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Post by kentwalton on Mar 28, 2007 23:27:59 GMT -1
Steve McClaren is getting a lot of flak as England manager. Apparently they were booed to a large extent at the end of the first half and even at the end some fans were booing the team. (I didn't see the game because I was working) Is the team playing that badly? How does the current squad compare to England squads of the past?
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Post by kentwalton on Mar 29, 2007 21:44:28 GMT -1
hi Kent not sure what to think of Steve mc-claren i suppose we should give him time after all it was in the 60s the last time england won anything maybe the players are to individual and not playing as a team maybe they are paid to much i know i couldn't do any better i cant see england winning anything in the next 10 years although they won today 3-0 i really liked the old English teams like Tom Finny Stanly Mathews Bobby Charlton JUST TO NAME A FEW when we used to look up to the players and they showed an example to the younger ones tommy I'm all in favour of giving him time Tommy. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like many other people are prepared to do that. My personal view is that if you can't get a country the size and standard of league that England have to the quarter-finals at least of a major international tournament you should quit. |
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Post by joetaylor on Mar 30, 2007 7:06:40 GMT -1
Hi
No i don't think McClaren is doing a good job, I don't think he his a bad person or a bad manager i just think he is to defensive,he doesnt give the players the freedom to do what they do at club level.
JOE T
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Post by moonshine on Mar 30, 2007 10:22:54 GMT -1
Hi there
Mac's record speaks for itsself. I don't think his job is to teach the players how to play football, but to motivate a collection of top players. Look at Rooney's match, he looked half motivated to me.
Perhaps there would be more motivation if Steve Gerrard was made captain. Even the return of David Beckham would give the team a boost. Dunno, what do you think?
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Post by joetaylor on Mar 30, 2007 13:23:37 GMT -1
Hi Moonshine Your dead right about Rooney, but the other players are the same,They don't shine for England like they do for there clubs What annoys me is the criticism Rooney gets,The boys only 21? and to be honest he is not an out & out striker.  JOE T |
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Post by kentwalton on Apr 2, 2007 1:52:22 GMT -1
The team definitely needs a boost in some way. The players you would think would be naturally be more motivated playing for their country because I'm sure most of us dreamed of scoring the winner in a World Cup Final when we were playing football as kids. Good point about Rooney being young and taking a lot of unfair stick. He still acts like a young kid when decisions don't go his way. I used to be a football referee and would never have tolerated the way Rooney speaks to referees. The FA won't appoint independently minded managers hence the reason why England haven't won anything since 1966. They should have appointed Cloughie when they had the chance.
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Post by avros on Apr 2, 2007 21:26:11 GMT -1
Stevie - boy wonder - is no good as a manager- period. He was defensive minded at Middlesbrough and like wise with England. Lampard will have to be sacrificed for Gerrard, you can not have two players in the same team doing the same job. There will be no Beckham recall for sure. Hargreaves has been alotted that numbered shirt worn by him. Sadly they do miss Owen, he would be a great help for the likes of a tall player like Grouch.
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Post by Mike on Jul 7, 2007 12:58:33 GMT -1
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Post by Mike on Jul 8, 2007 12:37:18 GMT -1
Shame Lewis only managed third but still keeps him 12 points in front of Alonso. ;D Migky |
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Post by bodzy on Jul 8, 2007 18:38:17 GMT -1
The Constituion for the Peoples Republic of Mancunia
1 Safe standing at football matches
2 Beer of your choice served to you in seat at the match
3 No scousers
4 No income tax of any sort
5 No city fans
6 No clueless or opinionated bints who get abusive when people disaggree with them
7 No women at football matches
8 No face painting ( punishment expulsion from Republic for life )
9 Nation Anthem One Love by the "Roses"
10 Clueless bints to get their driving licences revoked
11 Fat birds to either go on a effective diet or be re-patriated to Ingerund
12 All day happy hours in pubs
13 Kids not allowed to sing at football matches untill their balls drop
14 No police horses ( In fact no police -we will be a self policing state)
15 No "out of town flags "at the match,-if your a red ,we dont care where you come from
16 Nightly bombing of London televised by MTV (Mancunian TV )
17 Ian Brown and Eric Cantona to be made life peers
18 The Dog and Partridge ,Old Trafford to be made the seat of Goverment
19The following phrases are banned and punishable by a week in the stocks :::"Footie", "Man U"
Suggestions please to me
bodzy
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Post by Lisa on Jul 9, 2007 13:18:14 GMT -1
Hi Migky, Is that the half a racehorse that you bought? Shame Lewis only managed third but still keeps him 12 points in front of Alonso. ;D Migky |
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