[Albion] England squad for Nations League

[BN41Albion]

Southgate post match predictably stating that the games shouldn't have been played, not ideal at this time, etc. Excuses excuses, other nations managed to play well and win convincingly under the same circumstances

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

I’m actually a fan of Southgate
1st Mistake.
2nd Mistake.
3rd Mistake
4th Mistake.
5th Mistake.
6th Mistake.

A fan? Must be a new meaning.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Thank god im German (third generation, but I’m clinging to it right now)

Cling away. I am clinging to the fact that most of us Englishmen in the south at any rate, hail from the Danish/German border areas. We are all Saxons in the end....

 

[Hugo Rune]

Cling away. I am clinging to the fact that most of us Englishmen in the south at any rate, hail from the Danish/German border areas. We are all Saxons in the end....

The Danes are mostly Jutes and Angles. So whilst they are related to the funny folk in East Anglia and Kent, they are no relatives of ours.

In Sussex, we are proper Germans from Saxon stock.

 

[Deportivo Seagull]

I’m actually a fan of Southgate’s and I want him to continue but he has to learn the lessons from this game. Southgate has made a series of big mistakes both in man management and tactically.

1st Mistake.

He picks players he likes and trusts like Dier and Trippier rather than specialists. It seems he’d prefer four right backs he knows well in the squad than a specialist left back or left wing back. Sessegnon would have done a better job than the limited Trippier.

2nd Mistake.

No discipline or respect from the younger players. His handling of the brawling Blockhead gave the green light to Greenwood and Foden to run a muck. His handling of the Sterling-Gomez fight was weak and poor, he has lost control of the dressing room and needs to get it back.

3rd Mistake

Other than Sterling, Kane & Sancho; he failed to start with any really creative attacking players. This was in part due to Greenwood and Foden being sent home but he still should have started with Mount or Grealish.

4th Mistake.

His 3-4-3 formation was a joke. It creates hardly anything. His priority was shoe horning some of his favourite players into the team, unfortunately, they are defensive players starving the team of creativity.

5th Mistake.

No understanding of how Denmark would play. They played very defensive against our team full of defenders and defensive midfielders. 0-0 was the only outcome.

6th Mistake.

Too many DMs. Phillips, Dier & Rice. You only needed one defensive midfielder against Denmark, he had three. As a midfielder playing at the back, Dier looked more like Shane Duffy than Webster as he never really ventured forward and looked a liability defending.

Southgate now needs to cleanse his squad of average players. Leave Blockhead, Foden & Greenwood in the Wilderness for a year or so too. Install some ****ing discipline in the squad.
Play a back four or two up front against defensive set-ups like Denmark had. And pick specialist players, we’ve got some promising young left backs - they’d all have looked better than the round pegs in square holes we had at left back/left wing back in they last two games.

Even the summariser was at a loss as two why Southgate was not playing two out and out Strikers with a back 5 and two DMs.

Sort it out Gareth. The goodwill from the last World Cup is running out.

That is as about as damning a verdict as you can get. The man is clueless and not fit to manage the national side. TBH, I’m not sure he’s fit to manage at championship level ... which he proved at Middlesbrough ....


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[Green Cross Code Man]

The Danes are mostly Jutes and Angles. So whilst they are related to the funny folk in East Anglia and Kent, they are no relatives of ours.

In Sussex, we are proper Germans from Saxon stock.

Yeah, I know. That's why I said in the South. I didn't mean the South Saxons specifically!

 

[Insel affe]

The Danes are mostly Jutes and Angles. So whilst they are related to the funny folk in East Anglia and Kent, they are no relatives of ours.

In Sussex, we are proper Germans from Saxon stock.

Love how there is a question mark ? over the Portsmouth/Southampton area

 

[Hugo Rune]

Love how there is a question mark ? over the Portsmouth/Southampton area

Brilliant isn’t it!

 

[Saunders]

The Danes are mostly Jutes and Angles. So whilst they are related to the funny folk in East Anglia and Kent, they are no relatives of ours.

In Sussex, we are proper Germans from Saxon stock.

Wrong DNA evidence has pointed out that most celts didnt leave sussex so we are 75% "celt" for people who can trace their families back generations. Edited to add that there is no celtic genetic group, indigenous populations lived alongside the invaders and outnumbered them.

 

[Eeyore]

Wrong DNA evidence has pointed out that most celts didnt leave sussex so we are 75% celt for people who can trace their families back generations.

My family originates from 16th century Irish folk who came to England. Interestingly, most settling in Sussex.

 

[The Wizard]

Does everyone remember the amazing World Cup though where the lads gave it a shot and the nation was FULLY behind our young team? We took down the mighty Sweden, Tunisia and Panama. What a performance to get to the semi finals, bless them they tried so hard xxxxx

 

[Icy Gull]

Does everyone remember the amazing World Cup though where the lads gave it a shot and the nation was FULLY behind our young team? We took down the mighty Sweden, Tunisia and Panama. What a performance to get to the semi finals, bless them they tried so hard xxxxx

I was so impressed at how we were all swept along in this fantastic resurgence of a once great footballing nation. EVERYONE believed and then we woke up to just how shit we are when we came up against two decent teams. Now we are back to being a dull team who continue to struggle even against minnows (which we are now as well in fairness). I’d like to see the Palace numpty gone asap. Just as long as the FA don’t come in for Potter, which they won’t as they are not that forward thinking.

[MENTION=457]sheebo[/MENTION] - don’t waste your time on me I am totally accepting, after years of disappointment in my younger days, that we will never reach the dizzy heights of 1966 again in my lifetime.

 

[Palacefinder General]

I was so impressed at how we were all swept along in this fantastic resurgence of a once great footballing nation. EVERYONE believed and then we woke up to just how shit we are when we came up against two decent teams. Now we are back to being a dull team who continue to struggle even against minnows (which we are now as well in fairness). I’d like to see the Palace numpty gone asap. Just as long as the FA don’t come in for Potter, which they won’t as they are not that forward thinking.

[MENTION=457]sheebo[/MENTION] - don’t waste your time on me I am totally accepting, after years of disappointment in my younger days, that we will never reach the dizzy heights of 1966 again in my lifetime.

Even the 1966 win was tainted by controversy in almost every game England played in that tournament en route to victory and some of the dodgiest refereeing, so technically we’ve never legitimately won anything.

 

[Icy Gull]

Even the 1966 win was tainted by controversy in almost every game England played in that tournament en route to victory and some of the dodgiest refereeing, so technically we’ve never legitimately won anything.

We did well four years later. I watched that game in a bar in Spain and left to go on a celebratory razzle at a beach bar at 2-0 up against the West Germans

I only found out the next day that we’d lost. Been downhill since then

 

[Weststander]

Southgate’s announced his squad for the coming games against Wales, Denmark and Belgium.



I really can’t see Dunk ever adding to his one cap. On this occasion I can’t argue with GS, other than at SJP, Dunk’s not been at his best yet.

 

[sydney]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

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This. It's all so dreary.

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