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This. Said it before, and I'll say it again. I really feel for Lewis not getting the call up he deserves, but purely selfishly with BHA specs on, good.
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[Football] Tyrone Mings
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This. Said it before, and I'll say it again. I really feel for Lewis not getting the call up he deserves, but purely selfishly with BHA specs on, good.
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Yes there is obviously a lot of sense in what you say and from our selfish point of view, you are exactly right. It's a shame personally for Dunk and White though.
And for the long term development of our club, we need our current and future players to see they can get in the England squad while playing for Brighton.
Agreed on Dier (my Spurs mate absolutely rants when he gets picked at CB for Spurs or England) and Mings. I've not see enough of Coady recently I must admit. Wolves always seem to be on in games where they are playing a game I think will be crap or is on at the wrong time or where Mrs GB has had enough of me watching footy.
I was on the Albion Roar with Winter this season. He is VERY bright. Absolutely nailed the issues with VAR and crowds missing from lockdown football and was on point with his assessment of our forwards. However, if he has said that about Southgate then I disagree with him. Southgate is a bang average coach and his reason for picking players in NEVER transparent.
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Which I would accept more easily if he hadn't talked so much early on in his tenure about not doing that! He uses it as and when it suits (e.g.TAA) but Lingard?? been good for a few weeks and that's it for two seasons! I have always enjoyed following England, but struggling with Southgate who has backed himself into corners and doesn't ever seem to get called out on it.
Icy Gull
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It seems that you can ride on the back of a WC semi-final for years. Untouchable
Icy Gull
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Although I believe he picked March when he was in charge of the England Under 21s, this is the most likely reason Brighton players are overlooked. Being a goon with favourites won’t help either.
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Defender in a team that sits ninth in the table over a defender in a team that sits 16th
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Why is Southgate overlooking Tammy Abraham in favour of Watkins and Calvert-Lewin? Southgate has even confirmed Bamford would be brought in as reserve, ahead of Abraham.
Abraham has done little wrong, other than to lose his place in the Chelsea team to a bloke they paid £48 million for who they are determined to pick come what may. Abraham has outscored Werner in Prem and the Cups and there is no indication Abraham is any less potent, yet he has fallen down the pecking order because Southgate prefers 'in-form' Watkins and Calvert-Lewin who have virtually NIL international experience.
Abraham has done little wrong, other than to lose his place in the Chelsea team to a bloke they paid £48 million for who they are determined to pick come what may. Abraham has outscored Werner in Prem and the Cups and there is no indication Abraham is any less potent, yet he has fallen down the pecking order because Southgate prefers 'in-form' Watkins and Calvert-Lewin who have virtually NIL international experience.
BRIGHT ON Q
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Totally agree which is why I said 'that' squad.
If we had everyone fit then it's a lot different.
Losing Dunk through injury at the moment would be catastrophic.
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Defender in a team that sits ninth in the table over a defender in a team that sits 16th
Scored 10 EPL goals already this season, in a team that sits ninth in the table
Got to go with you on this, I had fake noise off in the home game against Villa and all I could here was Mings voice - constantly organizing, giving useful info to team mates all over the pitch. I’ve not massively rated him, but since that game watching out for him now he is a very good organizer and has made all the difference to that Villa defence.
Dunk as much as I love him has made far too many errors this season to come into consideration for England this time round.
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Even without Brighton tinted glasses on Dunk is far superior to Mings as a centre back. & Dier makes it into the squad again while having an awful Spurs season.
Southgate stinks of Palace
I think Dunk is well good enough to be in the England Squad. I like him a lot.
However he won't get back in the squad whilst Southgate is the Manager.
Southgate got him into a squad in the past. He obviously looked at him in closer quarters during training etc. For some reason he just doesn't fancy him and constantly has overlooked him ever since that one time. I don't see him changing his mind now.
Big mistake on Southgates' part in my opinion.
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You mean the game we kept beating the Villa defence and their keeper got man of the match and kept them in the game?
He’s a good talker but a shocking player. As mentioned previously, if you’re going to pick a Villa player, you would go with Konsa, a much, much better player.
I agree Dunk has had off games this season but he’s still 10x the player Mings is. As are Webster and White.
Overall Webster is our best defender and if was fit, he should be a shoo-in for the England squad but you just know Southgate wouldn’t have picked him.
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You can't pick different players every squad, that would be ridiculous, and you can't chop and change so close to the euros. This is who Southgate has picked and its fair enough to stick with it. Its not as if they deserve to be dropped based on England performances.
Fwiw I think Mings is a very good player but I'm not sure what he's done to stand out ahead of many others who have been doing it at top level a lot longer than him. It's not as if he's some young guy with a big development path ahead of him. But like I say, nothing against him and he's played pretty well against us in the last couple of games, and as he's in the squad hasn't done anything to be jettisoned.
Fwiw I think Mings is a very good player but I'm not sure what he's done to stand out ahead of many others who have been doing it at top level a lot longer than him. It's not as if he's some young guy with a big development path ahead of him. But like I say, nothing against him and he's played pretty well against us in the last couple of games, and as he's in the squad hasn't done anything to be jettisoned.
Think Coady is quite good but Burnley are another club who can claim they have at least 2 centre backs who are better than Mings & Dier.