14 Jul 2018 20:38:06
Are the posts about England's performances in the World Cup out of frustration or are they what people really think. Southgate took over amid a lot of controversy with big Sam, he went about getting rid of most of the old guard as well as getting the team to play more of a passing game. The team are far from being a brilliant team but in a shortish space of time Southgate has turned the players of his choosing into World Cup Semi finalists, not tok shabby in my opinion.


1.) 14 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 20:55:57
JFJ.
my view before a ball was kicked in the world cup;Was we have an inexperienced manager and an inexperienced team whoed not played in a major tournament.
Put the two together and it didn't look good,but at the end of the day we reached the last four.
It's progress whichever way you dress it up and the old guard in that squad will be discarded before the euros.
He'll bring more young players into the squad and they'll grow as will the likes of Kane trippier Maguire stones and pickford.
It's far from doom and gloom and you have to take the positives from this world cup.
On another note how great has it been not to have to read about the English hooligans and read about the team instead.
Keep the faith


2.) 14 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 21:18:06
Great post ff


3.) 14 Jul 2018
14 Jul 2018 22:57:06
Somebodies changed their tune having moaned about Southgates initial team selections and now holding the same players up as a team to add to?

England are on the up thanks to some proper infrastructure being put in at all levels with the same manager bringing them through. We are on the rights lines at last just like Forest?


4.) 15 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 00:01:12
Plain fact is we lack a hazard, had he been in an England shirt we would have won. we lack a real world class player, and please nobody mention Kane, he is hamstrung by an obvious lack of pace.


5.) 15 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 09:04:27
We reached a semi final but that is misleading in the respect that we should have when you look at who we played. Beating poor sides doesn't make us a good side. Average at best. England won't be winning a major tournament anytime soon. Nowhere near good enough.


6.) 15 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 12:14:22
Incidentally, Ff799, you wouldn't have read or heard anything regarding English hooligans because they were scared to death of the Russian hooligans so most of them if not all of them wouldn't have gone over.


7.) 15 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 13:02:05
Try reading post red I did say I didn't rate the side or the manager,but they did well with all their inexperience,semis were good considering I didn't think Intially we'd get to the quarters.
Something to build on hopefully.


8.) 15 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 15:42:39
That's what you call good policing psycho,No pussy footing around like the French did.