Birmingham City Post Match Thoughts

[Hazza Has A Gazza]

F ucking w@nk! Back to the pub league we go 😞

[CTMilller]

I find it almost amusing that posters on the Matchthread - posters btw like CT and Frog that I admire - are not concerned with the reality but rather have decided to switch off because they can't handle people pointing out the reality. Wendun, IBS, Kempo and Uncle Tom Cobley did not get RUFC relegated although some of the MM sh*tbrains will try and argue we did. The decisions of the chairman and the manager got RUFC relegated. The bizarre Warne love-in can have nothing to do with his performances which have been pathetic but purely to do with the misguided die-hards identification of him as a true Miller. If he had been any other manager these same posters would have been screaming for his sacking.

The admiration is mutual, Wendun. That may sound tongue-in-cheek but it's not. You make good points and you make them well and much of what you (and IBS, Brin, Thai Miller etc) say, should be said and recognised as having validity.

I think you miss the point of my comments on the last two Matchday threads. My gripe isn't about content; it's about timing. The last thing I want to hear as the match finishes and we're all in an emotional state is somebody banging on about what they did or didn't tell us we should have done weeks and months ago. Yes, we know this may well be true, but, please, let's leave it for the post match inquest and not 60 seconds after we've lost and another nail has gone into the coffin...

...and I was really pleased that today's Matchday thread ended so - quietly.

[frogmiller]

My dear Frog, nothing I have posted has been aimed at you or any poster. I have tried to explain that my comments have been an attempted corrective against what I see has completely unsupported enthusiasm for the performance of the chairman and the fitness coach (aka manager, scout troop leader and all round good egg). You say you are bored with this (my) negativity well let me say I am really, really bored with the constant excuses trotted out on here; the ref was biased, the linesmen were biased, the opponents are all cheats, the EPL are conspiring to get "little Rotherham" relegated etc, etc. This kind of sh*t really pisses me off but most MM members lap it up so I let it go. The truth is we blew it because the chairman didn't want to invest and the manager couldn't hack it. I've had 54 years of this crap and am getting bored. Good luck to Wigan and our other rivals who rose to the occasion while we simply floundered and sank.

I didn't realise you'd read what I wrote in that way as if it was an attack or slur upon you. It was the opening of a conversation that I would have with anyone.
We don't agree on certain things on how things are done at the club and I don't see the things in the same way but I have to more diplomatic than most on the board.
I wouldn't become personal with anyone unless I knew them and then if I didn't like them I wouldn't engage with them.

This is why I didn't want to participate after the game. Not because of what I wrote but how it would be interpritated.

[Acido]

Brum weren't all that good . We had 54% possession, and we had 9 shots, but only one was on target (and it went in!). In a game that we had to win, one shot on target in the whole match was poor, but wastefulness fairly in character with our whole season, except today was even worse than usual. Disappointing, on a day when we had to give it the full throttle and take our chances

Hey up Mike, and obviously I didnt know about the stats today, and what your team did or didnt do against the lucky Brum!.
Its down to your team and Millwall now isnt it, and this carries on that particular rivalry you had with them 3 seasons ago! lol.

[CASPER-64-FRANK]

I don’t know what Gary Monks team talk went like at halftime but they came out a different side second half.
They dominated that second half especially midfield and marked us out of the game up front. Best team won, Brum were a much better side. Not one effort on goal second half and now 79 goals conceded.
I don’t go in for blaming individual players, they’re picked as a team so should play as a team.

So near...yet so far away.

[Pocket rocket]

Been to every game and we’ve competed in most have 100% effort in all and lacked the required quality in most of the games.
To single players out is wrong imo.

Bad day today fans fighting with themselves sums it up.
Looking forward to the Lincoln game next season.

Utm

[mellowmiller]

I don't know whether it's true or not but someone told me today that 26 of our points have been won with Richard Wood in the team. If that's correct it seems incredibly stupid for people to blame him for the team being relegated.

[jakethemiller]

Truly dire performance today, yes they may have been tired after Friday, so was I after 10 hours on trains to watch them lose again. I count down the minutes in the second hoping we can get to 50 without conceding I think we managed it by about 2 seconds today. Why oh why do we do it every game. We had a discussion before the game about the fact that we score goals but it's the conceding that's hurting us so today he changes it, 3 changes in the back line from Friday, Jones every time for me although he wasn't at his best today, Ajayi needs to be a centre half and not midfield but again today especially in the first half he was on different planet, and Woods instead of Robertson never.
We put them on the back foot and then sit back and let them come onto us and we just aren't good enough to do it. Smithy battled all day got nothing from either the ref or the defenders and it looks like carrying the forward threat on his shoulders has finally worn him out. Newell ineffective can't play 90 minutes, Towell please don't sign him he's shown nothing this season, Williams has no end product runs about jumps well for his height but can't pick anyone out. Vaulks works his socks off, wears his heart on his sleeve but in the neigh on 60 years of watching the Millers I cannot think of anyone who wastes the ball as much as he does.
As much as it sticks in my craw I have to say we're down, we aren't good enough, we aren't a championship club, we haven't got championship support. Not many people want us in the championship least of all the EFL and the officials. So we'll drop down again to league 1 and let's hope that's all, and we'll try again. At least we made a better fist of it than last time and next time our manager will have more experience and hopefully not make as many basic errors.
I wasn't proud to be a Miller today but by and large have been most of the season and of course I'll be back for more next year wherever we are.

[Archiemiller]

We were crying out for help in January but it didnt arrive(for whatever reason) for me that was the most dissapointing thing all season, cant fault the lads for effort over the season but effort alone will never keep any team in this division, sorry to say along with effort you need QUALITY and we are lacking immensely in the latter. U.T.F.M.

[flourbasher]

Birmingham out muscled us today in the second half as they did at St Andrews. Cleaned up everyting and didn't give us a sniff after the break.
Strange defensive set up as we've got better players on bench.
The tightest I've seen us at the back was for the last 20 mins vs Forest when we had four CB, s playing. Options.

One point from nine and nine goals conceded is hopeless in a relegation fight and Millwall must be loving this.
We did the hard part in all three by getting our noses in front .....we'll nearly except for Butlands heroics

WBA might play the kids as they don't need anymore points but I fear the confidence may have evaporated now