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Bowyer progress at Birmingham

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,981
    This game is more dirty than Poland v England.
    The refs being more lenient is already plain in many games this season.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
    edited September 2021
    2-0, Birmingham up to 4th having played a game more than others around them.
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,835
    Callumcafc said:
    1-0 up at home to Derby. 15 minutes left.

    He's standing in the touchline in his red v-neck jumper.
    Yes, he's kept the same knitwear!
  • DOUCHER
    DOUCHER Posts: 7,894
    he’s done well, no doubt about that - good move for him and us as it had gone pears with us 
  • billysboots
    billysboots Posts: 1,596
    Birmingham look a good side , Lee’s got them ticking 
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    Funny seeing him in his Charlton jumper. 

    It all went so weird in the end but he looks happy and is speaking with enthusiasm again.
  • Valley11
    Valley11 Posts: 11,982
    Thought Birmingham looked workmanlike but that’s what Bow does.
    It’s a shame, like Powell, when we got up neither got the investment they needed to really push on because I think both could have got us close.
    Hopefully Adkins is afforded that possibility now the club is in safe hands. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,835
    billysboots said:
    Birmingham look a good side , Lee’s got them ticking 
    Not an especially good set of players on paper (other than Chong and to an extent Deeney) but Bowyer is playing to their strengths, which Karanka failed to do. And, it has to be said, that Bowyer and Birmingham are a good fit, even more than with us
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123 Posts: 5,824
    killerandflash said:
    billysboots said:
    Birmingham look a good side , Lee’s got them ticking 
    Not an especially good set of players on paper (other than Chong and to an extent Deeney) but Bowyer is playing to their strengths, which Karanka failed to do. And, it has to be said, that Bowyer and Birmingham are a good fit, even more than with us
    Bowyer did well for us , bar the last 2/3 months when he’d clearly had enough and he had no fit defenders. 
  • jacob_CAFC
    jacob_CAFC Posts: 2,063
    Bowyer is gonna do well by brum, that's for sure 

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  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,981
    jacob_CAFC said:
    Bowyer is gonna do well by brum, that's for sure 

    He's already taken them from approximately 4th from bottom to 4th from top.
    I thought Brum were odds on for relegation last season.
    The way he's turned them around is remarkable.
  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    I don’t think it’ll last. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,835
    wmcf123 said:
    killerandflash said:
    billysboots said:
    Birmingham look a good side , Lee’s got them ticking 
    Not an especially good set of players on paper (other than Chong and to an extent Deeney) but Bowyer is playing to their strengths, which Karanka failed to do. And, it has to be said, that Bowyer and Birmingham are a good fit, even more than with us
    Bowyer did well for us , bar the last 2/3 months when he’d clearly had enough and he had no fit defenders. 
    Not knocking what he did was us, which was for 90% of the time brilliant

    Just suggesting that Bowyer as a person fits even better with more "blue collar" clubs like Leeds and Birmingham than us. 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,442
    SELR_addicks said:
    Bowyer always started seasons well, the problem is that he trains so hard that the players end up collapsing with injuries halfway through the season. 
    Lets give him a couple of months and see how it's going then. 
  • stoneroses19
    stoneroses19 Posts: 7,210
    addick1956 said:
    Can we please forget about him. 
    As you took the time to enter (and post) on this thread, you’re obviously interested in what he does too. 
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,366
    addick1956 said:
    Can we please forget about him. 
    No
  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,435
    If he keeps Birmingham near the top at the end of the season that would be some achievement but I'm sure they will fade.
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,579
    JamesSeed said:
    I don’t think it’ll last. 

    Their fans aren't happy with the owners.
  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,366
    It’ll be interesting to compare our injury record with Birmingham’s this season.
  • Chunes
    Chunes Posts: 17,344
    edited September 2021
    addick1956 said:
    Can we please forget about him. 
    D.O.T.T.
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  • Scoham
    Scoham Posts: 37,366
    addick1956 said:
    Scoham said:
    addick1956 said:
    Can we please forget about him. 
    No
     Ridiculous 
    I’m interested in the careers of former players and managers. If you’re not don’t open the thread.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,877
    He lost it at the end with us under a sensible owner but was a success under crooks, deluded pensioners and more crooks. It didn’t add up

    im glad he left us but still want him to be successful 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,835
    Todds_right_hook said:
    He lost it at the end with us under a sensible owner but was a success under crooks, deluded pensioners and more crooks. It didn’t add up

    im glad he left us but still want him to be successful 
    I think he prefers absent owners, where there is a void enabling him to have control and freedom

    Birmingham are still a mess off the field, with sections of the ground closed at the moment due to safety concerns (the porn barons built parts of their new stands in the 90s on the cheap!)
  • Raith_C_Chattonell
    Raith_C_Chattonell Posts: 5,672
    killerandflash said:
    Todds_right_hook said:
    He lost it at the end with us under a sensible owner but was a success under crooks, deluded pensioners and more crooks. It didn’t add up

    im glad he left us but still want him to be successful 
    I think he prefers absent owners, where there is a void enabling him to have control and freedom

    Birmingham are still a mess off the field, with sections of the ground closed at the moment due to safety concerns (the porn barons built parts of their new stands in the 90s on the cheap!)
    A poor erection indeed.
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
    On a particularly bad run at the minute. One goal scored in five, 12 conceded.

    L 1-4, Fulham (H)
    L 3-0, Peterborough (A)
    D 0-0, Preston (H)
    L 2-0, QPR (A)
    L 0-3, Forest (H)
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    Bubble well and truly burst. Will be interesting to see how he handles it. 
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,877
    Sillybilly said:
    Bubble well and truly burst. Will be interesting to see how he handles it. 
    Substitute substitutes, throw them under the bus and bully younger players in the squad 
  • Sillybilly
    Sillybilly Posts: 9,234
    Todds_right_hook said:
    Sillybilly said:
    Bubble well and truly burst. Will be interesting to see how he handles it. 
    Substitute substitutes, throw them under the bus and bully younger players in the squad 
    Wouldn’t  surprise me. 
  • ValleyOfTears
    ValleyOfTears Posts: 1,067
    King of firing up a team. He's got that "edge". Bit like Tim Sherwood in that respect. But he gets found out. Not a great tactician and when that "edge" is mischannelled ~ blaming others, diverting criticism, sulking, losing the dressing room etc it's hometime. He was the perfect appt for saving Brum from relegation. But I don't see him building a squad capable of promotion. He is on a poor run atm. And they are leaking a lot. I reckon the owners will give him the whole season after his good end to last season but if they have any knowledge they will give him until Christmas if he hasn't arrested the slide. 
  • Kips
    Kips Posts: 689
    I have no loyalty to Bowyer, he didn't really show us any, despite what he says, and it is of course twice he has left us now but....

    I see this slide down the table more about birmingham than him. They don't really invest on the playing side and are thus perennial strugglers who seem to rely on a new manager bounce each season to just about keep themselves afloat. I doubt bowyer will last the season for that reason alone but if he does it will mean he has done a good enough job for where that club find themselves at.

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