Birmingham City - Nottingham Forest

[wassy04]

Nice positive mindset as usual MR......not.

Zico it's not a question of positivity or not, more of reality and instead of looking just to were it suits us, is of looking all around ... this year is not like the Billy MK 1 season were the gap between us and 7th was massive so we could afford to lose points but still maintain firmly our play off place, this year every point lost will bug you in the arse the following months...points lost v Reading nd Birmingham would have compensated for any points lost against our direct rivals ... as always we r doing the hardest bit, getting points against the direct rivals but mess if up against the others ...surely not the way to win promotion...

And how did Billy Mk 1 season turn out?

It's about keeping our nerve, plenty more twists and turns to come no doubt. Going off on one because we lost (for the 1st time in 8) shows negativity whether you want to see it or not. 

Yep we should have gone onto stuff them the way the game was going, but that's football, the unexpected can happen. I'm not going to vilify our 16 goal top scorer for missing a pen, but everybody who was there or watched on their computer/phone/listened on the radio knows we would almost certainly have won the game if it goes in. It happens, we move on. Leeds and West Brom to come so back on it hopefully.

Vilify for the two other sitters he missed! At least with tyler/da costa we're hopefully not as reliant on grabban now. Also means hopefully Sabri has the balls to take pens off grabban

I doubt anyone will be more annoyed than Grabban. He will know the should have added to his tally yesterday. But on balance , his contribution here since signing allows him the odd stinker and still leaves plenty in the bank.  Crap finishing yesterday, no doubt, but definitely not going to vilify him.......unlike some guy on LTLF who actually says he should be dropped and it seemed like he meant it!

Agreed, I do think he doesn't need his ego massaged with the role of penalty taker though. Particularly now we have viable alternatives