5 minutes ago, andy said:

Southgate not the issue, you got player of the  season in the three best leagues in Europe on the pitch. Hardly touching the ball 🙄……. I fear it is what Lampard said about his generation, more interested in their clubs than country 

The coaching in England is abysmal for the most part and the FA always bring in the worst coach to coach our players. When did we last have a manager that wanted England to play positive, fast, football? A coach that encourages and demands them to express themselves. They always bring in a conservative coach.

Bellingham was playing on the left a lot today, 'the world's greatest midfielder' has a weaker left foot. 

Bellingham and Kane were pathetic tonight, Palmer and Gordon actually provided a bit of threat but once again Divvy Southgate waits too long to change things. Prick.

Ian Wright and Roy Keane full of praise and excitement for what Palmer can do for England.

Keane " I'm very excited by this boy, he can do everything"

Mainoo and Palmer have to start on Sunday. Possibly Gordon as well. Seen nothing out of Rice so far in this competition, has to be dropped.

No one who is a quality coach will ever take on the England job. No one.

We're stuck with out of work English managers as a choice I reckon.

 

Just now, Jackbuchanan said:

Mainoo and Palmer have to start on Sunday. Possibly Gordon as well. Seen nothing out of Rice so far in this competition, has to be dropped.

Not sure on Rice he holds down that defensive space in front of the back four, he does annoy at times, example 2nd half Saka gets the ball and marked straightway, Rice is free on the inside just needs to run forward for the square pass........no movement.

1 hour ago, The Rising Sun said:

Pundits are required to talk too much anyway.

I remember the olden days when we didn't have pundits talking sh*te.

I'm pretty sure Kenneth Wolstanholme wasn't analysing the sh*t out of the world cup final in '66

They had an earlier black and white sequence of all the reporters around Alf Ramsey he looks up makes an excuse and smiles.

8 minutes ago, strider6004 said:

Bellingham was playing on the left a lot today, 'the world's greatest midfielder' has a weaker left foot. 

"The worlds greatest player " shouldn't have a weaker foot anyway.

He needs to work on it.

I can send him info on improving his weaker foot, stuff we used in school a million years ago. 

 

 

Southgate is the issue...really late with the subs, very stubborn and tactically inept.

 

If southgate doesnt want to drop bellingham next to rice...then Palmer on the right, Gordon on the left, bellingham as a 10, rice and mainoo in the middle.

Ffs, Southgate really gets on my fkn ****

Edited June 25, 20242 yr by Simplymo

21 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

The coaching in England is abysmal for the most part and the FA always bring in the worst coach to coach our players. When did we last have a manager that wanted England to play positive, fast, football? A coach that encourages and demands them to express themselves. They always bring in a conservative coach.

Venables

Watching the pundits go back and forth about what to do about the left back spot 🤦, surely Chilwell would have been worth putting on the plane! And if Shaw can't play, what is he doing there, aside from that we have 0 left back options. 

And what does everyone think of Wright's suggestion of playing Saka at left back 🤔

8 minutes ago, charierre said:

Venables

Euro 96. I was too young to remember it, but it's the one tournament in my life time fans speak positively of when it comes to England.

 

26 minutes ago, Jackbuchanan said:

 And what does everyone think of Wright's suggestion of playing Saka at left back 🤔

If he's quite involved with the gunners as our ex players then I'd give it a try. I haven't seen him play at left back before.

I'm not paying attention to points but if Slovenia wanted just a draw then how did Southgate no consider the low block? Why would he use Gallagher if there's no need to control the midfield as they'll be playing in their half already. And watkins instead of kane. Needed someone on the shoulder of defenders not someone that runs back.

I said this before, sry for repeating it...

Southgate is a brilliant man manager, but he either needs to go/retire/bugger off or go for something a bit unorthodox, he needs a tactical coach, like a goalkeeping coach, to sort the lineup and tactics while he "manages" the coaches and players.

Edited June 25, 20242 yr by Simplymo

The Euro 96 squad was a mature team……. I don’t know an England fan who hasn’t cried out for youngster's since ‘96  and that is what Southgate has done, and he has been our most successful manager since Ramsay.  
 

Not Southgate for me  

10 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Euro 96. I was too young to remember it, but it's the one tournament in my life time fans speak positively of when it comes to England.

Stand out game was thrashing Holland.

Lost in the semi final to Germany, really unlucky not to beat them.

German's were so confident of getting through the stages they had their training pitch laid out to the exact same dimensions as Wembley .

I think they played Cezhcoslovakia ( f**king hard word to spell) in final.yeah, couldn't fault England's effort against that German team everyone knew we were so close , 

 

 

1 minute ago, The Rising Sun said:

Stand out game was thrashing Holland.

Lost in the semi final to Germany, really unlucky not to beat them.

German's were so confident of getting through the stages they had their training pitch laid out to the exact same dimensions as Wembley .

I think they played Cezhcoslovakia ( f**king hard word to spell) in final.yeah, couldn't fault England's effort against that German team everyone knew we were so close , 

 

 

Euro 96 😥

Omg, I had so much hope...I was properly devastated. 

Well, who do we think will be the next manager? 

Not who you would want , but who will actually take on the job .. remember  Sam Alladyce would have been the guy taking us through qualifiers and into those tournaments if he hadn't got sacked for non football related matters.

Standard performance by Palmer and look at the rest of England fans, they are salivating over him.

Southgate need to f*ck off, the waistcoat wearing bellend.

12 minutes ago, The Rising Sun said:

Stand out game was thrashing Holland.

Lost in the semi final to Germany, really unlucky not to beat them.

German's were so confident of getting through the stages they had their training pitch laid out to the exact same dimensions as Wembley .

I think they played Cezhcoslovakia ( f**king hard word to spell) in final.yeah, couldn't fault England's effort against that German team everyone knew we were so close , 

 

 

 

Not winning a game is hard but it is somewhat bearable when you're this close. At least we went for it.

 

1 hour ago, Andy North said:

Have you tried Ketamine,

Only thing that's ever kicked my ass harder than Ketamine is watching Southgates England.

Palmer looking like an absolutely Rolls Royce compared to Saka sh*t.

I mean real the issue is that Southgate run out of ideas about 4 years ago. He had that waistcoat thing going on. All was well. Did he try anything else? A bow tie? Some flares? He should have gone with a bowler hat. But he just ran out of ideas.

 

 

Ian Wright saying Saka should play LB so Palmer can play RW lmao I’m in stitches.