Hello, welcome to the new season of the Not the Top 20 podcast and most importantly the new season in the EFL.

Alongside me is George Ehrlich. I am Ali Maxwell. And you're listening to our League 1 predicted table.

Now, we'll be starting down at the bottom of League One where there's no fun to be

had. Let's be quite clear about that. Four teams obviously drop out of League One and it makes for a

really, really miserable experience for fans of clubs involved in that relegation battle.

But we'll be moving up to happier times, happier climbs up at the top end of the seat of the table so please

stick with us and make sure that you're getting in touch with us at ntt 20 pod and letting us know

exactly what you think about our predictions so george we've got to start with the 24th place team

it is a really hard call this year the league one one. Relegation battle. I'm sure you'll

agree. So tell me why we have Walsall at 24th currently. Yeah, it just everything looks like a

really difficult season for Walsall coming up. I think the last couple of years have been fairly

difficult as well. They of course lost their manager last season. I think the last couple of years have been fairly difficult as well. They, of course,

lost their manager last season, I think, to the delight of many fans, but I saw little at the back

end of last season to suggest that Dean Keats is anything more than a bit of a club legend from his

playing days. Even the job he did at Wrexon was fairly unspectacular.

I mean, given his purely what he did at that club and his CV,

he never would have got the League 2 job, I don't think, that he ended up getting.

There are still some quality in the squad, I guess, in terms of Amadu Bakuoko

and Kieran Morris being the two main ones,

an attack, and Joe Edwards in midfield. But despite that, even with them last season, they still

struggled. And I think the players they brought in, they brought in Chris Dunn from Rexum,

unsurprising. He's Zellie Ishmael, who I think is the seemingly the player that Walsall fans are kind of pinning their hopes to. I mean, I don't want

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