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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- 23:12 - Aug 8 with 917 viewsLibero

I’m sure people are having very balanced reactions to the game.

Birmingham restricted us really well and we laboured away with very little quality, making hard work of simple things too. Cajuste needs to get up to speed quick, that midfield needs support, ASAP.

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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:14 - Aug 8 with 880 viewsFrimleyBlue

We stopped a potential promotion rival from getting 3 points away first game of season when we only had 1 new player in our lineup... it's a bloody good point taken.

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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:16 - Aug 8 with 845 viewsLibero

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:14 - Aug 8 by FrimleyBlue

We stopped a potential promotion rival from getting 3 points away first game of season when we only had 1 new player in our lineup... it's a bloody good point taken.


Point of order- they stopped us and very effectively.
Having watched them play now, I’d be absolutely stunned if Birmingham are anywhere near the automatics. They can’t keep that up every week, they were fist pumping putting the ball out for a throw in FFS 😂
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:17 - Aug 8 with 835 viewsReusersTown

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:14 - Aug 8 by FrimleyBlue

We stopped a potential promotion rival from getting 3 points away first game of season when we only had 1 new player in our lineup... it's a bloody good point taken.


They're not a promotion rival based on tonight, if that's all they can muster. We were at about 25%.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:18 - Aug 8 with 797 viewsLibero

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:17 - Aug 8 by ReusersTown

They're not a promotion rival based on tonight, if that's all they can muster. We were at about 25%.


They played the occasion, didn’t they? Good on them for giving it a bloody good go, the way they limited us was very impressive but watching multiple players of theirs go down with cramp tells a story in itself.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:19 - Aug 8 with 783 viewstonybied

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:14 - Aug 8 by FrimleyBlue

We stopped a potential promotion rival from getting 3 points away first game of season when we only had 1 new player in our lineup... it's a bloody good point taken.


Yup, despite my annoyance at our performance (probably not helped by my alcohol consumption), the result was, at least, what it needed to be from a game of this level, at this point on the season.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:20 - Aug 8 with 739 viewsLibero

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:19 - Aug 8 by tonybied

Yup, despite my annoyance at our performance (probably not helped by my alcohol consumption), the result was, at least, what it needed to be from a game of this level, at this point on the season.


Unbeaten in 25 at home and a crowd up for it like it was a cup final, was always going to be tricky as they were never going to match us fir quality and had to focus on stopping us from getting going.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:22 - Aug 8 with 714 viewsFrimleyBlue

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:17 - Aug 8 by ReusersTown

They're not a promotion rival based on tonight, if that's all they can muster. We were at about 25%.


TBH i think they will be, they didnt have all their new players in either and with standsfield they have a scorer. At home they probably will go unbeaten, nasty side, but one that should do well. Not many sides will cope. There CMS pressing was excellent, and the way they spray that ball into the box from midfield was lovely

We did well, which is why i didn't appreciate skys version of us, that wasnt a game we were going to control.

Are they a leeds no, but they are an ugly side with alot of talents in good areas.

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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:24 - Aug 8 with 701 viewsKievthegreat

Really struggled in the middle. Birmingham pressed high and we just were not good at breaking the press at all. Lots of long balls and it coming straight back. A double pivot of our last championship season would have had a field day. Taylor just doesn't seem to thrive under that pressure and Matusiwa wasn't quite up to speed IMO

However they then backed off and let us grow. Once they stepped back we were able to get hold of midfield we just needed either a bit of quality or a bit of luck. We got the luck and punished Birmingham for taking their foot off the gas.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:26 - Aug 8 with 676 viewsSmoresy

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:16 - Aug 8 by Libero

Point of order- they stopped us and very effectively.
Having watched them play now, I’d be absolutely stunned if Birmingham are anywhere near the automatics. They can’t keep that up every week, they were fist pumping putting the ball out for a throw in FFS 😂


Thought Gray's class showed, Kyogo was excellent and Stansfield very Hirst-like. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see them go well, beat our press frequently, good patterns of play. They had plenty of newbies too and would expect themselves to keep improving.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:26 - Aug 8 with 671 viewsreusersfreekicks

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:18 - Aug 8 by Libero

They played the occasion, didn’t they? Good on them for giving it a bloody good go, the way they limited us was very impressive but watching multiple players of theirs go down with cramp tells a story in itself.


Plus they were filthy, fouls and blocks galore. Horrible team
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:27 - Aug 8 with 648 viewspointofblue

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:26 - Aug 8 by Smoresy

Thought Gray's class showed, Kyogo was excellent and Stansfield very Hirst-like. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see them go well, beat our press frequently, good patterns of play. They had plenty of newbies too and would expect themselves to keep improving.


Hirst was another who I thought had a poor evening. Had the touch of a trampoline; didn't hold up anything which headed his way.

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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:28 - Aug 8 with 631 viewsReusersTown

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:22 - Aug 8 by FrimleyBlue

TBH i think they will be, they didnt have all their new players in either and with standsfield they have a scorer. At home they probably will go unbeaten, nasty side, but one that should do well. Not many sides will cope. There CMS pressing was excellent, and the way they spray that ball into the box from midfield was lovely

We did well, which is why i didn't appreciate skys version of us, that wasnt a game we were going to control.

Are they a leeds no, but they are an ugly side with alot of talents in good areas.


I just don't see it Frimley, and Stanfield didn't look much like a scorer to me until we put in on a plate.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:29 - Aug 8 with 600 viewsFrimleyBlue

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:27 - Aug 8 by pointofblue

Hirst was another who I thought had a poor evening. Had the touch of a trampoline; didn't hold up anything which headed his way.


Problem was the ref didn't protect the forwards correctly, even on tele you could see the number of fouls hirst should have got, no different for some of brums attacks at times too, the ref got a lot wrong for both sides.

The one moment hirst did bug me tho was 2nd half when he tried a 1-2 1-2 with sammy, the chance was there for hirst to hit it low but he tried the pass back..

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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:48 - Aug 8 with 456 viewsLibero

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:26 - Aug 8 by Smoresy

Thought Gray's class showed, Kyogo was excellent and Stansfield very Hirst-like. Wouldn't be at all surprised to see them go well, beat our press frequently, good patterns of play. They had plenty of newbies too and would expect themselves to keep improving.


I’ve a soft spot for Celtic due to family connections, Kyogo is absolute class.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:50 - Aug 8 with 443 viewsLibero

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:26 - Aug 8 by reusersfreekicks

Plus they were filthy, fouls and blocks galore. Horrible team


It was a pretty tactically astute move by them, it made the game a really hard watch but gave them the base to operate from and stopped us from building momentum.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:54 - Aug 8 with 409 viewsStNeotsBlue

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:18 - Aug 8 by Libero

They played the occasion, didn’t they? Good on them for giving it a bloody good go, the way they limited us was very impressive but watching multiple players of theirs go down with cramp tells a story in itself.


I'm normally quite a positive sort but I thought we were poor tonight. Didn't create a single chance from open play and just looked negative in general, did pick up a bit after they scored but got lucky with a penalty.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 00:17 - Aug 9 with 332 viewsLibero

Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 23:54 - Aug 8 by StNeotsBlue

I'm normally quite a positive sort but I thought we were poor tonight. Didn't create a single chance from open play and just looked negative in general, did pick up a bit after they scored but got lucky with a penalty.


I think you’re right, but it was due to Birmingham executing their plan well and perhaps and somewhat disjointed/sub-par performance from our midfield pairing.
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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 00:26 - Aug 9 with 287 viewsArnieM

One thing you can day about Town, is we are very resilient. Not many teams will go to St Andrews and get a point in my humble opinion.

I thought Town had a very disciplined game plan ( or so it seemed to me). We remained well marshalled as a team defensively and allowed Brum possession. But Brum didnt really offer much threat for most of that 1st half, and should have been 1-0 up ourselves had Szmodics been able to get over that bouncing ball better for his shot. I thought here we go in the 2nd half when came at with a bit more aggression and we failed to deal with their passing around our box.

What did please me was when Al Hamadi came on , Hirst wasn't taken off, and we had more than one striker on the pitch.That has to be a first!

More to come from Town i think, but we need more players in through the door ASAP, and please keep hold of Omari.

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Good teams play badly but still pick up points- on 05:27 - Aug 9 with 114 viewsChrisd

A good point, but the way we played was concerning. Literally created nothing and got extremely fortunate with the penalty decision. That sums it up about right.
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