John McGovern

And it kind of makes you think how big of an achievement that was for Shells to win the league the way they did.

But the way they're all speaking now off the back of Shamrock Rovers basically winning this title and the way the board and everything are aligned and the signings that they're talking about getting, I do think that if Shamrock Rovers can manage to kind of, you know, pass on some of the older players or aging players at this stage and bring in some quality players to kind of add to that now they obviously did that with players like will fitzgerald who i do think will come good next season be far bigger players same with john mcgovern i know he's been there a while but i think he'll become a bigger player jonathan affelabi so there's a few there that i think will become bigger players next year the loss of michael newton the loss of ozian vuna can they spend that money on on players that will help them on the On the now, you know, Graham Burke's not getting any younger, Aaron Green's not getting any younger.

So these sort of players eventually will have to see, you know, they'll eventually have to see them off, won't they? And then you kind of wonder, can they do that? You know, and how is that going to affect them going forward? Because they obviously have such a good...

You know, Graeme Burke's probably, he's in the argument to being the best League of Ireland player of all time.

Yeah.

you watch John McGovern playing for Seymour Grover just won an elite title in front of eight and a half thousand people are we ever getting there

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Day you know Sean McRover against Bowes Bowes against Shelburne Slago Rovers my nearest club I go down the other time bring the boys down there for Friday night the Slago they're struggling 4,000 people

This is an interesting one as well, Seagull Farrell.

And it did cross my mind the other day, like any danger Rovers could lose John McGovern in January or sort of in the next year because John McGovern's won.

It's a bit like people look at Jack Moylan's career taking off now.

And I think part of the attraction is that the level he played at coming up, people feel there's more to develop.

The fact that John McGovern was effectively playing part-time until he went to Shamrock Rovers, and he's shown potential, and he's a striker who's scoring goals.

So either, like, you know, like, if you're scoring goals as a striker, people will always have a look.

Like, I mean, who knows? Like, I don't know how good he is.

... and just being competitive and, and winning your battles and duels and all those kind of things, you won't win any matches.

Yeah, because it is the tried and trusted for Shamrock Rovers, mostly that line of obviously John McGovern, who has been in good form starting up front.

But over those last few games since the break, Bradley has really gone with the, the players that he would've normally trusted over a long, longer period of time.

Yeah.

And then, I don't know, I'm just looking at my notes.

It's really just a lot of praise for John McGovern.

He's fantastic.

Like his name is, I've started calling him Gov. Fitz and Gov.

Bohemians nil.

We've seen the best chance of the game come and go for John McGovern, who was slipped through for Graham Burke, who's been testing the Bohs defense all night.

[crowd cheering] And he's managed to find the back of the net this time.

It's McGovern with the header.

Found their way first from Paul Walters.

The ball was played back to him from his defender, Patrick Hickey.

And under no pressure at all and with John McGovern's legs gone, Hickey managed to play the ball back to his goalkeeper.

[crowd cheering] His goalkeeper knocked it out for a throw-in under no pressure at all.

But first to events in the League of Ireland title race last night, and Shamrock Rovers ran out 2-1 winners over Bohemians in front of 10,000 people at Tallaght Stadium.

John McGovern had the Hoops in front at the break, thanks to a first-half header from a Graham Burke cross.

On the other side, equalized in the second half thanks to Ross Tierney, who pounced on a bouncing ball in the Rovers box.

However, Stephen Bradley's side were back in front just five minutes later when Dylan Watts turned home a McGovern long throw following a goalkeeping error from Bohems' keeper Paul Walters.