Saw him getting turned inside out on a couple of threads yesterday, and I hadn't even commented. Reckon the Pded must have a few more members today then ?
Wasn't very good .. surprised that absolutely nobody has mentioned Vardy's lovely instinctive lay off that Rashford should have buried ... shame the roles weren't reversed ... strongly suspect Vards would have buried that ... Good job Sky got called away... didn't have to witness poor TAA attempting to take corners with a tampered ball that had obviously been filled with lead
Tuesday's team for me: Pickford Young Maguire Stones Walker Trippier Henderson Lingard Alli (if fit) Rashford Kane
Assuming going is Young then yeah, agreed. No one really stuck their hand up tonight. Typical England; we now go into a game against quality opposition after needlessly killing any form we have by ****ing about with the team and losing. Southgate made a mistake in doing this, we were ****e tonight.
I think we just watched Plan B! Also that this game just showed that the first team pretty much picks itself now. Maybe ony 2 or 3 from tonight will be playing the next game.
The run out will have done those players good, they may not have performed but some of the rust will now be gone and they'll be ready to play again if needed. Right decision by Southgate imo.
I disagree. 6 of that team are nowhere near good enough to be in a World Cup knockout match. We should be trying to win it not trying to limit damage if our best players are injured. It would be better tactics to give our strongest players more time to work together.
Think I mentioned before there are simply 2 ways of thinking and that's it depending on what happens next one group will claim they are right. I don't think it matters too much.
We are clearly not very good outside of the best XI but I don’t think many sides are. Spain, Brazil and France have real depth. Argentina have it up front but an atrocious goalkeeper/defence. Everyone faps over this Belgian ‘golden’ generation which includes Chadli and Fellaini. Boyata is first choice.
Nah, I disagree. A 0-0 draw would have done nicely, but instead we narrowly lost a dead rubber to one of the best teams in the competition. We're into the knockout stages - comfortably - for the first time since what, dunno, 2006 was it? Or 2002? Plus getting beat might actually subdue the hype a bit. No harm done at all imo.
Cant really tell, it will all depend on if the master plan actually works and we beat Colombia and the Swiss/Swedes. If we do, it was a great plan, if we don't...people will point to yesterday being a major **** up.
