[Archived] Birmingham Preview

[Guest Kamy100]

The Emirates looks a scary place to visit next though

You'll be alone at the Emirates! It is Arsenal at Ewood.

[MarkBRFC71]

Oh well. The p**s poor away form continues. We miss chances (none easier than a pen ffs!), and always try - and fail - to sit back and defend when we go a goal up.

Tactically inept away from home.

[Majiball]

How did we lose that?

ROBBOED!

Fixed it for you.

[Messi422]

We always lose like that, possession, hitting the post or crossbar, score first but lose at the end.

[Tom]

Don't worry. It's at Ewood.

Ah thats a bit better, lets give em a real game then. Hopefully a new face or two in by then - Benjani hattrick

[beerwins]

Oh well. The p**s poor away form continues. We miss chances (none easier than a pen ffs!), and always try - and fail - to sit back and defend when we go a goal up.

I dont think we sat back and defended the one goal at all, both Brums goals were counter attacks and both were well took.

Its just a shame we were'nt that incisive.

[John]

Our general finishing really is s**t - some good chances missed in that game - really has annoyed me

[RibbleValleyRover]

Poor result, talk about throwing away points.

Was a repeat of last season's away gameplan. Keep it tight, hopefully get a goal and then sit back and hold on. There will be those that say we deserved a point, maybe but watching that one could argue we deserved everything we got today- nothing. If you defend like we did/lack of closing down pretty much every team will punish you in this league.

We had some decent possession in the first half but there was a real lack of creativity in midfield. Take away Dunny and you can't be confident at all that the rest will provide enough quality to get results.

Man of the match for me was probably Niko. Thought he worked hard, looked a real threat when supported and if Samba wasn't behind him might not have hit the post with the header. Often he had to chase lost causes but thats going to be what happens in this side, hopefully he doesn't get to downhearted about that. Pretty sure i read he was a penalty specialist in Croatia, i would have had him take the penalty to try and give him another confidence boost.

Carling Cup next and i'm not sure i would rest a load of players, not after that result. Play the best side possible (at least from the start) and try and get them to learn from today's mistakes.

[1864roverite]

Thatloss is hard to take - the game shoulkd not have been lost by Rovers.

Now then where is that bloody cat ?

The dreaded 2-1 scoreline carries on

[Guest brianpepper]

Fixed it for you.

pretty tedious agenda

[Metaler]

That was ugly, long ball after long ball, If Sam cant get the team playing some sort of football, rather than just hitting it in the box, then he wont be spending to much of the £80-£100 million he MIGHT be getting. With Sam's tactics a 2M player or a 20M player would do the same job, hit it in the box and try to score

[braddock]

That was ugly, long ball after long ball, If Sam cant get the team playing some sort of football, rather than just hitting it in the box, then he wont be spending to much of the £80-£100 million he MIGHT be getting. With Sam's tactics a 2M player or a 20M player would do the same job, hit it in the box and try to score

i thoroughly dislike bfs but to be fair we played some good football until we went 2-1 down and then we were chasing the game so it was kind of understandable. definitely positives to take from this game when you compare it to the amount of away games we didn't even turn up to last season.

[joey_big_nose]

That was ugly, long ball after long ball, If Sam cant get the team playing some sort of football, rather than just hitting it in the box, then he wont be spending to much of the £80-£100 million he MIGHT be getting. With Sam's tactics a 2M player or a 20M player would do the same job, hit it in the box and try to score

I don't really agree with this. We played very effectively I thought, just didn't finish and let in two soft goals. The approach play was fine by me.

[broadsword]

pretty tedious agenda

It's pretty tedious that he still has basic flaws in his game.

[Majiball]

pretty tedious agenda

Care to expand on that statement???

[Tooogs]

I'm sat in a ###### queue outside this ###### ground surrounded by ######. We didn't deserve (Please don't use that word again) all and we have no ######. No skill no class. Somebody fixing support Niko up there

Sorry that was meant to say ######

[MarkBRFC71]

I'm sat in a ###### queue outside this ###### ground surrounded by ######. We didn't deserve (Please don't use that word again) all and we have no ######. No skill no class. Somebody fixing support Niko up there

Sorry that was meant to say ######

Cam you repost that without the profanities so we can understand what your point was?

[Metaler]

i thoroughly dislike bfs but to be fair we played some good football until we went 2-1 down and then we were chasing the game so it was kind of understandable. definitely positives to take from this game when you compare it to the amount of away games we didn't even turn up to last season.

One positive without Dunn we've no creative midfield

I don't really agree with this. We played very effectively I thought, just didn't finish and let in two soft goals. The approach play was fine by me.

Maybe, but I still think we approached the half way line and hit it into the box

[Tooogs]

okay so I'm in the slowest moving traffic jam of all time with two taxi drivers actually stood outside their cars chatting. People beeping their horns. Getting abused by the worst fans in the country. I am sick of our long ball tactic. Yeah I know it is to be expected but I will always support the lads. Sick of the lifeless midfield play and lack of guile anywhere near the opposition goal x

[Martin]

Frustrating.

Two mistakes. One by Robbo and one by Salgado have cost us the game.

Otherwise a very solid performance. Our delivery into the box was excellent and we created numerous opportunities.

Keep up that solidarity in performance and we'll have a good season.

Good performances from Kalinic and Diouf.

[Guest brianpepper]

Care to expand on that statement???

singling out one players mistake suggesting that is what cost us, not kalanic hitting the post? salgados mistake? peds pen miss?

its a boring tedious attitude

[Amo]

Same old, same old.

Both goals were the result of slack defending, with a hand from Robinson - or not, as the case may be. It's remarkable how solid and disciplined we are at home, but on our travels we're an entirely different animal.

On the plus side, Diouf's looking sharper, and Kalinic looks stronger - although he's in for a frustrating season unless we find some quality from midfield. There's no one who can control the tempo of the game and spot a through-ball.

[ABBEY]

I am sick of our long ball tactic. Yeah I know it is to be expected but I will always support the lads. Sick of the lifeless midfield play and lack of guile anywhere near the opposition goal x

but according to people on here its good football and only samwearenotworthy is capapable of producing this great football. i watched on a german station and i wont be going to anymore away games with the messia in charge. it was two rubbish sides and pitiful to watch.

[John]

On the plus side, Diouf's looking sharper, and Kalinic looks stronger - although he's in for a frustrating season unless we find some quality from midfield. There's no one who can control the tempo of the game and spot a through-ball.

Was thinking the same - could do with adding some real quality in midfield if we are to maintain/progress on last season.

Thing is, we cannot rely on Dunn for creativity, his track record shows he always breaks down at some point.

For our youngsters (midfield players), need to be careful not to expect too much too soon.

[Majiball]

singling out one players mistake suggesting that is what cost us, not kalanic hitting the post? salgados mistake? peds pen miss?

its a boring tedious attitude

If you take a line play on words as my complete opinion on the match, then that says all I need to know about you.