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  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,862
    I read there are some odd choices tuchel made for the squad tonight.

    I can't locate it. 

    Anyone know? 

    I assume we have another game tuesday/Wednesday 
  • Dave2l said:
    I read there are some odd choices tuchel made for the squad tonight.

    I can't locate it. 

    Anyone know? 

    I assume we have another game tuesday/Wednesday 
    Yeah we're at Serbia on Tuesday night.
  • Dave2l
    Dave2l Posts: 8,862
    Dave2l said:
    I read there are some odd choices tuchel made for the squad tonight.

    I can't locate it. 

    Anyone know? 

    I assume we have another game tuesday/Wednesday 
    Yeah we're at Serbia on Tuesday night.

    Can England's world Cup qualifiers get renamed "walk in the park" 

    The nations league is actually quite important....even if not very interesting.

    We get to play against competitive opposition so big tournaments won't be such a shock for us.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    McBobbin said:
    Getting closer and closer to drawing The Goodwin Sands in round 1...


    Will need to add a few more hosts to that if it happens
    The more you dilute, the less tasty it becomes. In Argentina they put ice in their wine.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    edited September 6
    England at Villa Park, Coldplay at Wembley.

    Just about sums up my thoughts on England’s chances with another dumbarse decision of a foreign manager.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,552
    McBobbin said:
    Getting closer and closer to drawing The Goodwin Sands in round 1...


    Will need to add a few more hosts to that if it happens
    The more you dilute, the less tasty it becomes. In Argentina they put ice in their wine.
    Is ice in prosecco ok?
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    Put it in you what you want but it will decrease the quality of any alcoholic drink, just as adding more teams is going to do.
  • The rate we're going out everybody will qualify for the final.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,435
    The rate we're going out everybody will qualify for the final.
    Except Scotland
  • DamoNorthStand
    DamoNorthStand Posts: 10,933
    When did Englands team become so average all of a sudden. Seems a blink of an eye ago we were talking about a golden generation that on paper looked eye wateringly good.

    Now we have Elliot Anderso, Dan Burn, Marcus Rashford and Noni Madueke to look forward to.

    I presume come the World Cup, Saka, Palmer, Bellingham etc will all be fit again 
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  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,970
    The training game we all thought it would be. Anderson looks very good tho.
  • Stewart
    Stewart Posts: 2,451
    Did anyone else see the Charlton jumper in the crowd just then? 
  • Redvalleyeast
    Redvalleyeast Posts: 4,689
    Usual snoozefest
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,730
    We just move the ball so slowly. 
  • Fumbluff
    Fumbluff Posts: 10,121
    England are poop
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,730
    We just move the ball so slowly. 
    ….and when we speed up the delivery….


  • Macronate
    Macronate Posts: 12,890
    Tuchel is to the England team what Starmer is to the leadership of this country.

    Thought I’d throw a bit of politics into this.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,970
    Tuesday is the first test he’ll have
  • Croydon
    Croydon Posts: 12,723
    Macronate said:
    Tuchel is to the England team what Starmer is to the leadership of this country.

    Thought I’d throw a bit of politics into this.
    Grim experience being in the Holte End and listening to non stop chants about Starmer. It's boring 
  • Laddick01
    Laddick01 Posts: 6,362
    I’d argue now that we actually have more depth than we ever have. So many names around the squad that are doing it at a high level every week (Rodgers, Gibbs White etc.)

    When the squad is at full strength, it should give any team in the world a game.
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  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    What a crock of boring shit

    We’re playing a f******* ski resort ffs

    No attacking prowess, just passing it backwards and forwards in the final third against a team that are ranked so low that you have to scroll to the bottom of the FIFA rankings. Their players play at 6th tier football clubs.

    Southgate’s football may have been boring because he was defensive. Tuchel’s is boring because he wants to attack but doesn’t know how to do it.

    Southgate didn’t win anything but put us in 2 semi finals and one final. Tuchel out now otherwise we’ll get 2nd round in 2026 at the very best.


  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,970
    Thought the subs did well. My problem is Tuchel has had 5 games now and we’ve looked average at best in all of them. I do think he might show his worth in later stages of major tournaments like he did with Chelsea.
  • dickad1
    dickad1 Posts: 259
    What a crock of boring shit

    We’re playing a f******* ski resort ffs

    No attacking prowess, just passing it backwards and forwards in the final third against a team that are ranked so low that you have to scroll to the bottom of the FIFA rankings. Their players play at 6th tier football clubs.

    Southgate’s football may have been boring because he was defensive. Tuchel’s is boring because he wants to attack but doesn’t know how to do it.

    Southgate didn’t win anything but put us in 2 semi finals and one final. Tuchel out now otherwise we’ll get 2nd round in 2026 at the very best.


    Two finals
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,613
    What a crock of boring shit

    We’re playing a f******* ski resort ffs

    No attacking prowess, just passing it backwards and forwards in the final third against a team that are ranked so low that you have to scroll to the bottom of the FIFA rankings. Their players play at 6th tier football clubs.

    Southgate’s football may have been boring because he was defensive. Tuchel’s is boring because he wants to attack but doesn’t know how to do it.

    Southgate didn’t win anything but put us in 2 semi finals and one final. Tuchel out now otherwise we’ll get 2nd round in 2026 at the very best.


    I was thinking how you could get the "minnows" to actually want to go forward rather than have 11 players behind the ball. 

    Like limited overs cricket (50 and 20 over matches) I wonder if there should he a rule that you have to keep 2 players inside the centre circle at all times. Or draw a line 50 yards from goal and only 8 players are allowed behind it.
  • fenaddick
    fenaddick Posts: 10,966
    Andorra have made a habit of only losing 2/3-0 by refusing to put anyone ahead of the ball. Some of it is down to the quality of opponents but they haven’t conceded 4+ since 2023. These results don’t happen in a vacuum 
  • MrBurns
    MrBurns Posts: 1,285
    Macronate said:
    Tuchel is to the England team what Starmer is to the leadership of this country.

    Thought I’d throw a bit of politics into this.
    Hopefully we get a proper British manager in for the England job and Nigel in at Number 10 next year 
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    fenaddick said:
    Andorra have made a habit of only losing 2/3-0 by refusing to put anyone ahead of the ball. Some of it is down to the quality of opponents but they haven’t conceded 4+ since 2023. These results don’t happen in a vacuum 


    Maybe the other teams were making the same mistake of not testing them enough.

    My daughter was surprised that I was shouting at them angrily. I said to her that all they need to do is get the ball into the box and put them under real pressure.  Almost as soon as I said it we finally put a decent cross in and got the second goal.

    I really believe that if we had got at them properly we would have scored 7 or 8. They are a bunch of Conference South players, at best.

    We might draw with Serbia twice and it come down to goal difference.
  • cblock
    cblock Posts: 1,958
    Macronate said:
    Tuchel is to the England team what Starmer is to the leadership of this country.

    Thought I’d throw a bit of politics into this.
    Because the last lot went so well did'nt it.
  • jimmymelrose
    jimmymelrose Posts: 9,740
    edited September 6
    MrBurns said:
    Macronate said:
    Tuchel is to the England team what Starmer is to the leadership of this country.

    Thought I’d throw a bit of politics into this.
    Hopefully we get a proper British manager in for the England job and Nigel in at Number 10 next year 
    All Nigels are w*****s.

    Edit: British!? Not English? So you’d be happy with a bloody Welshman or Scot f*****g us over instead?
  • R0TW
    R0TW Posts: 1,673
    Croydon said:
    Macronate said:
    Tuchel is to the England team what Starmer is to the leadership of this country.

    Thought I’d throw a bit of politics into this.
    Grim experience being in the Holte End and listening to non stop chants about Starmer. It's boring 
    No, you just didn’t like hearing how much hatred there is of your hero.