Standard Bowyer....linked to the referee thread, I made a point as to why some Refs might have had a grudge against us. Wouldn't you if somebody spoke of you or your team like he does, at work!?
Huh. Bowyer scratching around with 1-0 wins while we knock six past teams.
Never a truer word said in jest and it will be interesting to compare the styles of play under Adkins with that of Bowyer and ultimately how they manifest themselves in the results
Our first 5 results under Bowyer were:
D 0-0 W 2-0 W 4-0 W 3-1 D 1-1
Our results since Adkins took charge have been:
D 2-2 W 1-0 W 2-1 D 0-0 W 6-0
So they are nigh on identical. These were our next and final eight results that first season under Bowyer:
L 1-0 L 1-0 W 2-0 W 1-0 W 1-0 L 1-0 L1-0 L 1-0
Those results summed up our strength when things were going well under Bowyer and weakness when they weren't - hard to beat when we were in front but couldn't get back in the game when we were losing. It's the reason we failed to win from going behind for so longs. Our unbeaten run earlier this season produced similar results:
D 0-0 W 1-0 W 1-0 W 2-0 W 2-0 W 2-0 W 3-2
And if we look at Bowyer since he joined Birmingham we see much the same:
W 3-1 L 3-0 W 1-0 D 0-0 W 2-0 W 1-0
Even in our promotion season we were hardly prolific and feared for our ability to destroy teams - we only won three times from 49 games by more than two goals and only scored more than two in 90 minutes on half a dozen of those occasions.
One swallow last night doesn't mean that we are going to win every game by a cricket score but I believe that we are less predictable under Adkins than we were under Bowyer and it is that which has meant that we are now capable of beating both the good and ordinary sides in this division. Equally , last night demonstrated that you do not have to rely on one or two goal scorers if midfielders are allowed to make the right runs to support the attack.
Bowyer will continue to etch out results at Birmingham and keep them up. Whether he can take them forward from there will depend on three things - learning from his mistakes so far as the handling of players is concerned, being allowed to spend some money on decent signings to strengthen the squad and a second and alternative way of playing.
You mass use of data in your post excited me so much that I...
Annoyingly think the Wendies might stay up. They've got Forest at home, then Derby. Rotherham are picking up nothing and Derby are woeful. Win against Forest and I think they'll do it.
Annoyingly think the Wendies might stay up. They've got Forest at home, then Derby. Rotherham are picking up nothing and Derby are woeful. Win against Forest and I think they'll do it.
Derby v Wednesday last game of the season could be tasty.
Ridiculous if Wednesday stay up because the 9 point penalty became a 6 point one, would be 2 years in a row that the soft decision kept them up.
Annoyingly think the Wendies might stay up. They've got Forest at home, then Derby. Rotherham are picking up nothing and Derby are woeful. Win against Forest and I think they'll do it.
Derby v Wednesday last game of the season could be tasty.
Ridiculous if Wednesday stay up because the 9 point penalty became a 6 point one, would be 2 years in a row that the soft decision kept them up.
Even worse it was originally a 12-point deduction, they should already be relegated.
Annoyingly think the Wendies might stay up. They've got Forest at home, then Derby. Rotherham are picking up nothing and Derby are woeful. Win against Forest and I think they'll do it.
Derby v Wednesday last game of the season could be tasty.
Ridiculous if Wednesday stay up because the 9 point penalty became a 6 point one, would be 2 years in a row that the soft decision kept them up.
Even worse it was originally a 12-point deduction, they should already be relegated.
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Birmingham City boss Lee Bowyer told BBC WM 95.6:
"We should have won the game; we deserved to win the game. The effort the players put in, they've been robbed of three points.
"Instead of me talking about how good we were, we're now talking about the penalty decision at the end, which was wrong.
"We deserved to win the game. Unfortunately, through no fault of our own, we haven't."
Can't make up my mind whether it's the English or Maths that's incorrect.
Gimme a hard working selfless player any day over a greedy snake.
Ajose for example seemed to have just one great season, which was the "outlier"
Fair point.
I remember when a lot of pundits thought Harry Kane was just a striker on form in his 1st season.
The question was, could he continue scoring goals.
Soon as we signed Andy gray from Burnley...he was awful.
Had a very good record at Burnley
Must be a first in world football.
Bowyer has moved on, some people on here really, really need to do the same.
Derby are in big big trouble if Rotherham can find a win or two.
Ridiculous if Wednesday stay up because the 9 point penalty became a 6 point one, would be 2 years in a row that the soft decision kept them up.