On our first J2 Special of the new second tier campaign, Geoff Osborne, Steve Barme and Jon Steele guest to review the first month of the season.

In Part 1 Geoff makes a barnstorming J-Talk debut as he chats about surprise leaders FC Ryukyu's superb start to life in J2, and also discusses some of the special challenges the club faces in establishing a football culture down in Okinawa in such a unique setting (to 24:14).

Then Steve visits to talk about Omiya's teething problems under new manager Takuya Takagi, and another underwhelming start to the season for the Squirrels (to 37:50), before Jon rounds up the rest of the big stories from Matchday 5 and the first month of the season as a whole (to 1:03:35), with a brief check on J3, who played Matchday 3 over the weekend, thrown in at the end of the episode at no extra charge.

Follow my guests on twitter and the web:

Geoff - @OkinawaOzzy

Geoff's FC Ryukyu Updates blog

Steve - @AgentOrange2009

Jon - @J2KantoBites