There have been many questions about new Lincoln City boss Chris Sutton this week, and I am delighted he has got his chance in management.
The other topics I've covered are Derby County, Exeter City, Port Vale, comparing the Championship to the Scottish Premier League and player fitness.
Just to clear up something from last week, I didn't mean that Yeovil fans were happy to see Gary Johnson go when he left to take charge of Bristol City, or forced him out; just that some of them were questioning him.
I remember travelling up to play for Bradford and listening to a phone-in - there were three or four Yeovil fans who rang up and said Gary had taken them as far he could.
There were a few dissenting voices, which I was surprised to hear considering things had gone so well for him there. This was before he went to Bristol City, too - it was in between him turning down Derby and going there.
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What is your opinion of Port Vale manager Micky Adams and him transfer-listing his whole squad? I can follow his reasoning as he's started the season with a contracted squad and very little money for changes - he obviously doesn't rate some of them so this is one way of sorting out the wheat from the chaff. Some 606ers have called him an idiot but I can see what's behind his actions - what's your opinion? Bill Harper, England
I've known this to happen twice when I was playing. Once at Portsmouth, when they didn't have any money, and once under Barry Fry at Birmingham - when I don't think any of us were ever off the transfer list!
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It is management by fear - putting the skids under everybody - but it is more of a statement. The players know they are not all going to leave and really it's unlikely that anyone will go.
But it's a warning that, if your contract is up at the end of the season as many of them will be, you have got to do better if you want another one.
I'm not sure about what kind of reaction you get, though, as some of these players might just be not good enough.
They beat Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United in the Carling Cup and everything was great but they just haven't got going in the league at all.
I can only imagine the reason for him putting them all on the list is that he feels they have short-changed him effort wise. He knows people at that level make mistakes, he knows they're not Brazil but what he won't accept is if he feels they haven't given him 100%.
Hi Steve, my club Lincoln City have named former Celtic and Blackburn striker Chris Sutton, a man with no managerial or coaching experience, as manager. He and Ian Pearce have my full support but what are your thoughts? Would players rather have a more experienced man in charge? Jack Mulhall, England
No. I've played under managers who have managed for 20 years and still haven't got a clue what they are doing. That bugs me more than people like Chris Sutton getting a chance - I've got no problem with that, if he can manage he will show he can. If he can't, then we will find out, too.
I don't want to see the same old people failing; the merry-go-round with managers getting on and off, and continuing to fail. I want to see new faces and people getting the opportunity to do the job.
How will Sutton do? I don't know. He has played under a lot of top managers like Kenny Dalglish and Martin O'Neill but that means absolutely nothing at all. You can't follow what they do because you don't know how to.
You have to be tactically sound and pick good players but management is something you know or you don't. If you look at a picture of a game and can't see what's wrong, you're not going to learn that of anyone.
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To be fair to him, Lincoln have got to lower their expectations a little bit, after knocking on the door of the League Two play-offs a few seasons ago. I'm not sure what they expect of Sutton, or where they think they deserve to be but that will determine what people's idea is of a good or bad job.
Chris has got to get some time and Lincoln is a nice club to start at - a few other people would have taken it, and I'm sure there were plenty of applications. Good luck to him.
Hi Steve, my brother and I have been arguing for a long time now over which is stronger - The Championship or the Scottish Premier League. I would like your opinion on this, and maybe you could end our long-running debate! Aaron H, Northern Ireland
The Championship, definitely, when it comes to strength in depth. I've known some terrible, terrible players who have gone from England to the SPL and done very well.
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If you take Rangers and Celtic out, and maybe one or two out of Hearts, Hibernian and Aberdeen, then the rest of the SPL is probably League One level.
Let's be honest, Rangers and Celtic are falling further and further behind the Premier League because of the difference in their finances. I'd like to see those two clubs come into the English pyramid. I'd usually have said no but I just think now they are completely marooned and there is just nothing left for them in Scotland now.
If you took them out then I know it's going to leave a bit of a black hole but you are also going to make the SPL competitive. All of a sudden Hearts can win the league, when they haven't got a hope at the moment.
But Scottish football needs a shot in the arm anyway. Rangers and Celtic get crowds of more than 50,000 but it is becoming more and more unlikely for them to qualify for the Champions League group stages and the consequences of that is that there are small Premier League clubs which have more financial clout.
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I understand that probably a lot of people in Scotland will say 'we need them for our league' but for purely selfish reasons they should come into the English system.
They are slowly dying right now and getting the life strangled out of them, which isn't good for Scottish football either.
I'd like to put them straight into the Premier League but you would have to stick them in the Championship because people would not be happy seeing other teams drop out of the top flight to make room.
It's also been talked about making them work their way up from League Two, and they would take that route, make no mistake, if you offered them that now. At the moment they are just running into a brick wall and there is nowhere to go, there is nothing for them.
It has never been as a bad as this before. Don't forget there was a time when there was more money in Scotland - around 20 years ago when Rangers were signing lots of top English players. Now they are paupers.
As a player who has played in the different leagues what is the difference in fitness levels nowadays? Is the average Premier League player physically fitter than the average League Two player? Sam Coombes, England
A lot of players, regardless of the level they play at, don't train hard enough. But the difference between the top and the bottom in this regard is that in the Premier League you are looked after better.
You are more informed about what you need to do and things are done for you so the effort doesn't have to be there to get fit. To get fit at the highest level is far easier than getting fit at the lower levels because you are pushed constantly and the training is geared towards what you can do and what you can't do.
Andy Reid at Sunderland is a perfect example. He has lost a stone and a half and looks like a world beater again. He is much more mobile - but why was he allowed to play at the weight he did for so long?
In the lower leagues, a lot of it is down to the individual. A lot of it is down to experience. In the end I knew what I could and couldn't do. I knew how much sleep I needed, what food I needed and how much.
A lot of it is psychological. Mentally, you think you're tired but how many times have you gone for a run, and started the run feeling tired and finished it feeling fantastic? Most of getting fit is just mental application and attitude.
I always used to hark back to pre-season. We'd train at 0600 BST, 1400, 1700 and then go and play a game too. That was achievable so you can't tell me you can't play more than one game a week?
Every player is different and everyone needs to know what they need, right across the board. This is all done for you at the bigger clubs where the diets are controlled for you, and your fitness is monitored so they know whether you can get fitter or not. All that costs money, which is why you don't get it everywhere.
There are thousands of players who could have done a lot more in the game if they had got their fitness sorted out.
People used to say I worked hard in games but that is a skill in itself. It is all part of playing football and all part of affecting a game. Not playing well but working hard means you've had an effect on the game, which is far better than not playing well and not working hard! That was how I looked at it anyhow.
For me fitness is a massive part of the game, yet there are a lot of players who couldn't be bothered. When I was going for my runs they didn't want to know. They wanted to do something else and, when I was out doing that little bit extra, they were on their way home.
There are always going to be players who, if it is not sorted out for them, are gong to be lazy. There are lazy players out there and I have always put great emphasis on people's fitness, even in the short spells I've had in management, I've always insisted that people worked hard and had to be fit.
Andy Reid at Sunderland is a perfect example. He has lost a stone and a half and looks like a world beater again. He is much more mobile - but why was he allowed to play at the weight he did for so long?
Hi Steve, we all know it can be difficult for a player to make the step up a division or two, but how hard is it for a manager? Is there any reason why someone like Paul Tisdale, who has worked absolute wonders at Exeter in the Blue Square Premier and League Two, couldn't do the same in the Championship or even the Premier League? Sam Crispin, England
Paul has had more experience in the lower levels but that's not to say he can't do it a higher level, it is just more of a risk.
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It's far easier to manage at a level you have either played at or managed at because you have the added advantage of knowing what you need to do to be successful, knowing what type of player you need and what players are out there.
If he keeps doing well, then what is his next step? Will a Championship club look at him and give him a chance? Yes, I think so - he was touted for the Swansea job over the summer so I think people definitely look down the divisions to see who is doing well, as they should.
Mark Robins is a perfect example to him, and that is the way it should be. Give me an up-and-coming manager who has earned his chance over a tired old face every time.
Hi Steve, I'm a Derby County fan and am becoming more and more disillusioned at the state of my beloved club. When Nigel Clough was appointed manager last year, he seemed to steady the ship and keep us from relegation but, since then, we've made a gradual progression backwards. We don't seem to be casting our scouting network beyond local, and certainly English players. Since Nigel has come in, we have trimmed the squad considerably, but mainly through releasing our foreign players. I believe this is as a result of appointing an inexperienced manager who ultimately doesn't have what it takes to succeed. I'm concerned about the lack of ambition at the club - we were in the Premier League only two years ago and, although we failed miserably, we should at least be a team challenging at the right end of the Championship, but we're not, and I can't see when we will again with the current regime. What are your thoughts? Tim Richards, England
Firstly, Nigel Clough is not inexperienced because he's had 10 years at Burton, which is plenty.
But I do understand where Tim is coming from because there are certain things at Derby that even I have questioned.
However, there is a sea change happening there - they are looking to build the club in the correct manner and get a team spirit and unification that they haven't had for a while.
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They have been so bad for so long that sometimes it takes a little while to get that out of your system. I definitely get the feeling that they are now a very patient club that has taken a step back and realised they have to go in a different direction, which is what they are doing.
Nigel doesn't want those overpaid, big-money players - he's looking to gain more of an equilibrium with regards to wages, to get more of a unit and build team spirit and those sort of things don't happen overnight.
Now, he does have to buy players too and there have been question marks over whether the players he has brought in are good enough to take the club where they want to go.
But I can't imagine there will be a lot of money to play with, simply because they are still paying some players too much and paying the price for mismanagement in the past.
And I don't get the feeling that this is short term in any way, shape or form. I think the club and Nigel are in this for the long haul. This was never going to be a quick fix and that wasn't the intention.
If Nigel had been told 'we need to be back in the Premier League in two years because financially we're in trouble' he wouldn't have taken the job. I think he was told we want to go another way, we want to build a club.
I don't know why but five years stick in my mind, whether or not he's going to get that or whether or not he can do it remains to be seen but now is not the time to make judgement or chop and change again, certainly not for a club like Derby.
Steve Claridge was talking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan
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