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brummybloke

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  1. If we can get 7 point from next 3 games I will be more than happy
  2. One of our most reliable players this season, it will be a tough decision come summer time to sell him on. I, like probably 50% of fans, wanted him sold this summer to raise funds and reduce wages but his value has been immense especially with monero out all season until yesterday.
  3. Hopefully coutinho can be sold off to the Arabs for 10 or 15 million Donker 5 to 10 million Traore will leave on a free or we could try and get the Arabs to buy him in Jan for a couple million ? Sansom another 5 million or so Then you are looking at players we wish to upgrade Cash Olsen Bailey ( done well recently ) Then age / value Digne Mings Carlos Them there's still big Tim and maybe another couple younger players who could be sold off who are on loan at the moment. So plenty of players we may be able to shuffle out to reduce wages and increase revenue. It's balancing having enough quality players who will keep us strong if injuries or suspension kick in to strengthening financially in order to get 2 or 3 better players.
  4. I can bet he was frustrated with the lack of crossing especially in the first half. The amount of times he was looking for a ball whipped in only for cash to check back and play it backwards. I understand emery wants high percentage chances rather than crosses where it could go either way but if digne had been on from the start, I think he would have had more joy. I did like his tactical booking late on, he's learning, it was an important foul that stopped them on a quick break.
  5. Got the win, not convincing and first half we were very sloppy but.. we got the win Oh and the ref ? One of the worst showings I've seen in a very long time.
  6. He's loving his football, has been at the club 5 odd years now, is a guaranteed starter, is playing in a winning team, has got back in the Brazil set up and is settled in Birmingham. I'm sure he will be offered a new contract either in January or the summer which will increase his reported 75k pw to over 100k pw. If we were still scraping 40 points a season I could understand him looking elsewhere but not anymore.
  7. Mcginn motm for me, some good performances from the team. Cash far better, teilemens was good, kamara was himself, torres was great bar 2nd half 3 passes to opponents, konsa was good, in fact diaby was probably the least effective for once. Not sure if he's exhausted or carrying an injury but he seems to be having a bit of trouble controlling and carrying the ball at the moment. Watkins again, you don't see him for several minutes then boom a goal or shot comes in he's been involved in. Good stuff
  8. Annoyingly, most of the time, he was 1 on 1, he then slows down to the point another player is then able to double up on him. That's when he loses the ball the most. Just take the player on instead of trying to cut it back to try and shoot all the time.
  9. Apart from the 2nd minute where he should have scored and it ended up being a wrongly disallowed goal, the penalty he should have got for the 3 shirt pullbacks a few minutes later, he was pretty quiet, until he pops up with the winning goal. He needs to learn the dark arts, if he's in the box getting his shirt pulled, drop to the floor, every other team do it and get a pen.
  10. That's 2 games in a row now of under performing and slow build up and causing our own problems. If we are winning, fine emi can hold onto the ball for 30 seconds casually walking up the pitch, when we are not, play it out quicker. Same goes with the defence, we get a quick attack on and then it goes all the way back. Having possession is the main aim but when you don't do anything with it except put yourself in trouble, it becomes slightly pointless. Diaby was poor tonight and Bailey was away Bailey from 15th minute until he was taken off. Zaniolo came on and reminded me of a kid getting on the pitch, full of energy but nothing really stuck or came off. When we changed tempo and played at normal pace rather than super slow mo we looked half decent until it went to Bailey or diaby. Will take a win all day long but we need to be doing things that bit faster progressing it from the back. The Greek lad reminds me of a ronny rosenthal type forward. Doesn't look much of a physical specimen but can put the ball in the net. Oh and the ref was terrible tonight, at least 1 goal and 1 penalty not given, gave us a corner which luckily we scored from which wasnt a corner and ignored 4 or 5 clear bookings including 3 in a row in the space of 2 minutes. The goal after 2 mins and the penalty after 6 or 7 minutes and the game is completely different.
  11. Can we stop pissing about tippy tappy shit when attacking now ?
  12. Since the 15th minute, Diaby looks off the pace, bailey keeps running into trouble teilemens passing too slow. Digne seems to be doing a cash tonight. Several times he's had space to either put an early ball in or just go down the line and back it goes 9/10 times. We are trying like we did at forest, to play too much and almost want to walk it in or play intricate passes in a crowded area and just lose possession. We started brightly and should have had a penalty but we need to step it up next half as they will just drop deeper or we will faff at the back trying to get them to come forwards and we will lose the ball. I would move teilemens further forwards for mcginn and put Bailey or diaby on the left. We have a decent bench zaniolo duran luiz can all come on at some stage to change things as we are losing the ball in the attacking half. Oh and watkins needs to start going over when he's having his shirt pulled in the penalty area.
  13. That wasn't just a bad day at the office, that was just extremely poor throughout the entire game. From ultra negative out of position every time disaster which was cash today, to uktra slow build up play and no movement from the midfield, to 1 effort where the keeper had to make a save. Bailey back to his away form, 1 cross in 45 minutes to a forest defender, every other time he had it, he lost possession. Luiz walking around thinking he doesn't need to battle Konsa in slow motion Diaby not showing or moving Watkins doing almost nothing due to most balls played to him facing away from goal and being held Digne was probably our best of a terrible bunch today, I'm a bad loser but when the team become gutless or lazy I'm 5 times worse. Worst performance from us this season due to the lack of any attacking threat and who we played. It starts at the back and standing with the ball for 20 seconds, which konsa has decided to do for a good few games now instead of just keeping the ball moving with 1 of 3 simple passes already puts us on the back foot. Then the ball going out wide to cash who has the entire side empty to attack cuts back and it all starts again, going no where. The midfield, mcginn luiz kamara, kamara sacrificed for the ineffective cash and we have lost the midfield. We play a possession game where today no one did anything with the possession. The ref didn't help matters, multiple times we were founded and its play on, forest player gets less treatment and instant foul. We are still better than that and should have played on the front foot rather than repeatedly checking back for literally zero reason.
  14. The tempo despite the results has got slower each game, today were going backwards
  15. Thank god for that. Totally shocking performance today. Let's see if we can play forward football now
  16. Cash easily the worst player on the pitch. Completely out of position for their goal, doesn't stay out wide keeps trying to go inside when torres is looking for an out ball, checking back quite possibly 15 or more times and 1, yes 1 forward ball. Pointless him being used more forwards if he can't and won't even try and he's been their quick turn over multiple times. Either he holds and kamara and mginn slightly change so mcginns more on the right and kamara moves up to keep cash away from going forwards or I would consider taking cash off if he doesn't feel he can kick the ball and run past the 1 player within 20 yards of him. We are playing terribly and when we aren't even making chances, we need to change things.
  17. Cash had 5 or 6 chances so far to attack the ball when max of 1 player to beat, every time checks back got to do more than predictable check back every time
  18. Was between digne and torres for me too, I picked torres.
  19. Baffled, last week bowens shot is going out, hits torres goes completely the other direction and its his goal ? Diaby shot get hit over the line by a defender when it's going in and its an OG ? Konsa stupidly heads it in the net, and emi gets a finger tip to it and it's emi OG ? Totally dominant but yet again, slow ponderous play puts us in trouble and a stupid OG out of nothing puts us under a bit of unnecessary pressure, then more stupid slow play at the back nearly costs us another. Donk and traore didn't do themselves much good in the 6 minutes they were on, both pretty terrible showing. Not one of konsas better games, far far too slow the majority of the game and far too casual when he went to right back. Should have had a clean sheet today and that's 100% on him. OK the goal didn't change the result and he's been very good this season but ffs we aren't that good we can play at 1mph all game. Luckily, even with watkins zaniolo, diaby 1st half and konsa below par, we still had enough to cruise 85 minutes of the match. Should have been 5 or 6 nil but 3 more points will do.
  20. We slowed the game right down after q5 minutes, to the point half our players were walking or plodding around. Against a wall of 11 players, we need to use more urgency, especially from konsa who seems to want to get a Luton player to come to him before the inevitable pass to luiz or torres. Play the ball 2 or 3 seconds faster and they haven't reverted back to a back 11. Digne has been unmarked with half the pitch multiple times and ignored. Play it to him quicker and it draws 2 or 3 players to him, that's the opening we need . We do need another 2 or 3 goals in order to see this one out as they will push on with 25 to go. Zaniolo needs another 15 and then a swap for Bailey if nothing has changed. It's not happening for him this game, nor diaby. Also yjought watkins could have thrown himself at the cross the face of the goal chance but at least we have scored which gives us something.
  21. This one could be harder for us than we hoped. Uni is going to have to focus the players for a bit of a battle. Full strength team for this one, the only players who stand a chance of coming in are Bailey and teilemens after yesterday, however I would be reluctant to use either from the start, not because they don't deserve it, because the first team have got an understanding and I wouldn't want that disrupted. While zaniolo hasn't hit the ground running, he provides a more physical threat than Bailey and diaby will be the skillful one from the start. Wouldn't want any of luiz kamara or mcginn not starting which means teilemens has to be on the bench. Konsa and pau back in We have a solid team and we have game changing subs. If we can score first in the first half, we will be hard to beat and could hopefully grab a few more but any win will do me
  22. Probably the best cup game performance so far. Baileys best game for us Some good performances all round, nice to see watkins despite not being involved much, take a poachers goal. Teilemens scored a good goal and when he was further forwards he was good, put in some good blocks when Dougie went off but we then couldn't hold onto the ball and had another 10 min spell of misplacing every 3rd pass. That's 2 games in a row where it all goes a bit tits up after the other team score. Carlos didn't help matters but he's hardly played but he was guilty a good few times of giving the ball away. Will take another 4 -1 with the shakey spell every game though
  23. Great win, you knew either bowen or jwp would score ( still not sure how it was given as a bowen goal) and then for a good 10 mins or so we gave the ball away possibly 8 or 10 times needlessly and it looked a bit like villa under the bin dipping Arab league manager. One pretty lucky break away with mcginn and ollie combining and we got our rhythm back. Good to see Bailey get a goal, a good one at that and was really hoping for 1 more just to top it off but that's just because I love the way we can play and want it rewarded even more. Mcginn was quiet in this game but everyone else stepped it up and made up for it. Apart from maybe 20 mins at a push, we dominated the game, I'm sure uni will be annoyed at that 20 minutes and emi will be frustrated at no clean sheet, this is what winners are like, can always improve and will do everything they can to improve.
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