Jonny Nicol guests on this episode, that we believe sets a new J-Talk record for our longest pod ever, with each top flight team's new arrivals (with the exception of Iwata, sorry (!)) scrutinized.

We begin with the Samurai Blue, who face a crunch World Cup Qualifier away to Australia on Thursday. We debate how Hajime Moriyasu will line his team up in the wake of three players having to withdraw from his initial 27-man squad, with several positions in the first XI seemingly up for grabs (to 13:00).

Then our round-up of J1 kicks off with more Khaos in Kobe, with Atsuhiro Miura shown the door after Vissel made it seven without a win to begin the season after drawing away at Shimizu on Saturday (to 30:20). The rest of Part 1 stays on a Kansai tip, as we cover Gamba Osaka's home defeat at the hands of Fukuoka, Cerezo's home draw with Sapporo, and Kyoto's narrow loss at home to FC Tokyo (to 1:22:55).

Part 2 leads off with Urawa's win over Iwata, and then we work our way through the other four games, including the football, or rather, water polo match at Mitsuzawa last Friday night.