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RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - theo_luddite - 04-08-2022
Apparently some Aussie chap, the winner of todays cycling time trial from Wolvo to Dudleeeeey and back, via a few torturous back roads in amongst the main roads, took an unbelievable 45 mins and change on a push rod to win the gold.
I say unbelievable because it normally takes almost that long just to get to Dudleeeey in a car by the most direct route, let alone the one they took and it wasn't even close to the most direct, there or back.
OK, he didn't have to stop for red lights but still. About time some numpty co-ordinated the traffic lights round here for the rest of us.
RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - Lord Snooty - 05-08-2022
The match is on the Sky Sports red button tonight.
RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - theo_luddite - 05-08-2022
That's good, it's also on the EFL iFollow thing that the cheeky sods have charged for all summer with no games being played.
RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - Lord Snooty - 05-08-2022
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RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - Lord Snooty - 05-08-2022
What's a cross from Bacuna. 1-0.
Their two wide men have been considerably better than ours and I think that's all that's between the two teams. The rest of it just seems all niggly with the ref blowing up every ten seconds.
Anjorin not getting any room. Rudoni looking like a 4th division player. But still looking better than what we saw last week.
A big 45 coming up.
RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - Lord Snooty - 05-08-2022
Get in. Quality football. Quality goal.
Better in the second half again.
RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - jjamez - 05-08-2022
long season incoming if we dont invest in some quality
RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - theo_luddite - 05-08-2022
We ain't gonna win if we only play for 15-20 mins a game
RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - Lord Snooty - 06-08-2022
What really cost us tonight? What was the difference between most of last season's narrow wins and tonight's narrow defeat?
Nicholls. Last season's player of the year flopped. He kept us in so many games last year. Tonight we might as well have had young Ryan in there.
At least we would've had a proper scapegoat.
RE: Town down at Birmingham - It's a Brum ting. - theo_luddite - 06-08-2022
NO, I'd say the difference is Levi Colwill and to a lesser extent Pearson in defence, and of course the elephant that is no longer in the room that is O'Brien - we've nobody at the back at the moment that is comfortable on the ball and for the most part nobody willing to run it out of defence or even at them from midfield. We also don't stop them in midfield. Toffolo was missing for most of the start of last season and didn't really perform until the 2nd half of the season.
Even Tino didn't do much of it tonight but he wasn't helped by a defence that didn't look for a runner in front of them when everyone in the stands could see them in or about to head into acres of space right in front of them. Nah, go for the 80yd punt across the park rather than the simple 20yd free pass in front of them. Pass, pass, pass across the halfway line. The one occasion we played it forward to feet - oh look, Wardy scored. Apart from that we had 2/3rd possession and 1/3rd of the shots at goal.
You can't blame the keeper when they've two free men lining up to take a free pot-shot. Who the hell should have been marking them and where the hell were they?
Apart from that I ended up walking back to New Street as just for a change, the train back from Bordesley to Moor Street was running 15-20 minutes late. Every bloody time we play down there it happens. At least it wasn't January this season. I caught the same train I would have been on if West Midlands Trains could actually keep to their timetable. I still had time for a pint of neck oil before catching my last bus home.
Bring on the Stokies, never mind Both Ends.