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.

I really wish they would release a remastered version of FFVIII. The story makes absolutely no sense but I still love the overall feel of the game. I read that apparently it isn't so much reluctance as the fact the original code was somehow lost, making a conversion very difficult and time consuming. The original game is still perfectly playable (especially if you use an emulator) but I'd love to have it on the PS4.

I also only realised in a recent playthrough how heavily the WEAPON monsters are influenced by the Godzilla franchise. When the first WEAPON emerges from the crater on Disc 2 it even does a Godzilla cry. As a kid I didn't really know anything about Japan and Godzilla, but now it's like, yeah, it's Japan... of course there are giant lizard monsters in there Another thing that amazes me is how in almost every playthrough I find something I never noticed before. I've played through the game dozens of times over the years and only on my most recent run did I realise there's a computer in one of the houses in the Icicle town which has various cut-scenes with Professor Gast and Ilfana. There's also stuff like BugenHagen's final scene and the Cloud/Zack flashbacks in Nibelheim on Disc 3 which I hadn't caught on previous playthroughs. The amount of content across the game is truly incredible, especially considering the era the game was released in.

Part of me wishes there was an option to turn off the R3 option when you start a game, just so the temptation isn't there! It's usually Cloud/Barrett/Tifa for me as well. Barrett pretty much always take number two slot - he's just hilarious as a character, and his limit breaks are awesome in terms of dealing damage. I'll sometimes go Red XIII or Cid in third slot too. I don't tend to use Yuffie, Vincent or Cait Sith much. As you say, Vincent's uncontrollable limit break can be pretty irritating. I just don't find the other two very interesting - Reeve as a character is cool, Cait Sith not so much. Feels like Cait Sith should maybe have been a non-playable character - I don't mind him being around but I never feel any need to select him to be in the party. It's a bit of a shame Aeris isn't around longer, as she's the only "white mage" type character. Nobody else really has the same impact, especially in the healer role.

Haha, yeah, it basically breaks the game. On the other hand, if you saved a while back and don't really want to repeat the area all over again by dying in a battle... sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. It's amazing how some of the FMV's still hold up well even by today's standards. The opening FMV still gives me chills, and there are others throughout the game which still look great. Obviously some parts look really dated, but there's enough nostalgia there for me that I can pretty much ignore that.

I assume it's the same as the PS4 version, which is a port of the Steam version of the game. It's well worth the purchase, the x3 speed in particular makes parts of the game much easier to get through. Also being able to turn off random battles is a welcome relief when you just want to get through an area without stopping every five seconds to fight.

Williams will be at Rovers longer than Shearer was

2021and 2020 respectively.