Spurgeon full cry here.

Lonella! Welcome, well, well, worth the wait.

Welcome, listeners, to The X-Rinch. My name's Wendy, and I'm joined by my sidekick and best friend Bardi. Hello, Bardi.

Hello, Wendy. And it's just the two of us. Does it feel lonely with that, Nathan?

Just the two of us, Wendy. It's quite nice. Yeah, it makes a nice change. I think I feel like this is going to be quite a short, succinct podcast. Just, I don't know, not a great deal to talk about, but no sort of Nathan

rambles about players not being positions or, I don't know, the state of English football

under capitalism, just two folks who want to have a little chat about the transfer targets and then move on with their lives.

Put some proper football talk.

That's what's going to be today.

None of this tactics nonsense is going to be proper your dad comments and everything else.

I'm going to have to.

That's just made me realise I'm going to have to try and carry the can for tactics and analytics.

Have you not heard that I now step into tactical analysis?

That's kind of what I do now.

How could I forget?

Yes.

More on that later, for sure.

A couple of quickies at the start.

Firstly, we reached 1,500 patrons in the past week.

And that is a slightly mind-blowing milestone to have reached. And we just wanted to say we really appreciate it.

Thank you so much for supporting us. Thanks for being an ex-sub at any point,

if you have been. I mean, that is definitely the best way to support the work we do. It is

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