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.

The ref didn't kick the ball into our net twice. That's down to inept defending and coaching.

We've for the time being taken over from Ipswich as the team who have conceded the most away goals in the championship. If Mowbray isn't embarrassed by that he certainly should be.

West Brom's defence has been their achilles heel all season and it's why they're likely to end up fighting it out in the playoffs. 47 goals conceded makes them the weakest defence out of the top 9. They've only conceded five more goals over the season than we have - they just score a lot more than us.

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/why-the-hell-do-they-have-mouths-a-final-fantasy-7-pc-retrospective/ A nice little article on the original FF7 PC port. The mouths do look very out of place on the PS4 remaster they've kind of gone half and half. Nobody has an "o" mouth any more, but there's now a mixture of models with mouths (most of the main characters) and ones without (most of the minor cast, plus Sephiroth).

I've played it through my phone once or twice as well, it actually works surprisingly well for the most part. I think the PS4 remaster is based on the PC/Steam remaster - is that the one you bought, or the original Eidos PC version released in the late 90s?

Doesn't really matter now. We're going to finish somewhere mid-table, and when you're in the no man's land below 12th it doesn't really matter where you finish as long as it isn't in the relegation spots. I think we'll finish either 17th or 18th, just ahead of Wigan and possibly Stoke as well.

Oops.

It looks likely. Clearly I don't!

One of my Man Utd supporting mates started asking me about Buckley at the weekend, saying he'd heard a lot of top clubs were looking him, including United. It was news to me, but it going by your comments it sounds like there might be some merit to it.