13 games in and the manager has already run out of ideas (though that seemed to happen 6 games ago) The likes of Travis, Hyam, dolan, pears and jrc have all reverted back to their normal championship bottom feeder standards.

Are we again going to be hoping to hold our own in the league just long enough until we can strengthen our weak areas in January so that we can push on and put a serious playoff spot challenge in. (something we've failed miserably to do in recent winter transfer windows)

W.A.N.K

Manager took a gamble by not making wholesale changes today and so far it's not paid off at all. Ridiculous how much we are missing Beck already!! Pickering just isn't championship standard, never has been. And Travis has reverted back to the usual travis

Sounds like it's been a shit show. But we were always going to lose one at some point and a forgettable Tuesday night game in Coventry is better than a losing a home game. Sorry for the travelling fans though If one good thing comes out of it hopefully it will give The manager an excuse to give Toth a shot in goal now

Waggot starting to see Yuki more and more as a walking pound with every game that goes by. Be lucky to hang on to him in the winter window at this rate Defintely looking like the bargain of the decade!

I'm more curious about where he's going to play exactly and which player is going to make way for him

Bright lad. A footballer that can actually string sentances together in public and think for himself 😯

Filan! I'd take Alan fettis back over Pears. Remember Sandomierski who came in on loan under Bowyer!? He was a good one, shame we never chased him up again but I think he was out of our salary range at the time

Has O'riordan played for a the club he's on loan too yet? I'm hoping he does well there and returns to us at Christmas ready to fight for some first team game time

Hardly a reign though was it🙈

Oh cheers. I was sure he did for some reason Ahh! I think I just got it confused with Bentley (who did initially come on loan)

I thought the same, very similar. And didn't Warnock also come in on loan initially!?

Wharton never really got to play enough games to really flourish for us though and last year we where basically a one man team for the most part with just Szmodics keeping us up Bowyer had an excellent starting 11 (or maybe 10!i can't remember who our main keeper was then) but I don't remember us having much strength in depth at that time

I think the balance throughout the squad looks similar to bowyers team. There's been times when we've had better attacking players & goal scorers but been weak in other key areas of the pitch I think an awful lot will lay on whether Toth turns out to be a good strong reliable keeper or not

A win tomorrow though really would be the biggest sign in over 10 years that we could seriously (and purposefully this time!) be fighting to get back into the promised land this season. A loss wouldn't be the end of the world though, just maybe a bit of a reality check! And a draw would obviously be a possitive On paper this is our best squad since we got relegated and in spite of our owners lack of interest and having a pair of bafoons at the head of the table.... the club seems to be running smoothly behind the scenes at the moment

Surely the only reason for the hold up in finalising the Cantwell deal is that he's holding off just in case another club comes in or the venkys are dickin about humming and arrring amongst each other (or both)

It's obscene. A club as big as Birmingham really shouldn't need to be spending that much to get out of div1!!

Baker does look all round better than travis and Sonny is easily the first name on the team sheet, So will Travis inflated ego allow him to be 3rd or 4th choice for a centre mid role. He had a tantrum with jdt because he wasn't a gurenteed starter (or was it because jdt didn't treat him like he was gods gift... I can't remember) I think if we sign Cantwell as well travis will be offski (which is no major loss) JRC is travis main opponent for a spot now I think and jrc is a weird one, complete jekyl & hyde player.

Really. 6 has always been a more defensive/holding midfielder in my book (thinking batty) 4 & 5 centre backs and 8 is a more box to box midfielder (ala sherwood)

Ridiculous thing to go off I know but.... From the match photos I've seen of Toth he has a more determined confident look about him in his body language and eyes, as opposed to Pears and wahlstadt who always just look like botty twitching deer caught in the headlights everytime the ball is anywhere in their vicinity

And the last minute cheapies & freebies barrel scraping begins... Wouldn't at all be suprised to see Travis sold now

I don't know why we've never had a better connection with Stanley Especially for blooding our better youngsters, it would be mutually beneficial

If the costly signings are 100 completed today I can absolutely see us just being gazumped on deadline day (or some other venkyverse fk up stopping them)

I'm sure Sunhail will talk them out of it and promise them he will find a much cheaper alternative. He's an absolute slimey scuzz ball that's only interested in getting pats on the head from his masters