After 167 episodes, Ep168 marks a bit of a new era for the 1912 Exiles....

We are delighted to announce that we have partnered with talkSPORT to become part of their fan network of podcasts. Jack explains at the top of the pod what it means and why we're doing it.

The first half of the episode is an Ed match diary of the game against Swindon Town, with guest input from Robins fan Phil as well as Hazells Stand regulars Stu, Fraser, Ollie and Chris. Despite an immediate setback, a tactical masterstroke at half-time saw County conjour up a win which leaves them on 40pts and looking firmly up the table.

In the second half of the show, we bring you the first of a few planned bonus features over the coming month. In this one, we check in with Newport City Women FC, hearing from their players Amy Doswell and Sophie Jenkins about how their season is going and how healthy the women's game is in Newport more generally. If you want to lend them your support, the games they mention at the end are away at Cardiff City U19s at Ocean Park in Cardiff on Sunday 11 February (2pm) and a big game at Newport Velodrome against Penybont on Sunday 21 April (also 2pm).

As always, contact us via Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn with any questions. You can also contribute the price of a Bovril towards the podcast's running costs via our ko-fi page. Thanks as always to Tinty & The Bucket Hats for letting us use Discoland as our theme, and thanks to all of you for listening.

Also from the pod this week - our #4QuestionPreview ahead of Saturday's game.

Good Evening
Not sure if it’s my techno failings but when open up the new pod I don’t see a slide bar to navigate to a different part of the episode as I could previously. Have I missed something?

Phil in Northampton

Hi Phil. Yeah, it does seem like a weird element of the Acast website as displayed on mobile phones. You can skip forward if using a desktop browser, and also if you're using the embedded player on THIS page (top post, above) and obviously you can do the same via any podcast app if you're listening on your phone.