Dman

I tell you who was one of our players of the tournament and in fact voted player of the year and SHOULD start… Kalvin Phillips.

Trent, as a defender, especially 1 on 1 defending, is bang average.

Hahaha you couldn’t help yourself, could you. But It was based on the facts my friend. At the time of posting, England only stuck 4 or so past them, they set up with 11 men behind the ball to prevent getting a drubbing. The difference in class between San Marino and England is far, far greater than Us and United / Leicester, both of which managed to stick a record number past us. It’s about context, but we’ve already discovered you’re not very good/incapable of processing that, haven’t we. So yes, the geezer who was / is running San Marino knew how to prevent his team taking a drubbing, unlike Ralph. Just like the facts that since southgate has arrived and made “notable mistakes”, in 2 tournaments we’ve recorded the best finishes since 1966. Long may those “notable mistakes” continue.

So how can you say he’s made “notable mistakes” when his record is very, very good and you have 0 qualifications to make such judgements 😂

And if he gets us to another semi or final of the tournament then he can continue to make “notable errors”. For someone who gets it so wrong, his record is fantastic. Failing that, they can give you the job and see how well we do… FWIW, as someone who has followed England over the past 5 years, Pickford, Maguire etc. have never let us down and every time he’s played TAA has been bang average.

We don’t need JWP to play in a more advanced role. Bellingham, Mount and imo Gallagher are better at that than Prowse. Against the better teams where we need 2 DM’s, Phillips is better than JWP at that. We’ll have to agree to disagree or else this will become another of those long and endless debates. My money is on Phillips being on the plane come November though (providing he / everyone is fit).

And more importantly, neither does Southgate, who’s the bloke who picks the side.

I think our defence is poor, therefore against the better teams we need to play 2 holding players and give up some creativity to build a solid foundation. Phillips played pretty much every minute, there was a reason for that. Both him and Rice gave us a solid foundation. Against the so called ‘weaker’ teams, we have more than enough (Bellingham, Mount or Gallagher) to bring in. Agree to disagree, but Phillips is vastly underrated in my opinion.

In fairness, ‘his favourites’ have never let him or England down. There could be many reasons for lack of form. Maguire as an example looks a shambles when in a United shirt but never puts a foot wrong in an England one. Players like Mount and Henderson are winners and leaders. Generally speaking, there’s a reason they’re at the top clubs and not bottom half clubs. If Gareth can get them performing like we know they can, who cares how they’re doing for their club.

Super negative and slowing our attack down hugely clearly worked…

Phillips was fantastic last summer. He’s injured at the moment, but as soon as he’s fit, he’ll be back in the squad. Possibly get a move to a big club in the summer as well, which will also help his cause. Henderson will also be in the squad and as one of only a few England players to have won anything with their club, I’m absolutely fine with that. You need winners in the dressing room. Rice is nailed on and imo our best player. Mount, like Henderson, is a southgate favourite so he’ll also be there. Bellingham not far behind Rice. i don’t know if there is room for another CM. If there is, it’s a toss up between Gallagher and JWP for me. Personally, I’d go Gallagher.

Worriersaint?

I take it you’ve not been to a game of football since the 80’s…

Tops that are more white than red are always better. Basically, we need to be white and red, rather than red and white.

I’ve been Hearing good things about Canada and that have an exciting young crop coming through, an almost ‘golden generation’ (for their terms). A few have tipped them to surprise a few at the 2023 WC, which is hosted in your neck of the woods... how’s it looking for them over there, Ottawa?

No, Sue. Your passive aggressive use of foul and abusive language “don’t quote the ****” is what I find aggressive. Only you will know the intentions behind the *’s, but it doesn’t take a genius to work out it either starts with a T, P or god forbid a C. It may be the sort of language you can get away with down the pub after football, in a PO postcode, with the lads lads lads, but it very much unnecessary on this forum.

I thought he was in the main pretty negative. Always passing backwards and safe rather than driving forward as he does for us. Of course, that could be the way Southgate has instructed him to play. Pretty untested defensively.

I can’t see how he gets into this England team tbh. I can’t see him going to Qatar, unless there are injures.

Was really impressed with the 2 palace lads yesterday’s, Gallagher and Guehi. A shame we weren’t In for Guehi.

Wow. This is the sort of language and aggression that will earn you a 2 week ban… providing the mods apply rules consistently…

he’s not the best player in the world, a righted footed knock off tadic, but I like him. works hard, seems to be a decent lad and has the right attitude (and started to chip in with a few goals which is nice). Deserves a new deal in my opinion. Especially when you consider we’ve given deals to the likes of Theo and Long for seemingly nothing, in not too distant history.

I can’t see us being able to compete with Villa or West Ham though, if true.

What was the pre arranged buy back clause for him? £45m? If tottenham want to offer us that for him, then they can have him.

Him announcing retirement says a great deal about his persona and ego. Desperate to be a celebrity. He’ll end up on a tv show, 100%

Pot, kettle, as some may say…