Cameron Jerome, the Birmingham City forward, is to consider his future despite his two-goal finale to the season which failed to save the midlands club from relegation to the Coca-Cola Championship.

Jerome came off the bench to help Birmingham to a 4-1 home win over Blackburn, although wins for Fulham and Reading meant they dropped out of the Barclays Premier League. But the England Under-21 striker had not even been named among the substitutes until James McFadden suffered a reaction to his knee injury during the warm-up, indeed Jerome had left the ground to pick up his family from the railway station.

He played the majority of the first half of the campaign in the starting line-up, often as a lone striker, but has had few opportunities in 2008.

Jerome said: "I haven't been in the team since January and, when I was in the team, we weren't in the bottom three. Football is all about opinions and the manager hasn't played me, for whatever reason, since the beginning of February.

"There is nothing I can do if I don't play. I have to look at my situation, sit down with my people and my family, and discuss it. Football is a funny game and anything can happen. But I've not been happy to be on the bench for the second half of the season so we will have to see how it goes. We will assess it in the summer.

"I would be prepared to play for Blues in the Championship. I have two years left on my contract and I was relatively happy here until I wasn't playing. If you speak to anyone in football, they will say they are not happy if they are not playing."

As for his departure from the ground before kick-off, Jerome said: "I wasn't in the 16 and I was peed off so I went to fetch my family from the station. I was on the way back when I had a call to say James McFadden was injured."

Meanwhile David Murphy has pledged his future to Birmingham following their relegation.

"I've been part of the team that got us into this mess and I want to stay and play a part in getting us out of it," he said. "I would hope that the other players would be thinking along the same lines. We've got to deal with it. I've no regrets about leaving Hibernian to come to Birmingham and always wanted to show that I could play in the Premier League. I think I've done that. Now we have to aim to get back up as quickly as possible."

Sebastian Larsson insisted the players and not McLeish are to blame for City's relegation. The Swedish international said: "It's so disappointing being relegated. It's funny because ever since the new management team have come in, it's felt great.

"It's felt like we have been moving in the right direction all of the time. At the end of the day, it's us players who have to take responsibility for being relegated. I don't think the management should, it's down to us. The players would say it's been great under them. Obviously we haven't been great on the pitch. But we can come back up straight away. We have to come back stronger. As a team, we have to bounce back."