Phil McNulty (BBC chief football writer) in his flagship piece, "Five key issues England boss Southgate must solve before Euro 2024" which includes his analysis of the defensive problems, doesn't mention Dunk at all!
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[Football] Dunk IN! (Was: Dunk Out?)
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Dave the OAP
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Yep. It’s almost as if they have expunged him from the squad
Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo
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Our defence has 99 problems, but Dunk ain’t one.
SeagullinExile
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Ignore McNobhead - He will never back Dunk. As mentioned earlier, he’s an Everton fan and as we know, they’re all rather pissed that Braithwaite was overlooked!
Braithwaite. 
Yoda
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What all these morons cannot understand, is that yes, Braithwaite is good at defending (you have to be in a Sean Dyche team), but Southgate doesn't like to play that same style. He like's to play a possession based passing game which is why Dunk has come in ahead of him.
SeagullinExile
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Exactly my point. No one even knows the one season wonders real name!Braithwaite.
Home and Away
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Still training individually?
Nobby
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That must have been a while back? unless Grealish has been recalled
SeagullinExile
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Southgate said Friday he’s back to full training on Monday.
To be fair (not that I rate fairness overall) Braithwaite may be appropriate, just as Stains used to be managed by an ARSE called Nigel Atkins.Braithwaite.
But it may be a bit too soon to commit on this. You need to be an established tit to warrant a permanent comedy misnomer.
Wardy's twin
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Funny thing is lot of Everton fans wanting Braithwaite in but he probably won't be their player at the start of the season.
And Houghtons to you too, with knobs on!
FatSuperman
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This is exactly why Dunk wasn't given a look in when he and Duffy were booting absolutely everything away season after season. Same with every Burnley CB under Dyche, all posting amazing stats for blocks and tackles, but still languishing in the Championship or bottom of Prem playing awful football.
Stelling and Townsend on TS this morning both saying they'd have him in their starting XI v Serbia
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It must be from last week, as yesterday's papers had pictures of Grealish and Maddison holidaying together in Ibiza.
Milano
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For Everton fans see Palace fans - in that these players won't be Everton/Palace players come Aug 31st.
If Dunk were 3 or 4 years younger then the same would probably apply to him too.
If Dunk were 3 or 4 years younger then the same would probably apply to him too.
Stones and Guehi hardly well-equipped to deal with that either
Uh_huh_him
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even so, Dunk is probably the best equipped out of the choices available.
I would have Dunk in for any games where there is likely to be some attacking intent from the opposition.
But if Guehi is given the chance to be shown up by Mitrovic, rather than Dunk, i won't be too upset.