After a short break to recharge the batteries, the JTET team are back for some club-by-club reviews of the 2023 J2 season!

In this episode, the focus is on the top seven teams from the final league table. Jon Steele and James Taylor begin by looking at the automatically-promoted sides: Machida Zelvia (Start to 06:50), and Jubilo Iwata (06:50 to 12:50). 

After that, special guest Lewis joins us to look back on a fantastic season for Play-Off winners Tokyo Verdy (13:00 to 26:00). You can find Lewis on Twitter @illusionofease.

Jon and James then reconvene to run the rule over Shimizu S-Pulse (26:00 to 32:30), Montedio Yamagata (32:30 to 39:10), and JEF Chiba (39:10 to 48:30).

To round off Part 1, another special guest, Daniel Kuroda, gave us his thoughts on V-Varen Nagasaki's 2023 campaign (49:00 to Finish). Daniel is on Twitter @NagaSapo_EN.

Thanks to Lewis and Daniel for their contributions, and to all our listeners for their support this season - Parts 2 and 3 of our season review will be coming soon!

*For reference, we asked Lewis and Daniel to record answers to these questions for their segments on the pod:

1) What grade would you give to your team’s 2023 season, and why? (A, B, C, D, E)

2) What was the high point of the season?

3) What was the low point of the season?

4) Who was the most important player for your team this season (you can pick the manager, if he was the most important)?

5) What was the biggest surprise of the season for you (from your team, or any other team in the division)?