England v Scotland

Not suprised by the performance. Dier and Rooney so ponderous and static. Stones a liability that will be found out by a better opposition. Cahill likewise. Sterling needs to actually look up and pay attention to whats around him.
 
Biggest test will be Spain on tuesday, I know it's a friendly but current performances are simply not good enough.
 
Well I thought that was one of the better England performances in the final third of the pitch

Kept the ball well , patient build up , good injection of pace from the full backs , some very good link up play with Henderson and Lallana showing some of their Liverpool form in creating some good chances. Certainly could see a bit more of a pattern going forward.

The back four defending though - Stones needs a strong partner next to him , Dier is supposed to be the sitting player but players just stroll past him.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
I do get that but I'd like to see a pattern or system develop. England's players are good enough to be put into a decent system and for them to achieve a fair level. They can do better.
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And there we will agree to differ. Certainly at my club, and from what I see of others, I'm not seeing the English players as the stand outs, more the also rans.
 
HowlingGale said:
Hardly surprising given the English press refuse to accept that decent football is played beyond their border. I hasten to add that the decent football is not played to the north of their border.
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Or maybe they just know that most of us don't really care about Scottish football.
Let's be honest it's not much better than Sunday league.
 
Pin-seeker said:
Or maybe they just know that most of us don't really care about Scottish football.
Let's be honest it's not much better than Sunday league.
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But he plays in the Bundesliga, arguably a league with a better quality of football than the EPL, for the second placed team.

My argument wasn't about the quality of Scottish football,which is dire, it was about the parochial nature of the English sporting press.
 
I went up to bed to watch the 2nd half, and missed it all....ZzzzZZZ

Just read this thread from the start, and well.....what can you say.....I hear we do excuse the old and infirm at times...Oh, and I think Murph carries off wearing pink superbly :smirk:
 
Fish said:
I went up to bed to watch the 2nd half, and missed it all....ZzzzZZZ

Just read this thread from the start, and well.....what can you say.....I hear we do excuse the old and infirm at times...Oh, and I think Murph carries off wearing pink superbly :smirk:
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Indeed; matches the whites of his eyes after Pieman's finished with him in the King's Head……… :whistle:
 
took the wife to the game last night. Good result.. ruined a bit by idiots in the crowd next to us.. he had a beer in his hands (I have no issues with this.. but he was so careless when holding it) so the first goal goes in.. we all jump up.. over the beer goes .. half of it on the family in front of me.. he couldnt give a stuff either when they had a go. Then kept standing up with it and spilling it..

had a fight a few rows down aswell lol

had to stop the wife from starting a fight with the guys next to us after they pushed an old man.. fiesty cow lol
 
Sat through it in the pub and to be honest thought England did enough without really getting out of second gear and Scotland were left to regret missing the chances their early play created. I didn't think England were great. Scotland will have played worse and won. I'm not sure about all this talk of Strachan getting sacked. How many managers have Scotland had in the last fifteen years? They can't all of have been poor managers. Is it impatience, lack of quality (and where does the blame for that lie). There were some good moments for the pinks early on but England were simply more ruthless in front of goal
 
Back in the day when I was a lad the Scotland v England match was the second most important and exciting event of the year - following on fairly closely behind Christmas Day. Today? Meh! As much as I'd love to be as excited these days it's gone...
 
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