Magrat Garlick
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Lack of replacements for Vidal and Alexis?
Meanwhile the big two in North America can sleepwalk through qualifying...
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Meanwhile the big two in North America can sleepwalk through qualifying...
flibbertyjibber
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Just when England being so crap starts getting you down Scotland go and cheer you up by not being able to beat another minnow. and nearly losing. The gift that never stops giving.
wpdavid
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With half the teams travelling half way round the world for one match? Not great.
wpdavid
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It was horrible, wasn't it. So many individual errors, and one or two players just poor throughout. I'm struggling to recall a worse performance from a centre forward than what we saw from Sturridge last night - incapable of retaining possession, and equally incapable of making good decisions on the rare occasion when he did manage to control the ball. No wonder Klopp's been marking his card. Walcott wasn't much better, either.
Scaly piscine
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Yea I wouldn't have Walcott anywhere near the squad. He's completely innocuous 99% of the time. Sturridge was abysmal, he seems to play by numbers, it's like he decides when he next gets the ball he's going to do some pirouette thing regardless. Another time he'll have a shot. I think he mentally rolls the dice and snake eyes means passing the ball.
England were just a cacophony of WTF moments. Absolute shite. It is irritating because the Rooney wuckfit society will now say because England were **** that means it was because they 'missed' Rooney and pundits are too stupid/lazy to remember the 3-2 against Germany. England should be picking literally 50-100 players ahead of Rooney. He's not one of the best 30 or so players and there is absolutely no upside to playing him against the next bunch of players who are younger and will improve.
sledger
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No doubt an accurate and well-researched figure.
Scaly piscine
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Pretty much everyone who's played for England over the year deserves to be ahead of Rooney. As do a load of lower profile names and youth or young players. So yes 50-100 is about right.
Trying to shoehorn Rooney in, and all the bullshit whenever he plays or does not play, and the fact that he's clearly not good enough for the squad let alone the starting line up. He should have been retired, instead he is hugely detrimental to the England side regardless of whether he's on the pitch or not.
Trying to shoehorn Rooney in, and all the bullshit whenever he plays or does not play, and the fact that he's clearly not good enough for the squad let alone the starting line up. He should have been retired, instead he is hugely detrimental to the England side regardless of whether he's on the pitch or not.
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Exaggerations aside, it's kind of difficult to tell how bad Rooney is. There are so many players at that level below world class that you don't have to decline by a huge amount to fall a long way down the rankings. He's definitely worse than Lingard, for example, and you could name tonnes of players roughly at Lingard's level. I'd say there are definitely a few Championship players out there better than Rooney.
Scaly piscine
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So is Rooney classed as 'on-form' after actually doing something statistically in the last two games?
Scaly piscine
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Nice gormless barge by Rooney there to give them the free kick when the ball is going out.
grecian
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Got to say Lallana must win some sort of most-improved-player thing, if that wasn't a filthy American Idea and we are against those.
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