Hello there and welcome to a brand new R-Splug R-Scast right here on R-Splug.com.

Hope you're well.

Thank you for being here as always.

It's much appreciated.

This is Episode 377.

377 of the podcast.

I don't know why I'm telling you that.

The only thing we can really glean from that is that there have been 376 episodes before this one.

So if this is your first time listening to the R-Scast, welcome along.

Great to have you here.

And there are 376 completely out of date episodes for you to listen back to if you like.

Because that's the thing about a football podcast.

You know, it doesn't last. There's no shelf life really.

We play tomorrow. So now this podcast, I'm recording now by Saturday evening.

It's out of date completely.

Even though probably we'll discuss things that will last until maybe the next Premier League game against Southampton.

But you know, that's it. It's a very short shelf life.

So that's it. That's the thing about these podcasts.

This number is 377.

Again, I don't know why I'm telling you that.

Maybe there's something in the numbers, you know me.

I'm looking for patterns in numbers.

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