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    We look like a championship outfit, and I mean that as a compliment compared to the utter tripe of the past number of years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    We look like a championship outfit, and I mean that as a compliment compared to the utter tripe of the past number of years.
    Just no goals in this team though. The football is definitely more pleasing on the eye, but we feel less likely to score now than ever before. Probably a personnel thing as much as anything.

    There’s been some lovely surging build up from the back.

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    Would kind of like to see your lot play Northern Ireland in a one of game for a place in Euros.

    @Giggles. It was his proper debut against you in Dublin.

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    Southgate's reluctance to pick Grealish a couple of squads ago (or was it last squad) should have seen him not only sacked, but possibly killed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CJay View Post
    Just no goals in this team though. The football is definitely more pleasing on the eye, but we feel less likely to score now than ever before. Probably a personnel thing as much as anything.

    There’s been some lovely surging build up from the back.
    Yeah we really need one of those young attackers at least to make good. It’s going to be 1-0 best case scenario in a lot of games.

    Quote Originally Posted by Pen View Post
    Would kind of like to see your lot play Northern Ireland in a one of game for a place in Euros.

    @Giggles. It was his proper debut against you in Dublin.
    Where does he play club?

    NI would beat us fairly handily at this stage so that might be the main high point of losing tonight.

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    Flicking between Ni, ROI and the Scots has been dreadful.

    I hope they all lose on penalties

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    Eric Bailly injured again lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Sacamano View Post
    Flicking between Ni, ROI and the Scots has been dreadful.

    I hope they all lose on penalties
    I’d take that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    I’d take that.
    Just you guys then

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    Wow that was disappointing. Browne was nailed on to miss - complete waster of a player in high pressure games.

    Northern Ireland should do Slovakia quite handily I think. They were very poor tonight.

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    That's kind of the perfect loss for Kenny though. He played his game and they did well but it didn't come off and went out on pens. It's alot harder for the people still angry about Mick not carrying on to attack him.

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    Scotland have far too many lefties in their side. Poor Robertson and McGinn go from being one of their teams best players to utter shite for Scotland.

    Doesn’t help it’s the most unbalanced team in history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Sacamano View Post
    Just you guys then
    That’ll do too. The home hosting of games won’t happen this time round anyway.
    Last edited by Giggles; 08-10-2020 at 09:46 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CJay View Post
    Wow that was disappointing. Browne was nailed on to miss - complete waster of a player in high pressure games.

    Northern Ireland should do Slovakia quite handily I think. They were very poor tonight.
    Hopefully Slovakia will have a few back for it that they were missing tonight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    That's kind of the perfect loss for Kenny though. He played his game and they did well but it didn't come off and went out on pens. It's alot harder for the people still angry about Mick not carrying on to attack him.
    That’s exactly what people are doing. The general consensus on Twitter is that ‘sorry Ireland lose again and kenny is out of his depth’. The lad presenting the soccer in rte is going to town on him and reminiscing about the good old days of McCarthy.

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    They need to stop thinking new management will magically bring the next Robbie Keane or Damien Duff. Ireland just doesn't make them like they used to.

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    You've got to love having such a strong agenda that visible proof against said agenda is proof you're right.

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    Quote Originally Posted by phonics View Post
    You've got to love having such a strong agenda that visible proof against said agenda is proof you're right.
    The good old days is how they ended up away in a playoff for this in the first place.

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    Pub kicked us out after extra time in Scotland game. Left tellies on so we could watch penalties through the window. Good laugh.

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    That's class.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Scotland have far too many lefties in their side. Poor Robertson and McGinn go from being one of their teams best players to utter shite for Scotland.

    Doesn’t help it’s the most unbalanced team in history.
    The Tierney/Robertson thing is a shitter. I'd just try to play them both at left back - one bombs forward on the overlap to try and get in behind, and then the other bombs even harder outside him, flying straight to the by-line like a Dundonian to a divorce court. The opposition right-back ends up hallucinating milk-pale figures all night and trying to wash the blood off his hands.

    Then obviously you leave out the striker and just hope for own goals.

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    Surely UEFA realises that 2021 isn't going to have fans? It'll be a bubble in Germany

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    They somehow caused Covid with their stupid fucking format.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd View Post
    They somehow caused Covid with their stupid fucking format.
    Or alternatively they host it in Azerbaijan with full capacity

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Sacamano View Post
    Surely UEFA realises that 2021 isn't going to have fans? It'll be a bubble in Germany
    Don’t

    I need to have hope.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bob Sacamano View Post
    Or alternatively they host it in Azerbaijan with full capacity
    Much better. All hail the Azeri dictator.

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    I didn't watch the game - were England B pretty good, or Wales B that bad.... or both.

    Also, read a match report this morning that said Gomez is struggling to find his form of a few years - I'm gonna say, Gomez has never been a top-level defender. His ability seems to have been inflated by just playing alongside van Dijk, and not being Lovren. He's no Matip.

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    He tried to play offside once where the rest of the defence was going the other way, but overall he didn't look and worse than the other two central defenders, who probably had more dangerously retarded moments.

    You can say he benefits from playing next to Van Dijk, but that's a bit of a curse too as it's never Van Dijk's fault (even when it is) and 99% of opponents will focus their energies on you rather than him.

    England B were alright, clinical when the chances arose. Grealish just trolled Wales by getting his arse in between the ball and their players all night and falling over. He was probably the stand out performer.

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    Can’t believe Giggles’ boys bottled the penalty shoot out for Ireland/Norn Ireland.

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    Doing our bit for the Covid.

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    How to win the Euros:

    Pope
    Alexander-Arnold
    Gomez
    Maguire
    Chilwell
    Henderson
    Winks
    Grealish
    Rashford
    Sterling
    Kane

    Subs:
    Henderson
    Trippier
    Dier/Rice
    Foden
    Sancho
    Greenwood
    Calvert-Lewin

    Dier and Rice pip Coady as they can play centre half and centre mid. Trippier and Trent interchangeable as the former looks better internationally. Job done. Let's celebrate.
    Last edited by Mellberg; 09-10-2020 at 10:55 AM.

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    I just fear that with Grealish they are always going to gravitate back to Foden because he plays for a top club and was the anointed schoolboy player, and that seems to be how England operates on a deep psychological basis, and has done my whole life really.

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    Declan Rice should be starting every game for England.

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    Next to zero chance Grealish starts in big games with Southgate (and 90% of England managers) in charge. He needs to drop in a Liverpool performance to force his hand. Won't play him at 10 and won't be first choice out wide. It's a shame and a waste, but their loss.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Waffdon View Post
    Declan Rice should be starting every game for England.
    Problem is he's up against Henderson, rather than Winks. Both have been better for England than him anyway. Trippier should probably be in the XI until TAA puts in some performances actually. Switch them.

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    Henderson plays to the right of a midfield for Liverpool usually, no? Rice sitting, Henderson to the right and then one of your creative players from the left side.

    Winks shouldn’t be near International football never mind a top half PL side.

    Rice, Henderson, Foden; Grealish, Kane, Sancho

    Rashford or Sterling for Foden if need be. Will never happen though. Sterling will start every game, as will Trippier/Walker if not both. Pickford too.

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    Who do Liverpool normally have beside Henderson?

    You're right though that Sterling is going nowhere regardless of how he actually performs for England. He now merely tends to be average rather than the spineless bottler he used to be whenever he got the ball in a key position for England so maybe Waistcoat thinks of that as an upward trend.

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    A team with Maguire and Winks wouldn't get out of the group.

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    Maguire shouldn’t be anywhere near a squad that has aspirations of winning anything.

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    England sit deep defensively. Maguire will be fine. Stick him on the halfway line and he's shit. Winks is just a solid ball player and works hard off the ball. Probably the main weak link, but he's about 10 trillion times better than Rice on the ball and Henderson's in for the graft. Need a balanced midfield. Maybe fast track Bellingham

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    Quote Originally Posted by Giggles View Post
    Maguire shouldn’t be anywhere near a squad that has aspirations of winning anything.
    He won the league with Leicester. He's solid enough if you just want a moving wall for attackers to bounce off. It's when you want him to run that the problems creep in.

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    Can't wait to spend £15 on United/Newcastle.

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    What a con.

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    Is that £15 per game? Surely fucking not.

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    What a bargain.

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    5 games have been selected for PPV.


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    How season ticket holders aren't getting the games for free blows my mind.

    Also, it costs 8 quid for a pint over here and we pay 3 pound a game for our PPV's not 15.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mellberg View Post
    England sit deep defensively. Maguire will be fine. Stick him on the halfway line and he's shit. Winks is just a solid ball player and works hard off the ball. Probably the main weak link, but he's about 10 trillion times better than Rice on the ball and Henderson's in for the graft. Need a balanced midfield. Maybe fast track Bellingham
    Rice and Henderson in midfield with Grealish as number 10. Sorted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave. View Post
    Rice and Henderson in midfield with Grealish as number 10. Sorted.
    What could have been (except Henderson).

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