7 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:

Think they’ll go up again personally

Yeah, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they do go straight back up either as they have got some really good players who could play in the Premier League.

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11 minutes ago, vp4ever said:

Only one game and not going to write him off but the new keeper does not fill me with confidence,how he keeps coming flying off his line reminds me of Covolan

Oh no!🤨

11 minutes ago, andy jones said:

Been out of touch for a while. What's the latest on Garrity?

2 weeks 

39 minutes ago, JohnDoe said:

This is what worries me. Moore seems to prefer 3-4-3 and we only changed to 3-5-2 when he had no choice to try something else and it worked far better. I get the feeling he would like to go back to 3-4-3 but we always get overrun in the middle and look toothless up front when we play it. It’s probably my biggest concern going into the new season. 

Spot on. 352 worked much better for us and Tolaj’s performance in a two was excellent so Dazza couldn’t go back. We just don’t have two midfielders who can dominate midfield and we score far fewer goals with two upfront. Hope we don’t have to go through that learning process all over again.

Went to the game. It’s a friendly don’t care about the result. Poor keeper mistake. Rico looked lively, Waine too at times but it was hard for them. I think in League 1 we will get more space to counter. 
 

Just looking forward to Rotherham now. 
 

I don’t expect Garrity to be back starting games until September with how cautious Moore is managing “minutes”, “volume” and other bingo words. 

 

36 minutes ago, andy jones said:

Been out of touch for a while. What's the latest on Garrity?

Setback a few weeks ago. “Back on grass”.

6 minutes ago, JoeB2 said:

Setback a few weeks ago. “Back on grass”.

Doesn't sound good then. Is there still random testing?

  

54 minutes ago, vp4ever said:

Only one game and not going to write him off but the new keeper does not fill me with confidence,how he keeps coming flying off his line reminds me of Covolan

Hopefully Gary Walsh can improve his performance then

Nothing in DM’s post match about why Curtis and John weren’t in the squad. He’s spoken about Gabriel & Garrity this week but not said anything about those two.

Always difficult to judge on pre season but from what I ve seen on OVF so far I would say-

We ve brought in extra depth over the summer there now seems a number of posters capable of filling the tactical line up posts in the case of inevitable bans and illnesses through the season.

still think we are 1 quality optimistic poster short, no one seems to have the ability to predict a top 6 finish…. I know these kind of posters cost money but it would make all the difference.

i still think we will be looking at another Moore Out poster we ve lost a couple of those over the summer from what I can see- always difficult to judge on friendlies and it may change but I think the transfer team will be looking to bring one in even if it’s on loan from Twitttwr or Facebook? 
 

it’s going to be tough given the higher standards this season, and we can be a bit lacking in the spelling department but with a couple of additions my instinct is we ll be ok.

 

UTV

11 minutes ago, efsb said:

Nothing in DM’s post match about why Curtis and John weren’t in the squad. He’s spoken about Gabriel & Garrity this week but not said anything about those two.

Radio Stoke interview here. Nothing on John but Curtis and Sam Hart picked up knocks and trained this morning. Says still looking for a keeper.

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40 minutes ago, CambridgeDon said:

Spot on. 352 worked much better for us and Tolaj’s performance in a two was excellent so Dazza couldn’t go back. We just don’t have two midfielders who can dominate midfield and we score far fewer goals with two upfront. Hope we don’t have to go through that learning process all over again.

It's a bit of a conundrum as we had our best run last season playing 3 4 3; it then imploded.  Moore has signed players to play different systems.  Personally I'm not convinced it's the system that matters,  more playing the best system for the best 11 available. My gut reaction is we will play 3 5 2 at Rotherham; in reality I have no idea.

1 hour ago, ValiantHan said:

IMO Birmingham will definitely finish in the top 10 of the Championship this season. 

 

1 hour ago, JoeB2 said:

Think they’ll go up again personally

 

1 hour ago, ValiantHan said:

Yeah, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they do go straight back up either as they have got some really good players who could play in the Premier League.

Birmingham are 15/2 third favourites for outright winners of the Championship.

11 minutes ago, Granville said:

Radio Stoke interview here. Nothing on John but Curtis and Sam Hart picked up knocks and trained this morning. Says still looking for a keeper.

Port Vale - Port Vale boss Darren Moore on Birmingham defeat - BBC Sounds

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radio JOKE !! FFS cover the red sheeeeeeiiites friendly !!! NOT ours !!!!says it all in the title !! 🐓🐓🐓🐓s the lot of them !!!!  hey ho !! shows how low n desperate they are !! 🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌🤌 have a good season clowns      

Had a radio stoke listen and thought we played well. Hard to judge our league 1 standard but the fact that it seems Ojo was one of our best players is either heartening to hear that he seems to want to make an effort, or worrying that someone who has barely been good enough for us last time and hardly set the world on fire in league 1 last season seems one of our best players again.