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.

In fairness Big Sam was very much into sports science, etc, and it always seems to work for him. I suppose the differences lies in understanding the data whilst actually being able to apply it in a real life situation. Not many are able to do it.

Make yourself a brew first, it's something like 30,000 words

@Bigdoggsteel really cool and lengthily feature on FF7 here: https://www.polygon.com/a/final-fantasy-7 - well worth a read!

I'm planning to get my dad a PS4 Pro for his birthday - partially as a thank you for helping me learn to drive at the ripe old age of 31. I might get the Red Dead 2 bundle package and cheekily ask if I can take RD2 not his kind of game really so I think it'd be better off with me!

Another defeat for Frank Lampard's Derby County.

Main issue for me is going to be the battle system. When turn based is done properly it's still great. I'm 99% certain this won't be turn based, which will definitely curtail my enjoyment. Part of the reason I loved Persona 5 was because of how well they updated and refined the turn based battle system. It might be out of date these days but it's still what I prefer.

I was really excited for the remake when it was announced in 2015, but yeah, now I'm kind of dreading it. All things considered I'm actually fine with the remastered PS4 version of FF7 + Advent Children. That'll do me. No confidence in Square-Enix doing the remake justice at this point, but I guess we'll see. They might surprise us.

Definitely get it, well worth the purchase. I think it's £12.99 at the moment but does fall under £10 every so often, so it might be worth waiting if you don't need it right now. Yeah you can turn off random battles, which is really useful at certain points. The other feature I really like is x3 speed, which makes battles, climbing ladders, running across the world map, etc a lot more manageable. There is also an option to restore your health and boost limit break at any point in battle, but it goes without saying that doing that pretty much removes any form of challenge. The only way you'd be able to die is if the enemy was able to one shot your entire team - possible at certain points (Midgar Zolom early on, for example) but generally unlikely.

Nowadays the PS4. It's got a lot of cool little optional features added in.

I've never really played tactical role playing games so it'll be interesting to get into. Right now I'm doing another play through of FF7, so it'll have to wait until that's done. No idea how many times I've gone through that game but it's at least once a year since 1998!

Yeah I finished it twice in fact, I've played nearly 200 hours on it overall. Up there with my favourite ever games, which I wasn't expecting when I bought it!