Englands coming home!

[Nik da Greek]

Brian Clough?

[BlitzBoy]

Brian Clough!?

he be dead dude

[Nik da Greek]

Oh yeah. He\'d be about as good as any of the ones Gurj suggested then, won\'t he :Giggle?

....best manager England never had :yes

[BlitzBoy]

yip he should govern beyond the grave lol

[Nik da Greek]

I think Hodgson would be about the best choice, to be fair. I don\'t think anyone can lay the blame for Liverplop\'s shocking situation at his feet. What he achieved with Fulham is beyond belief, tbh, I think it\'s a real shame he hasn\'t got the England job and will be about 123 years old by the time the FA can afford to pay Capello to bugger off

[jetpilot]

Hodgson or Redknapp for me, both have done well with struggling teams.


Lets face it guys, none of the above could do a lot worse!

[Will66]

What ever happens they\'ve still got more chance of winning than the Jocks.

[syebba]

I think we have too much belief in the teams ability to perform, as said before it\'s close to 50yrs since we have won any major trophy and yet we stubbornly cling to the belief we are the best, when time has shown that we are not.
 
As a league player each member of our squad can perform well, as this is the role they train for each and every day. They are part of their clubs in a specific position and they are drilled to the highest level to play in a very specific way, to react in very particular way and to work as a team. They they are taken away from their normal roles and asked to do a something slightly different in a different position with a very different bunch of people they normally compete against.
For me I know I would find it very strange. I know people will say they get paids lots so they should be able to do it, but just because someone can kick a ball doesn\'t mean they are adaptable or have the required brain power to even realise why they cannot perform well.
I realise there are many factors behind our lack of success recently but until we start playing our top players in positions they normally play in I cannot see any way that we can improve their performance.
As Nik said our up and comming players have recently done well but it is our "top" players who are seeming to struggle when asked to do something outside the norm, so maybe we need to concentrate on up and comming player who are keen, eager and proud to be playing for their national team

I agree for far too long players have been granted an automatic place in the squad regardless of their recent past performances.
 
I honestly don\'t think it matters what nationality the manager is,Erikkson did well for england for a time,but alas still no trophies.
The monty manager is croatian,montenegro & croatia were arch enemies during the horrific 1990\'s war & he\'s put them top of the group!
 
Let\'s hope it\'s just a hiccup[many said that during the world cup farce],but in such an easy group again, england need to achieve consistency,no more excuses,yes we were denied a handball,but then montenegro were unlucky hitting the crossbar.
 
GSB876,apologies accepted,i\'m not french,good guess,i\'m english;)
 
ta ra..

[syebba]

I understand why people like Syebba get frustrated, cos we all do. No-one wants or should accept England scraping a goalless draw at home against a country with 650 000 inhabitants, it\'s simply not good enough. What I don\'t understand or find very admirable is the way that people like Syebba are conspicuous by their absence all the time the team are doing well, but spring out of the woodwork as soon as there\'s some gloating to be done over a poor performance.
 
I would have thought, given his often-stated dislike of the old "big" names underperfoming and trousering huge paycheques just on reputation alone, he would have been overjoyed to see the last few England performances featuring young up-coming players often performing extremely well. Hmmm...the silence is deafening. I get very tired of people who do nothing but criticise but are unable to praise when it\'s due. Apart from anything else, it means you\'re left feeling there\'s a certain lack of validity to their opinions....

Ah yes but if you look at my above posts you will see i\'m in favour of the new players in the squad.
If England actually beat credible opposition/perform consistently well & progress to the semi\'s or finals,i will give them plenty of praise.
Problem is they have\'nt,so i can\'t praise them!
 
Their in an easy group & have loused up again,it\'s no wonder wembley was only 75% full & fans started leaving & booing before the end of the match,people are fed up with all the hype,believing we have the best players & squad,we have\'nt quite simply,results are all that matters,not excuses.
 
Lets hope for a miraculous turnaround,but my moneys on spain/germany/holland etc.

[syebba]

What ever happens they\'ve still got more chance of winning than the Jocks.

I don\'t think anyones gonna disagree with that!:Giggle
Are you a scot?:rolleyes:

[Will66]

Ergh, I am nothing to do with those sweaty, unwashed, workshy skirtwearers.  I am singlehandedly taking them on at their own game, deliberately supporting any team playing them!

[jinx]

Fed up with the hype?
Stop buying newspapers/magazines or TV subscriptions from those that hone national hopes into expectations in order to fill as many pages/hours after the event denouncing the culprits for their failure to deliver.

Perhaps the interesting question is why we have collectively elevated this orchestrated character assassination into our real national game. It\'s not only football, though the hysterical marketing and overpaid Neanderthals in overpriced strips make that the easiest target / biggest sinner.

The same techniques get applied to everything not just sport but we should expect both the wunderkind at McLaren to get lightly savaged by British media in a few weeks time if a German, Spaniard or an Australian wins the F1 world championship...(No matter how much the Australian deserves it!)

[gsb876]

they get paid enough to be exploited by the papers

[jinx]

Unfortunately the rest of us don\'t but we are still players in the game.LOL

[gsb876]

Unfortunately the rest of us don\'t but we are still players in the game.LOL

True, but its amazing how the media can make one person a star and another a complete fool.

Currently the papers love Kate Perry, personally i am sick of seeing her in the papers for no reason at all, oooh she got a new dress = me no care :WaveBye

The most crazy of things the papers have done in recent times was trying to catch Eriksson out (NOTW) right before a major tournament ? do they not want us to actually win :rolleyes: