Euro 2016 Qualifying Draw

[grecian]

You know Wilshere will walk back into the side on the back of playing 30 minutes off the bench in the final game of the season without re-injuring himself.

I like Wilshere so I've little problem with that, better than the options I mentioned.

 

[grecian]

Oh gawd Rooney rumoured to be injured for two months, so he'll be brought in totally unfit to start every match.

 

[Uppercut]

Oh gawd Rooney rumoured to be injured for two months, so he'll be brought in totally unfit to start every match.

As if there's any other type of Rooney these days.

Verratti looking like a serious player last night got me thinking about Italy's chances. Strongest group of players they've had for a while with Insigne having a big season too.

 

[Furball]

They're a bit meh in the striking stakes unless there's someone obvious I'm missing.

 

[grecian]

As if there's any other type of Rooney these days.

Verratti looking like a serious player last night got me thinking about Italy's chances. Strongest group of players they've had for a while with Insigne having a big season too.

Well, even less fit then normal even, not even at his low peak.

 

[wpdavid]

Oh gawd Rooney rumoured to be injured for two months, so he'll be brought in totally unfit to start every match.

A statistician would have fun working out the combined probability of Rooney, Sturridge and Welbeck all being fit for the euros.

I'm happy enough with Rooney missing them as long as Kane is fit.

 

[Uppercut]

They're a bit meh in the striking stakes unless there's someone obvious I'm missing.

If they stick with 3-5-2 it'll be Insigne up front. Partnering him might be Giovinco... But I can't imagine Conte looking kindly on his decision to go to the MLS, even if he is completely destroying it.

Re: England, can totally see Rooney starting with Kane and Vardy on the bench. Would be peak Hodgson.

 

[wpdavid]

Re: England, can totally see Rooney starting with Kane and Vardy on the bench. Would be peak Hodgson.

True. Also true for most England managers in my life time actually.

 

[Furball]

Who would anchor England's midfield?

 

[grecian]

Who would anchor England's midfield?

Dier could do it, he does at Spurs.

 

[Furball]

Fair enough, assumed with a name like that he wasn't English.

 

[grecian]

Fair enough, assumed with a name like that he wasn't English.

He kinda isn't, but that's probably why he's good at the role. Yet he did it well in the France match without really standing out..

 

[sledger]

I thought everyone knew Dier was English. As soon as he made one or two appearances a few years ago the predictable "call him up" rhetoric followed suit almost immediately.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

So we all know now that we will go into the first game with Rooney, Welbeck and Wilshere in the starting line up. It is obvious despite how fit/unfit they are.

One thing the Rooney injury does mean though is it should be difficult to justify picking him Welbeck and Sturridge in the same squad. Should mean Vardy and Kane are certainties for the squad now but never know with Woy.

 

[grecian]

So we all know now that we will go into the first game with Rooney, Welbeck and Wilshere in the starting line up. It is obvious despite how fit/unfit they are.

One thing the Rooney injury does mean though is it should be difficult to justify picking him Welbeck and Sturridge in the same squad. Should mean Vardy and Kane are certainties for the squad now but never know with Woy.

I don't dislike Hodgson as much as some, but like any manager he has his faves, but Kane will be there. He's made 8 appearances last year.

 

[Uppercut]

I think he's ****e and benefitting from an era in which the pendulum of English expectations has swung to a very low ebb. The emergence of a generation of fast, skilful attacking players just makes it more frustrating than it was when he ****ed everything up at the World Cup.

 

[grecian]

I'm just going to give him a chance to see what he can do with this new generation. In the end it's the old the FA want an English manager, so We could have had worse IMHO.

It would be nice to think they could perhaps give someone like Eddie Howe the job soon. A young progressive manager with young progressive players, but we'll see.

 

[Cabinet96]

It's Brendan's time.

 

[GIMH]

I'm just going to give him a chance to see what he can do with this new generation. In the end it's the old the FA want an English manager, so We could have had worse IMHO.

It would be nice to think they could perhaps give someone like Eddie Howe the job soon. A young progressive manager with young progressive players, but we'll see.

They'll probably give it to bloody Pardew

 

[BoyBrumby]

I can totally see Vardy missing out. We'll take four strikers tops and that would be Rooney, Sturridge, Welbeck and Kane.

Oh, it's madness, natch, but it wouldn't be a tournament without the traditional injury panic. And we're pretty much guaranteed one with the first three.