Saint_clark

Gabbiadini. If ward prowse is on the pitch he should take them, why the **** we **** about with namby pamby dinks, stuttered run ups and rolling it along the floor when we have someone who has proven he can hit the corners with pace I do not know.

F*ck off with the f*cking stupid stuttering run up and f*cking put it in the net you f*cking c*nt

****ing ****, why the **** do we **** about with penalties so much, give it to ward prowse who actually has a good record you useless ****ing ****s

I refuse to believe we were EVER odds on favourites to win the Europa League, especially not after only one game.

Long is far better in the air than any of our other strikers except perhaps Austin,

Longs best form for us was playing in a pair up top when we went 3 at the back last season. He was never as effective out wide.

Where is that from? Just did a word search of the Labour manifesto and the only time Birmingham is mentioned is in relation to HS2?

Yeah start of the season we were playing some great one touch passing football through the centre of the pitch and creating numerous chances we couldn't take. After Van Dijks injury and Stephens' nervous start, we reverted to two DM to help him out - however with him looking more competent now maybe we should try to revert to our original style of play.

I don't think any manager would have done anything else other than take us backwards after finishing 6th.

When we're performing as we have been the last few games we're much better off starting Long or Austin up front. In 5 minutes after coming on Long had already won 3 long balls with his head and held it up for other players. Personally i'd like to see them both up top, Gabby with one of Long or Austin.

We've brought everyone back to defend corners since Adkins days, don't start laying that at Puels door. "Defend as a team".

He may have had no chance but that was absolutely pathetic from Forster, didn't even try.

A loss at home to a side challenging to the top four? Mmkay. Knew Giroud would score.

Still waiting for Gabby sub time.

Boufal having a good game...other than that shot [emoji23]

Looks like a change in formation to me to more of a 4-3-3, Tadic playing behind Boufal left wing, Long right wing and Gabbi in the middle.

What happened to Gabby sub time? You seemed so adamant.

Pruttons being generous to Forster there, should have caught that.

Romeus been poor this second half, wtf has happened there.

Yoshida has been fantastic all game and you only mention him now. Hmm.

Both centrebacks guilty of overcommitting there.

Great interplay between tadic and redmond there.

With our lack of height i'd probably stick Romeu and Stephens both towards the back post with the aim of heading it back across goal and downwards so someone can try and tap it in. Doubt we'll score a goal from a first header from a set piece until Van Dijk or Austin are playing again.

Wouldn't be too upset to see Bertrand go, given how good McQueen has been. He can step up and despite what people are saying Targett is an adequate reserve. If we can get £20million or more for Bertrand that's a good amount to reinvest entirely somewhere else in the team, e.g Sigurdsson...

He never seemed to score a sh*t goal, they were all very tidy finishes at worse or worldies at best.