Birmingham City (H) - FA Cup R3 | Pre-Match Thread

[Gray]

We need to win this for Bert, remember 1956.

 

[AliBobbyJ]

We need to win this for Bert, remember 1956.

Just play Joe Hayes, Bobby Johnstone & Jack Dyson up front with the likes of Leivers, Ewing and Roy Paul (c) in support and we'll be fine.

 

[kun]

This very well could be a game where he starts a youngster out of the blue, I don't have the balls to predict who though.

 

[kun]

Steffen
Walker
Harwood-Bellis
Aké
Zinchenko
Rodri
Nmecha
Bernardo
Foden
Jesus
Agüero

 

[bellsouth]

Pointless picking a team now as I’m sure they’ll be more positive tests and we don’t know who from the previous COVID list will be available

 

[vmsuhail]

Do we really want to go deep in this competition ? We have 3 extra games to play (2PL, 1LC final) already compared to Liverpool. We've seen how well we play (especially KDB) when we have a week's rest. Getting PL back from Liverpool, beating Spurs in the final and a good shout in the CL will be a fantastic season. FA Cup may be a small price to pay for a full tilt at the League.

 

[vincent]

Do we really want to go deep in this competition ? We have 3 extra games to play (2PL, 1LC final) already compared to Liverpool. We've seen how well we play (especially KDB) when we have a week's rest. Getting PL back from Liverpool, beating Spurs in the final and a good shout in the CL will be a fantastic season. FA Cup may be a small price to pay for a full tilt at the League.

Our 2nd team could comfortably win the FA cup.

 

[TheCentralScrutinizer]

Do we really want to go deep in this competition ? We have 3 extra games to play (2PL, 1LC final) already compared to Liverpool. We've seen how well we play (especially KDB) when we have a week's rest. Getting PL back from Liverpool, beating Spurs in the final and a good shout in the CL will be a fantastic season. FA Cup may be a small price to pay for a full tilt at the League.

Fuck me were not the Dippers

 

[MAG]

Do we really want to go deep in this competition ? We have 3 extra games to play (2PL, 1LC final) already compared to Liverpool. We've seen how well we play (especially KDB) when we have a week's rest. Getting PL back from Liverpool, beating Spurs in the final and a good shout in the CL will be a fantastic season. FA Cup may be a small price to pay for a full tilt at the League.

Bullshit ... fed up with this defeatist attitude to throw away competitions in the name of giving players more rest or what would happen or not happen if we play an extra game in a week and predicting the future results and performances based on IF this or IF that ... game isn't played on paper ... winning breeds winning and FA Cup has a total of 6 ties to win, 4 of which (first three rounds and the final) have their own reserved weekends/game dates. If one goes all the way through it's only two games that need rescheduling due to FA cup quarters and semis ... deal with it!

 

[daflanger]

What ever happens we need to rest KDB, Dias, Stones, Sterling, Gundo and Cancelo

I would go with:

Steffen
Walker
Ake
Laporte (If available) or Bellis
Mendy
Rodri with Doyle coming in later
Palmer or Foden
Silva
Mahrez
Jesus
Delap with Aguero coming on later