ChrisJbarnes

No booking for Don Tiote. COuld be a vital player against Stoke

an anagram of "newcastle united" is "dense wet lunatic"

our fixtures against liverpool, Everton and Aston Villa will be key

It's not out of the question we could finish 6th. It's not out of the question we could finish 7th, and that Man City or L'pool win the Europa league. Until the season ends, we want to be looking at finishing as high as possible, but seeing as the aim was to stay up, provided we acheive that, we have to be satisfied with this season.

what happens if an english team wins the CL?

So if Arsenal win today, and one of the top 6 win the FA cup, 7th in the premiership will qualify for Europe? In that case, we're 3 points off 6 and 1 point off 7th with a superior goal difference with 10 games to go. Everton and Aston Villa breathing down our necks but realistically we've got a chance along with Liverpool, Bolton, Sunderland, Everton, Stoke and Villa.

All signs point to a win. 1-0 loss.

Finally sense! 4 year contract left and one of our outstanding players this season. If he wants out, and the big rich clubs come knocking, why would we want to sell him for less?

"not a patch on Stephen Warnock" according to my Villa supporting mates

I don't reckon they will go down. I've seen them in 3 games this season: tonight and against Villa and Man City. they more than gave man city a game, and beat villa. They were poor today, but in general at home they do what they do well enough- physical football playing crosses into Zigic and will scrape enough wins against lower placed teams in order to stay up.

If we are mediocore what are they? ffs In fairness, our starting XI today was fairly mediocre in my opinion. Great heart, great performance, great result. However, Brum are the definition of mediocre.

Theres nowhere you'll want to drink near the ground. Its quite a rough area full of home fans pubs. Stay and drink in the city centre http://footballgroundguide.com/birmingham_city/pubs.htm

Living near Birmingham I went to the St Andrews ticket office today and enquired. They said there will be tickets on sale to away fans before the game from an office booth by the away end but not from the Garrisons Lane place as stated on .com Thanks, yeah I know where that booth is. Thats the main ticket office.

tickets still on sale?

Cant see it being a classic. Probably similar to today. Brum are a very strong, physical side. Going for 0-0 or 1-1. Confident we can match them, it's just the lack of strikers which is going to be the issue. I would advise against wearing colours for this fixture if people are heading down, theres often trouble in the Small Heath area of Birmingham and they've definately had trouble with fans in the past.

Those slagging him off and saying we should put ranger on forget that ranger isn't pele. Look at that miss v West Ham.

0-0 or 1-1 and I'd take that!

Financial stability is underrated. Look at all the clubs going into administration, and we weren't far off themselves. Yes, I'm disappointed we've lost Andy Carroll but £35million spent in the correct manner could do a world of good to our squad. The ridiculous amount of money in football has to end somewhere, and when it does the likes of Man City, Liverpool and Chelsea will be up shit creek whereas we'll (hopefully) be paddling along fine. I'd definately rather we signed young hungry players on low wages looking to make an impression, and lost a few to bigger clubs than signing players at the end of their careers with no resale value on high wages. £35million could potentially get us 7 Tiotes' or Ben Arfas' judging by previous negotiations. Or it could get us 2 Owen's. It's a shame to lose good players, but is it a lack of ambition? £12m for milner was fantastic business at the time, and £35m for Carroll makes him the most expensive english player ever. £47m could be spent a lot better (whether it will we will wait and see)

out of the 15 games we have left, 2 wins and 4 draws would see us to 40 points which would be safety. Thats 2 wins 4 draws and 9 losses. Surely we'll get that.

i'd be somewhat pleased with that. still quite raw though, not in terms of technique which is excellent but in terms of decisions, impact on games and goal threat. mind you even though he is tall he is less a Carroll type player and more like dean ashton in that he drops deep and uses his strength and technique to create chances. he says "if its £10m or more ill drive him there myself"

ipswich supporting mate reckons wickham is coming to us

unbelievable signing for leicester if they pull it off

found his level

6 points from the last 2 instead of 2 would mean that we'd be on 34 with a game in hand over sunderland with 36 and spurs on 37. Done very well so far, shame that we couldnt get the 2nd goal and then got robbed in the final minutes