Hello, and welcome to the TFO Football Podcast. I'm Joe Devine and hot digger-de-dog.

It's kicking off. I'm here with Alex Stewart. Yes, you are. Good morning.

And we're also here with Seb Stafford Blore, aren't we Alex?

I believe Seb is here, although how present he is in real terms remains to be seen.

It's half in the TFO podcast land and half in Nirvana, because of course the second

most important story of today is that apparently Joe Shea Marina has lost his job, which

we found out during the recording of this podcast. So apologies if what was already a bit

ahead, Hawk is even more off the calf. We are also delighted to be joined today by Mr.

James Montague, who kindly agreed to a short notice as he, as he attests to, to come

and talk us through for half an hour the situation with the super league, the super league,

the story that, of course, broke last night. James is very well placed to discuss that

currently and historically. So thanks to him. And also afterwards, we go on and talk about

Merineo, assuming that that is real and that the tweets that I've seen about it are actually

factual. If they're not, this will all be cut out and you won't be hearing it.

Okay. Another thing to say is that, you know, who's an ever present throughout these

times of, of, of darkness, Seb? Tell me, Joe. It's all the journalists at the athletic,

because when I was going to sleep last night and struggling to sleep thinking, Oh, I'm

missing out and everything's fucked. When I woke up, yeah, I, there was a perfect explainer

of everything that had happened in the super league conversations written by such people

as Adam Krafton contributed to by others such as Matt Slater. And in, in, you know, what

took me about 10 minutes to read, I'm up to date. I know everything there is to know

about the super league. And also, I know some stuff that you wouldn't find out anywhere

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