Oh, also Jay Stanfield looks like a right little wanker and I hope someone snaps him at some point.
Also I'm getting Lyle Taylor vibes from Alfie May, right twatty behaviour with the over the top celebrations after the throw in and general facial expressions.
We just seem to love signing players who lack a bit of class when they leave and play against us.
In fairness, don't suppose Alfie May feels any great love or warmth towards Jones after the way he treated him.
I thought the match was poised for a late Leaburn equaliser. But that wasn’t to be.
We never looked like scoring.
Not true. Right at the end there we were close. Great cross by Gilbert and Miles took it off the head of Kanu who had an open goal behind him. Seeing how we’ve scored late deciding goals lately I was waiting for that moment. Could/should have been a goal.
Generous scores in the player marks thread considering how bad many played.
I honestly don't know if we really were as bad as all that - individually or as a team. Outside of Coventry's very uncharacteristic mistake I don’t think we did much wrong at all. We lacked maybe a bit of the usual zip and energy but they were up against players who really could/should be quite competitive in the next league up.
Birmingham may have outplayed us but given the gulf in budgets they really SHOULD be outplaying us really. Staying more or less competitive over the course of about a hundred minutes isn't a terrible result all things considered.
No major complains. Shame to give them an easy goal, because they don’t need the help because of how good they are.
The real issue was always going to be whether we could actually keep the ball up the pitch to try and get our attacking players in the match. Unfortunately, never happened.
At the end of the day were beat by a moment of brilliance ( and Coventry falling asleep) by a player that cost £15m . Did they really threaten us much apart from that?
We should have been down to ten men anyway . I have no idea what AMB was thinking.
Birmingham: ungracious, time wasters, duckers & divers, all very effective. They do what it takes to win games. Having said that, a gutsy Charlton worked their collective socks off all to no avail against a better, expensively assembled horrible outfit
Oh, also Jay Stanfield looks like a right little wanker and I hope someone snaps him at some point.
Also I'm getting Lyle Taylor vibes from Alfie May, right twatty behaviour with the over the top celebrations after the throw in and general facial expressions.
We just seem to love signing players who lack a bit of class when they leave and play against us.
In fairness, don't suppose Alfie May feels any great love or warmth towards Jones after the way he treated him.
Whatever happened between him and Jones is between them two, he still came across muggy.
On reflection I'm a bit of a hypocrite cause I was taking the piss when he was being muggy towards Cheltenham fans after we played against them.
You're not welcome back at the Valley May mate.
May is welcome back anytime as far as I'm concerned.
We've just lost 1-0 (our error) to a team who spent more on one player than the probable worth of our entire squad - and over the season we have shared the points with them, and the goals. Birmingham are a bunch of diving, cheating c*nts who play in front of a crowd where most would struggle to read without moving their lips.
There are enough games left for us to get a top six and I'm confident we will achieve that, and I would not be afraid of any teams that fill the remaining play-off spots.
Saw Alfie May try to gee up the Birmingham crowd when he won a throw in. Is that what people are getting upset about? Unless I missed something else it was pretty mundane and hardly deserves the flak some are giving him.
I've no idea what anyone is going on about either and yes I watched the game.
Oh, also Jay Stanfield looks like a right little wanker and I hope someone snaps him at some point.
Also I'm getting Lyle Taylor vibes from Alfie May, right twatty behaviour with the over the top celebrations after the throw in and general facial expressions.
We just seem to love signing players who lack a bit of class when they leave and play against us.
In fairness, don't suppose Alfie May feels any great love or warmth towards Jones after the way he treated him.
Whatever happened between him and Jones is between them two, he still came across muggy.
On reflection I'm a bit of a hypocrite cause I was taking the piss when he was being muggy towards Cheltenham fans after we played against them.
You're not welcome back at the Valley May mate.
May is welcome back anytime as far as I'm concerned.
Football is a business, he made a sound business decision. Good luck to him
Can’t get too down about the result. What is slightly concerning is our lack 9f midfield options on the bench and even more so the lack of suitable cover for Campbell/Small.
Also hope our lacklustre performance wasn’t to do with stage fright. Need to be a lot better at Stockport, Wrexham, Wycombe and Orient.
Birmingham were miles better than us, felt like they never got out of 2nd or 3rd gear, shame we helped them with some poor play for the goal but the quality from Stansfield to score it was evident and it felt like we could barely string 2 or 3 passes together certainly in their half
was good that we kept them quiet largely offensively but we didn’t even put a glove on let alone lay one on them in an attacking sense, I felt our players were a touch overrawed by Birmingham and the “occasion”.
i can handle all of that all things considered a narrow 0-1 loss feels like not a bad result but the 5 x wins for our rivals feels like a real kick in the teeth
all of the above aside. Great to be back in a professional football stadium with a proper crowd in a (shithole) city rather than a town and a non league shed. We should be playing in the championship and in these sort of matches week in week out and it doesn’t feel like that much to ask but as it is we’re very much entrenched with the shrewsburys and the crawleys and we have a lot to do to escape that
Can’t get too down about the result. What is slightly concerning is our lack 9f midfield options on the bench and even more so the lack of suitable cover for Campbell/Small.
Also hope our lacklustre performance wasn’t to do with stage fright. Need to be a lot better at Stockport, Wrexham, Wycombe and Orient.
I really can’t believe the negativity after that. Limited a good side to not many chances at all. Yes it wasn’t pretty but their side costs about £29m more than ours. We’ve picked up 16 points from a possible 21 in our last 7 games. We go again vs Exeter
Just a shame that our billionaire owners didn't spend a bit of cash in the summer then.
I’ve been very critical of the team this season, but given the run they’ve been on and the fact that we won 4 out the last 4 home games when we discussed the run we had from Shrewsbury up until Peterborough on Tuesday and them being ‘winnable’ games, I can’t really criticize them.
It was always going to be a tough game. Win against Exeter and this is long forgotten. 15 games to go, and if we sustain the form we’ve shown since Xmas, we’re going to be right in the mix. Looking forward to bouncing back against Exeter
I’ve been very critical of the team this season, but given the run they’ve been on and the fact that we won 4 out the last 4 home games when we discussed the run we had from Shrewsbury up until Peterborough on Tuesday and them being ‘winnable’ games, I can’t really criticize them.
It was always going to be a tough game. Win against Exeter and this is long forgotten. 15 games to go, and if we sustain the form we’ve shown since Xmas, we’re going to be right in the mix. Looking forward to bouncing back against Exeter
Birmingham are unbeaten at home this season. Very much doubt that will change.
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Birmingham may have outplayed us but given the gulf in budgets they really SHOULD be outplaying us really. Staying more or less competitive over the course of about a hundred minutes isn't a terrible result all things considered.
Having said that, a gutsy Charlton worked their collective socks off all to no avail against a better, expensively assembled horrible outfit
Why not try Ramsey in midfield? he looked like he has the ability to carry the ball with pace. Alex Mitchell can replace him at the back?
Also hope our lacklustre performance wasn’t to do with stage fright. Need to be a lot better at Stockport, Wrexham, Wycombe and Orient.
Birmingham were miles better than us, felt like they never got out of 2nd or 3rd gear, shame we helped them with some poor play for the goal but the quality from Stansfield to score it was evident and it felt like we could barely string 2 or 3 passes together certainly in their half
was good that we kept them quiet largely offensively but we didn’t even put a glove on let alone lay one on them in an attacking sense, I felt our players were a touch overrawed by Birmingham and the “occasion”.
i can handle all of that all things considered a narrow 0-1 loss feels like not a bad result but the 5 x wins for our rivals feels like a real kick in the teeth
all of the above aside. Great to be back in a professional football stadium with a proper crowd in a (shithole) city rather than a town and a non league shed. We should be playing in the championship and in these sort of matches week in week out and it doesn’t feel like that much to ask but as it is we’re very much entrenched with the shrewsburys and the crawleys and we have a lot to do to escape that
up the addicks on to next week