Championship/EFL Thread 23/24

ristac · 2 Jan 2024 at 09:34

mysticsniper said:
Even better for Leicester, now 10 pts clear of Ipswich

I‘m surprised at how well Leicester have kept going, I thought they would be catchable with the African cup looming. I did feel and hope Norwich would be the first part of Ipswich starting to falter so with 2 games against Leicester in the space of a month I’d resigned myself to having to root for Leicester.

I felt a while back Ipswich wouldn’t be able to keep it up, they’ll hopefully be like Preston now, Southampton are strong contenders for second

The_One · 2 Jan 2024 at 10:31

Bye wayne

C Kent · 2 Jan 2024 at 10:45

They can always rehire the guy before Rooney again...clowns

Ayahuasca · 2 Jan 2024 at 11:00

Psycho Ned · 2 Jan 2024 at 11:05

What a laughing stock Birmingham look.

If they go back to the other guy he better be asking for double the salary!

mrbios · 2 Jan 2024 at 11:30

Phew, glad they didn't sack him earlier. Good luck with the new manager bounce brum, it should be a good one given the squads clearly got talent, they were just completely disorganised and lacking tactically yesterday.

Robbo · 2 Jan 2024 at 11:59

Disastrous appointment, he lost 9 in 15.

Ten Hag has lost 8 in 15 which is obviously fine.

.Griff. · 2 Jan 2024 at 12:19

Psycho Ned said:
What a laughing stock Birmingham look.

If they go back to the other guy he better be asking for double the salary!

JE is still under contract so they could go back to him without it costing them a penny. Not that they would - that would be very professionally embarrassing for GC (more so than swapping JE for WR to start with)

mrbios · 2 Jan 2024 at 12:31

Robbo said:
Disastrous appointment, he lost 9 in 15.

Ten Hag has lost 8 in 15 which is obviously fine.

Knowing the way these things go, you'll have Rooney next in line once ten hag goes :cry:

Martini1991 · 2 Jan 2024 at 12:32

What's funny with Birmingham is that twice now they've sacked managers when they were doing objectively good to replace them with a "name" who can't manage

.Griff. · 2 Jan 2024 at 12:37

Martini1991 said:
What's funny with Birmingham is that twice now they've sacked managers when they were doing objectively good to replace them with a "name" who can't manage

In our defence, as fans, we pointed this out from the outset. If WR came with a great resume that's one thing but I'd argue most (certainly the vast majority) of Blues fans knew it was destined to fail from the very start and "Zola 2.0".

Martini1991 · 2 Jan 2024 at 12:52

.Griff. said:
In our defence, as fans, we pointed this out from the outset. If WR came with a great resume that's one thing but I'd argue most (certainly the vast majority) of Blues fans knew it was destined to fail from the very start and "Zola 2.0".

Oh I imagine as fans it must be frustrating
It's an aspect of football I find very bizarre in that the fans don't have any say whatsoever really, but what exactly is the point of a club if not for the fans.

Zola was always destined to fail as well, he was crap

Kelt · 2 Jan 2024 at 12:54

Good riddance to the useless granny-shagger.

.Griff. · 2 Jan 2024 at 13:08

Martini1991 said:
Oh I imagine as fans it must be frustrating
It's an aspect of football I find very bizarre in that the fans don't have any say whatsoever really, but what exactly is the point of a club if not for the fans.

Zola was always destined to fail as well, he was crap

I, like most Blues fans, am excited for the future under Knighthead after 10+ years of misery and it all started so well before the appointment of WR. Off the field Knighthead are doing so great things and the open house they conducted was a great example of how to include fans and communicate with them. All of which makes the on-field appointment of WR so baffling to begin with.

I think most of us put it down to a mixture of nepotism on behalf of Garry Cook, and their/his wish for a "marquee" manager. I hope they continue the good work they've done apart from this and appoint someone who can drive us forward for the next 5 years.

Mekrel · 2 Jan 2024 at 16:09

So as someone who doesn't follow the Championship as much as I do the EPL, was it literally just the manager change to Rooney that saw them drop from playoff contenders to bring closer to the bottom of the table?

Kenai · 2 Jan 2024 at 17:12

At least they can go back to being known as Birmingham City now, rather than Wayne Rooney's Birmingham.

SamuearlJackson · 2 Jan 2024 at 18:40

ristac said:
I‘m surprised at how well Leicester have kept going, I thought they would be catchable with the African cup looming. I did feel and hope Norwich would be the first part of Ipswich starting to falter so with 2 games against Leicester in the space of a month I’d resigned myself to having to root for Leicester.

I felt a while back Ipswich wouldn’t be able to keep it up, they’ll hopefully be like Preston now, Southampton are strong contenders for second

Fatawu not in the Ghana squad is a big positive for Leicester. Cannon looks like he knows where the back of the net is in the absence of Daka, Iheanacho and Vardy, and defensively there’s not going to be an issue with AFCON. KDH is an absolute beast in this division. Things looking good for the foxes.

ristac · 3 Jan 2024 at 07:12

Birmingham interested in Jesse Marsch :cry:

stokecity_m · 3 Jan 2024 at 07:22

Trouble at Birmingham, any money they may have had for new players will now be sat in Wayne Rooney's bank

.Griff. · 3 Jan 2024 at 08:48

stokecity_m said:
Trouble at Birmingham, any money they may have had for new players will now be sat in Wayne Rooney's bank

Not true. Since FFP constraints a lot of EFL clubs are inserting "under-performance" clauses into manager contracts to avoid large settlements in the event the manager is dismissed. Even if that's not the case with Wayne Rooney he's publicly come out and stated he's waived any compensation he may be due.