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Has This Result Been Coming
Topic Started: Sep 20 2008, 04:00 PM (666 Views)
kmmmn
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I live in the states but reading reports and listening to commentary, it seems we have been outplayed in almost every game - is this a fair reflection? If so, it's definitiely worrying given the sqaud we have on paper... feed.back
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The Blue Bear
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I live in Oz, and from what I've read, seen, heard, yes.
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Blue in CT
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I live in the US and agree
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I live in hope
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Blue in CT
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Sep 20 2008, 04:24 PM
I live in hope

British Columbia or Maine?
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D'Squared
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yes it has been coming...we haven't been playing well, but have managed to get the results.....until today.
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Roger Jones
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I live in Birmingham and have seen most games. I say "yes, this result has been coming". Many of our victories have been very unconvincing.

We are still not playing anywhere near the standard required to win promotion. It doesn't matter how many strikers" AM signs, he still doesn't seem able to get the team to play well. Midfield is woefully lacking in creativity, and the defence is still lacking one good CB. Probably since the beginning of two seasons ago.

I fear that play offs is the best we can hope for, and would be strongly fancied to do well in them?
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We might have been unconvincing but we've been winning and drawing and thats all I ask. Today we were very very poor, no two ways about that but I refuse to go into meltdown. We have lost 1 game in 7, we are second in the league, we've just had our best league start in 17 years. I don't reaslly feel like we are in the midst of a crisis personally. If we have been winning and have only been playing at 60% of our best then it'll be great when we are at our optimum.
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Would we have taken 5 wins a draw and a loss from the first 7 games? Definatly.
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brumman
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kmmmn
Sep 20 2008, 04:00 PM
I live in the states but reading reports and listening to commentary, it seems we have been outplayed in almost every game - is this a fair reflection? If so, it's definitiely worrying given the sqaud we have on paper... feed.back

How do you guys listen - Blues World? I'm in Canada and unable to get any audio feeds - BBC and BRMB block online streams - it was far better 5 + years ago!

Anyway I agree with your assessment of the team so far. I said earlier, why is it that all these supposedly marvellous players Blues have do not live up to their potential? So far this season Blues have been hopeless and most definitely not a Prem team! Perhaps played reasonably well at Bristol but is one good game in 7 acceptable?
We need quality AND variety to allow for different opposition styles and tactics. Does McL have it himself? So far from both last season and this I think not!
Perhaps these "players" should only be paid on a performance basis and then we might actually get real effort!

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acjboyle
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Can't win em all, hope this acts as a reminder to the players. Let's see an above-par next game..

:Blues:
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I feel sorry for Doncaster, because they (IMO) were better then Blackpool & went away with nothing. But this has been waiting to happen, I just hope that Cardiff City get the sharp end of a team thats been brought down to earth this afternoon. A team that now realise that a return to the premiership is not 'cut & dried'.
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SimonBCFC
Sep 20 2008, 04:55 PM
Would we have taken 5 wins a draw and a loss from the first 7 games? Definatly.

Like the spin :applause: ,are you in politics?
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bluess7
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Yes it has, but I have it on good authority from certain board members, that:

1. You can't win them all
2. It's just a blip
3. We'd of been happy with this posistion/points before the start of the season.
4. We'll now go on and win five out of the next seven.
5. AMc has got them playing far better football than SB ever did
6. We'd of trounced them with Nafti in the side.
7. We'd of won if we'd not played 3-5-1.......even though we cut Bristol to shreds with the same side
8. The team is still Gelling.


.....and the glass is half full, so you need to look on the bright side!
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bluess7
Sep 20 2008, 06:11 PM
Yes it has, but I have it on good authority from certain board members, that:

1. You can't win them all
2. It's just a blip
3. We'd of been happy with this posistion/points before the start of the season.
4. We'll now go on and win five out of the next seven.
5. AMc has got them playing far better football than SB ever did
6. We'd of trounced them with Nafti in the side.
7. We'd of won if we'd not played 3-5-1.......even though we cut Bristol to shreds with the same side
8. The team is still Gelling.


.....and the glass is half full, so you need to look on the bright side!

:LMAO: Bostin!
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Sep 20 2008, 04:49 PM
We might have been unconvincing but we've been winning and drawing and thats all I ask. Today we were very very poor, no two ways about that but I refuse to go into meltdown. We have lost 1 game in 7, we are second in the league, we've just had our best league start in 17 years. I don't reaslly feel like we are in the midst of a crisis personally. If we have been winning and have only been playing at 60% of our best then it'll be great when we are at our optimum.

Nobody said were in crisis or were in meltdown, we have been poor all season with exception of Tuesday at Bristol (first half only) you might be happy with pish poor football but i expect and want a bit more than that, other teams in this league are playing decent football and winning why aren't/can't we?

After all loads on here keep saying how good our squad is, so why aren't we playing well? aim your sights a bit higher and you never know the players might pick up on it and try a bit more, because a couple of those players shouldn't be in the squad never mind the team.
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Sep 20 2008, 02:15 PM
bluess7
Sep 20 2008, 06:11 PM
!

:LMAO: Bostin!

Massechusetts or Lincolnshire ???



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Sep 20 2008, 06:18 PM
loyal blue
Sep 20 2008, 04:49 PM
We might have been unconvincing but we've been winning and drawing and thats all I ask. Today we were very very poor, no two ways about that but I refuse to go into meltdown. We have lost 1 game in 7, we are second in the league, we've just had our best league start in 17 years. I don't reaslly feel like we are in the midst of a crisis personally. If we have been winning and have only been playing at 60% of our best then it'll be great when we are at our optimum.

Nobody said were in crisis or were in meltdown, we have been poor all season with exception of Tuesday at Bristol (first half only) you might be happy with pish poor football but i expect and want a bit more than that, other teams in this league are playing decent football and winning why aren't/can't we?

After all loads on here keep saying how good our squad is, so why aren't we playing well? aim your sights a bit higher and you never know the players might pick up on it and try a bit more, because a couple of those players shouldn't be in the squad never mind the team.

Maybe not then but there is a lot of flapping going on. I am not happy with below par performances but i'm a realist and realistically if we are winning and drawing and are second in the league then I can't see where the pessimism is coming from. Yesterday we were dreadful, I don't l know why and I was angry when I left the ground but in the wider picture I feel like we are doing ok. I want us to win this league and I believe we are good enough to do it. What I don't beleive is that it will be easy. We will always have bad days, we will loose games. As long as yesterday is a one off I believe we will still be fine. Also with the exception of Wolves all these teams that are playing nice football must be below us in the league so I don't know how much good its doing them...
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Yes ,we have not clicked yet as a team apart from 45 mins at Bristol City
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bathsheba
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It is very early days - very early.

But there are eery echoes of our last season in this division when we won lots of games while playing rubbish and lots of false dawns when we 'finally' played to our potential.

Ah, crisis over we thought, and confidently predicted we would win the next 9 on the trot, given the state of the opposition.

Instead, of course, we played rubbish again, but perhaps won.
At the end of the season people forgave or forgot Bruce's performance and insisted it was difficult getting out of this division and he should get god status simply because of the promotion - forget the flaws.

The players are slightly different from then, but the performances are the same.
Spooky, eh. where's that gypsy.
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yes i think this has been coming, lets hope the players react in the right way?
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B25 YEW TREE LOYAL
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no shape
no pattern
no pace
no energy
no creativity

we failed to bring our flair players into the game
what a damning statement.......
11 men back for defensive set pieces

saturday was a step back in the time tunnel

we will still be promoted the blues way,and thats all that matters right,but it could and should be so different :banghead:
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Back to life back to reality??

now who sang that song/
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Sep 21 2008, 11:51 AM
Yes ,we have not clicked yet as a team apart from 45 mins at Bristol City

It’s not often I agree with you, but that’s an undeniable statement! :applause:

I think we’ve been lucky so far, lets hope our luck holds out, or we start to play.
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Birmingham fans right to jeer says Cameron Jerome

http://www.birminghampost.net/midlands-bir...65233-21869025/

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Birmingham City striker Cameron Jerome said the supporters were right to jeer the team off the field after their defeat to Blackpool at St Andrew’s and admitted the team had been ‘rubbish’.

The boos rang out at the final whistle as Blues slumped to their first defeat of the season and first home reverse since Chelsea took all three points home in a Premier League encounter in January.

Jerome, who had scored in the previous two Championhip fixtures which brought win at home against Doncaster Rovers and at Bristol City, said there were no excuses.

“I am more disappointed than frustrated,” he said. “We didn’t turn up at all. It is hard to believe how we played so well at Bristol City on Tuesday and then produce a nothing performance like this.

“It is the manner of the defeat that is so disappointing. Obviously, during a season you are going to lose games but it is how we lost and the way we went about it. There was no spark there and no enthusiasm.

“ We looked a little bit tired and no-one took the game by the scruff of the neck. No-one put their foot on the ball and there was no composure. That goes for the whole team. There were 11 of us out there and we just weren’t at the races. Now we must try to bounce back as quickly as possible.”

Manager Alex McLeish had stuck with the system Blues had adopted for the 2-1 win at Ashton Gate on Tuesday with Jerome operating as a lone striker but it did not work against former Aston Villa defender Simon Grayson’s side.

“The system suited us a treat in the week and we were full of confidence and looking for the same again,” Jerome said.

“It is disappointing to think we played so well and then have taken our foot off the pedal today. Everyone is very disappointed and we have spoken about it in the dressing room.

“We thought we had set our standards in the week but to come here and to play as bad as we did is very disappointing. Every team is going to come here and set their stall out to frustrate us.

“We are one of the favourites for promotion and we are going to face a difficult game every week, especially against the teams who are expected to be around the bottom of the table.

“No disrespect to Blackpool but they are not going to be battling away towards the top for promotion. They will be happy just to stay in the league. They are going to come here and fight for their lives and we didn’t even do that today. We didn’t fight and scrap.

“Fair enough, you can lose but it is how you lose that matters and to roll over and get beat is so disappointing.

“We felt we didn’t really start well. There was no spark, we looked tired and lethargic, and there was no energy. That is what we are used to as a group and that is what gets us going, great energy and leaders on the pitch. There was none of that today.

“There were no leaders, no-one to put their foot on the ball, no-one who got hold of the game. We have to expect teams to come here and make it difficult for us.

“We haven’t played well so far, at home especially and after our last three performances ,we have got away with results. It is nice to win when you are not playing well but it is something we need to sort. We can’t keep playing bad like this, we have to start putting in some performances.

“The lads are very disappointed and the fans have every right to boo. They have paid good money to come and watch us and we have put in a rubbish performance like that.

“We have to get over this as quickly as possible. It is how you bounce back that matters. We have to get on the training ground now and work on a few things. We have two tough away games coming up [at Cardiff City next saturday and Derby County on September 30] and if we get six points from those two games, then this will be forgotten about. It is a matter of us just going out there and dealing with it.”


Fair play to thee guy :applause:
But, now go and do something about it
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