Birmingham vs Manchester City matchday thread

[Craig B]

4 games without a win and the pressure on Hughes must surely start to mount.

Fourth in the Premier League with a game-in-hand over half the other teams. Sack Hughes now...

If it was up to me he'd be on the rock and roll midway through last season. I'm not going to beat around the bush - I don't believe he's a good enough manager for us but only results will prove me right or wrong. 4 games without a win with the performances getting worse by each game seems to suggest I was right all along but I will judge properly at the end of the season of course.

[viking the Odd]

Total garbage, poor performance from millions spent,and no-way top 4, Don't know how lokng it will take for these players to gel, but for sure the pressure is on,the players,and Mr Hughes, there has never been a better time for us to break the top 4, but playing as we have, no-chance.

[Dameerto]

Given gets MoTM - well earned too.

[hyper]

4 games without a win and the pressure on Hughes must surely start to mount.

Fourth in the Premier League with a game-in-hand over half the other teams. Sack Hughes now...

Thanks to a great start. If we get out of this slump of form quickly, I'm more than willing to forgive and forget, but it just seems to go on and on. And I can't helping looking at where we would be at, if we hadn't played all these draws.

I totally agree, I guess my point is to start panicking and talking about pressure on Hughes whils't we're where we are in the table seems daft. This is just a slump - and we will come out of it. If this had been a City slump of old we'd be teetering on the drop zone...

[paddyblue]

really disapointing today, certainly not top 4 material

[mr_nool]

4 games without a win and the pressure on Hughes must surely start to mount.

Fourth in the Premier League with a game-in-hand over half the other teams. Sack Hughes now...

Thanks to a great start. If we get out of this slump of form quickly, I'm more than willing to forgive and forget, but it just seems to go on and on. And I can't helping looking at where we would be at, if we hadn't played all these draws.

I totally agree, I guess my point is to start panicking and talking about pressure on Hughes whils't we're where we are in the table seems daft. This is just a slump - and we will come out of it. If this had been a City slump of old we'd be teetering on the drop zone...

Yes, it's daft, but I am/was one of those "Huges Out-guys"... And I sure hope it's just a temporary (alltough quite long) slump.

[StrikeAnywhere]

pathetic effort today. fuck me our recent performances in the league just havent been up to scratch. what the fuck is Stevie doing sitting on the bench, even when he had 40 minutes out there today he was bypassed pretty much the entire fucking time. fucking sort it out hughes thats 6 points dropped from 3 very winnable games... very concerning

[Vhero]

SWP needs a sit on the fucking bench hes been gash now for a while! I'm sick of his little "it's okay I can run past their entire defence on my own!" runs. Weiss needs a chance to show more of what he can do. Barry had a bad start and Santa Cruz was fucking terrible.

[david yearsley]

Can´t blame the boss for the fact that 2 international full backs and 2 international wide men can´get a decent cross in between them - the end product today was woeful - we had enough ball but the players concerned didn´t deliver - very poor and thers nothing you can do about that on the bench - perhaps Weiss for SWP would have been a better option last 15

[edge275]

Petrov should've started before RSC. When he was on it was like having 10 men.

Weiss should've played instead of SWP.

I would've subbed Barry for Ireland and later on subbed De Jong for Johnson.

[trueblue64]

I think SWP should sit on the bench, get Wiess on from the start at least he takes people on.

[ruralblue]

Fucking cowards, fucking mercenaries, fucking pansies. Fuck em.

^^^ this. not good enough to kill teams like b'ham off. Fourth spot but not deserved.

[LookMumImOnMCF.net]

^^^ this. not good enough to kill teams like b'ham off. Fourth spot but not deserved.

lol. how can you 'not deserve' your league position?

[DoomMerchant]

today was sad. Ade. Robson. Toure. Ned. i guess even Ireland and Petrov. How much will a fit side make a difference? Reason to believe quite a bit.

However, it's a bit rhetorical because THAT team today should have found a way to tear apart the fuclin cloggers and journeymen we were playing against. Hats off to them for chasing us off the park, and making themselves a handful, because, as any reasonable manager has shown us so far, that's our weakness. We can't hack it, we panic, we foul, we make mistakes and we drop points. We can see it. Our opponents management can see it. What's Hughes doing about it?

Not the bold moves of a top 4 side by any stretch of the imagination. Deservedly in 4th at this point, but on form over the last 6 matches it's 14th.

cheers

[Renato_CTID]

I don't understand why Hughes replaced in the last minutes Santa Cruz! Obviously he was playing shit, but Roque was the only striker who couldn't head in both areas!!!