Birmingham City Post Match Thoughts

[Brin]

How many has S/E taken to the Prem Brin.

LM, that answer would be none pal but, he has neither been given Millions of £££££'S to spend on a team unlike Warnock throughout his career. Evans has to put up with squeezing that bit more blood out of the stone he's been given

[borert]

First ten minutes half decent.
Rest of game reminded of last season.
Have to say Birmingham played some really good football and would be a handful for any Championship side.

[sawmiller]

On paper we’ve have a half decent team. Unfortunately, however, the game is played on grass.

Need to stop the rot though - must secure L1 status come May and take time to properly build from there.

[Tigerish]

Lessons that Evans needs to learn after this abject display.
1 Drop the goalkeeper. He does not command the six yard box never mind the penalty area.
2 At home do not set up to draw because you think the opposition are good. Set up to win and at least you might get a draw.
3 Stop bigging up the opposition before the game. What does this achieve Evans? I will tell you. It boosts them. So stop.
4 The midfield is the battlefield where wars are won. This has to be the priority as it was a large empty space for them to run into.
Their goals were (borderline) offside but we were always on a hiding to nothing with your useless tactics.
I wonder if TS agrees with the above?

[philthefluter]

Lessons that Evans needs to learn after this abject display.
1 Drop the goalkeeper. He does not command the six yard box never mind the penalty area.
2 At home do not set up to draw because you think the opposition are good. Set up to win and at least you might get a draw.
3 Stop bigging up the opposition before the game. What does this achieve Evans? I will tell you. It boosts them. So stop.
4 The midfield is the battlefield where wars are won. This has to be the priority as it was a large empty space for them to run into.
Their goals were (borderline) offside but we were always on a hiding to nothing with your useless tactics.
I wonder if TS agrees with the above?

Phillips is a liability, everyone but our dynamic duo can see that.I have asked several Owls fans about Dawson, and they all said he is a good keeper.Persevering with Phillips will do nothing to rebuild confidence in the defence.His judgement is shocking, he often comes out when he shouldn`t and he flaps at the ball when a cross comes in.Hard to imagine Dawson being worse than he is.

[Tigerish]

ps Evans. Get off your backside and stop leaving your lapdog to motivate the players from the touchline

[Pocket rocket]

Paul Warne is 10 times the manager SE is.

[GlennMiller]

Evans cost us two points against Burton with his appalling substitutions and tactics. Today he humiliated us with his tactics which presented an open door to an extremely talented outfit to stroll through.

Dawson has to play in goal. As someone in the pub said before the game 'Phillips goes down like a roll of lino'. Victor would have saved their first goal.

SE's set up from the off announced 'hoof ball' for all to see. Brum gave us no quarter and waltzed comfortably through our non-existent midfield.

JCH is a 60 minute max player. You cannot play Hugill and JCH together - one or the other.

At half time, we should have gone 4-4-2, with Powell and Hungbo coming on to give us more width and hopefully an added threat.

We were as bad as Brum were good and SE did nothing to give us any chance of threatening their goal. He appears to be tactically clueless.

To top it all, Sam Nombe was sent out to front the press (not sure if Evans or Raynor spoke later). As opposed to Evans' fist pumping in front of the North Stand when we beat Huddersfield, he chose to hide away and give the responsibility to Sam (who spoke very well).

Overall, disenchanted and worried that we're in for another struggle this season.

[Brin]

Evans cost us two points against Burton with his appalling substitutions and tactics. Today he humiliated us with his tactics which presented an open door to an extremely talented outfit to stroll through.

Dawson has to play in goal. As someone in the pub said before the game 'Phillips goes down like a roll of lino'. Victor would have saved their first goal.

SE's set up from the off announced 'hoof ball' for all to see. Brum gave us no quarter and waltzed comfortably through our non-existent midfield.

JCH is a 60 minute max player. You cannot play Hugill and JCH together - one or the other.

At half time, we should have gone 4-4-2, with Powell and Hungbo coming on to give us more width and hopefully an added threat.

We were as bad as Brum were good and SE did nothing to give us any chance of threatening their goal. He appears to be tactically clueless.

To top it all, Sam Nombe was sent out to front the press (not sure if Evans or Raynor spoke later). As opposed to Evans' fist pumping in front of the North Stand when we beat Huddersfield, he chose to hide away and give the responsibility to Sam (who spoke very well).

Overall, disenchanted and worried that we're in for another struggle this season.

Glenn, on the button! Listening to Praise and Grumble and Nombe came on to talk about today and he said they were not giving their all, at least all the local clubs had post match interviews provided by their Managers.....now they're both hiding, says it all.

[Edinburghmiller]

Evans cost us two points against Burton with his appalling substitutions and tactics. Today he humiliated us with his tactics which presented an open door to an extremely talented outfit to stroll through.

Dawson has to play in goal. As someone in the pub said before the game 'Phillips goes down like a roll of lino'. Victor would have saved their first goal.

SE's set up from the off announced 'hoof ball' for all to see. Brum gave us no quarter and waltzed comfortably through our non-existent midfield.

JCH is a 60 minute max player. You cannot play Hugill and JCH together - one or the other.

At half time, we should have gone 4-4-2, with Powell and Hungbo coming on to give us more width and hopefully an added threat.

We were as bad as Brum were good and SE did nothing to give us any chance of threatening their goal. He appears to be tactically clueless.

To top it all, Sam Nombe was sent out to front the press (not sure if Evans or Raynor spoke later). As opposed to Evans' fist pumping in front of the North Stand when we beat Huddersfield, he chose to hide away and give the responsibility to Sam (who spoke very well).

Overall, disenchanted and worried that we're in for another struggle this season.

Yes. How come Sam Nombe did the press after the game. No Steve Evans or Paul Raynor. What’s going on!