Birmingham City - v Leeds United ***Matchday Thread***

[spaldy]

No felix fan but...

if you can't score a goal against the last place side it's not likely world class keeper wins us that game.

we looked like we couldn't put a series of touches together. Often with with no defenders in the vicinity.

at least we aren't in a relegation battle.

[WTF11]

Sorry to reply again,, but is a pushout compared to shotstopper?

NO!

[WTF11]

No felix fan but...

if you can't score a goal against the last place side it's not likely world class keeper wins us that game.

we looked like we couldn't put a series of touches together. Often with with no defenders in the vicinity.

at least we aren't in a relegation battle.

But he can (and did), lose us the game!

[WTF11]

Well he made a damn good save just before that, Why the *** would anyone blame the keeper when rest were ****e is beyond me..

He did no such thing, he patted it back to the one place it shouldn't have been. He is sh1t and the sooner he is replaced (with my dead grandmother if required, whitestomper!), the better.

[WTF11]

Yep, I accept that it was very poor keeping, and without that error it would probably have finished 0-0. The bottom line is he's an average keeper in a slightly better than average Championship team.

And that is not an acceptable situation for a club aspiring to promotion to be in, end of.

[joellufcprice]

I'm not a Wiedwald fan and yes he could have done a bit better for their goal but he wasn't the reason we lost that game.

Think it was just a game where our lack of depth shone bright. Without Saiz we look poor going forward, Roofe yet again for me showing he is not a Championship quality striker nor will he ever be. Shaughnessey in midfield? What is the point, we have Klich who for me looked good when he came on and looked hungry for the ball whereas Shaughnessey looked poor throughout, not his fault as he is learning his trade but amazed me he lasted 90 minutes.

On our day when we have our best 11 available with no injury conners we are a top 4 side. When we have one or two injuries to key players we are a top 10 side and that is why we need strengthening in january. I said this last year going into Jan when we had made heavy work of some games but won them so it looked like we were brilliant the same is happening now, we've been winning but getting the luck go our way in very poor games overall and today it caught up with us, we cannot let this opportunity slip yet again and pretend this squad is good enough for promotion, because it isn't.

1 x striker, centre mid if Klich is going, lb and hell maybe even another winger because Cibicki and Alisoki just don't cut it for me when Saiz isn't putting it on a plate for them.

[joellufcprice]

I'd have taken 5th going into 2018 but we HAVE to take this chance and strengthen, we've let it slip through our fingers twice before and I can't stomach us doing it again, playing safe and not achieving anything. Sell Klich, send CBJ back and get two in their place + a striker and either an attacking player or beg Swansea to let us have Bartley

[CLIVETHELEEDSFAN]

I say it constantly, if you don't make the opposition goalkeeper earn his match day wage then you don't deserve to win the game, stockDale made one save that I remember, which was a weak shot from Phillips, forget that Felix fluffed, fact is, even without his error, we deserved nothing from that game

[WTF11]

I'm not a Wiedwald fan and yes he could have done a bit better for their goal but he wasn't the reason we lost that game.

Think it was just a game where our lack of depth shone bright. Without Saiz we look poor going forward, Roofe yet again for me showing he is not a Championship quality striker nor will he ever be. Shaughnessey in midfield? What is the point, we have Klich who for me looked good when he came on and looked hungry for the ball whereas Shaughnessey looked poor throughout, not his fault as he is learning his trade but amazed me he lasted 90 minutes.

On our day when we have our best 11 available with no injury conners we are a top 4 side. When we have one or two injuries to key players we are a top 10 side and that is why we need strengthening in january. I said this last year going into Jan when we had made heavy work of some games but won them so it looked like we were brilliant the same is happening now, we've been winning but getting the luck go our way in very poor games overall and today it caught up with us, we cannot let this opportunity slip yet again and pretend this squad is good enough for promotion, because it isn't.

1 x striker, centre mid if Klich is going, lb and hell maybe even another winger because Cibicki and Alisoki just don't cut it for me when Saiz isn't putting it on a plate for them.

He wouldn't have won us the game, that's for the outfielders, but he DID lose us the game, and let's face it, for all the possession etc, they didn't exactly make him sweat for his wage did they?

[hopelesslyoptimistic]

He wouldn't have won us the game, that's for the outfielders, but he DID lose us the game, and let's face it, for all the possession etc, they didn't exactly make him sweat for his wage did they?

you could say that in a way but we win and lose as a team and earlier in the game he pulled off a top drawer save to keep us in the game.

we are not going to win every game no matter how much we want to and a return of 6 points from 9 over Christmas is play off form.