England Squad (merged with Jesse Lingard thread)

Crouchinho said:
Spurs only have two players in the squad. Walker, Dier, Mason and Townsend are not even included. There are some peculiar inclusions but nothing that shocked me too much. Alli has been fantastic for Spurs, I think it's refreshing some new blood is coming in.
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All of those bar Dier have had international callups before they had really done anything at Spurs. Add in the likes of Caulker, Livermore and Rose in Hodgsons time. Arguably Kane too.
 
moomba said:
All of those bar Dier have had international callups before they had really done anything at Spurs. Add in the likes of Caulker, Livermore and Rose in Hodgsons time. Arguably Kane too.
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I won't argue much with Caulker or Livermore, not very good players but were pretty consistent for a while. Kane definitely deserved his call up!
 
Rooney should not really get near the team if Kane and Sturridge are fit. He is a relic from the tarnished "Golden Generation" and should be put out to pasture with the rest of those under-achieving, egocentric has-beens.
 
jamesha said:
Rooney should not really get near the team if Kane and Sturridge are fit. He is a relic from the tarnished "Golden Generation" and should be put out to pasture with the rest of those under-achieving, egocentric has-beens.
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Making Rooney captain was shambolic and cemented my opinion of Hodgson. He's another old school manager who is in with the FA. He might be experienced but he's only won things in Scandinavia. In major tournaments he's made the final of the UEFA Cup twice with Inter and Fulham but lost the final.

He was tactically inept against Italy where the whole world could see Pirlo was the danger man. Instead he played Rooney wide left to try and fit others in.

Rooney is now a major restriction to the development of this England side. He's probably third or fourth best striker (which shows how shite the options are), and he's probably third or fourth best no.10. By playing him we have to play a slower possession based game, which we're shite at.

If Kane was the no.9 we'd have an instant target to get the ball to. Getting the ball forward quickly has always been England's way. Our defence is questionable so we'd be better playing a deeper line and just having pace off Kane. With Walcott, Sterling, Sturridge (potentially playing a 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 then we've plenty of talent and pace.

You could play any of those in the no.10 role, or Lallana who seems to be very efficient there at International level. You've got Barkley as well as an option and could play Oxlade-Chamberlain wide.

There are plenty of attacking options and Rooney just slows everything down and nullifies our attack. Going into the Euro's we could do with Rooney being injured and out of the squad.
 
supercity88 said:
Making Rooney captain was shambolic and cemented my opinion of Hodgson. He's another old school manager who is in with the FA. He might be experienced but he's only won things in Scandinavia. In major tournaments he's made the final of the UEFA Cup twice with Inter and Fulham but lost the final.

He was tactically inept against Italy where the whole world could see Pirlo was the danger man. Instead he played Rooney wide left to try and fit others in.

Rooney is now a major restriction to the development of this England side. He's probably third or fourth best striker (which shows how shite the options are), and he's probably third or fourth best no.10. By playing him we have to play a slower possession based game, which we're shite at.

If Kane was the no.9 we'd have an instant target to get the ball to. Getting the ball forward quickly has always been England's way. Our defence is questionable so we'd be better playing a deeper line and just having pace off Kane. With Walcott, Sterling, Sturridge (potentially playing a 4-4-2 or 4-2-3-1 then we've plenty of talent and pace.

You could play any of those in the no.10 role, or Lallana who seems to be very efficient there at International level. You've got Barkley as well as an option and could play Oxlade-Chamberlain wide.

There are plenty of attacking options and Rooney just slows everything down and nullifies our attack. Going into the Euro's we could do with Rooney being injured and out of the squad.
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He was made captain purely for fleecing gullible fans. They got a piss easy group and knew the kudos of him being captain and beating the ticket tout means come the euros they can flog expensive tat with Shrek on it.
 
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