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Talking Points
End of the Road for Stephen Carr?
News broke on twitter yesterday that Stephen Carr has had to have an operation on his knee, which may rule him out of the remaining eight games this season. With Carr’s contract ending at the end of this season, the question has to be asked – is this the end of the road for Blues’ club captain?
Tags: Stephen Carr
Posted in Birmingham City, Players, Talking Points | 14 Comments »
Do we want Promotion?
Promotion. It’s been talked about enough if Blues can do it or not, but there has been an additional question buzzing around the forums – do we even want/need promotion? I’ve been thinking about this today and I thought I’d jot down some thoughts on it.
Tags: Carson Yeung, Promotion
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 54 Comments »
The Race For The Playoffs
It’s been a tough few weeks for Blues and their fellow competitors for a top six slot, with most of the teams in and around the current top six having dropped points here and there. I made the point in my match reflections that I’m starting to think Blues might have blown their chances of promotion – which may be a bit reactionary as we’re still top six – and I thought having read the comments I should expand on that.
Tags: David Murphy, Keith Fahey, Playoffs, Promotion
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points, The Championship | 24 Comments »
The Transfer of Ben Foster
Roy Hodgson has told Blues that he wants them to make a quick decision on the availability of Ben Foster for permanent transfer. Whilst the Baggies took the keeper on loan for the duration of this season, nothing was set up with regards to a permanent deal, and it’s been said all season that Blues had to be a division below the Baggies for them to consider selling Foster.
Tags: Ben Foster, West Bromwich Albion
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 14 Comments »
The Left Back Conundrum
With David Murphy receiving a red card for two bookable offences on Tuesday night, Blues are once again going to have to solve a conundrum as to who to play there. As the red card was for two yellows it can’t be appealed even if Blues had wanted to do so, and as such Birmingham have four fit first team defenders currently for the Cardiff game on Sunday – Peter Ramage, Curtis Davies, Steven Caldwell and Pablo Ibanez. Which way do they go?
Tags: Andros Townsend, Cian Hughton, Enric Valles, Guirane N'Daw, Mitchell Hancox, Morgaro Gomis, Peter Ramage, Tactics
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 20 Comments »
Don’t Panic (Just Yet)
Well blow me, the sky is falling in. Blues lose 4-1 to Pompey and all of a sudden the doom-mongers come out saying our season is over. Having taken an early lead through Nikola Zigic (who incidentally became the fourth Blues player this season to hit double figures goal-wise after Wood, King, and Burke), it all fell apart and we’ve taken a tanking. Is it time to reach for the razorblades and valium?
Tags: Chris Hughton, Positivity, Promotion
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 31 Comments »
Decisions, Decisions – Are Blues Penalised By Winning Too Few Penalties?
As I was walking out of St Andrews on Saturday, I heard over the PA that Southampton had come back from 2-1 down to beat Millwall 3-2 – which didn’t surprise me much. When I heard that the two goals were from the penalty spot and both penalties were, ahem, a bit soft – well, that didn’t surprise me either. After all, everyone knows Southampton have had a ton of dodgy penalties this season haven’t they? I thought this needed a bit of research.
Tags: Penalties, Statistics
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points, The Championship | 27 Comments »
Can Blues Go Up? An OP Editorial
It’s been a rough few weeks for Blues fans’ promotion hopes. Defeats against Leicester away and Forest at home; stumbling to draws at Coventry and at home to Derby have seen Blues fall out of the playoff zone and pretty much kiss the chances of automatic promotion goodbye. Can Blues bounce back to the Premier League at the first attempt?
Tags: Chris Hughton, Promotion, The Fans
Posted in Birmingham City, Editorials, Talking Points | 10 Comments »
Tired and Weary – is the amount of games a valid excuse?
It’s something we’ve been hearing all season – Blues are tired out because of the amount of games they have played. I wondered if this was a fact or fallacy; have Blues played a significant amount of games more than other teams? And if so, is it possible that tiredness is the factor people are making it out to be.
Tags: Chris Hughton, Injuries, Statistics, Tiredness
Posted in Birmingham City, Talking Points | 17 Comments »
Ownership in Football – an OP editorial
If there is one thing I have noticed this season, it’s the preponderance of clubs who have problematic owners. Our opponents today, Coventry City, are also under a transfer embargo as they haven’t agreed funding for next year with their owners. Portsmouth are in administration; Leeds United fans are protesting against Ken Bates. It got me to thinking about the fit and proper persons test, and what’s wrong with it.
Tags: Directors, Football League, Ownership
Posted in Birmingham City, Editorials, Talking Points | 15 Comments »
