Off Topic International Break Thread

The last year or so of Southgate has worried me. I think he’s so concerned about CBs and solidity that he’s sacrificing too much. When we played 3 at the back in the past we had pacy wingers and Kane but now it looks like he’s shoehorning Mason Mount into the team as a wide attacker when that’s not his position.

Honestly think that 433 just gives him so much more but he seems to have lost all confidence in the defence.

 

I can understand why, but he's just putting more pressure on the backline and he keeps forcing round pegs into square holes.
England have a ton of firepower available and they need some creativity to unleash it.
He's picking ****ter players in unnatural positions and wondering why the team isn't functioning.
His luck ran out last night and he's had a **** ton of it.

 

Sounds uncannily like the last days of Poch's reign

 

The new Republic of Ireland manager, Stephen Kenny, has been in charge of five games, so far. They've won none and scored once.
He's spent his entire career in the League of Ireland, barring a short stint at Dunfermline, where they got relegated and he got the sack.
Why was he selected for the job in the first place? No idea.

 

It was either him or Roy Keant

The FAI made the right choice

 

Why were they the options? Both horrifically under qualified for the position.
Chris Hughton was unemployed at the time, for one example.

 

Money, can be the only reason, Kenny will be significantly cheaper than other options. Thinking of Big Jacks success with Irish Pulis or Allardyce would be a good shout but I doubt they could afford the latter and Pulis maybe waiting for Giggs to replace Ole so he can have the Wales job.

 

Don't get me wrong, there's lots to worry about with that England performance. However if you're asking who gave the worst performance yesterday it must be the referee. And we think we've got bad refs in the PL! The (first) sending off was probably the only thing he got right. Otherwise he bought into the Danes spoiling tactics completely among many other things. The one where Kane was chopped down sums it up. The Dane should have got a yellow, but instead one of the other Danes picked up the ball and carried it off - possibly a yellow in it's own right - but then Philips tries to get the ball off him, he falls to the ground and Philips gets a yellow instead. Of course then there's the straigt red card for criticising the ref after the final whistle.

 

it was like watching us in the last year of Poch....Kane looked lost

I thought exactly the same

 

Yeah, he was shocking. He's an experience ref at top level, too.
English sides tend to win games that he's officiating, so I doubt he's got anything against the country, but he was really, really bad.

 

Did Southgate get them to post this?

 

Top two qualify ??
And the last two England group games are away to Belgium and Denmark ... ??

If all the above, it could go 'Gary Swede' very quickly indeed.

< Do I not like that !!?? >

 

Simpler for Pulis to replace Ole.
Saves Wales money and the loss of their manager.

 

Did VDV call it first ?

 

He's very good technically? Really?

Maguire's good at defending deep and getting on the end of set-pieces.
That's great in a counter-attacking team, where his limitations aren't exposed by a high line or having to play the ball out.
In a fairly disorganised side that are expected to attack and don't offer him a lot of cover? Not so much.

 

Do you know why we finished 7 points and 3 places above you last season? Basically because we conceded 11 less goals.


One good result and you are almost as giddy as HIBIC

 

And after only 4 games this season "we" have already got 10 of those 11 goals ...

 

Six of which were against one opponent, well done that team. Keep it up for 38 games

 

You're forgetting we were **** last season, so in all honesty 7 more points and conceding only 11 less than a team that only kept 8 clean sheets and sacked their manager in November is not much to write home about.

 

the team whose supporting p*ss-poor WUM wannabee proclaimed
they finished with a GD of 11 on Spurs.


"Keep it up for 38 games"

Given the Spurs GD is +9 up on last season already, they can probably
ease up on the score fests and still comfortably overcome a GD deficit of 11.