Post by Pappy on Jun 18, 2010 22:59:52 GMT
Honestly I dont really know what to think or expect for the game against Slovenia next Wednesday. If we keep playing like we are I dont think anything more than a draw.
If we do get through then we can start a fresh.
My thoughts on the team are that James should continue in goal with Lampard and Gerrard in the middle. Playing Gerrard on the left dosen`t work, he was ineffective in that position against Algeria.
I would put Lennon on the right with Wright-Phillips on the left that way we have pace on both wings, both player in my opinion can beat thier opposite players and cause problems all the time.
Crouch cold do well maybe with Rooney or Heskey and with Scouser Jamie out for the Slovenia game I think Dawson will be te new centre-back partner for John Terry, Dawson has had a good season with Tottenham Hotspur.
I think we aren`t working as a team which needs to be addressed. We need that passion back, that desire to put effort into helping your team-mates out.
There was a time when we played not for personnel gain but for each other. There is a phrase that no matter how good or strong you are as an individual but only as strong as your weakest player. We need to protect each other, play off each others strengths like Lennons/Wright-Phillips pace or Rooneys aggresiveness, James experince.
Against Slovenia I would `hope` we win, what I expect in the game I honestly don`t know yet. I may make a decision on that front when I see how the players and Fabio repsond in the next few days, when I get a feeling for the mood of the camp.
But I will say this I will support the team though, I wont stop shouting "Come On England" at the big screen inside Upton Vale Baptist Church or singing and dancing with my mates. I look at everything in positive ways (Though I always look at where we went wrong and were we could improve) and I`ll be taking my England horn and military hat to the Slovenia game.
What areyour thoughts on the up-coming game with Slovenia, do you think we`ll show any passion at all? Any grit? Any character? Will we show up as it were and show that we are the country that invented football? The country that gave the world a language that everyone can speak?
We would need show that we can work as a team, that those matches agaisnt USA and Algeria were games that have been put behind us, game that we havent forgotton but learned from.
We need to improve our attack line, we can create some good moves but simply (well not simply, maybe the wrong word) in the wrong area of te pitch. We can get past some players but ened to put the ball infront of Rooney not leave im streatcing back towards David James for the ball and we need to be more confident to take power shots at the `keeper make him know we are there and arent tere to messed around.
If we do get through then we can start a fresh.
My thoughts on the team are that James should continue in goal with Lampard and Gerrard in the middle. Playing Gerrard on the left dosen`t work, he was ineffective in that position against Algeria.
I would put Lennon on the right with Wright-Phillips on the left that way we have pace on both wings, both player in my opinion can beat thier opposite players and cause problems all the time.
Crouch cold do well maybe with Rooney or Heskey and with Scouser Jamie out for the Slovenia game I think Dawson will be te new centre-back partner for John Terry, Dawson has had a good season with Tottenham Hotspur.
I think we aren`t working as a team which needs to be addressed. We need that passion back, that desire to put effort into helping your team-mates out.
There was a time when we played not for personnel gain but for each other. There is a phrase that no matter how good or strong you are as an individual but only as strong as your weakest player. We need to protect each other, play off each others strengths like Lennons/Wright-Phillips pace or Rooneys aggresiveness, James experince.
Against Slovenia I would `hope` we win, what I expect in the game I honestly don`t know yet. I may make a decision on that front when I see how the players and Fabio repsond in the next few days, when I get a feeling for the mood of the camp.
But I will say this I will support the team though, I wont stop shouting "Come On England" at the big screen inside Upton Vale Baptist Church or singing and dancing with my mates. I look at everything in positive ways (Though I always look at where we went wrong and were we could improve) and I`ll be taking my England horn and military hat to the Slovenia game.
What areyour thoughts on the up-coming game with Slovenia, do you think we`ll show any passion at all? Any grit? Any character? Will we show up as it were and show that we are the country that invented football? The country that gave the world a language that everyone can speak?
We would need show that we can work as a team, that those matches agaisnt USA and Algeria were games that have been put behind us, game that we havent forgotton but learned from.
We need to improve our attack line, we can create some good moves but simply (well not simply, maybe the wrong word) in the wrong area of te pitch. We can get past some players but ened to put the ball infront of Rooney not leave im streatcing back towards David James for the ball and we need to be more confident to take power shots at the `keeper make him know we are there and arent tere to messed around.
I still maintain it's not a question of pride or passion, but of confidence ~ confidence in themselves as indiviuals and in their team mates as well.
One`s already been created but doesn`t matter ;D
have moved my post onto this thread and deleted the other thread.