Birmingham City vs Derby County Matchday Thread

[CBRammette]

With our squad we will have matches like this especially having some players away in the break. Think international breaks will hurt us this season - hopefully players involved will avoid injury but wont get that break from matches and time to regroup. Hate Friday matches live on sky - Do we always lose or does it just seem as if we do? 

[Seaside Ram]

I'm convinced a lot of folk on here are loving this ?time. Some weird way of claiming to  be Derby "fans" . 

[AndyinLiverpool]

I'm even more fed up of our team being scared of the opposition than I was at the end of last season.

[RadioactiveWaste]

Well, I predicted a 3-0 loss. So we did ok on that basis.

Just not a game I expected anything out of.

 

[DerbyRam!]

2 minutes ago, dcfcollie said:

At least we can look forward to winning a game in League one next year.

Yeah we looked unbeatable when we played Salford ?

We really need to hope we can stay up, consolidate and come back stronger. Relegation would be a disaster for at least a few years

[Guest]

Nothing will change until Smithers and Burns pull their fingers out.

“Back the lads” only takes you so far. 

 

[Anag Ram]

No ambition from Derby. 

Bit of intent and physicality from Birmingham. 

We can't win games with eleven players in our half no matter how much neat stuff we play. 

No one in a Derby shirt deserved a seven out of ten tonight. 

The old players looked really old and the young players really young. 

Tame. 

[Barney1991]

Cheesus 2 wins in 22 

[Sparkle]

Midfield was very disappointing tonight as they never seemed to show for the ball and were basically missing in action most of the game and that needs to change 

[RoyMac5]

2 minutes ago, kash_a_ram_a_ding_dong said:

He's the manager,he spends all week training,coaching and then picking them to play.

They play to the system that he lays out and that's one that invites pressure and causes players to rooster up under that pressure.

Yeah he should have put a different striker on up front for starters. ?

[duncanjwitham]

Thank god that distraction is over and we can go back to talking about accountancy regs and whether Mel Morris is the messiah or just a very naughty boy.

[Tyler Durden]

I can't remember watching a Derby team so devoid of any attacking threat knew as soon as we threw the first goal away that was goodnight.

[Russell Ram]

Just heard on Sky, Preston go above us on goals scored. Roll out the red carpet then, let the rest of them follow suit, we ain’t scoring many this season….again. 

[Gritstone Ram]

We seem to be more bothered about our playing out from the back but we ought to be practicing scoring goals. Our tactics are costing us goals. It’s a load of duff!!

[ossieram]

Terrible performance with hardly any threat going forward and silly mistakes again at the back.

But anyone that says the ref didn't influence the game by letting them get away with foul after foul every time we tried to get forward, didn't watch the game. 

[rad1919]

Just now, IlsonDerby said:

Rooneys got my sympathy here. 
 

Playin some good football and creating some chances but absolute dead heads making mistakes constantly are costing us.

 

he can’t be making that back pass for buchanan. He can’t be playing the pass for Lawrence or not being beat at his near post for Roos. 

Rooney’s setting us up to play that way. The players are not good/technical enough to play around at the back like that for 90 minutes.

I can set up a team to play like that on Championship Manager but there are no consequences. If it goes wrong I can just turn it off and turn it back on again. No harm done.

There’s only one way this season is going to end.

[DJFern94]

Honestly as every game goes past, you can't help but think a points deduction and relegation last season would have been preferable. 

 

Would probably have been able to actually act in the transfer market, any possible investors would have known what was happening with the club and been able to takeover. We would have had more of a chance of winning some games this season. 

 

Sure we would have lost some players but would they really have been "lost" 

[Gritstone Ram]

Just now, Russell Ram said:

Just heard on Sky, Preston go above us on goals scored. Roll out the red carpet then, let the rest of them follow suit, we ain’t scoring many this season….again. 

More bothered about taking a goal kick with three in our box than scoring goals.

[Rammy03]

2 minutes ago, brady1993 said:

Urgh dissapointing. 

A few things we should take away from the night. 

We can't play the way we want with Shinnie in the side and need to start phasing him out.

We need to be more willing to drag off Lawrence. 

Jozwiak is needed to help link the play. 

We need to find a way to deal with sides like Birmingham who can use the changes in rule to their advantage.

Shinnie was taken off at half time and arguably we got worse. Agree on Jozwiak though

[Gone]

Anybody on this forum thinks we will stay up with the attacking players we have in the squad please tell me what your drinking, I need some. We will not score enough goals to stay in this league unfortunately. Time to stand with the lads we have them support to the end , but there is no way we’re staying up points deduction or not.