Thetownend.com

http://www.thefa.com/England/SeniorTeam/NewsAndFeatures/Postings/2008/08/AndorraCroatia_SquadNamed.htm

Looking at the squad i cant see where the goals are going to come from. Ok we will score against andorra but against Croatia  ???
No Owen either

Any thoughts?

emile heskey duhhh

jimmy bullard

He's German.

Bullard is a good pick imho. More than a little worried about goals mind.

no michael owen and even more baffling, no ashley young.

thats a disgrace.

good to see theo in there though.

Bullard's alright but England class? he just strikes me as a bit of a clown.

Ashley Young and Agbonlahor are a good point. Capello is just a conservative manager: see dropping of Micah Richards (I know he's injured but previously) for Wes Brown.

Same old shit...the team needs ripping apart and rebuilt with young, hungry, pacey players and a manager (preferably English) that isn't being paid £6m a year, and actually sees it as an honour to do the job....you'd have to pay me alot of money to go out of my way to watch England these days

We just had an English manager didn't we?

Theo Walcott gets in, but Agbonlahor/Young don't? Capello is annoying me already.

it is a bit confusing. heskey? i mean come on. i'd rather crouch than heskey!

Hmmm. I'd probably rather have Heskey....but only so I could pair him up with Owen.... :/

capello out

Heskey has done very well so far this season, good chance he will join spurs today aswell.

oi, get back to your potato farm and outta the england thread ;)

more importantly how the fuck has Ashley Cole got in there again??!!

the bloke is a scum bag.

i'd rather play Heskey back there than him.

I'd assume that the idea is for the team to be solid in the hope that someone can nick a goal, I am worried by the continued inclusion of Rooney as a striker.....he should be played wide right and will probably create problems and make goals....his in not an out and out striker and Defoe is a cart horse at international level

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Legend, hope he goes back to West Ham,one day.

I see that the next 2 Enlgand games are on Setanta so there will not be a lot of people able to watch these games unless you got to the pub - most people pay their astronimical sky subscription expecting to see all the football (including internations) but they can't even get them.

That's competition for you...all about bringing down prices for the benefit of the consumer...oh, no hang on... ::)

I've got Setanta and I don't even want it. That's the joys of subscribing with a shit company that has a scandalous cancellation policy.

I guess it could be argued that if you only want to watch a bit of sport you can just pay £12.99 a month instead of the £30 to Sky.

International sports games should have to be on terrestrial telly. Bloody money grabbing football assosiationses.

As it stands now there are even any fucking highlight on terrestrial TV of the next two England games as ITV won't pay Setanta's asking price and have rejected BBC's bid as too small. Another FA cock up.

There is still time to sort it I suppose.

It is outragous that there may not even be any highlights on terrestrial telly.

Id say its also quite likely there may not even be any highlights from the game to show on terrestrial telly.

I have Setanta 1 and 2 but we didn't subscribe to it, just happened to be on there, must be part of the package.

We signed up for Setanta last night, 3 months half price...

No highlights on terrestrial is ridiculous too.

Are you with Virgin? Their top pack (XL??) bundles it in.

haha,good luck if you ever want to cancel. Biggest bunch of charlatains out there. I'd rather miss the games than subscribe to those clowns again. Not even on the £1/month deal I was originally on.

Word of advice,  they don't even notify you of changes in their T&Cs, they just post them on the website (changes such as increasing the cancellation period from 30 too 60 days). They never answer emails. They can take 30 minutes to answer the phone. You can only cancel in writing and even then they claim the cancellation takes place from when they process the letter, not when they are proven to receive it (i.e 3 to 4 weeks earlier).

It is fucking stupid. Don't the FA get it? As much as I hate the fact international football is already losing ground to big money, glitzy club football and doing things like this will just hurt it even more.

Good article here, apparently the lack of away game highlights was beyond FA control:

http://www.epltalk.com/setanta-has-its-rights-but-is-not-selling-england-highlights-in-its-best-interests/3022

i have sky sports and setanta so couldnt give a fuck if highlights arnt on bbc or itv

but you are hardcore innit

Good for you.

thanks

you in suju tomorow jpc

nope having a quiet one tomorrow, will be on it next week though

Good lad see you there, Xfactor tomorow i presume?

more than likely, watch the first few weeks when they have the open auditions, funny watching the shite ones, loose interest when the remaining singers are good

ill come see u if ur in suju next week, your a big mean looking fucker arnt u?

um apparantly so.was going to say hello the other week

do it mate, im wedged up at the mo, drinks on me

watch out for DRS he'll groom you....

i met him in leeds, and now everytime he sees me he tells me to fuck off

Which surely says more about you than me

DRS u will be suprised that im actually not as big a cunt as i come across on here

neither am i

I am

If he the one you pointed out DRS?

Yeah that be him

Anyway, Rio is out injured.

Big miss.