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Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
Really good atmosphere today, top notch tannoy man, plenty of Birmingham bands being aired and it’s always nice to hear a traditional sing song at the start of the game.
Thought we weren’t in it at all for 30 mins, Norris goes down and Dodds has a chat and we were in the game from there on in. Will be interesting to see that Simons challenge on the highlights, looked a bit rash and not entirely necessary to me, but from my vantage point it didn’t look a straight red, knew as soon as I saw the ref purposely striding his way that he was off though.

Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
Udoh was excellent again and it was crying out for the King so not surprised other creative midfielders took a back seat, wasn't enough in the end but still top two and on we roll.
Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
Yeah I was a bit surprised Humphries was subbed. Very poor in the 1st half, but came to life in the 2nd. That said, overall the 2nd half was a decent performance, so no complaints on the decisions made.
Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
I'll walk back my "white flag" comments slightly as that second half was superb. We were the better team with 10 men but just didn't quite find that killer chance. In the first half we showed Birmingham far too much respect and it was only once we started to press harder that we looked like we could get something from the game.
I was surprised to see Humphreys taken off fairly early as he was making us tick at the start of the half, and really surprised that McCleary played a full 90 minutes. Thought he was exceptionally poor today for his standards.
Wrexham drawing makes that no disaster, but we really need two wins next week to set ourselves up for that game. No Harvie or Simons for the next few games will be a big test.

Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
Wrexham as well as a difficult next 5 have only 5 of their 13 left at home as well.
Tuesday will probably be a tight game, but any sort of win there puts pressure on Wrexham who have a tough one away at Huddersfield.

Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
Still in our hands. We need a bit more self belief. 1-0 away to the a championship team, amd losing our most creative player isn't to bad.

Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
Hope Norris gets dropped now , should have not been number 1 in the first place. The first half was a disgrace of a performance a lot, a few of the players really got found out

Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
Spirited second half was good to see.
Has a Wycombe fan ever been ejected under 10 Minutes in before? What was that about?

Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
We actually did pretty well 2nd half, no complaints at all about that performance. Thought Dodds set us up well and deserves credit for that. Don't recall Birmingham having any serious efforts.
It was the 1st half the damage was done and much of it self inflicted. A really timid first 30mins, fortunate to only be 1 goal down and then just as we looked like we were getting a foothold in the game, Simons had his moment of complete madness.
Definitely there's positives we can take from the 2nd half. Reach looked decent and can hopefully provide adequate cover for Harvie. And we generally competed well, just lacked the finishing touch of quality to a few decent moves.
Re: Match Day Thread: Birmingham
Thought Norris was fine. Dodds reacted well to the red card, Brum didn't really do much.
We missed golden chances to put good balls in. None more than when Leahy had a free kick chance that a few months ago hed have shot with, instead today he puts a weak, afraid, floated ball in which gets cleared easily. We shirked opportunities there.
Too many of our players simply weren't brave enough. We can't blame Dodds for that