Birmingham City v Aston Villa Post-Match Thread

[JUAN PABLO]

well after watching MOTD , it showed how we should have won that game.. you cant say we didnt create no chances , so STRIKER please..


I didnt realise Johnson handballed it in the pen area as well until last night.. that ball would have gone in , so hand ball on the line..

[sfx412]

Or just stop conceding so many soft bloody goals.

puts a lot of pressure on the defence if the forwards aren't mscoring mind you. The defence has got better each week, but we still can't score. We need to drastically improve the latter.

Agreed on both counts. Gabby's lethargy is really starting to do my head in, the only plus being the coins I was able to pick up from what was coming over from the inbreds....

The same Gabby praised by many for his covering back and tireless efforts up front many of which led to goal chances you mean?

Or did you confuse him with that Norwegian Legend we have who some I see reckon played well in the first half. Amazing.

[Mazrim]

Yeah, I thought Gabby looked quite busy yesterday. He's showing signs of getting his form and fitness back but he's a striker, nothing else.
If he plays, I want to see him up front.

[Dave Cooper please]

I thought Gabby on the left made sense, with Albrighton and Walker having a field day down the right much of our attacking came down that side which allowed Gabby to drift inside. He got into several promising positions but I think he has lost a bit of confidence in front of goal.

[Hookeysmith]

Nerve wracking and i would prefer it if we never had to play them again

Have read all of this thread and am i the only one who thinks that Gabby was played there for the reason of Bentley - in the first half he was playing well and exposing Clark for being too narrow - also it was obvious that Bentley has some pace, in factr quite a bit more than Clark and a couple of times he put the bal into space to run onto nehind Calrk - on both occasions Gabby was follwoing up to pick him off

I thought on the balance of play the best chance fell to Derbyshire - fair play to Brad for making him have to try and place it across goal and that resulted in the misshit
Thought we played with 9/10 men at times as i think Carew has become a real liability - considering his European pedigree in Champs league etc the amount of times his 2nd touch is a tackle is unbelievable.

And MON's pet Petrov was just anon

If the pube head does take over at Spam then whats the betting Petrov will walk there to join him - he does not need to bother as i will drive him for free

More mobility in the centre and we would have pissed it

[sfx412]

Yeah, I thought Gabby looked quite busy yesterday. He's showing signs of getting his form and fitness back but he's a striker, nothing else.
If he plays, I want to see him up front.

Perhaps he's one of those rare professionals at Villa who does what the manager asks him, as seemingly most of the others are in revolt
Or are they still ?

[pablopicasso_10]

hopefully makoun will give us that mobility and composure... had a very good report on him from a french lad who knows his shizzle...

as for the game, i thought we showed improvement on recent games... as we did against chelsea and sunderland before emule got sent off...

this despite carew being pointless...

thought albrighton and walker linked up well...

this improvement is coinciding with players coming back to fitness / match fitness, etc, and with a couple of signings, we should improve further...

hopefully...

[DeKuip]

I see that by hitting the woodwork 3 times yesterday we have become the leaders in at least this field!!  That's 13 for the season, as opposed to the 24 times we've hit the back of the net, when you consider the difference in the surface area between woodwork and net this is no small feat!

Now is the time to go on Crossbar Challenge then.

[Lakers]

[Nelly]

That was grim. Cheers though.

[pauliewalnuts]

It's like watching something from a Soviet news report in about 1983.

Thank fuck we only have to go there once (usually) a season

[hugh80]

Alex Mcleish said after the match it was plain to see how the blues had improved . It seems that a draw against Villa is their measure of things.To me it looks like Villa have gone down to their level not that they have gone up to the level where Villa should be

[TimTheVillain]

I thought Gabby on the left made sense, with Albrighton and Walker having a field day down the right much of our attacking came down that side which allowed Gabby to drift inside. He got into several promising positions but I think he has lost a bit of confidence in front of goal.

Gabby is an instinct striker - give him time in front of goal and he loses it .

[Pat McMahon]

I thought Gabby on the left made sense, with Albrighton and Walker having a field day down the right much of our attacking came down that side which allowed Gabby to drift inside. He got into several promising positions but I think he has lost a bit of confidence in front of goal.

Gabby is an instinct striker - give him time in front of goal and he loses it .

I agree completely, Tim. I have always thought there is a touch of  Andy Cole about him in front of goal. Give him time and he panics, let him use his speed and instinct to get to the ball first and he has a fighting chance of scoring.

[villa1]

Why do they sing 'hold hands if you hate Villa'?

We'll that's what it sounds like anyway. :-)