Given that it was Mowbray who signed Chapman why do you think he has a down on him ?

Alternatively,standards and expectations might be lower at Wigan; after another defeat last night they look to be facing a relegation battle.

It is the same approach as adopted last season by Aston Villa and Sheffield United - seems pretty good to me

Our main problem to address was the defensive weakness - Mowbray signed a new goalkeeper, a new left back plus Tosun to compete as centre back and there has been a significant improvement in the goals per game conceded as a consequence.

But Chapman is one of Mowbray's signings rather than one of our youth team players - which of our youth team players are better than Mowbray's signings ?

I don't understand what you are saying about Mahoney. He got the majority of his first team opportunities with us from Tony Mowbray but refused to renew his contract and then moved to a Premier League club where he never played - but presumably was better paid.

Yes, it's a lot cheaper to fire the manager than all the players. Jones did well at Luton so it does show that success in one set of circumstances does not automatically transfer to another

Without seeing the contracts for the deals we can never be sure what the club are liable for. As Joe Harvey pointed out there is likely to be a trigger for payments in the case of promotion to the Premier League ( and also appearances for England) and those potential liabilities can be included in the fees for players that are quoted in the media. But it wouldn't be fair to say that we have "spent" those sums

I doubt if Brighton would have wanted to loan Walton to us unless they were confident he was going to be playing regularly as first choice. To know how much money clubs were spending last season we will need to see accounts to the end of June this year - I don't think ours are yet available ?

Pretty well. Last season after 8 games Norwich had 11 points; we have 13

Those "poor signings". Didn't they sign 5 players in one day in the summer ? Then people came on here saying how well they had done !

But aren't those two both better suited to playing on the right side of central defence whereas Williams provides balance by being suited to the left side ?

Alternatively it might be best in the long run for Brereton to go on loan to a Division One club for the second half of the season and get a run of games where he could start scoring goals and re-discover his confidence - unfortunately I suspect that the reaction of the owners to my suggestion would be strongly negative

Yes, I think he is a striker suited to playing in the centre but he was played out wide for a while in Division One and consequently lost confidence in front of goal. It's good news that he is on the way back.

Thanks, I didn't know that - not always the easiest situation to be in for any walk of life and there is the risk that he is an easy target.

Is the Number 15 for Spurs for real ?

My views exactly

Bring him to the game against Luton

I think this puts it very well indeed

I was very unhappy with what happened that season which I think was principally down to Owen Coyle failing to organise the team in a way to give us sufficient defensive solidity .- I don't put that at Gallagher's door - as I recall he seemed to be putting in 100% in the way the manager was playing him

Gallagher scored 11 goals from 43 appearances in an inferior side when he was last with us so he is capable of a reasonable return - and the manager is clearly happy with much of his present contribution. Ultimately any successful side wins and loses as a team and if he is part of a team that has begun to deliver the results I think we should be happy

Completely agree

You could say the same about Guardiola

This is the division where everyone can beat everyone else. I will take a 1-0 win courtesy of a last minute deflected shot

No -we'll be in the FA Cup semi final that day