Kane and Vardy up top, 442, pace on the wings, meat and veg. Instead of trying to copy other countries style we should be trying to refine our own. Let's just Leicester the life out of it.
No Rooney. Thanks.
Kane and Vardy up top, 442, pace on the wings, meat and veg. Instead of trying to copy other countries style we should be trying to refine our own. Let's just Leicester the life out of it.
No Rooney. Thanks.
Just noticed that taking penalties out, Defoe has more goals than Kane
Get him on the plane.
EDIT: almost.
How have the last two games changed anyone's squads, then?
For me, quite a lot of the squad have sealed their places, with Walcott, Drinkwater and Butland dropping out for Rooney, Wilshere and Foster.
Maybe Shaw for Bertrand if he can prove his fitness.
No chance I'd take Wilshere. What's the point? Drinkwater makes it, I thought he looked quite at home in that holding role.
Edit- Thinking about it, I'd probably take the squad that was picked for these friendlies, with the injured Rooney, Sterling and Hart replacing Walcott, Sturridge and Heaton.
Kicking Sturridge out seems harsh but I can't really believe he'll stay fit.
Wilshire shouldn't even be in the discussion. He's an invalid. He had potential once, it's gone.
Shere Wilpower
What???Originally Posted by simon
I wasn't being 100% serious.
Still, I'd probably have Townsend in over Welbeck. Townsend, limited as he may be, is direct and makes stuff happen. Welbeck just bores me.
Pretty much this as well for me.
Test.
This bloke made his life goal to become a football coach.
P.S Wilshere on one leg (he's had plenty of practice) offers more than four Jordan Hendersons. He's even got the 'shout at everyone even though you're about as hard as a whiskey dick' base covered.
No, he doesn't.
If by 'makes stuff happen' you mean 'smashes every shot into the cheap seats', then yeah. He's shit.
Get ball. Cut in on left. Shoot. Horrible miss. Repeat.
Wilshere hasn't even played this season. What's he going to do in the Euros apart from make snacks for the players while they all train?
I know who I'd rather look to on the bench when we're 1-0 down with 20 minutes to go. He's a better option than Welbeck. This is assuming that Welbeck isn't in the starting 11, which he probably is as he's one of Hodgson's favourites.
Going from mocking me and then saying this in the very next post is decent. Wilshere should be nowhere near the side at this moment in time.
There's a few more of them knocking about on Youtube as well.
What I'm trying to say is that I think Andros Townsend is a good option to take to the Euros, as he offers a lot from the bench. In the same way you could argue that taking Andy Carroll would be good in that he offers something incredibly specific and unique which could end up pulling us out the shit when we're needing a goal in the last ten minutes of a game. Neither would be anywhere near the first eleven, but what you want from your squad is versatility and options, not carbon copies of what you've already got.
Youtube clip. I'm sold.
Draper is right that he OFFERS SOMETHING DIFFERENT, but, as useless as he actually is, Danny Welbeck has to start, and then who do you leave out beyond that?
You'd think you'd learn the lessons of past mistakes by not taking players who are either a) rushed back from injury or b) have spent the vast majority of the season itself injured. Unless they're a Zidane or a Messi, which Wilshere or Rooney are certainly not. Sturridge probably shouldn't go either, likely as he is to break himself in three at some point between now and the tournament starting.
Kids technique is so good that, if his legs actually work, he settles right in. Every time he's come back for Arsenal (and that's a few times) he hits the ground running.
Woy knows what he's doing and he'll start the guy if he has the opportunity. There's not a single player in the country that has his skill set. The problem is he'll end up replacing Dier instead of the utter dross that we've used as a double pivot like Henderson, Delph and Drinkwater.
*loads the Realistic Arsenal Database*
Is Dier that good or is it a case of him being the best option at the position? I recall him looking a shaky in some European games.
This is a parody of that nutter who was on here with the "Realistic Database", right?
If it's not a parody, then fucking hell.
I can't see anyone else who can sit in front of that dog shit defense to keep it as far away from them as possible. He's not Makelele but he's solid enough. As I say, my issue is more with the Hendersons of the world.
And Lewis, Wilshere being a better option than Henderson is the very definition of realistic.
Are you Mantralux in disguise....
Are you......
I'm a massive Wilshere fan, but there is not a chance in hell he should be going to the Euros at this stage.
This is 'Leicester will definitely stay up' all over again. The seethe when Wilshere starts that game if he can walk.
If Barkley could pass a ball five yards without falling over, I'd agree. But he can't so you're stuck with the crock.
Well he's scored 8 goals and made 7 assists.
In fact he's scored 12 in all competitions.
Is Ross Barkley old enough to be written off yet? He has no footballing intelligence at all.
Hasn't Martinez ruined most players there other than Lukaku?
What is Wishere's 'skill set' exactly? Other than having one good gane against Barcelona and singing a couple of songs about Spurs I'm lost as to why Arsenal fans seem to rate him so much.
Is Rooney behind Kane-Vardy a possibility? I haven't seen him play at all this season.
I wouldn't play Rooney in a behind closed doors friendly on this seasons form.
Rooney's in double figures this year and I'm struggling to remember any of them.
Rooney in behind the strikers shouldn't happen because Alli should be playing there.
Rooney working hard down the left wing is the only sane solution to his mandatory inclusion.
Vardy to be used off the bench.
Jack Wilshere, The Ox and Abou Diaby in midfield.
You guys are obsessive about Wayne Rooney. Chill the fuck out, he's still a good player.
Pressman
Clyne, Smalling, Cahill, Rose
"Jack", Gerrard
Rashford, Alli, Welbeck
Rooney
There's your Euro '16 winners. Carroll and Jarvis on the bench as Plan B.
We should take four pure target men as our strikers, like classic Norway. Carroll, Lambert, Glenn Murray and, erm, Matt Smith.
When people say Carroll I am assuming that they mean Tottenham legend Tom Carroll, which is ridiculous, but less so than taking the the wife beating, glass limbed, West Ham version would be.
Ability to control the ball and release it under the pressure, ability to carry the ball forward or pass it long, ability to keep tempo up.
As I said if Barkley could control a ball and then pass it instead of stepping on it and falling over, there'd be no need for him.
I don't think Hodgson will risk 4-4-2 at the Euro's, so i'm going with this. The only question mark is right wing... Walcott or Welbeck. Oh, and maybe Walker over Clyne depending on form.
He'll put Rooney on one of the wings.
If Rooney must play, I'd put him right back.
I think you've been watching Pirlo by mistake.
Right back in the dressing room? Eh? Eh? Yeah?
That was literally what Roy Hodgson told Jack Wilshere to do when he swapped to the formation they play now.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...become-4190629
That doesn't mean he does it well.
Not that I ever said that, I said he's the only one who can do it at all hence why Hodgson will take him if he can walk. That's all I've ever stated.
What's wrong with our defence? Smalling has been one of the best in the league, and Cahill, Clyne and Rose are all good if not spectacular players.
Smalling has a rick in him a any moment. Cahill was struggling to get back into the Chelsea team having lost his place to Zouma AND 400 year old Terry before they both got banjaxed. Clyne and Rose are great attacking fullbacks but have a serious case of the Clichy's going back.
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