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Alex Jones Shows He’s The One for Rowett?

Alex Jones scored a first half hat-trick in Birmingham City u21’s 3-0 to give Gary Rowett a timely reminder that there is another youthful option within the ranks. The former West Brom forward was due to spend the second half of the season on loan in New Zealand but red tape ensured that loan didn’t happen and Jones returned to Blues.

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Blues Through to Senior Cup Final

Birmingham City won through to a second successive Birmingham Senior Cup Final after beating Nuneaton Town 1-0 at the A1 Gas Force Stadium. Corey O’Keeffe scored the only goal of the game having robbed Boro left back Ciaran Keane of possession just outside the Boro area before slotting past keeper Zeus de la Paz.

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Good and Bad News for Young Guns

Young Blues striker Ronan Hale scored five times for Blues u18 side on Saturday against Leeds at their Thorp Arch training ground in a 6-2 victory. His goals took his personal tally to nine in two games and 17 in 14 this season.

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Prodigious Sons

Mitch Hancox and Reece Brown are included in a strong squad for Birmingham City’s development squad game today against Barnsley, which will be played at Solihull Moor’s Autotech Stadium at 1pm today.

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Posted in Birmingham City, Players, Professional Development League | 63 Comments »

Cotterill injured, Jones Loaned Out.

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Birmingham City have confirmed that David Cotterill will be missing for at least a month having picked up a knee injury in the game against Blackburn Rovers. The Welsh international was withdrawn from his international squad to face Netherlands this week due to injury but will now likely miss more time than first anticipated.

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GAMEDAY – Brentford Away (Take Two)

Blues take on managerless Brentford in their rearranged fixture tonight following a disappointing defeat to now-managerless Rotherham at the weekend.

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Long Term Thinking

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The official club website ran with a story today about how Gary Rowett is changing the club recruitment policy due to the removal of the emergency loan system in the 2016/17 season.

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Offensive Cover

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Yesterday, I talked about how well stacked up Blues are at the back and my hopes that the club can bring in a young pro in to develop as a player and to be utilised as defensive cover. From reading comments on here and on social media it appears that many people are more worried about the other end of the pitch.

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Blues Sign Young Striker

Birmingham City snapped up their first signing of the summer in former WBA Development Squad player Alex Jones. The 20-year-old had been trialling with Blues over the last few weeks of the season and his efforts have been rewarded with a two year deal at St Andrew’s.

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