stephenterry Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Square pegs round holes! Only exception Rooney, he's a natural in two positions.Rooney has for once hit fitness and form at the right time for England.It's great for him and would be for England a few years ago but I wonder how he will cope with the Welsh pressing game for an hour on Thursday. They will try to expose his lack of pace at every turn....really unless England make changes...aka binning Sterling and playing a true 4-2-3-1 then I think they are going to struggle to beat the Welsh. Wales have their tails high and really do have the quality to score...Bale might be a pink shorts Ponce but he's also a bloody good player. We've got 4 class strikers in the squad, and you want to play just one? Makes no sense. Just like hodgson. With bale likely to score our best approach is to outscore them rather than pack the defence. Play to our strengths not try and hide our weaknesses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travel2003 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 (edited) Hodgson relishing a fixture 'between brothers' osted at England manager Roy Hodgson has brushed off comments made by Wales players in the build-up to Thursday's Euro 2016 game between the sides. Gareth Bale claimed that Wales have more passion than England, while Aaron Ramsey said he felt the Welsh players are better on paper. Hodgson says he welcomes the "spice" and "interest" in a fixture "between brothers", adding: "I don’t have doubts about our desire, passion and commitment. If people have another opinion then that's fine by me. It's not worthy of comment.” from BBC. Edited June 15, 2016 by Travel2003 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smokie36 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Square pegs round holes! Only exception Rooney, he's a natural in two positions.Rooney has for once hit fitness and form at the right time for England.It's great for him and would be for England a few years ago but I wonder how he will cope with the Welsh pressing game for an hour on Thursday. They will try to expose his lack of pace at every turn....really unless England make changes...aka binning Sterling and playing a true 4-2-3-1 then I think they are going to struggle to beat the Welsh. Wales have their tails high and really do have the quality to score...Bale might be a pink shorts Ponce but he's also a bloody good player. We've got 4 class strikers in the squad, and you want to play just one? Makes no sense. Just like hodgson. With bale likely to score our best approach is to outscore them rather than pack the defence. Play to our strengths not try and hide our weaknesses. OK play 4-2-4...I'd love to see that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenterry Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Square pegs round holes! Only exception Rooney, he's a natural in two positions.Rooney has for once hit fitness and form at the right time for England.It's great for him and would be for England a few years ago but I wonder how he will cope with the Welsh pressing game for an hour on Thursday. They will try to expose his lack of pace at every turn....really unless England make changes...aka binning Sterling and playing a true 4-2-3-1 then I think they are going to struggle to beat the Welsh. Wales have their tails high and really do have the quality to score...Bale might be a pink shorts Ponce but he's also a bloody good player. We've got 4 class strikers in the squad, and you want to play just one? Makes no sense. Just like hodgson. With bale likely to score our best approach is to outscore them rather than pack the defence. Play to our strengths not try and hide our weaknesses.OK play 4-2-4...I'd love to see that. Back in my footballing days the formation was, from the back, 2_3_5, which migrated to 3_3_4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wooloomooloo Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Wales to beat England 6/1. Now that is good odds. England are odds on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Travel2003 Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I'm 100% sure England will win this match. If not, the "analyzing this and that" threads will not stop before the Premier leagues starts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wooloomooloo Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I'm 100% sure England will win this match. Should win with the quality of the squad. Unfortunately, Woy's in charge. An early goal by Wales then Woy goes in to complete meltdown. No Plan B for Woy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveAustin Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Wales's trying to get under their skin (mammoth-motor-mouth bale) will backfire dramatically and they're going to get spanked. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkybillyfish Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 I think if England can keep Galen in check they should do ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenterry Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Please...please...don't pick sterling. How hodgson thought he played well just shows how inept they both are. Any update on team selection? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommysboy Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Wales's trying to get under their skin (mammoth-motor-mouth bale) will backfire dramatically and they're going to get spanked. Wales seem to be cock a hoop already. Listening to all the welsh pundits they've got every angle covered. They've already got 3 points in the bag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkokhatter Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Please...please...don't pick sterling. How hodgson thought he played well just shows how inept they both are. Any update on team selection? Given how we started in the last game i can't see the manager making any changes, but i agree about Sterling, just what does he bring to the side ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieH Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Wales's trying to get under their skin (mammoth-motor-mouth bale) will backfire dramatically and they're going to get spanked. Wales seem to be cock a hoop already. Listening to all the welsh pundits they've got every angle covered. They've already got 3 points in the bag. nah wales have nothing to lose. all the pressure is on england and hodgson here. i'm enjoying bale's gentle sledging though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickBradford Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 England to start against Wales with exactly the same team as vs Russia, that is to say, with only 10 men, plus a cardboard cut-out in the shape of Harry Kane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mommysboy Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Please...please...don't pick sterling. How hodgson thought he played well just shows how inept they both are. Any update on team selection? Given how we started in the last game i can't see the manager making any changes, but i agree about Sterling, just what does he bring to the side ? More worried about Kane to be honest. Can't help thinking Sturridge or Vardy should be playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieH Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 paul scholes reckoned england should start sturridge for this one. i like kane but he is a very premier league style of striker, which might be a blessing for the wales defenders. bale and ramsey will be a handful for the england defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantiSuk Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 22 minutes of rubbish by 2 teams who are afraid of losing. Neither will progress much beyond qualification if they can't do better than this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellydog Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 A no brainer to ditch Sterling for Vardy. Mind boggling lunacy from Woy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jellydog Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Either Vardy/Sturridge for Sterling and/or Wilshere/Barkley for Rooney at half. Ugly so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantiSuk Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Is it possible for the FA to fire a manager at half time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantiSuk Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 The Tottenham boys seem still to be grieving over their end of season malaise. Has Welshman for a day, Smokie, spiked their drinks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkokhatter Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Hart now at fault for both the goals England have conceded so far in the tournament, Stirlings miss from 6 yards not helping much either. Having said that no reason we can't turn it around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveAustin Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Hart screwed up there but why can't they put it away, all them free-kicks/corners? Wales have been dire to be fair but same old with England, decent in qualifiers, dire at crunch time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantiSuk Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 What a difference with the right guys on the pitch. Wilshere for Lallana in the 70th please - his short 1-2s with the likes of Vardy and Sturridge should work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Magic. I'm stuck in the pub with the Seoul British Council. They're buying jugs and fighting over the straws. kee neaow farang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantiSuk Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 British Council Chic; all rugby boys surely? Milk their expense accounts and get something back for the rest of us taxpayers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SantiSuk Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 (edited) Yippee - Welsh hearts broken. Please put Sterling and Lallana back in the subs box now please Roy. Pep has a lot of work to do this Summer! Edited June 16, 2016 by SantiSuk 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephenterry Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 What did I say? Play to our strengths. Finally hodgson did just that. Great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveAustin Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 Totally different second half. Wales parked the bus. Crackin goal, but. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funkybillyfish Posted June 16, 2016 Share Posted June 16, 2016 No slap for the fish tonight....... Garett who? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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