POST-MATCH THREAD: Birmingham City v Charlton Athletic: Saturday 13th December 2025: KO 15:00

Birmingham were effectively 2nd in the home form table before KO.
I was praying for a point to halt our run of defeats.
I think we bored them into submission and dragged them down to our level.

They woke up not long after we equalised, but once they had lost the momentum it's often hard to get it back and so it proved.

Anyway I couldn't care less, we are playing better teams with bigger budgets and if we can stay up it will be quite some achievement, especially with 5 medium/long term injuries.

Well done to all involved and especially to Tyreece for scoring the equaliser and breaking his goal scoring duck.

I'm very happy tonight and hopefully it gives us more confidence in the games coming up.
We really  want to avoid defeat in the next three at the least.

Come on you reds.

Can’t blame TC for not celebrating in the crowd to be honest. He works his arse off and yet he’s had so much grief recently that Jones had to defend his contributions just this week. Kind of like that McGrandles goal against Pompey, you can’t slag off a player for weeks online and then be surprised when he’s not looking to cuddle the people who have been calling him ‘total dogshit’ 4 days earlier. TC’s a quiet boy anyway, not one to make a big fuss of himself even at the best of times 

An excellent result to put a stop to what was starting to feel like an interminable losing run. Apart from another valuable point on the board, it is psychologically important for the team not to go into the next important batch of games on the back of yet another defeat.

Birmingham were very good and outplayed us in the first half, although it's hard to fathom how Miles - usually a decent finisher - somehow missed the chance to equalise from Tanto's cross. The second half was a different story and, despite Demarai Grey hitting the woodwork for a second time and Birmingham exerting some late pressure, we battled extremely well and deserved the point. Hopefully, Tyreece Campbell's first goal in 32 matches for club and country will inspire some much-needed confidence.

Birmingham are a talented side but I took grave exception to their goalie's attempt to get Tanto sent off, whilst Stansfield is also a serious irritant. Worst of all, though, are their hedge fund owners, led by Tom Wagner, who comes across as a complete arse - as well as opposing any significant redistribution of money from the Premier League to the EFL pyramid, he says he's open to discussing options to play games overseas because of the potential to what they can achieve internationally. Happily, they're currently stuck in mid-table, so long may that continue.

Next week's game at The Valley against Oxford is huge and a win would put us 8 points clear of them. I know it's the last Saturday before Christmas but, with the shops now open every day (and often quite late), it's not like the old days when clubs usually had their lowest gate of the season on the pre-Christmas Saturday. Hopefully we can have a decent turnout to help get the lads over the line and secure 3 points before tricky trips to Norwich and Portsmouth.