AmandaJR
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Silly question...it's Gareth. I'd love to see what they actually work on in training. 11 behind the ball? How to pass backwards? How NOT to attack. Defence vs defence??
Silly question...it's Gareth. I'd love to see what they actually work on in training. 11 behind the ball? How to pass backwards? How NOT to attack. Defence vs defence??
clubchamp98
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Any opposition seeing Shaw on the start sheet would set up to test him.
Match fit he certainly won’t be.
clubchamp98
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Many a true word.
Orikoru
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What do you mean why Rice? He's the best holding player in the squad by miles, who the hell else would you play there?
clubchamp98
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We’re missing Phillips
Neilds
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Anyone who knows which way the opposition goal is and passes it in that direction!
crdb
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Shame we didn't have the same idea facing the 37 yr old right back for Slovakia..
Taking him was a nonsense, I'm a fan by the way and he is rightly England's left back. However, you don't test someone's fitness in a QF of a major tournament. All the training in the world doesn't get you match fit and that is not the place to try him out. If he does play, it is hanging him out to dry.
Orikoru
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Simple answer to that is Saka. He's been one of England's better players over the last two years and he plays the same position as Palmer.
I don't think Paul Gascoigne is fit these days so we're stuck with the fellers that are actually in the squad.
Swango1980
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So, you didn't comment on them when they played in this Euro's?Never commented on Scotland, not interested in them unless they play England.
Club level, fill your boots.
Too old and too much anti-English stuff over the years to care about other Nations.
As you say, it’s a forum and I’m well aware of the guidelines.
Swango1980
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So, it appears some England fans don't actually really blame Southgate.
Its the players fault. Imagine management was that easy. Just pick 11 players in their normal positions they play (although I'm not sure that was the case with TAA, or even with Foden), and if it doesn't go well, it is the players fault. They should know what to do. No wonder Southgate stayed on as England manager. £5 million a year just to pick a team of 11 players, and take no real responsibility on performance because the players should know what to do.
Its the players fault. Imagine management was that easy. Just pick 11 players in their normal positions they play (although I'm not sure that was the case with TAA, or even with Foden), and if it doesn't go well, it is the players fault. They should know what to do. No wonder Southgate stayed on as England manager. £5 million a year just to pick a team of 11 players, and take no real responsibility on performance because the players should know what to do.
AmandaJR
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Serious question. If this was France or Netherlands might we have had a player revolt by now?
Good question… are we not seeing that already? Has he already lost the dressing room, and the players just aren’t bothered to ‘play’ for him? If it was a club side, I’d say he’s lost the dressing room.
AmandaJR
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I can't quite decide. Those other dressing rooms would be openly demanding for the coach to be sacked and possibly refusing to play full stop. So they're still toeing the party line in public at least .
GB72
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It interesting , perhaps a group of young players who have clearly grown beyond what Southgate can offer them. Great when they were young and developing but now way beyond that.
Quite probably. That doesn't happen over here though, not in our nature.
Players in the UK tend to be lead by the manager, you only have to see that out on the pitch. Very little decision making seems to go on there, it is always driven by the manager barking orders.
clubchamp98
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At least he’s been playing.
Saka took him on and beat him but there was nobody in the box.
So he stopped doing it
clubchamp98
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That will all come out in the players autobiographies in the future.
What happens in Germany and all that.
But think Toney will break ranks first , I’ll bet on it.!
clubchamp98
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Saka hasn’t been anything special here though. Imo.
Palmer has created more in his small cameos.
clubchamp98
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60/40 GS for me.
But the players should have spoken up by now if there not happy!
