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McNamara That Ghost...
14-05-2018, 09:00 AM
Announced on Wednesday.
Shelvey for England?
Announced on Wednesday.
Shelvey for England?
Isn't he Indian?
Xhaka Can’t
14-05-2018, 09:10 AM
You’re thinking of the Irish Taoiseach.
McNamara That Ghost...
14-05-2018, 09:20 AM
Isn't he Indian?
When are they going to make the World Cup?
Niall_Quinn
14-05-2018, 09:21 AM
When are they going to make the World Cup?
Never. Chinese workers are still a lot cheaper.
McNamara That Ghost...
14-05-2018, 12:04 PM
:lol:
England's gaping hole is going to be midfield again though, I daresay Wheelchair is going to get picked out of necessity more than anything else.
Marc Overmars
14-05-2018, 12:18 PM
We might actually have a chance of reaching the quarters.
Our group has pub teams in it and we’d have a second round tie against someone from group H, which is another pub group.
McNamara That Ghost...
14-05-2018, 06:16 PM
I don't think Colombia are a pub team tbf. Especially given England's propensity for going out against well, anybody in the knock-out stages.
Didn't we lost to Costa Rica last time?
Master Splinter
14-05-2018, 07:22 PM
Announced on Wednesday.
Shelvey for England?
Shelvey with the England squad:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eUVS66b_zvY/maxresdefault.jpg
McNamara That Ghost...
14-05-2018, 07:37 PM
Didn't we lost to Costa Rica last time?
England finished 4th in the group. :haha:
And I'm nearly up to date on UK TV for Gotham. Season 3 was batshit insane.
Zsasz is as loyal as they come.
Butland; Trippier, Cahill, Stones, Young; Shelvey, Wilshere, Grealish, Lallana, Sterling; Kane.
A first touch>fantasy football points.
Niall_Quinn
15-05-2018, 04:09 PM
Media is claiming Hart hasn't made the squad. Odd, considering he's such a well known world class keeper, according to the pundits.
Wilshere hasn't made it either apparently. And Grealish obviously won't make it because he's playing in the championship. So there's goes my interest in England's team. Southgate didn't have any balls or understanding of technical ability in 1996 and he doesn't have any now. I shouldn't be surprised. A cowardly man.
McNamara That Ghost...
15-05-2018, 05:15 PM
Surprised Wheelchair wouldn't be there, I don't really know what other midfielders there are.
Also, Hart was being projected by the pundits to be there for his 'experience'. Experience of what exactly?
Marc Overmars
15-05-2018, 05:34 PM
Wheelchair isn't very good and frankly the entire England squad is rancid anyway. Kane is the only difference maker we have but he's going to need some quality service. No Eriksen or Son to rely on here.
Surprised Wheelchair wouldn't be there, I don't really know what other midfielders there are.
Think Lallana's pretty good. Dier has shown he's useful in a holding role. But yeah, there aren't any real options and all this shows is that technical ability isn't really a requirement. England are still stuck in the stone age. I look forward to the England neantherdals getting killed.
Niall_Quinn
15-05-2018, 05:54 PM
Wheelchair isn't very good and frankly the entire England squad is rancid anyway. Kane is the only difference maker we have but he's going to need some quality service. No Eriksen or Son to rely on here.
Yeah, but when Fabian Delph is the alternative it's crazy not t take Jack. Picking Delph is like having a hole in the squad where a footballer ought to be. But he's a plodder like Soutgate and great plodders plod alike.
McNamara That Ghost...
15-05-2018, 05:59 PM
Think Lallana's pretty good. Dier has shown he's useful in a holding role. But yeah, there aren't any real options and all this shows is that technical ability isn't really a requirement. England are still stuck in the stone age. I look forward to the England neantherdals getting killed.
Lallana has proven to be a bit of a psychopath plus he is still injured isn't he?
Pace and power™ will be in order.
Goonermerree
15-05-2018, 07:30 PM
Does this mean no Arsenal players in the England squad?
Goonermerree
15-05-2018, 07:40 PM
I imagine Welbz will be
Kind of hoping he'll be an Everton player before we get to the WC.:pray:
Master Splinter
15-05-2018, 08:41 PM
Three stone carvings of a pissed Gazza in the centre circle would have more ability, mobility and nous than the England midfield.
If Wheelchair was being omitted for some genuine talent like that twelve year-old at Man City, it would be understandable. But when Southgate has constantly favoured slack-jawed uruk-hai to players who can sometimes resemble footballers, it's embarrassing. Young and exciting Southers is a bigger dinosaur than Fat Sam and Pulis somehow.
Three stone carvings of a pissed Gazza in the centre circle would have more ability, mobility and nous than the England midfield.
If Wheelchair was being omitted for some genuine talent like that twelve year-old at Man City, it would be understandable. But when Southgate has constantly favoured slack-jawed uruk-hai to players who can sometimes resemble footballers, it's embarrassing. Young and exciting Southers is a bigger dinosaur than Fat Sam and Pulis somehow.
I still think he's good (won't be close to what he was supposed to be, but his ankle's fucked so...), but completely agree. I'd rather Phil Foden or Sancho in the squad instead of most of the talentless crap that'll be included.
Niall_Quinn
15-05-2018, 09:13 PM
It's all academic anyway. Like us in the CL. Pub it through the early stages and get knocked out by the first decent (or in the case of England, awful) team we come up against. Pointless watching them because we already know what happens.
Blink 1nce Quince 2wice
15-05-2018, 09:31 PM
Vardy has quietly had a very good season scoring 20 league goals TBF.
Goonermerree
16-05-2018, 12:52 PM
When is this squad released so that I can pencil in when we will get knocked out. Early on whoever is in it.
Niall_Quinn
16-05-2018, 01:03 PM
When is this squad released so that I can pencil in when we will get knocked out. Early on whoever is in it.
Squad is already released.
Pubber (GK), Pubber (GK), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D),
Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M),
Pubber (F), Pubber (F), Pubber (F), Pubber (F), Pubber (F), Pubber (F)
Manager: Pubber
Goonermerree
16-05-2018, 01:05 PM
Squad is already released.
Pubber (GK), Pubber (GK), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D), Pubber (D),
Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M), Pubber (M),
Pubber (F), Pubber (F), Pubber (F), Pubber (F), Pubber (F), Pubber (F)
Manager: Pubber
Good point. We get a few games then.
Marc Overmars
16-05-2018, 01:23 PM
Confirmed squad :lol:
Butland
Pickford
Pope
Walker
Trippier
A-Arnold
Stones
Cahill
Jones
Maguire
Young
Rose
Dier
Delph
Henderson
Loftus-Cheek
Lingard
Alli
Sterling
Kane
Rashford
Vardy
Welbeck
Niall_Quinn
16-05-2018, 01:50 PM
Confirmed squad :lol:
Butland
Pickford
Pope
Walker
Trippier
A-Arnold
Stones
Cahill
Jones
Maguire
Young
Rose
Dier
Delph
Henderson
Loftus-Cheek
Lingard
Alli
Sterling
Kane
Rashford
Vardy
Welbeck
That midfield is ridiculous. Dier, Delph :haha:
Kind of hoping he'll be an Everton player before we get to the WC.:pray:
Me too, to be honest fair play for not taking him to the World Cup, he's never proved himself to be good enough and can't ever stay fit, he's been living on hype for his entire career, when he does leave us which looks to be this summer that will pretty much be the end of his career at the top level, only Walcott managed a longer stint with us based on hype alone.
Got to say though, taking Welbeck what was he thinking, the guy can't score for toffee.
McNamara That Ghost...
16-05-2018, 04:53 PM
WTF is that midfield?
Goonermerree
16-05-2018, 04:56 PM
We've had good players who haven't turned up in finals so not done well, but this must be the weakest squad we've ever assembled. Not one player here excites me, you know, when they get the ball and you think something good will happen.
Xhaka Can’t
16-05-2018, 05:34 PM
I hate to pick on the only Arsenal player in the squad. But Welbeck? There is no way anyone can convince me he is one of the top four English strikers in the country.
I hope he ends up playing 90 minutes of every game.
Unless I get England in the sweepstakes.
Marc Overmars
16-05-2018, 05:44 PM
He is. Which shows how low the bar has dropped.
Long way from the days of Shearer, Sheringham, Owen etc
McNamara That Ghost...
16-05-2018, 05:57 PM
He doesn't have a bad goalscoring record for England but then again he has barely played for them since we killed him.
Marc Overmars
16-05-2018, 06:03 PM
Spare a thought for Theo. :lol:
Token inclusion in 2006, cut from 2010, injured in 2014 and now finally too shit for 2018.
What a waste.
Mac76
16-05-2018, 07:00 PM
Welbeck the only Arsenal player
Embarrassing for us but also England if that's the best they can find
Mac76
16-05-2018, 07:21 PM
I can't wait for the referees to set about Alli - he'll be lucky if he makes half time :redcard:
I am invisible
16-05-2018, 09:37 PM
Someone needs to help me out here - I've barely followed football since the kids came along... who the fuck are half of these players?
Niall_Quinn
16-05-2018, 11:11 PM
Someone needs to help me out here - I've barely followed football since the kids came along... who the fuck are half of these players?
I don't know. I was planning on asking you.
Xhaka Can’t
17-05-2018, 06:14 AM
Well, we don’t know a lot about them.
I am invisible
17-05-2018, 09:16 AM
I don't know. I was planning on asking you.
I think Welbeck is meant to be shite, but that's about all I know.
Hope England get destroyed. Big Weng may be in with a good shout of getting the job after the WC.
I am invisible
17-05-2018, 10:19 AM
Not really sure why any of these players care about being selected? Doesn't seem worth it for 3 matches in Russia where they're probably going to get booed, insulted, ridiculed, have bottles and lighters thrown at them, have their bus mobbed and attacked, have the fire alarm going off in their hotels every night, etc, etc - think I'd rather be off on my holidays...
Niall_Quinn
17-05-2018, 11:13 AM
Hope England get destroyed. Big Weng may be in with a good shout of getting the job after the WC.
That's what I think too. And I wouldn't be against it. It's just about the one team he can't fuck up, and it'd be interesting to see if he could introduce a bit of football into the England set up, rather than the pub hackathon we are so used to. Of course he wouldn't be able to select Xhaka, so that might deter him from taking the job.
Goonermerree
17-05-2018, 11:15 AM
I heard a pundit or somebody talking on 5 Live saying that it is a progressive thinking team. Then quietly said it lacks quality.
Mac76
18-05-2018, 11:31 AM
That's what I think too. And I wouldn't be against it. It's just about the one team he can't fuck up, and it'd be interesting to see if he could introduce a bit of football into the England set up, rather than the pub hackathon we are so used to. Of course he wouldn't be able to select Xhaka, so that might deter him from taking the job.
but he could start Welbeck in every game - imagine... :sarcy:
Thierrymon
22-05-2018, 09:00 AM
Kane named captain :lol:
He can barely speak coherent english.
Goonermerree
22-05-2018, 09:22 AM
You know you're in trouble when Kane is made captain.
Southgate is clueless.
Says it all that the highlight of his entire career is missing a penalty.
Big nose cunt.
Marc Overmars
22-05-2018, 09:35 AM
Should have been Cahill really but it’s a god awful squad. The options were limited so you might as well give it to someone who’s going to play every game.
Mac76
22-05-2018, 09:53 AM
Kane named captain :lol:
He can barely speak coherent english.
I think that was what clinched it
Goonermerree
22-05-2018, 10:49 AM
I never like a more forward player as captain I think you need somebody further back who can see what's happening more, the bigger picture.
Niall_Quinn
22-05-2018, 11:01 AM
Kane named captain :lol:
He can barely speak coherent english.
WTF?
:haha:
Letters
23-05-2018, 08:37 AM
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44208841
:lol:
If you say so, Harry...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44208841
:lol:
If you say so, Harry...
"I believe we can win it - anyone can. I cannot sit here and say we are not going to win it because we could do."
:lol:
Coney
23-05-2018, 06:18 PM
Kane named captain :lol:
He can barely speak coherent english.
Apparently they threw the captain's armband to Henderson but it came within 2 feet of Kane's shoulder so he claimed it.
Thierrymon
24-05-2018, 09:52 AM
Apparently they threw the captain's armband to Henderson but it came within 2 feet of Kane's shoulder so he claimed it.
:lol:
England have only won 5 games in the World Cup knockout stages since 1966.
Paraguay 1986
Belgium 1990
Cameroon 1990
Denmark 2002
Ecuador 2006
Letters
10-06-2018, 01:07 PM
Ouch :lol:
Goonermerree
10-06-2018, 04:00 PM
England have only won 5 games in the World Cup knockout stages since 1966.
Paraguay 1986
Belgium 1990
Cameroon 1990
Denmark 2002
Ecuador 2006
I'm sure that's not right, is it?
I'm sure that's not right, is it?
Certainly is.
Goonermerree
10-06-2018, 04:17 PM
Certainly is.
Flip, just checked, it's true. Not that I didn't believe you but it's just such a poor stat.
McNamara That Ghost...
10-06-2018, 05:07 PM
If you include the Euros I don't think you add many more. :lol:
It's a really shit record.
Marc Overmars
10-06-2018, 05:34 PM
It’s a really shit team.
Letters
10-06-2018, 06:05 PM
It’s a really shit team.
It is now but historically it hasn't always been so. I remember Italia '90, Euro '96 and France '98 very well and on all 3 occasions we went toe to toe with one of the big countries and on the night could have won it.
96 in particular, Gazza's outstretched boot...we were an inch away from winning that tournament.
Now we're struggling to get out of the group or having embarrassing defeats to teams like Iceland :doh:
Mac76
10-06-2018, 09:48 PM
or having amusing defeats to teams like Iceland :doh:
Corrected for you ;)
I doubt i'll bother with england tbf, i' d much rather watch Argentina, Germany, France, Portugal, Egypt, S Korea...actually pretty much anyone except a side that's got loads of spuds players and to which our only contribution is Welbeck - now that IS embarrassing...
Getting sick of people shitting on Welbeck.
Letters
11-06-2018, 07:52 AM
I think he's a pretty good footballer and a decent enough striker.
He's not going to win you titles or World Cups though.
But yes, views are always so polarised in football, he's nowhere near as bad as some make out.
He's not going to win you titles or World Cups though.
No single player is. He contributes to the squad in a positive way, both for England and Arsenal. That's good enough.
Marc Overmars
11-06-2018, 08:44 AM
Now I appreciate what he brings in other areas so I don’t think he’s a dud, I just don’t think someone with a career average of what, 8 goals a season can be considered a decent striker.
He seems to have enjoyed more consistency with England so I think he’s definitely an important player for them.
Letters
11-06-2018, 09:00 AM
Now I appreciate what he brings in other areas so I don’t think he’s a dud, I just don’t think someone with a career average of what, 8 goals a season can be considered a decent striker.
He seems to have enjoyed more consistency with England so I think he’s definitely an important player for them.
Hmm. You're right, his stats do pretty much suck :lol:. Never even got to double figures in a PL season!
I think he's a pretty useful player, quite skilful, but in front of goal he's not up to much which is not a great quality in a striker!
Coney
20-06-2018, 06:36 PM
First major injury for England.....
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/44555599
Gareth :pal:
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