Yes the manager significantly over achieved last season to guide us to our best finish since relegation from the Prem. Since then though the squad has lost more than just Brereton it has also lost Kaminski, Wharton, Travis, Ayala & Morton. And in that same period the only useful signing that has been made is Tronstad. I'm really not sure where people expect this squad to be in the table as for me it is a bottom 1/3 of the table squad.

Completely agree with this, some of our fans need to wake up, have a reality check and realise that our squad isn't very good. Honestly I look at it and I'm not even sure it is as good a squad as the one that went down under Coyle and Mowbray.

It's just not a very good team. How many of those would you say are good solid Championship players 3 or 4 I'd say. I think some people overestimate our team but you look at that starting line up and bench today and it is a bottom 3rd squad.

I feel nothing but sympathy for the manager. The squad has not been improved in January and in some positions it has got weaker. I mean look at the options to start alongside Tronstad today an out of form Moran who doesn't have the physicality for the role or Garrett who is nothing more than a lower league clogger. Or I suppose you could have put JRC in there but then we have no right back. Then you look at the bench today when we need a goal what are the options to bring on to score or assist, you've got a young kid who couldn't get much game time a Coventry, there's Markanday who has shown previously he is not up to it and that he is still and option post January reflects very badly on Broughton or you have a striker from the German 4th Division a league that literally includes semi professional teams.

I don't rate Brittain one bit and whilst Siggurdsson is a decent footballer I don't think he looks suited to English football. JDT was a great appointment but then Broughton has let him down consistently in the transfer market.

Even you you want to count them as his singings before this window in Broughton's time here we have brought in 14 players. Three of them have been good singings Szmodics, Hyam & Tronstad. Then you have Hill who was decent, the rest have been disappointments. 3-4 good singings out of 14 is a success rate of about 30% for a club whose finances are tight that is not anywhere near a good enough success rate.

But we have signed Sigurdsson on a permanent since then granted it does technically kick in until next season but it seems unlikely that he'd commit in December to sign for next season on a lower wage than we are currently paying him.

Well Evidently. But given he had 3.5 years left here and we evidently wanted him of the books I suspect we came to an agreement with him for him to get some of his salary (probably a year) from us.

Pleasantly surprised to wake up this morning and see the Fleck signing, good player and a good signing. But a 6 month contract? This whole window has basically been a 6 month sticking plaster and nothing resembling the 'player trading model' that has previously been spoken of.

Given he has only signed a 2 and a half year deal at Stoke I'd suspect that we probably paid him or are paying him a years salary.

The squad is undoubtedly weaker than it was at the start of the window. To let Travis and Wharton go and not replace either really beggars belief or at least it should do but sadly these days it doesn't. With the exception of Tronstad that is a League 1 standard midfield at best.

Well we are most likely going to need some Dunkirk spirit for the rest of the season.

Buckley could barely get a start for 23rd place Sheffield Wednesday and it's only a few months ago you were supporting the decision to farm him out on loan. The problem with moving JRC to midfield is that then we have no right back. Garrett is nothing more than a lower league clogger and if you are expecting him replace Wharton then that is where we will end up.

What is it about the last 3 transfer windows that makes you think that JDT's playing style or what he wants has any impact on how the club operates in the transfer market.

Just guessing he will be cheap and young.

Clinton Mola MK2

Venkys' legacy. A young local lad who supports the club views bloody Crystal Palace as a big club and an honour to play for.

He's never been a loan as he has suspended his contract with CSKA.

He is only a year older than our new centre back.

Not now Lawwell's back there they wouldn't

Will Keane has 9 goals for Preston this season signed for a nominal fee rumoured to have been around £50K. Given he has been loaned out by Huddersfield I would imagine £300K would have been more than enough to get Jordan Rhodes he might well be 33 but I would still be backing him to outscore Telaovic & Ennis. Alfie May who scored 43 goals in the last two seasons in League 1 (for comparison Ennis manged 15 in a far better team) moved to Charlton for £250K where he already has 16 goals in a very average team.

The big difference is Steve Gibson will reinvest a decent chunk that money our owners won't.

It's not my job to but I would hope that had I brought in 3 centre forwards to the club they would have a better strike rate than 0 goals in 31 league appearances combined.

Broughton is a symptom of the owners he is yet another an incompetent chancer who talks a good game but in reality is well out of his depth.

What has Brittain done to be regarded as decent? Not judging Broughton on the money he has to work with is a ridiculous notion given it is literally his job to work with those funds.