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1. Play players in the positions they play for their clubs.

2. Pick players based on current form, not because they did a job 2
    years ago.

3. Play in the style that they are used to, ie: fast tempo, attacking    
    football like the premiership, instead of employing some continental,
    defensive bollocks.

I've really lost interest in the England team, it's becoming a bit of a joke.........

just scrap it.its fucking rubbish.international football is on a downwards spiral that is getting worse year by year

Rubbish international football's class.

Can't wait to make my pilgrimmage up to Hampden in November!!  Sample the atmosphere, sample a few pints of 70/-, fantastic!

Its really not. The Champions league is now the pinacle of football.

But I've got no association with the CL at all, or interest for that matter.  I find the modern version of it, where only G14 teams stand any chance to be quite dull and don't watch it very often.

Agree with Rob, not that into the Champions League.  

I've always said the media (in England) have a lot to answer for.  They are the ones who hype everything up, and then they're the first to slag the team off if they don't win.

or how about just appoint a manager with some kind of international experience at a playing level or even a successful club manager not some twat who used to play for Shitty and the Pox!

Name one

Martin o'neil

Sven Goran Erikson

Fabio Capello?

Our International team is vastly overrated as a direct result of the Premiership being so vastly overrated.

One thing Sky do extremely well is package its Premier League offering in such a glitzy glamourous way that the average viewer is convinced it really is THE BEST LEAGUE IN THE WORLD. It blatantly isn't, and never has been.

It turns English players like Joey Barton and Wayne Bridge into GREAT PLAYERS, and it makes players like Kieron Dyer and Paul Robinson WORLD CLASS. It turns Craig Bellamy into a European class striker when in actual fact he's just a no neck welsh cunt from coventry.

Most games in the premiership are boring as fuck and the standard of our Top players is massively misrepresented to plastics up and down the country every time they watch the match down the pub.

Consequently when these poor bastards all get together and put an england shirt on, and you strip away all the razamatazz and take away their foreign team mates, they are disappointingly average players.

We probably have 3 players you could argue are/were world class, Gerrard, Beckham and Owen. maybe Scholes when he was playing. The rest of them? Rio Ferdinand a world class centre half? you're having a giraffe he has one major lapse a game, at least.
I don't neccesarily blame the players attitude as it isn't their fault they're grossly overpaid/overrated, I just don't think the talent really is there.

We'll still win the Euros though, of course. :mrgreen:

Swap rooney for Owen in our world class list.  Owen still might be but its a bit hard to tell untill he can put together some games without getting injured and start scoring

Swap rooney for Owen in our world class list.  Owen still might be but its a bit hard to tell untill he can put together some games without getting injured and start scoring

Jurgen Klinnsmann is currently available  :|

4. Accept that international games are fast games and sack anyone who dawdles with the ball as opposed to playing it.

Michael Carrick was shockingly awful last night and was robbed of the ball while walking a couple of times. He reminds me of Christian Roberts occasionally - flashes of brilliance in a melee of laziness.
Hopefully if Hargreaves gets fit, Carrick will never play again.

Alan Smith is not an international striker - FACT!

Carragher's recent attitude speaks volumes I think about the sort of players we have currently in the England pecking order.

Agree with PLagirist.  The most exciting team to watch hardly ever has an English player and the 2 best rely heavily on a couple of foreign properly world class players.

Richards could have it all but it wouldn't suprise me to see him go on to pick up the same approach to it all.

Why the fuck did he he put our most attacking player first half at centre half .wes brown is equally as shit at right back as he is at centre half so it would not have made a difference.

Oh and stop picking defoe, sven never played him and mclaren chose dyer instead of him last night so whats the point?

:nod:

My thoughts exactly and i believe i said the same thing some time ago when frustrated at Ericsson.

Someone needs to do exactly that.

People seem to have decided our team is crap all of a sudden, and once again it is the media who are to blame. Okay we're not going to win the next World Cup, but if people played in the right positions and we looked interested we would get much better results than at present.

You can't complain about Alan Smith playing - He had a choice of Owen, Crouch, Smith and Defoe. And Crouch is suspended for the next game. As it happens I thought Smith did okay - his job wasn't to go out there and score a hat-trick.

I'm with Frederico  :mrgreen: