Gerken One of Five Changes at Birmingham
Saturday, 31st Aug 2013 14:06

Keeper Dean Gerken will make his league debut for the Blues at Birmingham this afternoon as Mick McCarthy makes five changes.

The ex-Colchester man comes in for Scott Loach, who took the blame for Leeds’ second goal at Portman Road last week and who drops to the bench.

Paul Anderson, Ryan Tunnicliffe and Christophe Berra make their first Championships starts in place of skipper Carlos Edwards, Elliott Hewitt and Jay Tabb, while Frank Nouble replaces Daryl Murphy up front.

Luke Chambers, who is set to wear the captain’s armband will be at right-back with Berra on the right of Tommy Smith at the heart of the defence. Anderson will be on the right of midfield with Tunnicliffe on the left.

Anthony Wordsworth replaces Frederic Veseli on the bench, while Alan Lee, who signed on a non-contract basis earlier in the week, travelled with the squad.

For Birmingham, there's no place for ex-Blue Darren Ambrose in the 18.

Town: Gerken, Chambers, Berra, Smith, Cresswell, Anderson, Skuse, Hyam, Tunnicliffe, McGoldrick, Nouble. Subs: Loach, Hewitt, Tabb, Edwards, Wordsworth, Taylor, Murphy.

Birmingham: Randolph, Eardley, Bartley, Burn, Robinson, Burke, Adeyemi, Spector, Shinnie, Novak, Lovenkrands. Subs: Doyle, Mullins, Reilly, Elliott, Ferguson, Allan, Green.

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billlm added 14:50 - Aug 31 makes the team and bench look slightly better footies over 90 minutes lots of power on the bench all players have a real value
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Stato added 15:02 - Aug 31 Well done Mick. Delighted with all these changes. Hopefully Taylor on for Nouble at some point and we get close to our strongest 11.
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Stato added 15:16 - Aug 31

Will say before result is known that I got a whole load of thumb downs for suggesting Hewitt should be dropped and delighted to see Mick sees it the same way. Hewitt has a great future but Berra MUST be in starting eleven. Hyam will need to perform today if Tabb or Wordsworth not given his berth later in the game. A clean sheet and perhaps a few "experts" on here might start eating humble pie. Town get mauled and I'll wind my neck in.