Keep the faith, it was a brave effort tonight and we were unlucky to lose.
No knee jerk reactions.
Keep the faith, it was a brave effort tonight and we were unlucky to lose.
No knee jerk reactions.
Would it make any difference?
All of the players play in the 'Best League in the World' and have plenty of experience. What could the manager do to stop Gerrard, Campbell etc. miss chances or motivate Rooney to run about?
I couldn't really care less.
I see some Scots have voted for keeping him
I am no fan of McClaren and he is not up to the job but making him the scapecoat for all of this is ridiculous. This crop of players has underperformed in every competition for years now despite changes in management. McClaren will take the blame but its about time some of these overpaid, underperforming pre-madonnas took hard look at their own performances in the shirt and a large slice of the blame for these sub standard performances.
I would love to know what his half-time team talk was about. I thought we did very very well in the first half. Russia came out of the starting blocks like a rocket, and we managed to keep them at bay. After about 15 or 20 minutes we started to play a bit, and got the all important goal.
Second half we were obviously trying to sit on a slender 1-0 lead, on an unfamiliar playing surface (not an excuse), against a side whose entire qualification depended on winning and a very noisy and hostile crowd, with an untried back four and dodgy 'keeper. Great decision Steve.
OUT!!
I am no fan of McClaren and he is not up to the job but making him the scapecoat for all of this is ridiculous. This crop of players has underperformed in every competition for years now despite changes in management. McClaren will take the blame but its about time some of these overpaid, underperforming pre-madonnas took hard look at their own performances in the shirt and a large slice of the blame for these sub standard performances.