[Football] Euros 2024 - Matchday 12 (Netherlands vs Austria, France vs Poland, England vs Slovenia & Denmark vs Serbia)

[Dave the OAP]

f*** me that was like watching us sometimes last season where all we did was pass between dunk/ Webster/ igor

that was really bloody awful. ,

 

[Ethelwulf]

How did this **** keep the job.

He is a licker and a yes sir no sir man

 

[Mustafa II]

There are no tactics are there? This is just 11 geezers playing football

That's exactly what this is like.

If there was no manager, and all these players just rocked up and winged it, this is exactly what it would look like.

Southgate is absolutely pathetic.

 

[WhingForPresident]

Couple of observations, perhaps unpopular ones.

I think we really miss Raheem Sterling's role for England. I remember those golden years between 2018-2021 where he used to stretch defences and could be an option for a really long ball. He and Kane had good chemistry. We don't have that now. I think we miss his role as much, if not more, than Phillips' role at his peak.

Also, Rice has massively disappointed me all three games. He's not commanding the middle of the park like he should. Game is passing him by far too often.

Nah, I agree with all of this.

How did this **** keep the job.

He should never have got it in the first place. As a coach or assistant manager, yeah fine, but he ain't manager material. f***ing clueless ****. Those bigwig twats at the FA are the real problem.

 

[wellquickwoody]

No better than Brighton under Potter, but with players on massive salaries. Common denominator would be managers that refuse to listen to criticism.

 

[hart's shirt]

After yet another half of inspirational Southgate football, some booze is needed.

Or boos.

(Probably both.)

 

[trueblue]

As enthralling as ever. Our solution to liven things up seems to be to waste Bellingham on the left as well, taking it in turns with Foden to be out on a limb. But at least that means we can accommodate Gallagher so he can keep giving the ball away.

 

[Triggaaar]

Russia 'own' all the countries bordering them don't they?

Er, Ukraine? China?

 

[portlock seagull]

I wouldn’t say it was boring. But it is very SAFE. And utterly unremarkable. Gallagher has been poor, Tripier clumsy and Bellingham seems miles off the pace. And there are others…

Need to pull socks up 2nd half.

 

[HangletonGull]

I wouldn’t say it was boring. But it is very SAFE. And utterly unremarkable. Gallagher has been poor, Tripier clumsy and Bellingham seems mikes off the pace. And there are others…

Need to pull socks up

This

 

[BrickTamland]

Bloody hell

 

[fruitnveg]

Rice, tasty foodstuff, rubbish footballer

 

[Midget]

If they do another press blitz after this saying they're playing well and everyone else in the footballing world can't see it and should shut up and stop being so mean, I'm going to give up and support Wales.

Booooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Soton Seagull]

Dull 1st half but marginally better than last week.

 

[Weststander]

Thank gawd it’s Keane, Neville and Wright. Honest.

 

[Flounce]

No better than Brighton under Potter, but with players on massive salaries. Common denominator would be managers that refuse to listen to criticism.

f***ing hell! What an absolute load of shite!

 

[Triggaaar]

Then …… drumroll ….. his corporate clone Potter.

Potter is a better manager than Southgate

 

[jcdenton08]

Absolute dreck.

We make everything so much more difficult than it needs to be. We win the ball and should break with pace - but what do we do? It goes inside, back, sideways, across, back and finally we lose possession once everyone is back safely behind the ball for the opposition.

It’s pure Potterball when we were at our least creative and confident at home, but with some of the best players in world football.

Kane is out there stealing a living right now. Where’s Cole Palmer? Guehi has been shocking, Trippier too apart from one nice cross (our only chance of any note, and even that didn’t end up an effort on target).

There’s no sugarcoating this, that was absolutely dogshit and we could easily be behind against a better organised and more confident team.

So, so bad.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Potter is a better manager than Southgate

We will find out in a couple of weeks

 

[Flounce]

Potter is a better manager than Southgate

Not just better, one is Conference (or whatever that is called now), the other mid PL table