I thought they'd brush us aside much easier than that. Not that we were ever in danger of winning the match, but we kept them honest right up until they scored their third. Fact of the matter is that Birmingham are miles better than us. They've got much more money than us it and it showed. They're set up for promotion back to the Premiership. We'd be down the bottom with Coventry and Donny if we'd started the season with the squad we've got now. We tried our best, we worked hard, we just simply haven't got the quality any more. For me, the things that sums us up best is that we sold Vaz Te and bought Dagnall. You're not going to beat teams like Birmingham very often when you do that.
Dagnall, for all his running about and hard work, offered nothing at all going forward. Zilch. He didn't have one shot on goal. Didn't win anything in the air (to be fair to him, I wouldn't expect him to win much) and his movement (or lack of) is not Championship standard. Davies played well, but his first touch at times is scarily bad. We've got rid of a player who could've scored 16/17 goals for us this season and replaced him with a player who will do very, very well to score 6.
interesting how views differ because i saw a first half were we went into the half time break having more than matched them but behind to a og, a cracking finish and a terrible decision by a linesman, which had it happened in the premier league said linesman would have been demoted. agree about the 2nd half about lumping it but had we started the 2nd half at 2 2 which we deservedly should have done who knows what would have happened
Brum did a job on us 2nd half, and unfortunately we now don't have the guile to deal with that. Keithdave have time to sort it though. Be at peace everyone.
Isnt Cotterill the replacement for Vaz Te? I thought Dagnall did ok, he's there to chase the ball up front and not give the defenders time, he's not the creative/luxuory player that Vaz Te was. I agree that the balance is wrong at the minute, too many hard workers and not enough creativity, seems Tonge is either not match fit or carrying an injury and Cotterill will take a few games to get up to speed. Hopefully, Hill will keep Davies up front as he looks a real goal threat and was wasted on the wing. Im still more worried at our defensive record, after a great clean sheet, we're back to another 3 goals conceded last night, individual errors and soft goals still occuring. Hill MUST prioritise tightening things up, if we have any of the Vaz Te money available, I'd prefer it to be spend on a quality/proven centre half.
18th October Is when Vaz Te scored his first league goal for us - it takes time to settle and get into Hilldave's style of play, so tha reight abart Cotts.
I remember Vaz Te's first few games, he was shocking he only really found his top form when Butterfield got injured and he came on as sub against Leeds, probably because he then saw more of the ball. The hard work ethic is commendable, but has Hill realised yet that the Championship requires more than just hard work and organisation....
If he hadn't gone We'd have had a passenger till May - only gutting thing is we didn't get £1mill plus for him.
Re: I remember Vaz Te's first few games, he was shocking What about Swansea last year?You really can achieve a lot with just organisation and hard work in the Championship. Btw. Hi, I'm new here
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Re: I remember Vaz Te's first few games, he was shocking I'd agreee but then say they had clinical scorers.
Re: I remember Vaz Te's first few games, he was shocking Since Vaz Te's departure we don't have the matchwinners that Swansea had. Who have we got of the quality of Scott Sinclair, for example?
Re: I remember Vaz Te's first few games, he was shocking Exactly. No-one. But Swansea seemed to have a plan as a club and stuck to it. Plus they started geting decent crowds so income went up. Ours are deteriorating.
Re: I remember Vaz Te's first few games, he was shocking Yep, and therein lies the problem. I think it's nigh on impossible to criticise the club given the fanbase that they're operating with, particularly in the current economic climate. SM was right.
