Functional is the best way you could describe us under Mowbray last season. We got the job done despite never looking especially dominant or even particularly good, with a few exceptions (Rotherham at home comes to mind). That carried on at the start of this season, but getting smashed by Wigan and Preston seemed to wreck the belief in the camp and with little else to fall back on it's been mostly downhill ever since. It should have come back after our January run, but somehow it's actually gotten even worse.

Very worrying when you read stuff like this. Venky's really have stripped the pride from this club and left us with fans who are happy to tread just above the Championship relegation zone.

As I said, Dack and Attwood have the mental age of teenagers, so it's up to Mowbray to try and manage that.

The EFL and integrity? Hah. It's just a self-preservation society that answers to nobody but itself.

They're absolutely desperate for Bolton to limp to the season's end so they don't have to deal with issues arising from postponed/forfeited matches.

I've commented on this before - Mulgrew's body language after goals are conceded is absolutely pathetic. Same for the rest of the team, but he's supposed to be our captain. Instead he walks off, hands on hips, looking like a teenager who's just been told the WiFi isn't working. Not captain material and needs to be gone in the summer if possible. He's run his course here. His set-pieces are obviously going to be missed but we shouldn't be relying so heavily on them anyway. Plus an analysis I did a little while back shows we rarely actually win when Mulgrew scores.

Probably what Mowbray is telling them tbh. If the players think that these levels of performance are acceptable then no wonder we aren't improving.

Judging by his shooting since then he probably miskicked it.

Like most of our team, he was doing really well up until November. Then it all seemed to go to shit - for everybody, Dack included. By the 10th November he'd scored 8 goals. Since then just 4. Something hasn't been right for a while with him, but nonetheless I can't advocate selling him. Not when we have so little goal threat or creativity across the rest of the team. We can surely only consider selling him if we have more productive players in the team first.

I'd take that gamble purely because I have 100% lost my faith in Mowbray as manager of this club. I can understand not wanting to take the gamble if you still have some belief in him, though. For me the Evans/Smallwood axis being employed yesterday alongside Bennett in the no10 role destroyed any small amount of hope I had in Mowbray turning it around. I don't think he's capable of understanding or accepting the mistakes he's made, and I think they'll continue on into next season and if he is sacked at some point we'll be right back to where we were when Coyle left.

Our form since November suggests that if he gets it wrong - and in the last two windows he 100% has - we are very likely to either be relegated or face a huge battle to stay up next season. Is it worth risking our Championship future because the guy got us to finish 2nd in League 1? Not for me. That's too big of a gamble and it ignores everything in Mowbray's history, which suggests he can't his teams out of these types of spirals.

It's actually 6 after yesterday's loss. Their last two wins came at the end of February against QPR and, you guessed it, Rovers.

Bennett is the type of player who is fine when surrounded by players that hide his weaknesses, but struggles otherwise. Like a poundstore version of James Milner. Mulgrew was never the best defender, even in L1, but age combined with playing at a higher level really seems to have caught up with him now. It's a shame but neither should be starting for us next season. Probably time for Mulgrew to move on - I'd keep Bennett as a squad player, as in the right team I still think he can be effective and his energy if nothing else should be useful coming off the bench for the last twenty minutes if we need to scrap. It's scary how big of an overhaul we need in the summer though, both in terms of personnel and playing style. If Mowbray is staying then he had better be thinking about it already, as there is a lot of work to be done.

Easy to be a "leader" when things are going well, but the real leaders show themselves when things aren't going as planned. Do we have any?

Not sure it was post match, I can't remember where it was from. It caused a bit of a furore when it came out though. I think it might have been back in November when Wigan and Preston beat us.

I appreciate that in the modern game you need to give the players some degree of control, but Mowbray's comments made it sound like at half time he just went out for a cup of tea whilst the lads discussed amongst themselves, then came back just as they were about to go out and said "alright boys, go get 'em!" ... now it was probably just TM wording it badly, but even so those comments didn't give me confidence Mowbray has a good grip on this team. They like him, sure, but do they respect him enough to really listen when he has something to say? Based on the last five months, barring January, it seems increasingly that the answer is no.

TM is worried about everybody. We could be playing Harrogate next week and he'd be fretting over their right back and working out ways to stop him. Up until November you could have described us as attritional, industrial, or whatever else is said to describe teams that work hard but have no set style of play. Since then, though, we've seen countless individual errors, poor performances and generally bad play. Where was our team spirit when we were hammered by Wigan, Preston or Brentford? Away from home especially we seem to have no appetite at all. What's confusing is that if we were planning to be an industrious, direct team, why in the world were we bringing in Rothwell, Palmer, Armstrong, Brereton, etc? These are players for an entirely different style of play which TM has shown no evidence of wanting to play. I can't understand the rationale behind our recruitment, let alone where we're supposed to be going as a team. This is why I have such major reservations about giving TM another summer transfer window.

Realistically all of the above is also going to take a change of manager. There's no sign of us getting there under TM, and it's been nearly two and a half years now. He's brought in the players to do it, but shows no desire to change our style of play at all. It's really disappointing how little our play has progressed, particularly this season.

With Mowbray's recent comments about letting the dressing room sort itself out, I do wonder how much of that spirit was down to him, and how much was down to a lot of the players just being mates and getting on with each other. Now that Dack is going off the rails, Mulgrew is completely out of form, Bennett is all over the place and the youngsters are struggling, perhaps the players are struggling to get themselves on the same page. Does TM retain the type of authority where he could get the players together and sort them out? Based on past comments I'm not sure, and it was worrying to me when he started talking about how the dressing room is the player's domain and he doesn't get involved. I can't imagine many top managers coming out with comments like that. In fact I've never heard any other manager say that.

Grimey got a goal as well today. He definitely would have been out on the wing.

Unfortunately Mowbray has a habit of stockpiling players who should play off Graham but inevitably end up playing out wide or not at all, because that is Dack's position. I noticed that Palmer scored for Bristol City today...

How many times do you hear Armstrong "nearly scored" though? 4 goals from a forward player isn't great. As I said, he's young so I'm not expecting the finished article, but I do think he misses a lot of chances which at the very least should be on target. The bar/post counts as off target. I don't want to be too harsh on Armstrong as he's far from our biggest issue but I do think if he was more clinical in front of goal we'd have a few more points this season. One thing I will note, however, is that Armstrong has represented far better value for money at £1.75m than a certain other young striker at £7m...

Maybe he means mini as in much worse? Armstrong seems to go through purple patches where he looks like he's finally cracked it, then goes months looking like he wouldn't score if the opposition defence and goalkeeper were watching from the sidelines. He's a young player so I suppose inconsistency is to be expected, but I wouldn't trust him right now as our central striker.

He's also quite a poor finisher. If he wasn't he'd be near Graham as top scorer, but he doesn't take many of his chances. You get what you pay for though.

Much like the FF series they're all standalone games, so you won't have a problem if you do start at 5. That said, the graphical downgrade from 5 to 4 is pretty brutal (4 was a PS2 game) so starting with 4 might be better. One of the biggest problems I had going from 5 to 4 was how primitive the former game looks. The graphics and art style in general on P5 are top notch. Hoping the FF7 remake makes the music sound as epic as this