posted Nov 24, 2007

Very suprised to hear you say you have training to play for your place,you should have training to get together ,keep your fitness levals up, and work out tatics,and generaly get used to each other.
Theres a big difference between playing well in training and playing at Wembley with the weight of the nation on your shoulders,i can see where England go wrong now,its a bit like a racehourse,they run great on the gallops,and lose the race.

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posted Nov 24, 2007

i think there are lots of prem' players who are overated just because they're athletic, do you? is having skill important these days?
normally it takes clever opposition to find these shortcommings.
how did you find your own performance against croatia?

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posted Nov 24, 2007

"normally it takes clever opposition to find these shortcommings.
how did you find your own performance against croatia?"

If you actually bothered to read the article he says what he thought of his own performance...

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posted Nov 25, 2007

In his column, Micah said that we seemed to take our foot off the gas when we got it back to 2-2. What I would like to know, is why we do this consistently when we're involved in a pressure game, in fact in most games!! Do they think that the team they are up against are willing to settle for a draw? Please someone tell me!!!

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posted Nov 25, 2007

I thought Micah was one of our best players on the night. He has a lot of heart.

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posted Nov 25, 2007

It isn't just jealousy that the England players get paid more than us, it's the fact that they seem to do little to justify their salaries. Ultimately it's the fans who are paying their wages, and if they aren't producing the goods, the fans have a right to complain. Same with the manager....a £2m payoff for being inept at your job? The trouble is, it seems like the fans are the only ones who really care.

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posted Nov 25, 2007

As you can probably tell I am a Man City Fan and therefore always likely to defend a City player. In this case however i have to say i think that some of the comments on here are ridiculous - a lot written by Utd fans wanting a recall for Gary Neville. Richards was one of the better players on Wednesday - which wasn't hard as overall they were all poor. Whilst i think Neville would be a good deputy for Richards (or vice versa! ) the biggest problem i think is that in other positions there isn't that competition for places - most of the players have become automatic choices and so if they have a few bad games nothing happens. Take the goalkeepers for example - Robinson has been out of form for ages - not dropped until the last minute as no obvious alternative. Same upfront Rooney not scored for ages until the Russia game - but clearly no one else apart constantly injured owen is an adequate replacement. As a result when own and Rooney were both out we had to rely on 3 forwards (Crouch - who did okay, Defoe and Bent) who cant even make their club sides.
I dont think we have the pool of talent to pick from. One thing i cant understand is we get told that young players aren't coming through as their places are taken by foreign lads - but why don't our young players then move abroad to find suitable clubs (if all the foreign clubs are losign their youngsters then surely they would have a change of getting signed by them.

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posted Nov 25, 2007

There has been a lot of talk about the reason for Englands demise being due to the number of foreigners playing in the English leagues.
I just wasted a couple of hours checking out the premier league teams fielded this weekend.
33% of the players were English, 67% of the players were foreign.
That alarms be VERY MUCH !
What do you think Micah?

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posted Nov 25, 2007

by imfeelingblue:

'I dont think we have the pool of talent to pick from. One thing i cant understand is we get told that young players aren't coming through as their places are taken by foreign lads - but why don't our young players then move abroad to find suitable clubs (if all the foreign clubs are losing their youngsters then surely they would have a change of getting signed by them'

- if they are good enough..

This is perhaps the most insightful comment I've seen on 606 for a while. English youngsters not getting games in the EPL becos it's so 'foreign' shpould definitely try to get signed at other top leagues instead of getting attached to bench spots or the lower league places. Look at Jermaine Defoe for goodness sake! why doesnt he try to improve by playing first team football abroad or something? However, my view is that England's best young players WILL emerge from this highly competitive jungle that is the premiership. Just look at Carson, Foster, Agbonlahor, Walcott, Lennon, Milner, Huddlestone, Cattermole, Richards, Baines, Bale, Ashley Young (who is a beast, by the way) etc, superb young English players with the potential to be stars CONTINUE to emerge in every position. The rest of them who dont make it into the Prem 'because of foreigners' - the national team has little need for.

I love how Micah mentions that the new manager must drive the team forward like McClaren "planned to" - (but couldn't)

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posted Nov 25, 2007

What would you think about bringing in some form of democracy to appoint the England manager? Whilst there would have to be a way to prevend non supporters and the tabloids having too much of a say, this would attempt to prevent the criticsm of the England team and negative press which must be unhelpful. Also this will give some legitimisy to the position. Therefore the manager could be elected for 4 years to plan the attempt to win the world cup. Individual defeats would be irrelevent, the big prize is the only importance. As the players have decided to give their England salary to charity, should the England manager do the same? Should the position be an honour as the peoples choice, rather than a paid position?

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