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Post by 2nd May 1990 on May 16, 2018 18:24:58 GMT
Can’t believe the Henderson negativity, I think he has had a great season and is a leader. I’m disappointed Llanna is only on standby but that could be more to do with his recent injury. Yes, Lallana is an interesting one. Plenty of players are going to be knackered after a long season so I thought his relative freshness may have given us an edge, but then there may be more to it fitness-wise than we know.
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Post by mayhews on May 16, 2018 18:34:27 GMT
I'd be happy to see us win a knockout game , considering we have only won 6 of them in Major tournaments since 1966 ! I hope he plays just the young players who have nothing to fear.
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Post by WeAreTheGas on May 16, 2018 19:03:36 GMT
Can’t believe the Henderson negativity, I think he has had a great season and is a leader. I’m disappointed Llanna is only on standby but that could be more to do with his recent injury. Yes, Lallana is an interesting one. Plenty of players are going to be knackered after a long season so I thought his relative freshness may have given us an edge, but then there may be more to it fitness-wise than we know. Lallana is the main omission I’m disappointed about. I get that his fitness is probably a concern, but he wouldn’t look out of place in the midfield of any team that will be at the World Cup with his technical ability, IMO. We’re sorely lacking in midfielders with guile and creativity who are comfortable receiving the ball under pressure - Lallana offers that. He is on the standby list though, so still a chance he could go.
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Post by tbonegas on May 16, 2018 19:10:19 GMT
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Post by peterhooper57 on May 16, 2018 19:16:35 GMT
Jordan Henderson, captain ? ffs,lets hope not; reminds me of when Gary & Phil managed to get a game wtf; at least Harry Kane is definitely one of the best strikers in Europe and would receive some kind of respect from the opposition.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 19:26:12 GMT
Yes, Lallana is an interesting one. Plenty of players are going to be knackered after a long season so I thought his relative freshness may have given us an edge, but then there may be more to it fitness-wise than we know. Lallana is the main omission I’m disappointed about. I get that his fitness is probably a concern, but he wouldn’t look out of place in the midfield of any team that will be at the World Cup with his technical ability, IMO. We’re sorely lacking in midfielders with guile and creativity who are comfortable receiving the ball under pressure - Lallana offers that. He is on the standby list though, so still a chance he could go. Lallana has not even played three games this last season. He's just not match fit.
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Post by WeAreTheGas on May 16, 2018 19:38:17 GMT
Lallana is the main omission I’m disappointed about. I get that his fitness is probably a concern, but he wouldn’t look out of place in the midfield of any team that will be at the World Cup with his technical ability, IMO. We’re sorely lacking in midfielders with guile and creativity who are comfortable receiving the ball under pressure - Lallana offers that. He is on the standby list though, so still a chance he could go. Lallana has not even played three games this last season. He's just not match fit. Perhaps. Although we always hear about how our players struggle at tournaments due to fatigue after a long season. Lallana definitely wouldn’t be fatigued... I’d still rather have a half-fit Lallana to call upon from the bench if we need a goal than Fabian Delph.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 19:48:37 GMT
Lallana has not even played three games this last season. He's just not match fit. Perhaps. Although we always hear about how our players struggle at tournaments due to fatigue after a long season. Lallana definitely wouldn’t be fatigued... I’d still rather have a half-fit Lallana to call upon from the bench if we need a goal than Fabian Delph. I'd rather have Sessignon than Delph. Young, Rose and Delph are all pretty much the same thing. Sessignon offers something a bit different.
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2018 20:29:38 GMT
Get the flags out and quit whining!
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Post by pirate on May 18, 2018 13:31:49 GMT
We've got a very talented generation of players coming through. Callum Hudson-Odoi, Jadon Sancho, Phil Foden, Emile Smith-Rowe, Rhian Brewster, Bobby Duncan, Eddie Nketiah, Reo Griffiths, George McEachran, Marc Guehi, Trevoh Chalobah, Xavier Amaechi, Taylor Richards, Oliver Skipp, Callum Gribbin, Tommy Doyle, Keke Simmonds and Fabio Carvalho all outstanding prospects. I'd like to see these players have the courage to try their hand at playing abroad, unlike the namby pamby players we've had the last several years. Jadon Sancho going to Dortmund is an encouraging sign. I do think that having more players playing on the continent would help when it comes to tournament football. Another England youngster has moved to the Bundesliga today with Keanan Bennetts joining Borussia Monchengladbach from Tottenham.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2018 14:42:16 GMT
I'd like to see these players have the courage to try their hand at playing abroad, unlike the namby pamby players we've had the last several years. Jadon Sancho going to Dortmund is an encouraging sign. I do think that having more players playing on the continent would help when it comes to tournament football. Another England youngster has moved to the Bundesliga today with Keanan Bennetts joining Borussia Monchengladbach from Tottenham. I think that's about five or six now! The interesting point is that they cannot get games in the Premiership, however, German clubs are prepared to play them.
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Post by pirate on May 18, 2018 14:51:07 GMT
Another England youngster has moved to the Bundesliga today with Keanan Bennetts joining Borussia Monchengladbach from Tottenham. I think that's about five or six now! The interesting point is that they cannot get games in the Premiership, however, German clubs are prepared to play them. I watch quite a bit the Premier League 2 and there are loads of players good enough to make the step up, it's just finding a manager brave enough or willing to give them a chance. We really do have a great crop of youngsters at the moment, hopefully they get the chance to play first team football, whether here or abroad.
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Post by Squiffy on May 18, 2018 22:56:30 GMT
Unless a country has at least three truly world class players who would dominate every game, around which they can build any old team, I always think the best hope at national level is to play the spine, or at least a strike partnership, from a successful club team and supplement them with in form players regardless of experience or reputation. No matter how much time is spent on international duty, it cannot possibly equate to the day to day experience at club level where players develop a deeper understanding of their other team mates’ game. How many times this season have you seen Ali or Kane preempting where the other one is about to run and putting the ball into that space, without hesitation, which gains them that split second advantage over the defenders.
I also think that England have been too loyal to established names in the past and played them when they were out of form or carrying little injuries, just because they had experience, which allowed them to become slightly complacent and consequently underperform. I would choose players who are in form and can take that momentum beyond the end of the domestic season and into the summer. For that reason I agree with others on here that Ryan Sessegnon would have been on my list. We took a chance on a young Michael Owen one time and that didn’t work out too badly did it! 🏴
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on May 19, 2018 6:50:17 GMT
Local lad Jack Butland has just got engaged.
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Post by francegas on May 19, 2018 7:19:18 GMT
Joe Hart may be "gutted" about not making the squad but I certainly am not. Always too cocky and arrogant for my liking.
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Post by socrates on May 19, 2018 10:22:53 GMT
Joe Hart may be "gutted" about not making the squad but I certainly am not. Always too cocky and arrogant for my liking. Yeah I agree. He’s always too pumped up for the major tournaments and that leads to errors. What you want from a keeper is cool calm figure not an arrogant jumped up character who’s full of himself shouting his mouth off in the tunnel before the game.
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Post by axegas on May 19, 2018 10:28:14 GMT
Joe Hart may be "gutted" about not making the squad but I certainly am not. Always too cocky and arrogant for my liking. Yeah I agree. He’s always too pumped up for the major tournaments and that leads to errors. What you want from a keeper is cool calm figure not an arrogant jumped up character who’s full of himself shouting his mouth off in the tunnel before the game. I see a bit of that in Smith, the business with the ball boy at Oxford comes to mind. He’s always fired up but that might not necessarily be a good thing for a Keeper. Slocombe is far more relaxed.
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Post by Deleted on May 19, 2018 16:39:54 GMT
I think Phil Jones is a great defender. Not sure where the evidence against my opinion comes from?
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Post by tbonegas on May 19, 2018 17:35:17 GMT
I think Phil Jones is a great defender. Not sure where the evidence against my opinion comes from? Are you watching the cup final? The bloke is far too slow.
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Post by socrates on May 19, 2018 18:22:03 GMT
I think defence is a problem for us against the bigger sides we’ll get knocked out and the lack of creativity in midfield will be a problem against the smaller sides particularly if they park the bus which I’m 99% sure they will in the first two games. My prediction is Tunisia draw 1-1 Panama win 2-1 Belgium lose 2-1
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