Have to admit I didn't think the overall site opinion would sway so far towards the sacking side.

Losing to Bolton at home is pretty damning in fairness. We've got Bolton at home on 22/04 and if we lost that one I'd think even the usual culprits would struggle to play devil's advocate as far as Mowbray's competence is concerned.

Weren't both our shots on target from that? Mulgrew's free kick was on target, then Bell's rebound after the keeper parried it out obviously was as well. Which would mean other than those 10 seconds or so we didn't have a single shot on target for the rest of the match.

Some suggestions around here that Ipswich might have a new owner once this season is done. If so and he's been told as such then I suppose his answers make a bit more sense.

Hart I can at least forgive as a development project, whilst Whittingham played a small part in our League 1 campaign despite not really impressing. Gladwin might as well have not existed at all.

Ben Gladwin, what a signing he's been.

Dack has had periods of poor form but it's frankly impressive that a player like him is able to have any sustained kind of form playing in Mowbray's system. I'd say Dack has been up and down this season, some good and some bad. His first season at a level higher than League 1 so overall I'd actually say decent enough. Graham has only scored two penalties this season hasn't he? So if you want to take that away then fine (although penalties aren't guaranteed goals, you still have to score them), but it's still 11 goals to Assombalgona's 10. That said they are two totally different players so comparing them would be a bit strange, especially as Assombalonga often plays out wide. Rhodes' goals were similarly dismissed as for some he should have somehow been better, despite a striker's main priority being goalscoring. My issue with Graham has nothing to do with his performances, it's more to do with how we operate as a team with him in it. The lazy hoof ball up the DG has become a staple of our game and may only stop when we no longer have such a good target man up front. Whether Mowbray can operate with a different type of striker and system is something I have my doubts over though.

Mowbray himself has said Brereton was his signing, "too good to turn down" was his exact words, so unless we're saying he's lying to cover for the owners (which destroys the integrity argument) we have to lay the blame for that signing at his feet.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/championship/top-scorers Only just behind the likes of Grabban, McBurnie and Roofe, so he's doing fine. Graham is not the problem at this point in time, although age will eventually catch up with him. If we're talking about players whose ages have caught up with them then Mulgrew and Conway are far ahead of Graham I'm afraid.

Ridiculous to suggest that's it's madness or insanity to think about removing a manager who's presided over 4 points of the last 30 available and spunked our transfer budget this season on ineffective players. Promotion last season was the minimum expectation considering we were by far outspending every other team in transfer fees and wages. He also failed in his initial remit to keep us up in 16/17. I don't fully blame him for that, but Mowbray has achieved no more here than Bowyer, who now manages Bradford in League 1. I understand liking the guy on a personal level, but as a manager he is, imo anyway, grossly overrated on the back of promotion out of a division we should never have been in. We aren't talking about sacking Dalglish or Mark Hughes here.

Warnock was on the verge of coming to work here before Coyle slithered into the picture. Venky's have always plumped for the cheap option but genuine alternatives are there if we want them badly enough.

Go. The sooner the better. We've been going backward at a rate of knots since November (with a brief blip which papered over the cracks in January) and there is no evidence in Mowbray's history to suggest he can or will fix this. If anything it's the total opposite. Also his transfer dealings are highly questionable if you take Dack out of the equation. I'm not going to go into the Brereton mess, but do I trust Tony Mowbray with any kind of transfer budget? No, I don't.

Lambert now starting to make all too familiar noises about potentially not being at Ipswich next season. Sounds very similar to what he started coming out with before he decided to leave here. https://www.eadt.co.uk/sport/ipswich-town-boss-paul-lambert-bbc-suffolk-interview-1-5968957

I'm not sure why Mowbray bothers buying/loaning flair players when he is clearly terrified of actually using them.

Based on Mowbray's history you'd have to say it's extremely unlikely he'll be able to arrest this slide. He hasn't shown himself capable of doing so in any of his previous jobs. A fantastic assist from Palmer today... still, who needs Kasey Palmer when we have Craig Conway...?

Bring Bowyer and/or his dad back to do transfers, bring in a manager/coach who can progress the club on the pitch (not somebody off the scrapheap or internally promoted), and maybe we'll have something. Knowing Venky's though, even if Mowbray did go we'd probably end up with the return of Steve Kean. I just can't imagine them making a decision which would benefit the club long-term.

In fairness there were a lot of things in FF8 that in reality would not make any sense the major thing they would have to look at in a FF8 remaster is the magic system. if you draw enough magic from enemy you can essentially break the game by making yourself ridiculously powerful at very low levels, which makes the game super easy. Not sure exactly how they'd fix that (or if they'd just keep it as is) but once you understand how the junctioning dynamic works the game becomes almost impossible to lose.

Are we sure they haven't?

Better hope we keep that secret for the start of next season too.

Based on our form since November we're surely down there with the Rotherham, Millwall and Bolton's of the division? I'd say in both 16/17 and this season we were/are one of the worst teams in the division so that stat doesn't necessarily surprise me. Thank God we somehow managed to start off strong this season, and there are so many desperately poor teams below us.

We had two shots on target the whole afternoon, both of which I believe came at the same time with Mulgrew's free kick and Bell scoring the rebound. I wouldn't really call that a step in the right direction. By the sounds of it we were fucking atrocious one half and mostly inoffensive in the second. If that counts as going in the right direction then we may want to check the map again.

If Mowbray is allowed to continue past the summer then we will be right back to where we started, back in League 1. For 4 of the last 5 months we have been utterly miserable in results and general play. This is way past being a blip. Our results in January were the blip.

That and QPR are really shit.

Another two conceded.

Hopefully Mowbray will leave before Rothwell does. Sadly I think it'll be the other way around.