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Post by boomboom on Nov 1, 2024 6:15:12 GMT
Amazed this hasn’t long since sold out. Taking a while to shift them. Hopefully we get there. I'm not surprised. Birmingham are a non-local club who've spent the last decade in Championship mid-table obscurity. They've won little of note in their long history and been overshadowed by their more illustrious neighbours. As such, they're rarely been on my radar except when Karen Brady was in charge and that's ages ago. |
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Post by Andy K on Nov 1, 2024 11:02:11 GMT
I expect the Birmingham end is, but a team that isn't really a PL standard team, not local and with no history with Sutton isn't a 5 hour queue sort of draw. Saying that probably AFC Wimbledon would have got the sell out quickly out of the teams we could have faced. For those recording the game at home, coverage starts at 1145 on the Sunday. Still probably the 3rd/4th biggest club we have ever faced in a competitive fixture? They are really a top half champ side at least right now in terms of squad strength and spent many millions in the summer. Most of which will go over the head of the casual supporter whose "other teams" are Man City, United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal etc. They'd know them as poor relations of Villa, Wolves, etc. Your logical analysis, which is spot on, will be lost on a lot of people. They won't have a clue that our opponents got the to the FA Cup final twice, won the League Cup twice, the EFL Trophy twice, and got to 2 UEFA finals, beating teams like Inter Milan on the way. Which gets me onto the trival question of the day : How many League cup winners have we played in a competitive game (not including U21 sides)? |
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Post by sallycat on Nov 1, 2024 13:53:18 GMT
From a supporter's perspective, football is about emotions, not logic
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Post by Del on Nov 1, 2024 16:44:34 GMT
Still probably the 3rd/4th biggest club we have ever faced in a competitive fixture? They are really a top half champ side at least right now in terms of squad strength and spent many millions in the summer. Most of which will go over the head of the casual supporter whose "other teams" are Man City, United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal etc. They'd know them as poor relations of Villa, Wolves, etc. Your logical analysis, which is spot on, will be lost on a lot of people. They won't have a clue that our opponents got the to the FA Cup final twice, won the League Cup twice, the EFL Trophy twice, and got to 2 UEFA finals, beating teams like Inter Milan on the way. Which gets me onto the trival question of the day : How many League cup winners have we played in a competitive game (not including U21 sides)? I think it's 6. |
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Post by Jared on Nov 1, 2024 20:33:07 GMT
Most of which will go over the head of the casual supporter whose "other teams" are Man City, United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal etc. They'd know them as poor relations of Villa, Wolves, etc. Your logical analysis, which is spot on, will be lost on a lot of people. They won't have a clue that our opponents got the to the FA Cup final twice, won the League Cup twice, the EFL Trophy twice, and got to 2 UEFA finals, beating teams like Inter Milan on the way. Which gets me onto the trival question of the day : How many League cup winners have we played in a competitive game (not including U21 sides)? I think it's 6. Birmingham will make it 7, the others being Arsenal, Norwich, Swindon Town, Middlesbrough*, Oxford United and Leeds United *won after playing Sutton |
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Post by davethegrave on Nov 1, 2024 22:39:01 GMT
Amazed this hasn’t long since sold out. Taking a while to shift them. Hopefully we get there. I'm not surprised. Birmingham are a non-local club who've spent the last decade in Championship mid-table obscurity. They've won little of note in their long history and been overshadowed by their more illustrious neighbours. As such, they're rarely been on my radar except when Karen Brady was in charge and that's ages ago. What about when Rooney got them relegated? |
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Post by andycapp on Nov 2, 2024 20:06:14 GMT
Bars oprn at 10am tomorrow.
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Post by swedishchapter on Nov 3, 2024 11:36:19 GMT
Mixlr today?
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Post by banjo on Nov 3, 2024 11:44:29 GMT
No Mixlr today, it’s on Talk Sport 2 radio which you can get on line with their app.⚽️ |
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Post by banjo on Nov 3, 2024 11:48:14 GMT
Good luck lads, let’s give this a real go and do our self proud. UP THE U’S💛🤎
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Post by information on Nov 3, 2024 12:16:21 GMT
Birmingham going for it
10 of the 11 started League game last week play today
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Post by swedishchapter on Nov 3, 2024 12:34:11 GMT
No Mixlr today, it’s on Talk Sport 2 radio which you can get on line with their app.⚽️ Many thanks!👍 |
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Post by information on Nov 3, 2024 13:44:54 GMT
Think tannoy just said 4804 ?
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Post by banjo on Nov 3, 2024 14:34:42 GMT
Gave it our best shot and had one or two quite good chances, but that’s football. Kept our shape well and limited them too very View chances, and also the lads should learn from this experience going forward.⚽️⚽️⚽️
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Post by brian54 on Nov 3, 2024 15:38:51 GMT
For the third week running the players played as well as they could. It was a shame the head coach could not devise a way where we threw caution to the wind and attacked certainly in the last 20mins
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