Match Thread Birmingham City v The Mighty Blades

[sufcboy95]

The dowell for Cranie substitution is stupid. Norwood and flecks crossing has been horrendous. And sharps been non existent

 

[Blade58]

Fkin crosses

WTF?

 

[Deadly_D'Jaffo]

Disappointed that Sharp hasn't been deservedly subbed. He looks tired and off it.

 

[WoodMillBlade]

Still think Birmingham have taken the piss out of FFP. I think points deduction is wrong when they can keep playing players who are on thousands a week. Looking at it I bet they are still breaking FFP

 

[Iceybabey]

Sharp won't be starting Satdeh, Madine and Hogan will.

 

[Shoreham_Bhoys]

Got what we deserve. Point is fair.

 

[Iceybabey]

Defence has been excellent, besides the avoidable goal we conceded. Could prove to be a decent point, like the Oldham away game a couple of seasons back. UTB

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

Why cant we stay 2nd for more than a game? Are we insisting on being the bridesmaids once again

 

[Headshrinker]

Only started playing with some drive and desperation the last 20 minutes or so. Dissapointing.

Birmingham had a decent gameplan though. Fair play to them.

 

[bromtom]

O Duffeo, Duffeo wherefore art thou Duffeo?

Had a hand in the goal but overall iffy tonight.

Dowell shouldn't be replacing Cranie in a defensive capacity especially when the goal scorer is your LWB who you're now forcing backwards.

Fleck. All over the shop.

Norwood had an off day and we don't win when he does, so I'll take the point I suppose.

Also a note to our strikers, shoot.

 

[JayGreen17]

I think we would have taken 4 points out of Preston and Brum, still 1 more than Leeds and only 1 behind now with still a better goal difference, 5 to go, but we need to be creating more and more shots on target, our scoring has dried up along with the defensive play, like a previous poster has said we can’t hold onto that second place it’s like they want to take it to the last game...blades way.

 

[Iceybabey]

Only started playing with some drive and desperation the last 20 minutes or so. Dissapointing.

Birmingham had a decent gameplan though. Fair play to them.

Thought we were pretty up for it from the off tbh, at least up until last 10 of second half, obviously their goal giving them a lift.

 

[derfblade.3]

Moaning fuckers! 4 points from 2 very hard away games. Well done lads.

 

[SelbyBlade]

Two games ago we were two points behind the dirties now we are one point. We both played the same two teams away they got three points we got four. An average of 2 points a game gets you promoted we have just got 4 points from 2 away games.
So all in all with some of the teams Leeds have to play we are right in there.

 

[Harrisblade]

Why cant we stay 2nd for more than a game? Are we insisting on being the bridesmaids once again

Sorry, didn't realise that being 2nd gives you a free pass.

 

[Houston_Blade]

We turned the screw at the end and were unlucky with a point. Good away performance in my opinion.

The sub of Duffy wasn’t one I’d have gone for but McG was excellent going both ways when he dropped to AM.

Dowell didn’t work out as he couldn’t get the ball going forward. They only stuck Jota on when they saw Dowell was stripping off as they know he’s weaker defensively than Stevens.

 

[Iceybabey]

The squad has somewhat wrong footed me. No johnson, lundstram or washington for me to scapegoat. Boooooooo

Up step Boldock.... gave away that corner you see tut tut

 

[robbiez666]

Lots of stupid errors on the ball. Much of the game we lacked pace, urgency or movement. Credit to Sharp for keeping on making runs but the passing and crossing today was poor.

I thought McGoldrick was our best player. Always lively, always managing inexplicably to get on the ball. Midfield was poor. Wing backs didn't get forward. Birmingham defended extremely well but we made it too easy for them at times. Madine looked clumsy when he came on.

Birmingham looked absolutely shattered last 20 minutes and we didn't really have a go of them. Lack of drive from midfield. I thought we might draw beforehand but we should have been asking a lot more questions of their keeper. Did he make a safe apart from one from Jutkiewicz?

I would have thrown Hogan on for Sharp for the last 10, simply for the Villa connection and a bit of pace.

I think we also missed the chance to apply a little pressure to Norwich.

 

[Bill puntin]

Why cant we stay 2nd for more than a game? Are we insisting on being the bridesmaids once again

He who laughs last laughs longest.

 

[Seanshoreham]

For me too much fannying about on the ball when we were on top - we need to be more direct and get some earlier shots off

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Delivery was awful all evening to be honest. Thought Sharp was the reverse of his Preston game – in that game he shot at every opening when passing was the better option, tonight he seemed reluctant to shoot when it was crying out for him to do so.

Dowell’s poorest stint at LWB. I was surprised by that change – I’d have left the defence as it was. Madine I thought had an impact, and did fine when he came on.

I was surprised by our fans tonight. Very good at 0-0. Excellent at 1-0. No attempt to lift the team after that. It was as though any sense of belief disappeared with that equaliser.

 

[Razor1967]

Disappointed that Sharp hasn't been deservedly subbed. He looks tired and off it.

I don’t know which game you were watching......

 

[SB_90]

we were off colour tonight, Birmingham are a good team cant forget they beat leeds so they are capable even if they came to defend & bar 41 - 60pts did very little offensively. but our main problem was our balls in final 1/3 were terrible I can only think of 5 that had been worthy. 4 were after 75th min when we did we looked a big threat. but you just cant start waiting til final 15 min to start putting decent balls in box

annoyed to concede in that manor as it terrible defending in the 2nd phase, unsure if it was Birmingham player, Henderson or our guy on the post but if was latter 2 they should now better than to have been pushing that back into the danger zone. but on the positives 1 point is better 0 & we took 4pts to leeds 3 from Preston & Birmingham. there are many games to go i still think many twists to go its ludicrous to think leeds will go 100% I think their games v Brentford & villa are huge turning points they could easily only get 1 pt from 2 games

 

[Ricky]

I was surprised by our fans tonight. Very good at 0-0. Excellent at 1-0. No attempt to lift the team after that. It was as though any sense of belief disappeared with that equaliser.

Every time we're away from home and not winning in the second half, it's quiet.

 

[LoughboroBlade]

Every time we're away from home and not winning in the second half, it's quiet.

I don’t agree, from my experience this season at least. We were never ahead at Norwich and the atmosphere there was good. Seem to recall we kept with the players throughout at Brentford despite conceding a lead too. I only mention it this evening because it struck me as unusual – for all the issues with the atmosphere at home, away from home we’ve had consistently good atmospheres from my experience, even when we’ve had set-backs in the games.

I came away from St Andrews last season with the same thought, and just put that down to the awful performance and the fact the season was fading away. Certainly not a factor tonight. Perhaps it’s the stadium...