Rotting pumpkins and burnt-out sparklers litter the garden, another international break looms and we're at the end of another of those gruelling 'nine-point weeks' in the Championship.
By tea-time on Saturday, almost every EFL side will be a third of the way through their season but the 2025-26 campaign is turning into the most open in memory across all three divisions.
We have friends, and some foes, reunited in the second tier, sack races heating up and subplots galore, and with last weekend's FA Cup first round games done and dusted it's back to regular business for League One and Two teams.