It's another busy week of Football League and Carling Cup action, with plenty of talking points to discuss.
Thanks to everybody who has been in touch in the last few days. A few of you have asked about John Barnes at Tranmere and Paul Trollope at Bristol Rovers, two managers who are enjoying mixed fortunes at either end of League One.
I have discussed both of them in depth below and covered a few other topics too.
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Do you think John Barnes can turn around Tranmere Rovers' fortunes whilst still insisting on playing his attractive ideal of football, which the players seem to be unable to respond to? Graeme Moore, England
I have got nothing against John but, like everyone who has not really done the job, we do not know if he can manage. That is not to say he cannot but that might be the case.
Can he turn Tranmere round? No, not if current results are anything to go by - they have lost their last seven games.
But you have got to give him longer because he has walked into a very difficult situation, which is quite difficult for me to understand.
Exeter 2-1 Tranmere
Firstly, I was confused as to why Ronnie Moore got the sack in the summer. He shouldn't have done. The second problem with taking the job after Ronnie is that, under him, Rovers finished seventh last season and were a point off the play-offs.
We spoke to John on BBC Radio 5 live when he took charge and he said, basically, he had been waiting for nearly 10 years for a club job. He said "if I hadn't taken this, I wouldn't have got one".
The problem with that is if it doesn't work out at Tranmere where does he go from here?
It is fine to say "I haven't been offered a job" but with the one you do get you have got to have at least some chance of success rather than a lose-lose scenario. The only way that he could follow Ronnie and be seen as being a success is to get them in the play-offs or get them up. And is that feasible, with the owner trying to get rid of them and the budget being cut?
Do not get me wrong, that does not mean they should be as bad as their results have been. I am not making excuses for John.
How long would you give him? I think he himself knows time is running out. When he starts saying "it's out of my hands, it's down to the chairman to make the decision" then you realise he knows something might happen very soon.
So he has got to get a win. If he loses his next two or three then the likelihood is he is going to be out. You do not lose nine or 10 straight games at any level of football and keep your job.
I am a West Brom fan and quite honestly I am bemused at how well we do in the Championship and then in the Premier League we just can't cut the mustard. Last season the likes of Hull and Stoke stayed up and, no disrespect, we were a far better team. How come we can't do it in the top flight? Is it that we get things badly wrong or that we just have the worst luck? Is it down to money spent or because we are lacking in squad depth? I just think the Baggies are the unluckiest side the Premier League has seen in its short existence. Mind you, I am not complaining too much - it makes a very interesting topsy-turvy life for a football fan. Jonathan Cooper, England
It was not bad luck that got West Brom relegated last season, it was because they could not defend.
That was not down to the abilities of their individual players either. If you look at Stoke, for example, you would not say that their back four is, man for man, a fantastic back four but Potters boss Tony Pulis works on them as a unit so they are organised, strong and they give nothing away.
Middlesbrough 0-5 West Bromwich Albion (UK users only)
The one incident that stood out for me last year for West Brom was against Everton when Tim Cahill, one of the best players in the air in the country, scored with a free header. He had four players around him but not one of them challenged him. That summed up for me why they got relegated.
They had no balance in their side. If they go up this season then Roberto Di Matteo might have the same problem.
You can dominate possession in the Championship so, defensively, you are not under pressure because when you have got the ball you are not defending. You do not get the ball that much in the Premier League.
That is what they have got to change next time they come up - they have got to learn how to defend properly.
But it feels like it is getting easier to stay in the Premier League, not harder. There are plenty of mediocre teams in there, probably seven or eight, so mid-table is certainly achievable for a team like West Brom.
How highly do you rate Charlton's teenage midfielder Jonjo Shelvey? Terry Barr, Scotland
I have only seen him once and I was not quite sure about the defensive side of his game just yet. But he is a good footballer, he is nice on the ball.
At 17, he is only a kid but he is very, very advanced for that age. He is physically very strong but I have not seen enough of him - I need to see more of him to make a real judgement call and I wouldn't make a huge call either way at his age anyway.
He turned down the chance to join Chelsea in the summer and I think it was a fantastic decision for him to stay at Charlton and play regularly in League One.
No matter how good a player you are, if you put yourself in a position where you could get lost in the system or struggle to make an impact, like a lot of youngsters are at big clubs, it will hold you back.
I would much rather play Charlton first team than Chelsea reserves, or at youth level. It is a much better grounding for your football career.
Hi Steve, as a Bristol Rovers fan I am delighted with our start to the season. Many said our season depended on keeping hold of Rickie Lambert, but the truth (in my opinion) was always to make sure we kept Paul Trollope. Still only 37, the man has given us everything from promotion, a cup final and a better league finish in all four seasons he has been in charge. Rickie was a great player, but we now look like more of a team than ever before. My question is this, do you think Paul Trollope can take us one step further and into the Championship? Pete Leach, England
I am glad Paul Trollope is getting the credit. I know he has had a change of title there, from first-team coach to manager, and that probably reflects the job he is doing.
I do not know much about Lennie Lawrence, Rovers' director of football, and I am always slightly suspicious of that role - it's like Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ian McParland at Notts County, if the team do well it is down to Sven, if they do badly it is McParland's fault.
Brentford 1-3 Bristol Rovers
In terms of selling Rickie Lambert, we spoke about Swindon last week and how they sold Simon Cox and spent that money on three or four players rather than trying to replace him out and out.
But, as well as that, people already at the selling club have to step up to the mark too - it is no good getting good money for your best player if it means Rovers not being able to score goals.
Instead, Rovers have spread the goals out since Lambert left - Jo Kuffour has got a couple, but the team have all weighed in.
They are not a club that is used to being in the upper echelons of that division. They have had a couple of average seasons in that division under Trollope but he has done a lot to prove he is a good manager, getting them up and then keeping them up.
Whether or not they are strong enough squad-wise to see it through to win promotion or make the play-offs, I do not know. Lots of things can happen and League One is very strong. There are lots of bigger clubs with more money but there is always a surprise or two, isn't there?
With all the foreign players coming into our leagues even at the lower leagues now, why does it not work the other way? If I had been good enough too play professionally I would have loved to have played in Spain or Italy even if it was in Serie B. It can't just be the money stopping players going as the lifestyle would make up for that. Marc Hawkins, Wales
The trouble with that idea is that when you step outside the top divisions in other countries, there is nothing. People do not understand - we are talking about the equivalent of non-League football. England has by far the best infrastructure in Europe for lower league football.
Forget Serie B, half of Serie A is not that well-supported and some of the grounds are like lower-league grounds here. The Championship is the fifth highest supported league in Europe and it is knocking on the door of Serie A too.
There is a massive difference between our lower leagues and those on the continent. Clubs at that level are not going to scout foreign players and there are not any English managers, who might take some players with them.
I got offers to play abroad - in Sweden, China and the United States. And I wasn't tempted one bit
It still happens every now and again though. Craig Davies left Oxford United to play for Hellas Verona in Serie B a couple of years ago and former Watford and Stoke striker Gifton Noel-Williams had a year in the Spanish Segunda Liga with Real Murcia and Elche.
Players used to go off to play in Scandinavia during the summer to learn their trade - former Wimbledon midfielder Vinnie Jones did that for example - but we do not hear about them any more.
I got offers to play abroad - in Sweden, China and the United States - and I was not tempted one bit.
The money on offer from China was £12,000 a week after tax, which was phenomenal, but I was at Portsmouth and I would not have left there if they had offered me five times as much. It did not appeal to me, I was playing for my hometown club so the money was, in a way, irrelevant.
I had the chance to go to Sweden when I was in my early 20s at Aldershot and not earning very much but it would have meant missing the start of the season over here so I could not do it.
And a couple of Major League Soccer teams were interested right at the end of my career but I was busy in the media and it was not the right time to go.
I am a Leeds fan and have been a season ticket holder for the last 10 years. I enjoy going to the matches but I recently had a son, who is now five months old. If want a season ticket and want to take my son I have to pay £190 for his season ticket and £450 for mine. This is League One football. Why would I want to get a season ticket at this price? There is no way I could take my son to every game so why pay for him? I now go to the occasional game and am sure my son will be a Leeds fan but this just shows how football is pricing itself out of the market. I think I will take my son to watch rugby league, where it only costs £240 a season for both of us. Andy Wicks, England
It is not only Leeds where this is a problem. The price of going to games is one of the biggest problems at any level of football. The ordinary man is being priced out and that is something that really does concern me.
Highlights - Leeds Utd 4-1 Gillingham
We are losing a generation of fans because going to games is too expensive and if you have just had a child then you have taken on more financial responsibility anyway - they just cannot afford it.
What can be done about it? Well, clubs want to make money - Leeds had profits of more than £4m last year - and the only time clubs slash their prices is when fans stop coming.
Why do you think Bolton and Blackburn are reducing ticket prices or Portsmouth have been giving away seats in the Milton End for £5?
But the problem with that is, once you have sold your season tickets if you then start selling parts of your ground cheaply, people who have bought a season ticket start to wonder what is the point of doing so if seats are going to be given away. They might as well wait to take advantage of the offers like everyone else. It is not the answer.
Are 'transitional' seasons real or are they an excuse for a lack of real ability in a manager to be able to work with the squad he has? Will Roy Keane eventually take Ipswich up or down?! Nik L, GB
You just put players in the right positions. This talk of transitional periods, and that teams need time to gel, is rubbish.
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The only time that people take time to gel is if they are unhappy or uncomfortable in the positions they are playing.
Ipswich have spent a fortune on players over the last couple of years, so there should be enough quality at that club if you get the system right and play people in the right positions.
Roy knows he has got to do better but he will not shy away from the situation.
Will he take Ipswich up? Not this season.
And I have got to say I would question how many people from Ipswich actually want him there. I do not get the feeling that the fans were totally won over by him, even when he first took charge.
He suffers from the perception people have of him - but he is not as scary as he is made out to be - and he is definitely not a bully.
But he has got a reputation that might have helped him as a player but not so much as a manager.
Before the season kicked off we all had our own ideas of who would do well and who would struggle in the Championship. With eight games gone, who has done far better than you had expected and who has done far worse? Gavin Brooks, England
As I mentioned last week, Preston have done unbelievably well. After watching them last year in two of the most one-sided games, not just play-off games, that I have ever watched, for them to be doing as well as they are now shows what a top manager Alan Irvine is.
Ian Holloway at Blackpool has also done a fantastic job. Watford and Leicester are the two other sides in the top half that I did not expect to be doing so well.
As well as Ipswich, I certainly expected Crystal Palace to do better - and Derby and Forest too, particularly Forest as they spent a fortune in the summer.
Steve Claridge was talking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan
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