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John Ruddy ruled out of England Euro 2012 squad with injury

killerandflash
killerandflash Posts: 69,978
edited May 2012 in Other Football and Sports
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/england/18204979

Feel sorry for the guy, 19 year old Jack Butland now called up !?!

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  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,079
    Get Stockdale in.
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    So the best third keeper is a kid who's played in L2?
  • cafcdan18
    cafcdan18 Posts: 3,664
    So the best third keeper is a kid who's played in L2?
    Butland will be a top keeper, is it that big a risk taking him as 3rd choice, good experience for the guy and barring a crisis, he won't get near the pitch.

    Feel for Ruddy.
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,645
    great experience for the kid but there must be other alternatives. Hamer for instance. Played in a League higher, more clean sheets. Should have been a shoe-in.
  • Addicted
    Addicted Posts: 2,804
    So the best third keeper is a kid who's played in L2?
    Butland will be a top keeper, is it that big a risk taking him as 3rd choice, good experience for the guy and barring a crisis, he won't get near the pitch.

    Feel for Ruddy.
    Im sure he'll be a great keeper, just questioning if he's the best third choice right now! As you say probably wont get near the pitch but thought the whole idea is you take your best 23? Wasn't there a young keeper at Watford who was really promising?
  • StubleyAddick
    StubleyAddick Posts: 2,552
    Pleased for Butland, he has looked a great keeper when i have seen him on tv!

    Surprised Fraser Forster (Celtic's keeper) wasn't considered though..
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,438
    Pleased for Butland, he has looked a great keeper when i have seen him on tv!

    Surprised Fraser Forster (Celtic's keeper) wasn't considered though..
    Needs to play in a higher league as overlooked in favour of a League 2 player :)

  • francis4england
    francis4england Posts: 421
    Cant understand why the likes of Fraser Forster and Scott Carson have been overlooked. Both have had very good seasons. It seems that Hodgson will only consider players playing in England. Joe Cole was also overlooked after having a very good season for Lille
  • cafcnick1992
    cafcnick1992 Posts: 7,448
    I echo the stockdale calls. He's an excellent keeper
  • loe.ldn.wpack
    loe.ldn.wpack Posts: 235
    Butland is a very promising prospect. If he's only going as third choice, why not take a kid to give him experience? He has played for England at the U - 20 World Cup last year and was a stand out player.

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  • The Red Robin
    The Red Robin Posts: 26,154
    Get Stockdale in.
  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,467
    Stockdale won the game for Fulham against us single handedly and he was MOTM. A class keeper.
  • I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY
    I-SAW-POUSO-PLAY Posts: 4,609
    Stockdale Dempsey won the game for Fulham against us single handedly and he was MOTM. A class keeper.
  • JohnnyJoeyDeeDee
    JohnnyJoeyDeeDee Posts: 1,043
    Our fourth choice has been playing in League 2 - Spain's plays for Man United
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    Stockdale won the game for Fulham against us single handedly and he was MOTM. A class keeper.
    agreed, we could've put 2 or even 3 passed them if it wasn't for some brilliant saves.
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,241
    In which case we wouldve lost 4-2or3 and still wouldn't have won
  • Southendaddick
    Southendaddick Posts: 5,320
    Hamer lol

    Feel sorry for ruddy but when has a 3rd choice keeper done anything other than make the tea
  • cafcdan18
    cafcdan18 Posts: 3,664
    Butland has a fine chance of being regularly involved with England for years so the logic of taking him over a Championship keeper (who will probably never get another call up) does make sense in that he almost certainly won't play but the experience will be beneficial and it gives him chance to work with Joe Hart (one of the worlds best) and challenge himself in training against top players.

    Forster, Stockdale and Carson may feel a bit aggrieved however.
  • samcooke91
    samcooke91 Posts: 97
    Third choice hardly matters, feel a bit sorry for Ukraine who have lost their top 3 keepers however, but anyway surely scott carson he was great for us , deserves it on that alone I reckon
  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,181
    Hamer lol

    Feel sorry for ruddy but when has a 3rd choice keeper done anything other than make the tea
    Never, until now, of course this time he will be needed...

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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,375
    Hamer as a shoe in?! He's had a great season in League One. And all of a sudden he's a shoe in for England? Behave!

    Bad luck for Ruddy, but the irritating self-loving Norwich fans will quieten down a bit now at least.
  • Mortimerician
    Mortimerician Posts: 5,222
    The experts always say what a wonderful experience it is, but I'm not convinced that two weeks hanging about with tools like fat frank, Stevie G and mother Terry, sharing the bench with prodigious talents like Downing and Green and working for a lame duck manager then facing the usual press and public lambasting on return is such a great thing
  • dizzee
    dizzee Posts: 5,616
    Our fourth choice has been playing in League 2 - Spain's plays for Man United
    LOL

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