The harsh realities of a full season squeezed in to six months were laid bare to all J1 clubs and supporters on Monday evening when the top flight fixtures were released, and Jonny Nicol, making a storming J-Talk debut, joined Sam and Ben to discuss our major takeaways from the biiiiiiig reveal.
Jonny's Gamba Osaka blog can be found here: Gamba Osaka blog in English, and its sister Twitter account is @BlogGamba.
As we seemingly do on every episode these days, Dan Orlowitz's terrific work is referenced several times here, you can find his extremely informative pieces on the J.League's Restart Protocols and the Fixture Reveal on his Japan Times archive.