No reason to suggest there's any truth to the latest Hanley rumours from what I can gather. He's also in the Norwich squad for their game against Liverpool tomorrow night.

Dear God. What difference does it make if Tosin has only been in the building a week? It's not like he just stepped off a long haul flight an hour ago. If he's good enough, play him. If he isn't why did we bother signing him? As regards the second para you could probably add the caveat "but they also know I will look after them and therefore won't do anything about it".

Errrm.......got news for you Tony. Neither can your favoured inner circle! And at least if the youngsters got the chance and experience under their belt now, they might be able to do so in future.

I just can't bear to listen to the b.s. spouted by Mowbray any longer, it's quite painful. However in his desperation to make it sound like something's happening, he's tripped himself up. He's more or less said that the deals you'd been working on all summer sometimes go out of the window because something even better unexpectedly comes up. Insinuating either original deal or unexpected deal will happen. Going to look very silly indeed when nothing happens. (Not that a deal you'd been working on all summer would go to the last hour of the transfer window anyway)

Can probably throw in a heart rending sob story about being "close" to pulling off several deals as well. Tomorrow however he will no doubt declare himself happy with what he's got and say that whilst it would have been nice to bring in extra bodies to "help" those already here, he's not that bothered about it.

Yep, we're desperately short of centre halves, it's time for Magloire and Wharton to step up and stake their claim, and we send them both out on loan. Barking doesn't even begin to describe it imo.

Still peddling the "improving the squad" and bringing in players to "help" line though. You'd think the inner circle that were here when Mowbray was appointed had won Premier League's and Champions Leagues so reluctant is he to replace them. Not got us relegated from the League we're currently in then finished a lowly 15th.

Hard to disagree with any of that. The last two summer transfer windows since Waggott arrived (and even the January one) have been an absolute shambles imo.

The question wasn't directed at me but for me every day day of the week!. Of course we don't know if there's a release clause in Dack's contract which ties our hands. If there isn't we shouldn't even be bothering to pick up the phone at that price. The only thing that would worry me about this was Dack looked so demotivated on Saturday, he might have thought something was in the offing before the deadline.

Yes chaddy, was referring to Hanley.

The last I heard, we couldn't agree on either wages or length of contract so I'd be amazed if it is on. If however it is then one of the parties must have had a major climbdown. I heard that amongst other things he wanted a 3 year deal and we were only prepared to offer two so if he comes on loan or permanently for two years or less then presumably his options weren't as good as he expected. If he comes in on a 3 year deal presumably we'll have backed down. Will believe it when I see it.

Bennett has no pros at RB. You keep trying to muddy the waters saying previously it's not easy to sign players etc and now you're saying this isn't a straightforward choice. It's not a difficult choice or decision at all. Nyambe isn't perfect but is the better player in that position by a country mile. It's not even close therefore the only logical inference to be drawn is that the manager is unreasonably favouring certain players. Weird you don't think Bell is good enough when again whilst he isn't perfect he is infinitely better than Bennett at FB. Imo our priorities should be 1) Ensure Bennett never plays at FB again (or preferably anywhere else for that matter) and restore Nyambe at RB. 2) Nasty experienced CB 3) If the budget allows after 2) above, a LB. If anyone does come in at this late stage, can't see them being of the quality required, will probably just be dregs that other Clubs don't want.

Yep, what a load of bolloxios from Waggott. Roughly translates as "If me and Tone can convince the owners all this **** is part of some long term plan then we should be able to get four or five years out of it before they realise we're going nowhere, and by that time we (If not the Club) will be secure financially." Wonder how they'll spin it if we get relegated again this season?

Agree about Dack. When firing he's in a completely different class to everyone else. We saw a couple of glimpses of it yesterday but in general he didn't seem up for it. We need to find a way of getting him fully fit, motivated and firing again. Whether that would require a more expansive manager, who knows?

Tend to agree jim. Plus even more to the point than you or I we are 120m or so in debt and are losing money at a substantial rate on an ongoing basis and are likely to fall foul of FFP rules at the end of next season. I'd say the need for success (and quickly) was never more pressing.

I understand we're not going to win every week but that doesn't mean it's any less annoying if we lose. if you're indifferent to the result then I can't see what the purpose of following a football Club is, the whole exercise becomes fairly pointless.

I disagreed with Parson when he said similar last night and I disagree now. Surely if you don't care whether we win lose or draw, it's time to give up and get your enjoyment going down the Pub instead? That stat you cite above should be enough on its own to have supporters hopping up and down and foaming at the mouth. It tends to confirm the view of many that our pre season schedules tend to be a bit of a joke and we go into every new season severely undercooked. By way of contrast I heard a stat yesterday that Paul Cook has never lost an opening day game winning eight and losing one I think. Obviously he is doing something right in terms of preparation and we are not. I know we're not Manchester City these days but there's no excuse for me for not being the best we can possibly be in terms of preparation. That also extends to getting new players in early, allowing them time to gel so we can hit the ground running from day one. No doubt if we do sign anyone this week then the complaint will be they need time to bed in by which time 15 points or more could have gone by the wayside. I detest us losing, or even drawing a game at home. I'm never completely happy unless we're averaging two points a game. Even if that isn't feasible you can always do slightly better which is why it's so galling to see the manager fritter our chances away by playing players out of position, favouring certain players who are either past it or who were never any good in the first place or both, and fail to address areas that clearly need strengthening.

Disagree. Whatever occurred subsequently, the whole move stemmed from Bennett giving the ball away. He doesn't do that, Charlton don't score.

Spot on. I thought it was obvious he needed to go in February in order to give a new man time to assess the squad and clear out all the deadwood in summer. However that didn't happen so having kept him and allowed him to spend more money and bring in various players I suppose you have to give him at least ten games to see if he can make things click.

I'd say that's an extremely rose tinted view of proceedings. Our equaliser was a complete fluke, we created next to naff all, and based solely on that 90 mins there's nothing whatsoever to suggest we can finish mid table. We might improve of course. But by Christ we'll need to.

I was dismayed at how poor Gallagher looked today, he makes Brereton look like Messi in comparison imo. And Brereton still has a long way to go. The bloke sat behind me today thought Gallagher had a great game today, funny how two people can view the same game so differently, I can't see a player there or any potential in him at all. I'm convinced people are blinded to just how poor he is by the fact he runs about a lot which cons people into thinking he's a decent player and a bit of a handful but in reality he doesn't have any physical presence at all.

What can you say? Just more of the same old dross we served up last season. The only slight surprise for me was we stunk the place out and lost, I expected us to stink the place out and just about scrape a draw. Absolute garbage. Unfortunately I can't see it getting any better until Mowbray goes, so we could be in for a long wait. As I've been saying all pre season I'd snap anyone's hand off for 21st now. As for the game itself, yes we conceded two soft goals but that's not surprising as we were playing the same personnel who were shipping soft goals last season. Bennett is beyond a joke He's done the square root of eff all ever since he's been at the Club but whereas he used to be merely completely anonymous on the right wing he's now a complete liability at RB. Can't share the enthusiasm about the new signings. Thought Johnsonl looked unfit and played well within himself, Downing contributed little and Gallagher ran all over the place but had a stinker I thought. £5m spanked away there. Dack poor again, apart from one quality through ball in the second half. He's looking dispirited with the whole shooting match. Keeper looked shaky. Maybe a good job he's only on loan. Tosin, Nyambe, Rothwell Chapman and Brereton need to come into the line up but probably won't. Incredibly long season ahead.

Very disappointed with Johnson, looks overweight and not prepared to extend himself. Downing not much better, look like a couple of over the hill plodders. Gallagher is the same as I remembered. Very willing and will run all day but zero quality..

Bennett loses the ball for the umpteenth time and they go on to score a soft goal. Who'd have thought it. Meanwhile 45 mins gone and still waiting for a shot on target I blame Raya.

There's still 6 days......