Not The Top 20 Podcast

It was a very busy weekend in the EFL - and some notable results especially in the Championship, where some of the bottom clubs went head-to-head. West Brom went crazy against Swansea. Joey Barton did Blackpool's team talk for them. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Selections from the EFL weekend slate. Make sure you get the best value with the Oddschecker app. Download & check out our exclusive picks 👇🏻 bit.ly/OCAppTip #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Rundown of a brilliant weekend in the Championship, including two games with seven goals. Wayne Rooney is in the building. Plus a look at some FA Cup 2nd Round 'notables' at the end. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On our way to Spain, we stopped to chat about the EFL weekend. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Selections from the EFL this weekend. Make sure you get the best value with the Oddschecker app. Download & check out our exclusive picks 👇🏻 bit.ly/OCAppTip #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Loads of questions, some answers & some fence-sitting. Biggest surprises of the season so far? Which managers are/could be most under pressure, seems to be a quite a few chairman pulling the trigger recently. Why over the past few years have teams found it increasingly difficult to bounce back from relegation to the championship at the first time of asking, there don’t seem to be many "yo-yo" teams anymore like there were 10 years ago. Last few years have seen some formations become in vogue in the EFL (wolves 343, luton 442 diamond), which team is playing the formation/tactical/stylistic setup that others will copy next year? Have to look at when the system appears to be making the group of players more effective that they should be on paper. “Top 5 Most Successful EFL Managers of the Decade” Pick an 11 from the EFL. 4 Championship players, 4 from League One and 3 from League Two. If you could each meet one player or manager in the EFL, who would you meet and why? Football Manger / Championship Manager. 1. Favourite edition. 2. Favourite player who never lived upto their potential in real life. 3. Greatest achievement. Best dressed guy on the pod? This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Selections from the EFL this weekend with League One & Two on the agenda. Make sure you get the best value with the Oddschecker app. Download & check out our exclusive picks 👇🏻 bit.ly/OCAppTip #ad Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As we finished this pod, we got wind of Warnock leaving Cardiff which is as live a reaction as you'll ever hear from us! We had to touch on loads of Championship results and storylines after a fantastic weekend. We also answered some of your League One & League Two. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Selections from the Championship and FA Cup ahead of the weekend. Make sure you get the best value with the Oddschecker app. Download & check out our exclusive picks 👇🏻 bit.ly/OCAppTip #ad This podcast is for 18+ only, please be GambleAware. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A day late, but twice as good! In this episode, we talk about literally LOADS of things. Stoke & West Brom, Hull & Huddersfield & Reading, concerns for Fulham & Boro, Unmissable Spectacles at Elland Road... In League One: Tisdale OUT, Russell Martin IN at MK Dons, Bolton - could they do it? - Rotherham and wonder who the best team actually is. In League Two, two away wins in derby matches, Colchester, Salford, Morecambe and a young gem at Carlisle. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Selections from all three EFL divisions ahead of the weekend. A great start to our Oddschecker picks - 5pts profit in the first two selections. Make sure you get the best value with the Oddschecker app. Download & check out our pick👇🏻 bit.ly/OCAppTip #ad This podcast is for 18+ only, please be GambleAware. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We talk about the biggest and best winners from the EFL weekend, plus the departure of its longest-serving manager. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Selections from all three EFL divisions ahead of the weekend! We're excited to be working with Oddschecker to provide an exclusive weekly EFL selection. This week: a 1st goalscorer pick. Make sure you get the best value with the Oddschecker app. Download & check out our pick👇🏻 http://bit.ly/OCAppTip #ad This podcast is for 18+ only, please be GambleAware. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Mega weekend in the EFL - mega topics covered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Championship returns and George is all over it for his betting selections ahead of the weekend. This podcast is for 18+ only, please be GambleAware. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Here are the questions tackled on the pod - it was great fun! Lochlan: After realising that George may not have a bias against Reading I would like to know who he thinks would be the best manager to appoint with our current situation. James: Sunderland managerial candidates, how many do you consider an upgrade on Ross? And which ones might actually get #safc playing the attacking football our squad should be capable of? Peter: Larsson Tyler: Top 3 managers in each division? Dan: L1/L2 players who'd be decent punts for Premier League sides? Also - Michael: Who's the player that people who don't know know about the lower divisions should know about? Neil: I was wondering now we are part way through the season if you could amend you pre-season promotion predictions for each division, which ones would you change & to which club? PompeyinUganda: 1 player from each division that you thought would have big seasons but have gone missing? I’m still trying to find out what Pompey have done with ‘natural goalscorer’ John Marquis Peter: Given the analytics surrounding Nottingham Forest and the suggestion of over performance how significant are the less measurable areas of the game - team cohesion, organisation, desire, being well briefed etc - and for how long can they realistically cover up any deficiencies? Joe: should play-offs (or lower of course) be considered a failure by Fulham if we weren’t to finish in the top 2? Bluericard0: Has @BCFC ’s rebuilding over the summer been productive? Chuck: Have Peterborough got a magical algorithm they give to strikers to turn them all into goal machines?? Goal Factory. Max: The League One table since Graham Coughlan took over sees Rovers at 2nd. Do Rovers need to adapt in January to be less of a “smash and grab” team if they are to challenge for promotion, or should it be business as usual so long as it continues to produce results? Freddie: After #Pompey poor start to the season, what does the team have to do to improve performances. What tactical changes would make the team better, and/or, should Kenny Jackett be sacked and replaced with a different manager? Will: Can you see Kenny Jackett surviving? Also after Pompey being your number 1 tips this season, where has it all gone wrong? Clarke and Lowe? Or is it something else? Liam: Bit of a playful question - which team in each division would your bet your house on not going either up or down - the most mid table team in all 3 leagues? David: Which manager would win a Royal Rumble in each of the EFL leagues? SqueezeEast: if all 72 managers (ish) were in a Royal Rumble at the moment who is eliminated next? also, would you rather deal with one hippo sized rabbit or 5 rabbit sized hippos? 3peasinapodcast: What do you hate most about the first 30 minutes from when you open your eyes in the morning? Harvey: How natural did you find the transition from mates on a podcast to appearing on national TV and what are your fondest memories since starting the pod? Keep up the great work lads! Phil: Player/manager you'd most like to have on the podcast? (Who you've yet to meet!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

George rides again with a team he's backed twice in a row without success. Ali is all about the over/unders. We ask - how can a team top of the league be 4/1 to win? And we reveal who you, the listeners, think will win the three leagues, This podcast is for 18+ only, please be GambleAware. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With the Championship pausing for internationals, and League One & League also approaching the quarter-way stage, it's time to zoom out and look at the three divisions as a whole. Looking at the top & bottom of the leagues specifically, which teams are set to maintain their position, which teams might drop off or pick up. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Let us know your thoughts on Twitter @NTT20Pod. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Betting selections ahead of the EFL weekend! This podcast is for 18+ only, please be GambleAware. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

As the lads pack their bags on another EFL Midweeker - taking in Leeds vs WBA and Brentford vs Bristol City - they whistle through the big talking points from a lively weekend across the EFL. New leaders in the Championship (twice!), a stronf whiff of Cod near the top of League One and away performances to die for in League Two. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Follow us on Instagram.com/NTT20 to follow our Midweek EFL Trip. Subscribe on YouTube to see our Footgolf Challenge with Johnnie Jackson: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLi4ccCSo1F7C_9Djbu_aWA?view_as=subscriber Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Selections ahead of the EFL weekend - includes George'= going against an unbeaten team, Ali going down the 'mug double' route, and much more. This podcast is for 18+ only, please be GambleAware. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ahhhh we had to talk about it. We simply had to. Phil Hay wrote a piece for The Athletic with a quite remarkable suggestion about last season's Play-Off Semi-Final between Leeds & Derby and we couldn't ignore it. Elsewhere, some quite tidy away wins in the Championship - in League One we wonder about Ipswich and Donny, we discuss fan manager pressure at Sunderland and Pompey, and League Two is about Miniesta at Crewe, Argyle concerns, manager news at Oldham and Leyton Orient. There's much more than I can type, so have a listen and please do share the pod too! This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The EFL went mad last week and our selections suffered. Looking to get back in business this week we're talking about: Cardiff v Middlesbrough Reading v Blackburn Rotherham v Shrewsbury Lincoln v Oxford Walsall v Scunthorpe Bradford v Carlisle Port Vale v Mansfield Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We start with a group of away wins in the Championship, then run through the home wins, before finishing with a longer chat on the new managers at Huddersfield and Sheff Wed. In League One, Posh & Rotherham both scored 6, and there were some impressive away wins. In League Two, some of the early frontrunners got upset... and Swindon are just really, really good. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Championship returns and we're back in business after a 2/2 NAP week last week. Will Ali finally get a CB FGS up, after two of his previous five picks scored first last week? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Quite simply a League One & League Two extravaganza. With the added expertise of Oli Walker and Ed Walker. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

International Break - but still L1/L2 action to punt on. We start by asking the question: when is a good time to attack the long term betting markets again, perhaps using performance data as a guide for value, or even where data is misleading the markets? We then each select a NAP, a NB, a bonus & two 'season bets' looking at the long terms markets. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Weekend EFL reaction includes three unbeaten teams in the Championship, a 16-year-old wonderkid, tasty Warburton, Marcus Maddison, “Flynnedine Zidownes”, Poch-dale and five trains at the top of League Two. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We select: 1x NAP (best bet) 2x NB (next best) 1x bonus Last week: Ali: NAP: Wycombe - won Burton: DNB - stake back Cheltenham - lost Vassell FGS - lost NAP: Reading - won NB: Leeds - won NB: QPR - won Bonus: Fulham -2 - lost Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

George is joined by a very special guest in Ali's absence. David Jones, Presenter of MNF and former Oxford United Director, is alongside him as they run through the biggest stories from the EFL this week. Paul Taylor, Nottingham Forest writer for The Athletic, is also on the phone to talk though their win at Craven Cottage last week, whilst the current situations as Bury and Bolton are discussed in the hope of a positive outcome. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We select: 1x NAP (best bet) 2x NB (next best) 1x bonus Last week: NAPs: Lincoln ✅ Leeds ✅ NBs: Fleetwood ❌ Bradford ✅ Cardiff ❌ Portsmouth ❌ Bonus: Crawley -1 ❌ Cooper FGS ❌ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ali Maxwell and George Elek discuss the weekend EFL action, before heading off on their midweek road trip. In the Championship - George talks about Reading being incredible. Jan Siewert is sacked, and we rattle through some key results. In League One - it was a great weekend with some interesting results. Here about the right-back from Duke University, the strikers from Leamington and the prodigal son returning to Oxford (not George). In League Two - Sol's gone. Big strikers are scoring big goals. And goal-shy Cambridge came to play. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We select: 1x NAP (best bet) 2x NB (next best) 1x bonus Last week: NAPs: Plymouth✅ Bristol City❌ NBs: Swindon✅ Gillingham❌ Fleetwood✅ Exeter✅ Bonus: Ipswich/Sunderland draw & u2.5✅ Preston FGS❌ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ali dials up George to discuss the weekend's EFL action. In the Championship - 2x teams on 6 points, and a whole lot of teams getting off the mark. In League One - 3x teams on 6 points, some Yellows and some Young Wanderers. In League Two - some unexpectedly big wins, 3x teams on 6 points, and more. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this Betting Show, we pick: 1x NAP (best bet) 2x NB (next best) 1x bonus Enjoy, and please share! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Recapping the Opening Weekend via the tried and tested structure of 'Winners and Losers' and talking to Phil Hay about Leeds United & his move to the Athletic. This podcast is sponsored by The Athletic. For a free trial, and 50% off, use the link: theathletic.co.uk/ntt20 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A busy week previewing the season wouldn't have been complete with a Betting Show. A bit different from last season, which is explained at the top of the show. We're looking for your suggestions/feedback, so please get in touch, and please share the pod where possible! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We predict the Championship table from 24th to 1st. This podcast is kindly sponsored by Fitzdares: www.fitzdares.com/ Let us know what you think on Twitter: twitter.com/NTT20Pod Intro Music: 'Where Do You Wanna Go?' by New Carnival itunes.apple.com/gb/album/where-d…453?i=1048907676 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

League One table predicted, from 24th to 1st. This podcast is kindly sponsored by Fitzdares: https://www.fitzdares.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/NTT20Pod Intro Music: 'Where Do You Wanna Go?' by New Carnival itunes.apple.com/gb/album/where-d…453?i=1048907676 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The boys go through their predicted League Two table, from 24th to 1st. This podcast is kindly sponsored by Fitzdares: https://www.fitzdares.com/ Twitter: twitter.com/NTT20Pod Intro Music: 'Where Do You Wanna Go?' by New Carnival itunes.apple.com/gb/album/where-d…453?i=1048907676 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

With George away, Ali dialled up some pure INSIGHT for your consumption. With the prediction podcasts looming, we need to get an idea of how the three relegated PL teams are shaping up. With Fulham 2nd in the betting, Cardiff 3rd and Huddersfield 9th, many think they’ll be right in the mix, but we know it's not that easy. Steven Chicken, Sammy James and Scott Salter help us get up to speed. We also know very little about the many players that have joined EFL Clubs from Scottish Fitba this summer. Thankfully, Gavin Miller knows all about them and shares his wisdom. Time-codes: 03:00 - Huddersfield with Steven Chicken from the Examiner. 23:00 - Fulham with Sammy James from Fulhamish. 44:10 - Cardiff City with Scott Salter from View From The Ninian. 1:01:00 - Scotland -> EFL Summer Transfers with Gavin Miller from PureFitbaw. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL! https://t.co/D4hp7clp22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is a pod in which we talk about some opinions, and make a few predictions. You can see what the format/topics of discussion are below. Sheff Wed and Steve Bruce. 1x each 'Don’t believe the hype' team. (One for the whole EFL) 1x way better than expected team. (One for the whole EFL) Last season's top half teams that will finish in the bottom half? (One for each div) Last season's bottom half teams that will finish in the top half? (One for each div) Pick a team in each league who will change their manager... Goal predictions for selected strikers across the 3 leagues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Consider this our first pre-season friendly! We asked you what you wanted us to give our thoughts on, and you responded with literally tens of topics. Get in touch with us at @NTT20Pod on Twitter with your thoughts. If you'd like to sponsor the podcast for the new season, please get in touch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Join us as we run through some of the major talking points from the last few weeks in the EFL. Managers - some have joined, some have left. Transfers - we pick our favourite transfers so far across the divisions and touch on the teams that have been busy early in the window: Posh, MK Dons, Coventry, Northampton, Bradford. Cheers! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Make sure you catch Part One first! In Part Two, we go through Nigel's transition from player to manager and his managerial career - with plenty to discuss from spells at Southampton, Leicester, Hull & Derby, as well as time spent as an assistant manager. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It was great to get to know - and chat football with - Nigel Pearson, a man who has had quite the life in football. In Part One, we discuss his experiences working in Belgium, and a fascinating playing career with Shrewsbury, Sheffield Wednesday and Middlesbrough. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Make sure you catch Part One first! In Part Two, we go through Chris' transition from player to manager and his managerial career - with plenty to discuss from spells at Charlton, Huddersfield and Southend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Ali sat down with Chris Powell to get to know him, to discuss his playing and management career. This is part one, in which Ali and Chris discuss other options for him in the future, and run through his early life in football as a player with Crystal Palace, Southend, Derby, Charlton among others, and ending in 5 England caps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this podcast George reveals our Official Team of the Season for each division in the EFL, and Ali presents an alternative Team of the Season, made up of individuals who had impressive campaigns in teams that did not win promotion or make the Play-Offs. Who would you have in your team? Tweet us @NTT20Pod if you like... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Championship Play-Off Final was between Aston Villa and Derby. We're not going to give away what happened in this description, but we broke it down on this lovely podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices