v Birmingham City (h) - 16/8/25

[den]

2 hours ago, OnionBalaji said:

Excitement for this one is at a low. Think we will likely set up not to get beat and be very defensive and create nothing going forward and play the game like we’re playing them away 

Predicting a 2-0 win for Brum, a half effort performance from Tronstad, Tavares to get an early yellow and be dulled, Kargbo and Gueye introduced at 60mins, then a selection of kids at 80mins - snooze fest 

toth

Pickering miller mcloughlin Ribiero 

Tavares Tronstad 

alebiosu cantwell de neve 

ohashi 

 

 

 

We’ll look back in a few years at that team and think “oh my God. How poor was that team”.

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17 minutes ago, B16Rover said:

If that's how you look for things I hope you don't cross busy roads often

Got a better idea Pep?

[B16Rover]

13 minutes ago, ... said:

Got a better idea Pep?

I don't, and truth be told I'm not sure anyone at the club does either. 

One thing I do know is Cantwell has never grabbed anything by the scuff of it's neck 

[chaddyrovers]

COYB!!! 🔵⚪️

Lets go and get that first home win today. 

[SIMON GARNERS 194]

GO! GO! GO! CHADSTER!🎈

[booth]

56 minutes ago, den said:

We’ll look back in a few years at that team and think “oh my God. How poor was that team”.

Like the team in 2016/17 season, and that one looks better than the one we currently have.

We had the likes of Raya, Lenihan, Mulgrew, Conway and Graham back then.

[RoverKyle]

1 hour ago, TruRover said:

Toth

Miller - Hyam -Mcloughlin

Alebiosu - Taveres - Tronstad - DeNeve

Cantwell

Ohashi - Kargbo/Gueye

I think that's genuinely our best option at the moment. Keep it tight at the back with 5 but with legs out wide that can hopefully push us up the pitch quickly on the break. 

Absolutely pointless playing attacking wingers when we don't have any. Two up front to give the CBs something to think about for a change. 

Middle of the pitch (Tronstad, Tavares, Cantwell) looks like our strongest area - at least on paper - so set the team up around them and hope we can play it about a bit. 

[Mattyblue]

Keeping Coyle till February is what did us, it wasn’t *that* bad a side, TM showed that. This time, it is looking like an increasingly poor team as more and more of the experienced pros feck off… and the VI factor (who I’m dubious of to say the least).

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

2 minutes ago, booth said:

Like the team in 2016/17 season, and that one looks better than the one we currently have.

We had the likes of Raya, Lenihan, Mulgrew, Conway and Graham back then.

All those would get into today’s team, no problem.

[DE.]

19 minutes ago, Mattyblue said:

Keeping Coyle till February is what did us, it wasn’t *that* bad a side, TM showed that. This time, it is looking like an increasingly poor team as more and more of the experienced pros feck off… and the VI factor (who I’m dubious of to say the least).

Yep, the 16/17 team under any remotely decent manager would have stayed up. Even being saddled with Coyle until Feb we still only went down on GD and what I think was a record number of points for relegation? Close to, if not. 

[Ferrit]

Heaving in brig with brummie fans, they will have more than us on today

[sharpysharps86]

27 minutes ago, booth said:

Like the team in 2016/17 season, and that one looks better than the one we currently have.

We had the likes of Raya, Lenihan, Mulgrew, Conway and Graham back then.

• Raya - Future top 4 premier league goalie
• Lenihan - Young albeit injury prone promising centre half
• Mulgrew - Set piece specialist and leader
• Conway - Top tier championship winger
• Graham - Proven centre forward at championship level

Only one we have that is remotely similar now is Carter for Lenihan. Scary how much better that group of players looks compared to what we have now.

[simongarnerisgod]

i`ve no idea what to expect today,if you ignore tuedays night and the changes,we didn`t play to badly at west brom,though we did`nt look like scoring,i`me going for a narrow 1-0 victory,more in hope than expection 😁

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1 hour ago, B16Rover said:

I don't, and truth be told I'm not sure anyone at the club does either. 

One thing I do know is Cantwell has never grabbed anything by the scuff of it's neck 

Not yet. 

He's more than capable. This needs to be his season otherwise we'll be watching the back of his head walk put the door too. 

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36 minutes ago, Tyrone Shoelaces said:

All those would get into today’s team, no problem.

I'm hoping Newell, Clayton and Douglas get minutes today

[waynerovers]

Was gonna go to todays game but person I was going with has ended up unexpectedly child free so we've opted to go see Supergrass in Halifax instead. Hope the boys get something out of todays game, Birmingham are gonna be towards top of table this season.

[WacoRover]

Meanwhile, Nyambe, Sanderson, Batth, etc, having a rough time vs Coventry. 

Not sure I wouldn’t prefer at least two of the three in our starting 11 today. Definitely Weimann on the bench

[Norbert Rassragr]

I'm getting the same feeling I got when we had Wes and Chris Brown, Nathan Delfonso and so on. There's no talent at all, and the squad is washed out.

[OsloRover]

According to the enigmatic BRFCPrivy Travis is refusing to play. Could be true, could be false, or it could be the club trying to put the blame on Travis

[KentExile]

42 minutes ago, sharpysharps86 said:

• Raya - Future top 4 premier league goalie
• Lenihan - Young albeit injury prone promising centre half
• Mulgrew - Set piece specialist and leader
• Conway - Top tier championship winger
• Graham - Proven centre forward at championship level

Only one we have that is remotely similar now is Carter for Lenihan. Scary how much better that group of players looks compared to what we have now.

We have to subtract some points for the central midfield options at the time of of Lowe, Evans, Guthrie & Akpan though

Id prefer Tronstad playing on his own vs all 4 of those 😉 

Edited 37 minutes ago by KentExile

[RevidgeBlue]

2 minutes ago, OsloRover said:

According to the enigmatic BRFCPrivy Travis is refusing to play. Could be true, could be false, or it could be the club trying to put the blame on Travis

You'd have thought it would be the other way round and we wouldn't want to select him until his situation is resolved.

[RoversTilliDie]

2 hours ago, ... said:

Got a better idea Pep?

I'd have a better idea if I had peps billion pound checkbook.

[sharpysharps86]

6 minutes ago, OsloRover said:

According to the enigmatic BRFCPrivy Travis is refusing to play. Could be true, could be false, or it could be the club trying to put the blame on Travis

BRFCPivy is 100% a club person. Has probably been told to say that.

[simongarnerisgod]

5 minutes ago, OsloRover said:

According to the enigmatic BRFCPrivy Travis is refusing to play. Could be true, could be false, or it could be the club trying to put the blame on Travis

i would`nt believe anything that pops up on social media or indeed anything that comes out of the club officially,they could`nt lie straight tbh

[RoversTilliDie]

1 hour ago, B16Rover said:

I don't, and truth be told I'm not sure anyone at the club does either. 

One thing I do know is Cantwell has never grabbed anything by the scuff of it's neck 

Id like to see big Premier club managers do any better under the circumstances, there big because they've huge checkbooks.