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Well, hi, welcome to our final show of 2025.

It's been an interesting year, isn't it?

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10% discount on your legal fees. Look out for full details and terms on the website, plus link in the episode description box. Onward, right. So we are revisiting our predictions that we made. I mean, most of the predictions were made on the 12th of August, so this was just heading into the Everton game, wasn't it? But I think the predictions have been made just before we signed Calvert Lewin. So for the most part, you lot weren't aware of Calvert Lewin being signed. I did mine on the day itself when the video came out, I think, and we had signed him by that point. Yeah. It kind of came out of nowhere a bit, didn't it, the signing as well, from what I remember. I think there'd been whispers and rumors, but I don't think any, well, certainly it wasn't concrete enough for any of us to have picked him, because none of us did, apart from Dan. Right. But we'll do it. We'll go in reverse order. We started off with top scorer and finishing position last time, but let's tidy up the various other bits first. So we picked finishing position. We gave you a region of three if you wanted it was the rule that we said. or if you want to pick a specific number than you could. There was top goals score, a player of the season,

young player of the season, and then the wild card moment slash headline grabber moment, what would happen across the course of the season to get fans talking. Should we do Player of the Season and Young Player first? Yeah. Let's start with Young Player then. Yeah, Edno, picked Sam Byron because he still looks 17. That wasn't me. That was Odie. So, Odie picked Sam Byron. Oh, sorry, yeah, yeah, sorry, I misread the name. Because he still looks 17. Yeah. And he also said, or if Chris doesn't use it,

Johnny Hausen,

hopefully he'll break through

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