BIRMINGHAM CITY'S away day miseries have got to change if they are to maintain their push up the Championship table.

All seven defeats this season have come on their travels, and only nine points have been accrued.

That ranks Blues at 20th out of 24 clubs for away effectiveness.

Such statistics are not lost on assistant manager Colin Calderwood, who said Blues hope to start as they mean to go on  for the remainder of the campaign on at Millwall tomorrow.

“We seem to have a nice way of getting results at home but we have got to change what we do away from home in terms of the more points on board,” Calderwood stated.

“It’s very much in our mindset. In the second-half of the season, it’s very much the amount of away victories we must take to give ourselves a better league position.

“We’ve had four defeats away from home [consecutively, before the January 2 draw at Peterborough United] and we’ve got to change that equation. If not on its head, certainly beyond 50/50.

“I think the first thing we’ve got to look at is clean sheets. Even if it’s one goal that’s cost us, like at Crystal Palace. 

“We’ve really been in a lot less difficulty in the away games than we perhaps felt on occasions against Ipswich Town the other night.

“But we can’t be content with the level of performance, we’ve got to produce the results and do something different.

“The difference is aggressive attacking and a mindset that we can score.

“I think it will be useful if we can counter against teams because we can look as if we can control games but we’ve  got to be able to be incisive.

“The wingers Chris Burke, Nathan Redmond and Jean Beausejour, they’re the ones who are the leaders in that in terms of being a counter-attacking team.

“Most teams have it. For my mind they come from the midfield players who are able to dribble and run and produce the crosses.

  “The first point of call for us is clean sheets and then at the other end it is about a very aggressive attacking intent and trying to score goals.”