#64: Matters of the EFL Variety

Championship: Leeds 1-3 Norwich WBA 2-3 Boro Bristol City 5 in a row - moving into the Play-Offs. Peter - any wildcard picks to reach the playoffs in any of the three divisions? Dan: Which current mid-pack championship club do you think are getting themselves is order to be in the mix for promotion next season? Tim: What is the reason that the big-spending clubs aren’t doing well on the whole in the Championship and does having a bigger budget lead to less inspired recruitment? Oliver: Are we beginning to see clubs take advantage of the foreign market more in the EFL? Thinking Norwich/Barnsley/Oldham as examples. League One: Barnsley, Luton, Sunderland won. Pompey drew. Charlton lost. Massive wins for Rochdale, Bristol Rovers, Plymouth. Gab - Can any team below DRFC reach the playoffs? Richard - are Accrington an outside bet to go down? League Two: Colchester - performance of the weekend in the EFL. Impressive - Grimsby, Exeter, Mansfield. Dale - who gets promotion/playoffs? John - name your top 3 from the top 8. Andrew - what’s the cut off in League Two for relegation battlers? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

4 Feb 201958min

The Match in Focus game is Leeds v Norwich this week. Season stats: GE: -13.19 AM: -25.57 Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more, from this weekend's EFL games. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

31 Jan 201934min

The EFL owns the FA Cup! Wimbledon 4-2 West Ham Millwall 3-2 Everton Shrewsbury 2-2 Wolves Middlesbrough 1-1 Newport County Derby beat Accrington. Doncaster 2-1 Oldham. Swansea also through, Pompey and QPR going to a replay, West Brom could do the same and Bees v Bees is post recording. Championship: Norwich 2-2 Sheff Utd Rotherham 1-2 Leeds Preston Lovely Away Day at Stoke! Blackburn end Hull run, on good form. First win for MON at Forest. L1: Steve Evans sacked. Darren Ferguson in. Luton top 1-0 vs Southend. Barnsley poor but win 2-1 from behind. Scunthorpe win again (without a shot on target), Wycombe vs Plymouth shit-house derby. Maja off to Bordeaux, Karlan Grant seemingly off too. How bad is that for those teams? Is Grant a good signing for Hudds? L2: Bury 3-3 Lincoln Pretty wild weekend for Notts Co without even playing. Mansfield, Carlisle, Forest Green winning, Exeter into last play-off spot. WHAT’S WRONG WITH MK DONS? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

28 Jan 201958min

The Match in Focus game is Bury v Lincoln this week. Season stats: GE: -6.19 AM: -21.64 Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more, from this weekend's EFL games. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

24 Jan 201934min

Ali sat down with Darrell Clarke to get to know him, to discuss his playing and management career, especially his time at Bristol Rovers. Find below a list of topics and timecodes: 01:00 - What Darrell has been up to since leaving Bristol Rovers. 04:45 - Any conversations been about vacancies? 06:00 - Is he hoping to get back in before the end of the 2018/19 season? 07:15 - Frustrations at difficulties for young, British Managers with many foreign managers being preferred. 10:15 - Darrell’s playing career - starting at home-town team Mansfield. 13:50 - Time at Salisbury as player and then player-manager after being demoted two divisions, winning promotion in his first and third seasons. 20:00 - Move to Bristol Rovers as Assistant Manager to John Ward. 22:45 - Becoming Manager with 8 games to go in 2013/14 season and suffering relegation. 24:30 - Being backed by the board after relegation and how he sold himself to the board as the man to take them back up. 27:40 - The difficulties of the National League 28:30 - How important was it to win that play-off final against Grimsby? 30:30 - Play-Off Final vs Grimsby memories 34:15 - League Two Promotion season - what was the strategy? Two stories about motivating the players! 40:00 - What were the main characteristics of that double promotion team - what made them so successful (tactics, style, mentality, etc)? 44:00 - Poor form this season despite 47:00 - How did he deal with the poor run of form? How did it affect him? 49:00 - Issues with infrastructure and facilities 51:00 - Insight of Graham Coughlan and the type of manager he will be 53:30 - Difficulty recruiting goalscorers - Jayden Stockley, Christian Doidge 55:00 - Tom Nichols 56:00 - Turning down Leeds United in 2016 - any regrets? 58:30 - His feelings leaving Bristol Rovers. 59:30 - League One analysis - automatic promotion battle 1:02:30 - tactics chat - how to set up against Luton 4-diamond-2 1:06:00 - League One analysis - relegation battle 1:08:00 - What’s the dream next opportunity? 1:09:30 - What sort of structure would he like to work in? 1:12:30 - Bristol Rovers fans ‘limbs’! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

23 Jan 20191h 18min

Championship: Stoke 2-1 Leeds Norwich comfortable win against Birmingham to go 1pt behind Sheff Utd had chances but lose to Swans to lose ground on top 2... Swansea - dark horses for Play-Offs? Nottingham Forest 0-1 Bristol City Preston’s perfect away day Solid wins for Derby vs Reading, Blackburn vs Ipswich, Sheff Wed vs Wigan and Rotherham vs Brentford. Draws in Villa v Hull & Boro v Millwall. L1: Yellows 2-1 Portsmouth. Discussion on the tightness at the top. Relegation battle better than ever with Yellows win, Plymouth three in a row, Bradford and Bristol Rovers losing. Shoutout Southend 4-0 at Bradford with great goals from Cox & Humphrys. L2: Lincoln beat Grimsby - nailed on for promotion? Mansfield win game of the day 3-2 after 0-2 down, new signings Ajose and Grant involved. Bury smashing it, 4 in a row and 2nd. MK Dons lose to Crewe though, Alex look like they've cracked it. Can Steven Pressley take Carlisle up? Big wins for Yeovil & Macc at the bottom, Notts Co gone? Scholes current favourite for Oldham. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

21 Jan 20191h 2min

The Match in Focus game is Nottingham Forest v Bristol City this week. Season stats: G: -2.89 A: -18.24 Sign up for Black Type online at www.blacktype.bet or via the BlackType app. Use the offer code 'NTT20' on the sign-up page for a £10 free bet - this must be used on a football selection. Get involved with #ScoreBore by tweeting us with your 0-0 pick and a game with 5 goals or more, from this weekend's EFL games. You can find all of our weekend picks listed on www.blacktype.bet/sportsbook/SOCCER/NTT20/ Use that link to add whichever bets you like the sound of! All bets are listed at the end of the podcast. Follow us on Social Media: @NTT20Pod @blacktypebet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

18 Jan 201937min

A bit of a different one today as Ali started to cobble together a few interviews with interesting people and some league round-ups and ended up with almost 90 minutes of EFL content. Running order below: 00:00 - Intro & Championship Round-Up 12:00 - Gab Sutton on Birmingham vs Middlesbrough 28:00 - David Anderson on Brentford & Nathan Jones at Stoke. 50:15 - League One Round-Up 55:45- League One Relegation Battle with George Elek 1:04:10 - Bury 4-2 MK Dons with Gregor Robertson 1:19:00 - League Two Round-Up Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

14 Jan 20191h 26min