The J-Talk Podcast

In this week’s short and sweet JTSC, Mike Innes looks back on all the J3 round 22 action and previews the fixtures for round 23.

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After another wonderfully chaotic J1 weekend, Jonny and Ben welcomed Tom Dallyn back to the pod for a chat about Sapporo, who returned to the winner's list for the first time in 10 league games with a tremendous victory away at Urawa on Saturday night (to 23:53).

In Part 2 we round up the movement down in the relegation dogfight, then shift our attention to the top four (to 1:01:34), before finishing off the episode with the remainder of the top flight results.

Dan Orlowitz returned to the pod to give his thoughts on the top four, Harry Kewell's exit from Yokohama F.Marinos, FC Tokyo's progress under Peter Cklamovski, and the bumper crowds at, and management of, The National Stadium in Part 1 of our new episode (to 1:10:10), before Jonny and Ben roundup the Emperor's Cup results from last midweek, wrap-up the remainder of the J1 Matchday 23 results, and look ahead to the weekend's final round before a two and a half week break.

Mike Innes returns with another packed episode of J-Talk: Short Corner. Mike starts with a review of Tegevajaro Miyazaki’s Emperor’s Cup match from last Wednesday (to 01:55), rounds up all the league games from round 21 of J3 (to 13:30), and previews the weekend’s fixtures.

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Time was against the JTET crew this week, so please accept this humble, 10-minute micro-pod as a review of last weekend's J2 action!

Jon Steele, flying solo this week, rounds up the three biggest games from last weekend in J2, names his Most Bravo Player for Round 23, and looks ahead to this weekend's Round 24 fixtures (the last round before a short summer break for J2 and J1).

Hope everyone enjoys the quick hit, and their summer break - normal service will be resumed soon!

We begin this episode by rounding up a dirty week for Yokohama F.Marinos, who lost twice in four days, Gamba Osaka putting them to the sword on Saturday night to ramp up the pressure on Harry Kewell (to 21:00), before we round up victories for the other top four sides (to 35:50).

Then in Part 2 Lewis White returns to the pod to chat about Tokyo Verdy's 1-1 draw with Cerezo Osaka and their tremendous first season back in the top flight (to 59:10), before we review a good weekend for most of the relegation dogfighters (to 1:31:25), chat about Japan's Olympic squad named late last week, and preview Wednesday night's third round of the Emperor's Cup, and the weekend's J1 Matchday 23.

In this week’s standalone J-Talk: Short Corner, Mike Innes rounds up another exciting weekend of J3 football (to 13:25) and looks ahead to the midweek Emperor’s Cup and weekend league games.

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The JTET 'dream team' of James Taylor and Jon Steele are back again to cover all of the latest action from J2!

In this week’s J-Talk: Short Corner, Mike Innes reviews the rescheduled J3 round 16 game (to 2:10) and all of the weekend’s round 19 action (to 13:55), checks both ends of the league table, and ends with a round 20 preview.

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Sean Carroll returns to the pod as we review the past two top flight matchdays (with a focus on the weekend's Matchday 21), and then piece together the Team of the (Half) Season.

In Part 1 we review Machida's massive win at Gamba Osaka and Kobe seeing off Kashima in the other battle between top four teams (to 24:00), then chat about the good recent runs Cerezo Osaka and Fukuoka are enjoying (to 35:15), before discussing Hiroshima, and where they might improve after a couple more frustrating draws (to 41:30).

Then in Part 2 its Team of the (Half) Season time (to 1:28:00), before we run through the other five games from the weekend, the changes in personnel at Urawa, what's going wrong at F.Marinos, and the Relegation Dogfight.