The anyone but England thread! - Page 33

SlackDad · 21-06-2006, 13:27

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Originally Posted by Russ D

"Many players"??

Let's count them. Crouch? Ok. Rooney? Still not 100%. Walcott? Unproven. Gerrard? Out of position. Ditto Lampard and Joe Cole.

A less than 100% rooney is better than most players. Plus both Gerrard and Lampard knocked in more than twenty goals each last season.

Russ · 21-06-2006, 13:32

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Originally Posted by SlackDad

A less than 100% rooney is better than most players. Plus both Gerrard and Lampard knocked in more than twenty goals each last season.

But hardly reliable as strikers. Gerrard or Lamps up front means a somewhat weakened midfield -which is where I believe England's strength is.

orangebird · 21-06-2006, 13:35

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Originally Posted by Russ D

But hardly reliable as strikers. Gerrard or Lamps up front means a somewhat weakened midfield -which is where I believe England's strength is.

What about Lennon, Jenas, Carrick to fill the midfield if Gerrard (who has proven time and time again you can play him anywhere) and Fatty were to move forward?

Russ · 21-06-2006, 13:56

True - but Gerrard will be out of position. Not what you can call reliable. He'd be better off as an attacking midfielder.

Hardly the 'many' that Sven was on about.

punky · 21-06-2006, 14:21

I bet Eriksson is regretting choosing Walcott now instead of Defoe.

Anyways, Although Eriksson prefers the 4-4-2, I think it makes a lot more sense instead of gambling on the health of a couple of strikers (one who hasn't even recovered from a broken foot yet), to move to a 4-5-1 formation. Our midfield is one of the strongest in the tournament anyway, so that won't hurt. It will avoid putting too much stress on the strikers. They only have 5 days between games and that includes practicing...

By-the-by, awful lot of England chat in an anthing-but-England thread isn't it?

Mal · 21-06-2006, 14:34

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Originally Posted by orangebird

But he's already played for England under 21's. The swede should have played him yesterday, there was nothing to lose.

Whilst we were, avoiding defeat ensured that we didn't get Germany, not to mention that I just didn't want them to lose anyway.

Walcott has only a small amount of games in the championship and no experience of playing in the top league and I think that the u21's are a bit different to the first team. So dumping him into the first team is asking too much of him. Like I did say, maybe in the future, but I would have liked him to gotten a bit of experience first. The national team is not the academy side after all.

Stuart · 21-06-2006, 16:51

Well, had a good time in the local watching the game last night. Shame that one of the Girls in our group insisted on shouting "Sweden, Sweden" and cheering every time they scored..

The scary thing is, I don't think she's Swedish. She does sound English. Having said that, I don't really know her that well, and any good Swedish school teaches it's pupils both in Swedish and English, with the result it's often difficult to tell they are not English (Ulrika Jonsson being an example of this).

**Mick** · 21-06-2006, 16:59

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Originally Posted by punky

By-the-by, awful lot of England chat in an anthing-but-England thread isn't it?

I've been thinking the same thing dude.

**Hugh** · 21-06-2006, 20:31

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Originally Posted by Mick

I've been thinking the same thing dude.

So, do you think Scotland will qualify for the 2010 World cup ?

Scarlett · 21-06-2006, 21:05

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Originally Posted by foreverwar

So, do you think Scotland will qualify for the 2010 World cup ?

They might have had a chance to auto qualify as co-host for 2014.

England were looking to try and host the 2014 world cup but they've withdrawn because apparently wembley still won't be finished...

**Hugh** · 21-06-2006, 21:57

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Originally Posted by Scarlett

They might have had a chance to auto qualify as co-host for 2014.

England were looking to try and host the 2014 world cup but they've withdrawn because apparently wembley still won't be finished...

It probably will be, but it expected that Rooney and Owen will not be able to play due to injury

ikthius · 21-06-2006, 22:48

I may be putting myself out in a limb here, but...........

if the media did not hype up England as much, with all the rooney is the best, who we will get in quarters, semis & final.

how fantastic they are, 66, and all that garbage.....

maybe more scots would show support for them.

but the media is not going to change, so neither is most of the scots

ik

Russ · 21-06-2006, 23:11

At last! Someone who understands

Flobajob · 22-06-2006, 09:58

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Originally Posted by Russ D

At last! Someone who understands

Why don't you make your mind up? In another thread you said you were "rooting for England" so either you do support them or you don't. You appear to be changing your mind dependent on who you've got online to back you up.

weirdworldstate · 22-06-2006, 10:05

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Originally Posted by Flobajob

Why don't you make your mind up? In another thread you said you were "rooting for England" so either you do support them or you don't.

I asked that question too, but then one of the mods currently online (BTW, that's not that many!) deleted the thread...