Hello there. Thanks for tuning in to the Not the Top 20 podcast where I, Ali Maxwell and him,

George Ehrlich, talk all things EFL, and what a weekend we had across all three divisions.

The only thing to do is to get straight into the championship where we had a couple of very

tasty fixtures, it's fair to say

Preston Bristol City we're not even going to talk about but at three all was one of the liveliest games of the season so far

one of the other tasty looking fixtures pre weekend was QPR and west brom at george this game was fourth versus fifth beforehand

but as we discussed on Sky Sports on Friday

night before the Stoke Forest game, neither team had kept a clean sheet before that. And West Brom

had been behind in seven of their eight games so far, and yet we're unbeaten. So a couple of

teams that we were looking forward to seeing. On the day, the early kickoff on Saturday, West Brom

controlling the game really at Loftus Road, getting a really impressive 2-0 away win, and they

are our new league leaders at the top of the championship. Now, on the athletic website today,

partners, sponsors of ours, a great article, George, from West Brom writer Steve Madeley.

Top of the table and unbeaten, Billich has built a spine of stars, but the team can still

improve. This is going to be our reference point to discuss baggies this week. What did you take

from Steve's piece and from the match itself? Well, from the match, I think this is the results,

the performance that really signifies that West Brom are a force to be reckoned with this

season. Here to stay. We've seen a lot of stuff on social media talking about them and

leads in the same breath now as being the clear top two. I think if you go back two weeks,

it was Fulham who were kind of stepping into that role.

I think West Brom has shown now that despite some high profile departure is in the summer,

despite maybe a younger, less recognisable squad, you know, Slavon Villetsch has got them playing

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