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RANDY said:
Fosse wanted to leave Saka and Foden at home too

Sorry Flos but I don't think we'll be advancing your CV and application to the shortlist stage.
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They were both brilliant mate - in every 'team of the tournament' I've seen ...<whistle>

... but I don't think I ever advocated leaving either at home - some poetic licence there, Ponky... but fair play, deserving of some 'likes' <laugh>

What I certainly did do was look for some balance in my proposed optimised team line up ... something that events proved we were sadly lacking ... <ok>

God I hate it when I'm always right! :emoticon-0140-rofl:
 
FosseFilberto said:
They were both brilliant mate - in every 'team of the tournament' I've seen ...<whistle>

... but I don't think I ever advocated leaving either at home - some poetic licence there, Ponky... but fair play, deserving of some 'likes' <laugh>

What I certainly did do was look for some balance in my proposed optimised team line up ... something that events proved we were sadly lacking ... <ok>

God I hate it when I'm always right! :emoticon-0140-rofl:
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They were probably two of our better players.

Gareth is gone now, but I'm going to promote you to chief bubblegum flavour ice cream maker.
 
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Chief said:
That's an extremely low bar then.
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Nobody really shone, but those two were creating the most chances.

cba to look up the stats, but I would imagine both are up there for pass completion, chances created etc
 
FosseFilberto said:
See above - some did - but certainly not Saka or Foden ...
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Guehi did a good job coming in

Stones was bang average.

Agree on Palmer, but these 'lists' just show how subjective it all was.

Saka wasn't brilliant through the tournament, but nobody was. What he did do though was create chances, and scored a crucial goal.

Overall, we were well below par for the talent on show though.
 
RANDY said:
Guehi did a good job coming in

Stones was bang average.

Agree on Palmer, but these 'lists' just show how subjective it all was.

Saka wasn't brilliant through the tournament, but nobody was. What he did do though was create chances, and scored a crucial goal.

Overall, we were well below par for the talent on show though.
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What do you watch Ponks? ... out of interest ...

We'd have been 3 down in the final without some of Stone's perfectly timed tackles - and he barely put a foot wrong during the tournament ... the partnership of him and Guehi was a major positive in an otherwise underwhelming set of performances ...
 
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Diego said:
Yep, it's what commited players do when they let people down.
Bet Klopps lot never shed a tear when Peps men beat them to the title all the time.
Couldn't give a ****.
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So youre saying your boys have been crying for the last decade then<laugh>
 
Overall he did well for us.

Went from being absolutely nowhere under Capello, McLaren and Hodgeson to a team competing at the sharpe end regularly.

Two finals in last two Euro's is a great effort and not something we've done before.

However, I do feel a manager from the level above him is needed to get us over the line.

We were well below par this tournament - it just felt to me Southgate had lost it a bit and we absolutely grinded our way through against our opponents instead of playing to our attacking strengths.

Formations and player selections were not good enough.

A change was needed and he's done the right thing.

Got me interested in England again though!

Win against Columbia on Pens, Sweden 2-0 and Holland recently were a highlight for me.
 
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Jokers <laugh>


Everyone of you hated klopp at Liverpool


Now hes the clear best choice for England


<laugh><laugh>
 
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FosseFilberto said:
Nope - but in no particular order...

Pickford
Guehi
Stones
Mainoo
Palmer
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And even that list feels quite generous.

I’d probably say Pickford and Palmer are the only two that can genuinely leave the Euros knowing they played great. Palmer may have actually given old beak nose a fairytale ending if he started him.

The rest of the England squad were either “meh” or dismal, a lot falling under the latter.
 
FosseFilberto said:
What do you watch Ponks? ... out of interest ...

We'd have been 3 down in the final without some of Stone's perfectly timed tackles - and he barely put a foot wrong during the tournament ... the partnership of him and Guehi was a major positive in an otherwise underwhelming set of performances ...
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He was steady, and that partnership with Guehi was good. I would have liked to have seen more from Stones on the ball moving into midfield, but I accept that's got more to do with how Southgate set them up.
 
brb said:
Genuinely would love her to get the job. I always assumed the Americans owned women's soccer, the dominant power, and I felt Weigman came along and changed all that, so why not do that for the men. Sadly humans have not advanced enough yet to allow that to happen.
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She makes Southgate look adventurous and if anything has taken England backwards so it's a no for me .
 
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