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

We'd just been beaten 4-1 by Preston and 3-1 by Wigan so that probably would have been an indicator to be fair!

Promotion and the good will that came from that last season probably plays a huge role in that. The fact we should never have been in that division in the first place and had a squad and budget far beyond the reach of pretty much every other club isn't really taken into account. We should probably have won the division, but coming second was the bare minimum in my view. Playoffs would have been below expectation. I'm not trying to diminish the achievement as big clubs have gone down to L1 and struggled to get back up quickly, but nor do I see last season's promotion as anything magnificent. It met the expectation. You could argue we've also met the expectation this season by most likely consolidating our position, but much like second place last season was bare minimum, we're similarly likely to finish at bare minimum requirement this season of just about keeping our heads above water. There's nothing to suggest that Mowbray will ever take us beyond those minimum expectations, and as a result the margin for error is very small and the chances of punching above our weight become close to impossible to attain. If we as a fanbase have any ambition for this club we need to demand much better than what we're seeing now.

I felt the same during November/December when we went on our first dismal run, but not now. Relegation form in 4 of the last 5 months means that I can't justify even suggesting TM gets a chance to sort it out next season. Our form is so bad under him now that we could be in a worse position than we were left in under Coyle if things don't improve, and even if he was removed in October the damage might already be too great - especially taking his poor recruitment record into account. I'll go into next season incredibly uneasy if Mowbray is still in charge.

My guess is that he's made it clear he has no interest in returning here next season on permanent or loan, so Tony is phasing him out and giving time to players who probably will be here. Unfortunately said players are shit.

I sometimes mistake them for my own.

Just to note the poll stood at 60 to stay and 75 to go before the Stoke match kicked off... now 59 to 91. That said I imagine a lucky win would swing it back to a tighter margin, as it usually did under Kean.

If we get into a relegation scrap we will go down. Neither the manager nor the players have it in them to win that kind of fight. Fortunately I don't see it happening this season. Too many terrible teams below us. Next season though? We're in huge trouble if Mowbray is still manager. He will relegate us.

Just forced myself to take a look back at our results under Kean to see if he took us on a worse run... In 2010-11 we went on a run of 4 points out of 30 between February and March. We then won and drew a few in April to keep our heads above water. In 2011-12 we started off with 4 points out of 39 (!) which was our worst run of the season. Mowbray isn't quite there yet, so for now he doesn't hold the record for worst run under Venky's. Lose our next three games though and he will do. We never came close to a run this bad under Coyle.

He's readily admitted to letting the players manage and critique themselves in the dressing room, so yeah, I'd say he has very little authority.

They'll be back together next week. The pair of them never seem to have gotten past the mental age of 15, and that might be generous.