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Lallana is everything an England manager usually hates, so it comes as a surprise. So much talent, so much technique, so much ability. He just doesn't run around at 200mph being "passionate"...

 

Good luck to him, he deserves it.

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Just reading some of the press stories on this now. Three years ago, bottom of league one. Now Ads is being called up by England. The stuff of fevered football-related fantasies (so I'm told).

 

I really hope he gets a chance to shine and cement his place. I know we've had a couple of players briefly flirt with the England squad. Ads has got the opportunity to become a long term part of England's future. Doesn't have the baggage associated with Le Tiss and Beattie, and has been consistently good when fully fit. I'm excited about an England game :)

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Just reading some of the press stories on this now. Three years ago, bottom of league one. Now Ads is being called up by England. The stuff of fevered football-related fantasies (so I'm told).

 

I really hope he gets a chance to shine and cement his place. I know we've had a couple of players briefly flirt with the England squad. Ads has got the opportunity to become a long term part of England's future. Doesn't have the baggage associated with Le Tiss and Beattie, and has been consistently good when fully fit. I'm excited about an England game :)

 

Would be very suprised if he gets any time on the pitch for this game, I think Woy has just seen this as an oppertunity to draft him in and get him used to the surroundings as I'm sure he's a player that will feature a fair bit over the next few years. I can imagine we'll be seeing Roy at St Mary's quite a lot, as we have a real quality backbone of young english players through our team. (Clyne, Cork, Rodriguez, Lallana, Ward-Prowse)

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I have to say Roy has been a great appointment for England. Finally a manager who is prepared to give youth a chance and pick players that actually want to play for their country. He is building something for the future that probably another banager will build on after the next world cup and take all the credit for.

 

Well done Adam - make the most of the experience and learn all you can...

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Also nearly 3 years ago I put a bet on for Lallana and Chamberlin to play in the same England senior side. Took a few phone calls and emails to get odds and shopped around. I'll be preying he gets a chance.

 

Out of interest can you share what odds you were given?

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I have to say Roy has been a great appointment for England. Finally a manager who is prepared to give youth a chance and pick players that actually want to play for their country. He is building something for the future that probably another banager will build on after the next world cup and take all the credit for.

 

Well done Adam - make the most of the experience and learn all you can...

 

Disagree. He's bigged up as an experienced manager with modern ideas and tactics, I don't think he's any different to any of our recent team managers.

 

Terry, Gerrard, and Lampard first on the teamsheet. Teams set up to defend and nick a game 1-0. Top 6 club's bench warmers selected instead of players who are playing well, regularly, for the 'unfashionable' sides. Milner played specifically to sit back and protect a weak RB. Drags off the most influential player in games, after an hour, just because they're young or a bit inexperienced.

 

I know some of these older players can have good games, as Lampard did on friday, but what's the point in qualifying with a load of players who are going to require walking sticks by the time we get to Brazil? It's wrong, but managers are sh*t scared of the media. If he'd sacked off the Gerrards, Lampards and Terrys, and not got a positive result, he'd have been slaughtered. No bottle. The under 21s would've torn Moldova a new one.

 

I can't remember a worse England front line in an international in my lifetime - Defoe, Welbeck and Sturridge.....shocking considering there are decent English goalscorers waiting for a chance.

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I can't remember a worse England front line in an international in my lifetime - Defoe, Welbeck and Sturridge.....shocking considering there are decent English goalscorers waiting for a chance.

 

Out of curiosity; who, exactly? We hardly have an abundance of riches upfront for England.

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Out of curiosity; who, exactly? We hardly have an abundance of riches upfront for England.

 

It's not ideal, but there's Crouch, Holt, Lambert, Bent. All capable goalscorers, and all much more of a threat than playing 4'10" Jermaine Defoe infront of a 5 man midfield.

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It's not ideal, but there's Crouch, Holt, Lambert, Bent. All capable goalscorers, and all much more of a threat than playing 4'10" Jermaine Defoe infront of a 5 man midfield.

 

I struggle to see why Darren Bent and Peter Crouch haven't been called up; aside from Defoe they're the only 2 strikers we have left with any decent international pedigree. With those two out, I can't see either Holt or Lambert getting a go.

 

Its really worrying that the quality of strikers coming through just seemingly isn't there right now.

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Except that Defoe is on form for England...

 

2 goals in 2 years. To name an England front line, for a competitive game, with just Defoe, Welbeck and Sturridge, is madness IMO. None of them have really been regulars for their clubs over the last year.

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I struggle to see why Darren Bent and Peter Crouch haven't been called up; aside from Defoe they're the only 2 strikers we have left with any decent international pedigree. With those two out, I can't see either Holt or Lambert getting a go.

 

Its really worrying that the quality of strikers coming through just seemingly isn't there right now.

 

Do a Spain and just play with midfielders, except for the fact that their midfielders are so much better than ours.

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I struggle to see why Darren Bent and Peter Crouch haven't been called up; aside from Defoe they're the only 2 strikers we have left with any decent international pedigree. With those two out, I can't see either Holt or Lambert getting a go.

 

Its really worrying that the quality of strikers coming through just seemingly isn't there right now.

 

Agree with that. Just backs up what many people are saying about the lack of call-ups for players outside the top 6 or 7.

 

Even if they weren't in the best form, surely you'd take a 4th striker, someone a bit different to the 3 we've already got. Crouch's record for England is brilliant, and he scores plenty against weaker sides. Perfect for qualifying.

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It's not ideal, but there's Crouch, Holt, Lambert, Bent. All capable goalscorers, and all much more of a threat than playing 4'10" Jermaine Defoe infront of a 5 man midfield.

 

I doubt if he'll play for England again. Hodgeson said in todays mirror that he's been over-looked because he didn't want to be on the standby list for the Euros.

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Why didn't get say that at the time? Rather than it just appearing odd he wasn't called up? Players shoot themselves in the foot with their egos too. Yeah so not being 1st choice is annoying, but what tool turns down the chance to go to a tournament? He won't get another chance.

 

Its the thing of late. Look at Darron Gibson; utterly average midfield player who managed to blag himself a trip to the Euros in the summer. But because he did nothing to suggest to the manager he was good enough to actually get on the pitch, he's now stated he doesn't want to be considered for international football in the immediate future as his head isn't in the right place after suffering such a snub.

 

Such an unjustifiably arrogant cockwomble.

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Its the thing of late. Look at Darron Gibson; utterly average midfield player who managed to blag himself a trip to the Euros in the summer. But because he did nothing to suggest to the manager he was good enough to actually get on the pitch, he's now stated he doesn't want to be considered for international football in the immediate future as his head isn't in the right place after suffering such a snub.

 

Such an unjustifiably arrogant cockwomble.

 

Diddums!

 

I find it hard to relate to modern footballers & their insufferable egos. Some of them are such delicate little flowers, who expect everything to be handed to them on a silver plater.

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Disagree. He's bigged up as an experienced manager with modern ideas and tactics, I don't think he's any different to any of our recent team managers.

 

Terry, Gerrard, and Lampard first on the teamsheet. Teams set up to defend and nick a game 1-0. Top 6 club's bench warmers selected instead of players who are playing well, regularly, for the 'unfashionable' sides. Milner played specifically to sit back and protect a weak RB. Drags off the most influential player in games, after an hour, just because they're young or a bit inexperienced.

 

I know some of these older players can have good games, as Lampard did on friday, but what's the point in qualifying with a load of players who are going to require walking sticks by the time we get to Brazil? It's wrong, but managers are sh*t scared of the media. If he'd sacked off the Gerrards, Lampards and Terrys, and not got a positive result, he'd have been slaughtered. No bottle. The under 21s would've torn Moldova a new one.

 

I can't remember a worse England front line in an international in my lifetime - Defoe, Welbeck and Sturridge.....shocking considering there are decent English goalscorers waiting for a chance.

 

Totally agree. Watch the hands not the mouth. Look at who plays and how we play and not who sits on the bench. IF the younger players get to play ahead of the next world cup ( and not 15 minutes against Greece in a friendly) then we might get somewhere. IF our under 21 played football instead of hoofball like they did against Norway then we might have a chance but how can they go from that to whatever mutant version Roy uses for the senior squad? Face it- our "best goal" in the euros was a long cross virtually from the halfway line that our big cf headed in. That style was invented in the 1950's" You NEVER see Spain do that.

If Adam gets on I hope that he is played correctly and not in some botched up position to allow others to express how technically incompetent they still are after 50plus caps.

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Its the thing of late. Look at Darron Gibson; utterly average midfield player who managed to blag himself a trip to the Euros in the summer. But because he did nothing to suggest to the manager he was good enough to actually get on the pitch, he's now stated he doesn't want to be considered for international football in the immediate future as his head isn't in the right place after suffering such a snub.

 

Such an unjustifiably arrogant cockwomble.

 

I actually met him a few times years ago as i knew his then girlfriend. To say he came across as an arrogant ****wit would be an understatement. At that time he was a reserve player at United and struggling to even get a carling cup game. Unfortunately being at a club like that gives some of the younger players a bit of an ego when they've done nothing to warrant having one. Getting paid thousands of pounds a week when they've achieved NOTHING doesn't help that either

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Diddums!

 

I find it hard to relate to modern footballers & their insufferable egos. Some of them are such delicate little flowers, who expect everything to be handed to them on a silver plater.

 

Joys of the academy system I guess if you start out at a club as a youngster and then go all way through to professional footballer in the PL you don't get the grounding you need. Probably why players like Lambert come across as such good blokes he had to work hard to get where he is, including dropping out of football and doing factory work for a while and playing unpaid, thats got to make you appreciate things more than just going academy to PL/championship in the way some players do without really experincing things like manual labour.

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