Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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Hopefully that will change now palace have academy 1 status
I think we might have to agree to disagree on that!
Hopefully that will change now palace have academy 1 status
I'd argue that both were missed opportunities, especially the World Cup. We'll never have an easier path to a final yet his lack of tactical flexibility and awareness cost us in the semi (as in the Euro final against Italy).
He handles all the media and interpersonal stuff well, but we need a better head coach. Maybe he should be general manager and someone else should run the team. Gerrard in a few years perhaps.
Hopefully that will change now palace have academy 1 status, and both our u18s and U23s are doing very well this season.
Bit of an odd response. Just because I think England should replace Southgate doesn't mean I want someone like that old dinosaur. GS is hardly an innovative, tactical genius is he? And his team and squad selections have at times been bizarre - for example, picking Mings when he couldn't even get in to the Villa team at the time due to his bad form. And now these very average Palace players. Also, choosing a young player who'd never taken a penalty in a competitive game before to take the decisive fifth one in the semi-final of a major tournament..
Not so sure about that, I read an article in the Paper that one squad this season Palace fielded 6 players born within 7 miles of south Norwood with two more on the bench. although not all come through the academy admittedly.v
Off the top of my head:
Zaha
Eze
Gueh
Mitchell
Clyne
Callagher
Raki-Sakai
I don’t think that’s bad for one of the smaller London clubs, where Chelsea hover up all the talent with starting Salary of 20K for 16 year olds.
Mitchell is definitely a north Londoner, not far away from where I was brought up, a QPR Brentford miss
He’s awful and with a better squad, looses to every decent team (Germany were in a dreadful slump before anyone says).
The chelsea picks palarse have picked up if chosen as young players who might become England ones I can see it along with taking some older first teamers who shouldn’t start on form (especially if taking youngsters). The picks I struggle with are taking ageing 20th choice cbs like Mings or the fact out of 50 potential young players who might become good enough he just picks the ones from his old club.
Find it odd the Palace fans giving it ‘large’ over 3 (2 actually) players at an England camp for 2 friendlies.
Last summer we had a youth player in the squad for an actual major tournament. Can’t see any Palace player going to the World Cup for England unless we have quite a few injuries [emoji2375] bants I guess
Yeah well the mods won't do anything about them for some reason and our own halfwits keep giving them opportunities to post on threads such as this.Viera has got them playing well, getting decent results. (1 point above us )
So of course their half wit fans are coming out of the woodwork to give it the large.
Been quiet for a while,
Which was nice.
I'd argue that both were missed opportunities, especially the World Cup. We'll never have an easier path to a final yet his lack of tactical flexibility and awareness cost us in the semi (as in the Euro final against Italy).
He handles all the media and interpersonal stuff well, but we need a better head coach. Maybe he should be general manager and someone else should run the team. Gerrard in a few years perhaps.