Yeah, indeed. Not going to really count the late goals as "bad luck" as it's happened so often that it's clearly a problem with game management and/or late game fitness levels, which isn't luck but poor preparation.

The 0-0 with Derby comes to mind as well. They properly battered us, no idea how we escaped from there with a point. And the 1-1 with West Brom, again were by far second best but scraped a draw thanks to a rare Harrison Reed wonder strike.

Practically every worthwhile stat points to us being a very poor team who are extremely lucky to have the amount of points we have. There can be no surprise if we go into next season with Mowbray in charge and end up in trouble. Warning signs are everywhere.

I was gutted when Evans was given a new contract. One of the most underwhelming players to have ever consistently pulled on a shirt, only plays properly when his contract is due and mysteriously recovers from injuries as soon as internationals start. Might be the worst signing Bowyer made with a transfer fee involved. Incredibly frustrating that we're going to have to watch him trundle around the midfield without contributing anything of note for another two years. Should have just let his contract expire or moved him on for a smaller fee - not that anybody would likely have been interested.

Other managers and clubs will know that Dack's form is more down to our manager and terrible tactics than it is his innate ability and attitude. That's not to say Dack's value won't have dropped since November - it almost certainly has - but it's not going to have dropped by £10m+.

Concerning comments for me. He sounded exasperated and desperate. Unless he is planning a significant overhaul in the summer (we're talking most of the first team) I don't see what slating individual players in public will achieve for him. He's still going to be relying on at least some of these players next season. That said I very much doubt he's in significant danger of losing his job. He only just got an extension recently and has a mate in Waggott watching his back in a critical position. I expect Mowbray will be here next season.

The biggest concern for me under Mowbray, awful defending aside, is that our style of play hasn't really evolved into anything in just over two years. I'd still struggle to explain to anybody how we play or what our philosophy as a team is. Play a diagonal ball to Danny Graham and hope for Dack to do something special isn't much of an explanation but it's the closest I can come up with. We technically stormed League 1 last season but it didn't feel that way. We so rarely dominate teams or have good, solid 90 minute matches. At best it's a decent half and a not so decent half. It doesn't seem to matter what team we play, top or bottom of the league, the match always seems to follow the same basic, uninspiring pattern.

Ipswich also effectively relegated today with a 2-1 home defeat to Reading, combined with us gifting Rotherham three points. 23,000 on though which is impressive considering the awful season they're having. I think there was a cheap ticket promotion on though which obviously helped. James Collins went off injured again. Such is the risk of bringing in older players who haven't played in a while - exactly why I was against bringing Huth in, think it would have been a similar story.

Another bad day for Frank Lampard FC. Some serious problems emerging there.

No point spending £7m on young players if the coaching isn't up to scratch. There definitely needs to be a serious review of the coaching structure at Ewood, as our players are making the same mistakes over and over with no signs of progressing. If anything we're going backwards.

Had to check he hadn't quoted me tbh.

I said in the last match that I found Mulgrew's sad sack reaction to our goals conceded pretty pathetic from a supposed captain. No leaders in our team at all.

Strange that he's talking about having a lack of players willing to head the ball and go to war. You had one of those in Paul Downing, Tony, but you let him go out on loan!

I just can't get over the language he used. It was like he was quoting a post off here.

Whilst the players do deserve a shoeing, I'm not a fan of public humiliation. Ferguson was a good example of doing it right - he'd never individually criticise players in the press (except in exceptional circumstances) but he'd make sure they knew exactly how he felt in private, and that's how it should be done. Comments like that about Raya only serve to cause a divide, regardless of how true they are. Mowbray is obviously angry and upset but I'm not convinced those comments are the best way to go about things.

When managers start ripping into players in public it usually only goes one way.

Uh... OK. Mowbray certainly not pulling any punches in fairness!

He'd be a good club ambassador, just keep him away from coaching and transfers.

If they were going to do it, it would logically be against the team that has conceded the most away goals in the division. I believe by virtue of conceding three this afternoon to Ipswich's two we've for the time being pipped them to that unenviable title.

It's starting to feel like this has gone too far now. Barring a major, major overhaul in the summer we are looking at a very difficult 19/20 with Mowbray at the helm, imo. Our defence isn't great, but there's no way it's this bad either. A lot of this is down to the manager. We need to see a serious upturn in form between now and the end of the season, complete with much more resolute defending. If this isn't in evidence during our last 11 games I would want Mowbray removed as I feel he will relegate us next season. Do I have faith that Venky's would hire anybody better? Nope. But if it's still this bad by the end of the season we might as well roll the dice, as if Mowbray hasn't been able to sort out our defending by now he never will.

I think we'll be fine, as although we are terrible I don't see Wigan, Millwall, Reading and Rotherham all overtaking us. If they do then it will be one of the most incredible collapses in Championship history and would surely leave Mowbray little choice but to resign or be sacked. Getting relegated at this point would be absolutely unforgivable and undo everything good that TM has done during his time with us.

In fairness we're pathetic with him in the team too, just slightly less so. He's not the problem, it's more who he's surrounded by combined with our frankly abysmal tactics which regularly see us ripped apart.

Yep, time to call the manager and the players out on this. Feel sorry for the fans paying to watch this dross week in and week out. This manager and team are taking the piss out of all of them. I'm increasingly coming to the conclusion that Mowbray can talk the talk but he can't walk the walk. He says the right things but there's never any evidence he has the ability to actually change anything, and let's be realistic, our transfer business in the summer isn't going to change anything. I expect us to be weaker than we are now by the time the 19/20 season kicks off, and as Tony has already admitted he can't solve anything without improving the team, we are looking at a very difficult 19/20 season. We need a manager who can organise a defence. Mowbray isn't that man. He's had over two years to prove he is, and it's obvious he can't do it. Thanks for getting the best financed team in League 1 promoted, Tony, but at some point sentiment needs to make way for sensibility. If we want to stay in the division next season we need much, much better than this.

So it's 1 point from 18, having just been beaten by Rotherham and Reading, both of whom are fighting relegation. It's clear to me that we are a bottom level team who had an extremely fortunate start to the season and have now been well and truly found out. Another three conceded as well. It feels like we need to throw out the entire defence in the summer and start again. Huge question marks over the manager considering our run of form during November - January and the current dismal run. It's a good thing we did scrape those four wins in January really, as without them we'd be right in the relegation mix. Based on our recent performances we probably deserve to be down there.

Just to note as far as the form table is concerned we are the worst team in the divison at the moment. Worse than Ipswich, worse than Bolton, worse than Millwall. This is a dire state of affairs.