Hello and welcome to the Synicic Weekly on Thursday the 29th of August, 2024.

I'm your host Barry Galaher.

And what a show we have for you tonight.

There's so much happening that's hard to catch your breath.

But to talk us through it, I have, as always, Alan Edgar, Alan.

How are you?

I'm good, mate. We're gibbering away here before we started, so get right tore into it.

Yes. And Stu, hoping forward to digesting.

Yeah, I could use some of it, to be honest. I feel, I just feel overwhelmed, Barry, quite frankly.

So the sooner we can start getting through it, the better.

Yes, but I put together this rundown

about three o'clock.

No, after five o'clock.

It's very much a moving feast

because a lot of this stuff is outdated already.

Anyway, the big talking point is

that we've just had the inaugural Champions League draw for the new format.

Before we get into the netting right, Alan, how did you find the process of it with the big magic button?

Loved it. A big novelty magic button really adds a lot to it.

No, it was good, even the wee video, I thought,

we're still waiting for the draw.

The patience was starting to wear thin,

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