Re: The Three Lions

by Art Morte Wed May 16, 2018 7:22 pm

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Rashford is an awful finisher man, makes Sterling look like Salah in that department tbh.

I refuse to believe that England have managed to produce actually a worse finisher than Sterling who still makes it to the World Cup.

Then again, I welcome all Rashford bashing, for he is shite.

by Robespierre Wed May 16, 2018 8:34 pm

What is the probable England lineup ?

by Art Morte Wed May 16, 2018 9:16 pm

Robespierre wrote:What is the probable England lineup ?

Does it matter? This is the worst England team that I remember. You can easily swap a lot of players in defence and midfield and it will look equally average.

by Mr Nick09 Wed May 16, 2018 10:48 pm

wait, is it me or i count 5 fullbacks and 3 CBs?

fullbacks: Kyle Walker, Kieran Trippier, Danny Rose, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ashley Young

what? scratch

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Wed May 16, 2018 10:50 pm

No you are understanding correctly.

Another reason to hate Southgate tbh.

by Jay29 Wed May 16, 2018 11:05 pm

Walker is going to play RCB, so it's actually four centre backs and four wing-backs.

by Mr Nick09 Wed May 16, 2018 11:06 pm

what is he doing? lmao

well i guess 3 at the back with walker in the back four then

jake livermore? really? you ran out of CMs? lmao

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Wed May 16, 2018 11:07 pm

Nah he's just an idiot.

Left multiple CMs at home for Jake Livermore WATTBA.

by Kick Thu May 17, 2018 4:14 am

Firenze wrote:
RealGunner wrote:
Jay29 wrote:We have them. They're just too young at the moment and haven't played many first team minutes at club level.

Phil Foden at City and Mason Mount at Chelsea are the main ones to look out for.

Chelsea?

rename him to Mason Mourn

Vitesse probably already have his squad number ready tbh

He's already at Vitesse, and bossing the Eredivise. Been out performing Kluivert, despite all the praise that Kluivert is getting.

by Unique Thu May 17, 2018 10:22 pm

@hans. alexander trent darby made the squad and we have no celebrations whats going on man Cool

by iftikhar Fri May 18, 2018 10:44 am

Art Morte wrote:
Robespierre wrote:What is the probable England lineup ?

Does it matter? This is the worst England team that I remember. You can easily swap a lot of players in defence and midfield and it will look equally average.

I would argue that all post 98 England teams are more or less same level.

by S Fri May 18, 2018 10:54 am

They had a really strong team between 04-06

This looks really poor in comparison

by Doc Fri May 18, 2018 12:38 pm

Due to wondering if this really was the worst England squad to be assembled for a WC, did a lil Wiki research because why the f not.

1990:

1998:

2002:

2006:

2010:

2014:

Yeah, this may in fact be England's weakest WC squad for a long time. Didn't even go back to much earlier editions because I feel it'll just make for worse viewing.

by Art Morte Fri May 18, 2018 1:19 pm

It is awful which ever way you look at it.

Kane is pretty much the only "match winner" type of player in this squad.
The three goalkeepers have nine caps between them (this must be a World Cup record, surely?)
The whole midfield has five international goals between them (maybe this one, too?)
Danny Welbeck has the most England goals in the squad with 15.

That said, I hope this England team wins all their matches 1 - 0 and become champions.

by Doc Fri May 18, 2018 1:55 pm

Southgate may actually need to pull a Greece in all honesty.

by Great Leader Sprucenuce Fri May 18, 2018 2:12 pm

Except he's going to try and pull a Bastardized version of Spain.

It's going to be a nightmare.

by Jay29 Tue May 22, 2018 11:36 am

Harry Kane has been made captain.

by BarcaLearning Tue May 22, 2018 6:35 pm

So what does everyone think of England in the WC this time? Theyve under performed pretty much in the past countless WCs? Does it look like someone like Kane can lead them to a surprise run with the players good enough or not this time?

by El Gunner Tue May 22, 2018 6:49 pm

BarcaLearning wrote:So what does everyone think of England in the WC this time? Theyve under performed pretty much in the past countless WCs? Does it look like someone like Kane can lead them to a surprise run with the players good enough or not this time?

Kane is a brilliant striker.
Unfortunately the midfield is still in dire condition, plus the defense doesn't inspire a lot of confidence as well.

by Firenze Tue May 22, 2018 8:53 pm

It's the worst England team in my lifetime. I think the majority of fans will be happy just to make it out of the groups. I expect nothing more.

by RealGunner Tue May 22, 2018 10:13 pm

Jay29 wrote:Harry Kane has been made captain.

what a surprise.

by Jay29 Tue May 22, 2018 10:31 pm

It was going to be him, Jordan Henderson or Gary Cahill. Laughing

There's a bit of a leadership vacuum now that old the old generation has retired. Once Terry, Ferdinand, Gerrard, Lampard and Rooney all packed it in there was no one to turn to.

by Jay29 Sat Jun 02, 2018 4:19 pm

Team to play Nigeria:

Pickford; Walker, Cahill, Stones; Trippier, Alli, Dier, Lingard, Young; Sterling, Kane

Apart from Henderson (who I believe is still on break after the CL final), that's probably the starting eleven for the first World Cup game.

by RealGunner Sat Jun 02, 2018 5:16 pm

These Nigeria kits are very nice

by Jay29 Sat Jun 02, 2018 5:19 pm

They all sold out super quick in the UK Laughing

Alli getting booed by all the Nigerians in the crowd.

by Firenze Sat Jun 02, 2018 5:22 pm

it is a very nice kit, don't do football shirts myself but I like it.

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