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Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Analyze Nancfield, your tactics and analytics podcast, Kia the shape of the Blood

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I'm joined by David Hughes as always.

Dave, any new updates this week or do you sound as usual?

Yeah it sounds as usual mate short and sweet all is fine in my camp

Hopefully it isn't yours all is fine but you are injured this week

alongside me yeah I am actually yeah yeah so it must be contagious but yeah and I'll

picked up a little knock playing last week

hopefully it's not too serious I don't know if people care to know that but they know anyway.

This and this is important my first team is here.

But yeah, so today's episode, we're going to stick with a bit of a new year theme.

Obviously, long-term listeners to the show will all know how

analysed and I feel usually works. We are usually very much game focused, reviewing

and previewing games.

But I think just because we've been gone for so long,

just a bit of a new approach for the new year, I suppose,

when I look at specific games and going to be a bit more

Scattergun maybe with art to a point and look at general overview topics

overriding themes for each episode, see how we go with it. If you want us to change back, do let us know.

But I think, yeah, we're just going to touch upon talking points on the Liverpool scene as we have been doing for the past few episodes.

So first up this week Dave, I was going to mention this last week because it was kind of

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