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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.

The problem is even if this kind of money was made available, I still wouldn't be very confident in TM spending it wisely. His transfer record is chequered at best.

Unless your name is Chris Brown. 37 apps and no goals... could have played 370 and never scored. Bennett is way down on the list of players we need to ship out. He's contributed more in terms of assists/goals than the vast majority of the team, including 0 goals 0 assists Corry Evans - who hasn't actually scored a single goal for us since the 15/16 season. 3 assists in the last four seasons too. Now granted he's largely a defensive midfielder, but even Smallwood has a couple of goals and 4 assists in the last two seasons.

Also I recently purchased a PSP, with my first purchases being Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy Crisis Core, and the FF Dissida games. I think it can be hacked to be a pretty nice emulation system too.

I really can't recommend the SNES mini enough - NES mini is very good too, although the controller wire is for some reason incredibly short. I also went Master System/Mega Drive (plus an Amiga 500 somewhere in the middle), before switching to PlayStation/PlayStation 2. The only Nintendo console I had growing up was a Gameboy Colour, and that was basically just a Pokémon machine as I only bought it for that game (what a game, though). I only learned to appreciate the NES/SNES in the early 00s when emulation for those systems became practically perfect and I could play games like Mario Kart, Super Mario World, Link to the Past, Gundam Wing: Endless Duel, Street Fighter II Turbo and some random DBZ games through Snes9X on my PC. N64 was a console I just never got into - although I've played the Zelda games through a GameCube Zelda compilation which has the first two Zelda games + Majora's Mask and Ocarina of Time on it. That's a cool little item.