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POST-MATCH THREAD: Birmingham City vs Charlton Athletic | Saturday 15th February 2025 - 3pm Kick-Of
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Generous scores in the player marks thread considering how bad many played.2
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I'll take a bet with you if you are on Birmingham to not be promoted.letthegoodtimesroll said:Charlton V Birmingham 2024/2025
0-1 Carabao Cup
1-0 L1
0-1 L1
so next in sequence must be
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letthegoodtimesroll said:Charlton V Birmingham 2024/2025
0-1 Carabao Cup
1-0 L1
0-1 L1
so next in sequence must be
1-0 Wembley, Play Off Final
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Really he engineered the moveFortune 82nd Minute said:
In fairness, don't suppose Alfie May feels any great love or warmth towards Jones after the way he treated him.Braziliance said: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.7 -
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.CAFCTrev said:
We never looked like scoring.LoOkOuT said:I thought the match was poised for a late Leaburn equaliser. But that wasn’t to be.
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Hmm.thewolfboy said:Huge Brummie crowd of + 52k. No wonder they can afford big transfer fees.2 -
Pretty sure there was a defender between Leaburn and Kanu who would have got the ball rather than Kanu but not watches it back.1
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Arrived back at Euston 19.350
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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.Chunes said:Generous scores in the player marks thread considering how bad many played.
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.7 -
We’ve taken more off them this season than most. Onto the next.4
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Absolutely - if Leaburn doesn’t touch, the defender will. That ball won’t get to Kanu.Alwaysneil said:Pretty sure there was a defender between Leaburn and Kanu who would have got the ball rather than Kanu but not watches it back.0 -
AMB was poor and seemed to make the defence feel jitteryWe consequently did not string Many passes together and build an attack / keep much possession.On the back foot for too long. The subs helped however and Leaburn made a difference.0
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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.0
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Really? Surely only a yellow if spotted.Bedsaddick said: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.3 -
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 outfit7 -
May is welcome back anytime as far as I'm concerned.Braziliance said:
Whatever happened between him and Jones is between them two, he still came across muggy.Fortune 82nd Minute said:
In fairness, don't suppose Alfie May feels any great love or warmth towards Jones after the way he treated him.Braziliance said: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.
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.
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COYRsbobmunro said: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.Nil desperandum!0 -
I've no idea what anyone is going on about either and yes I watched the game.JohnnyJoeyDeeDee said: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.2 -
Football is a business, he made a sound business decision. Good luck to himCovered End said:
May is welcome back anytime as far as I'm concerned.Braziliance said:
Whatever happened between him and Jones is between them two, he still came across muggy.Fortune 82nd Minute said:
In fairness, don't suppose Alfie May feels any great love or warmth towards Jones after the way he treated him.Braziliance said: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.
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.
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In a game with so many fouls would it have been wise to bring on Aneke who gets injured so easily?Dansk_Red said:NJ would probably brought Chucks on but the enforced goalkeeper sub limited his options.1 -
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?1 -
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.4 -
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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
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According to Nathan the answer is in the Academy.LargeAddick said: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.0 -
He did, we saw him wince.MuttleyCAFC said:I think AMB injured his foot doing a long kick.1 -
Just a shame that our billionaire owners didn't spend a bit of cash in the summer then.Pelling1993 said: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 Exeter2 -
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 Exeter5
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Birmingham are unbeaten at home this season. Very much doubt that will change.cabbles said: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 Exeter2 -
A 1-0 defeat at St Andrews against a £30 million pound team was no disgrace, and we will bounce back COYR 👍👍👍👍5
