes in, isn't it, really? And Bradley spoke ahead of the game where he said that he wants to send supporters into Christmas with three points. yeah and a win it was yeah but yeah no definitely he did and it was good to see a win there because obviously in the conference league hasn't been a great season so far no it's been as we've already especially with two losses at home it's nice for the last one to be a win to send the fans off yeah happy i was surprised by hammer on spartans to be honest um surprised by i i heard of a
ahead of the game but I was still just waiting to see it and obviously they brought 500 supporters from Malta yeah for a game that meant nothing to them in terms of they were already out yeah just money And they would have probably spent a good bit to get to Dublin and get there.
Yeah, I can't imagine what's... Fair trek from old to... Yeah, it's quite a few hours.
Sean Deviations again. Yeah, it's always back to... From one last year of 2024.
From one last time.
It's always back to... But yeah, it's... It was good. It's always nice to see a good following from the away team, particularly in the European games.
It's nice to see when, obviously, the stadium wasn't full. But it was a decent number for a game that had, in theory, nothing on the line.
Yeah, and particularly when it's a cup game, so it's a case of, you know, it's not as if it comes with the season ticket or anything. No, you're paying that extra. Yeah, you're paying extra. If it's someone who hasn't bought... you know, tickets for the three-match pack for Iron Seek, and let alone that was an extremely cold night.
Yeah, it was freezing. One of the coldest evenings in there.
Yeah. But still an attendance of 5,810, which isn't bad. It's a good number.
Yeah.
It led to an average attendance across European games of around 7,000. That's good, to be fair, yeah. What other club would have it? No.
No.
Some of our clubs rented out Palace Stadium this year and still didn't produce the numbers until an English club came along. Yeah, they only got the numbers when Mateta was in town.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:09–1:14
2
How did Shamrock Rovers finish their 2025 European campaign against Hamrun Spartans?
1:14–4:20
3
Which players stood out in the Tallaght 3–1 win and how did the red card affect the match?
4:20–6:43
4
What does the €400,000 Conference League prize mean for Rovers' January transfer plans?
6:43–56:56