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I'm Ali Maxwell. He's George Ellick, talking all things EFL.

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Now, George Ehrlich, how are you?

Yes, mate. I'm good. How are you?

Good. So one of those pods where you just start and you just feel like you're at it,

straight from the front because you know there's a lot to get through.

So you're going to snap into a tackle on me now then? Just, you know, show me that you're there.

Rather than snap into a tackle as if I'm your opponent, I'm actually as if I'm your teammate, just going to fizz a pass, bouncing ball into your feet, see how you control it.

George Ehrlich, since we last spoke on the Monday pod, there have been two rounds of fiction in the EFL, so lots to talk about and chew on during the next hour and a half.

We're going to focus, obviously, on the weekend results, but maybe a special emphasis on those who went two for two since we spoke last Monday.

We'll start in the championship where a general question, it's been interesting so far,

certainly one word for it, by which I mean kind of quite confusing, certainly to my eyes.

We've been asking each other questions like, who's good?

It all looks quite open at the moment and maybe the only

mini conclusion through five games is seems unlikely that there might be a Fulham this year.

Yeah, I think that's probably right. I mean, it's important not to come to too many sweeping

conclusions at this stage, but it doesn't feel to me like there is necessarily a side, well, certainly not a side as good as Fulham were last season, but not even necessarily

a side who is much better than the rest. You know, looking at the Betfair sports books,

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