Oh, hello regular season, it's been a while!

With pre-season in Turkey wrapping up, it turns out we've got a couple of very important play-off fixtures to get through if we're to achieve some part of our boards' targets for 2021/22.

Last week we found Shane knocked out of the Champions League qualifiers so we're both into the final Europa League playoffs with St. Johnstone and Royal Antwerp on the horizon.

We knock out our last pre-season friendlies and cruise into the league proper as life in Turkey officially begins with the first two games of the season.

We've held our final European game for a live (well, recorded live anyway) play-along for the second leg European fixtures. 

Across seasons 1 to 4 we managed a live game or two at the beginning and end of each season and this seems like a good place to start. Stick with it!

Again this week, there's no love for Turkish squad rules, transfers, transfer budgets, player trials and the rest. 

Let the games begin.

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Contains strong language throughout.