Hi all how do you all think England are going to do tonight ?

 

Sports section further down the board mate, this will be moved soon.

I think we'll do OK. Croatia are a better team and should be a little easier to play against. Hard to tell though with England, one week we can be awsome the next we can look like nobodies.

 

I think they might scrape a goal tonight with rooney scoring

 

Croatia havent lost at home for 29 games!!
gonna be a difficult match to get a win, but hope to get one ... or that table could look very different tomorrow morning

 

Will we ever accept that England are just one of the poorer teams?

Lose 2-0

 

Badly I hope!

 

Up the Cyprus

 

I'm going for losing 0-1.

The whole midfield out, no Beckham, and Rooney picked because.............well, because he's Rooney and to NOT pick him would sic tthe media straight onto McLaren! He's VERY poor at the moment though.

Mind, what did we expect? We gave McLaren the job, knowing he was the sidekick of that Swedish tw@. Now we have a similar set-up, a similar team, and play similar boring crap. Surprised? Not me

Alcazar

 

Agree with all of the above. The last two games had Sven written all over them. The McClaren press has tried to play down his level of involvement with England during his coaching under Sven - but it is becomming evident that he had a much greater influence on England than he would like to admit.

He has offered up Beckham as a sacrificial lamb to the press, and not picking him purely on the basis of proclaiming he is "his own man". With Lennon injured, the ommision of Beckham is an absolute scandal. I can remember watching the game on Saturday and saying to my mate "If only there were some English player that were the best crosser of the ball in the world".....

Even if you throw Beckahm on with 25 mins to go- and least you give us another option - Why he isn't on the bench as back up is beyond me.

As for Rooney, and Lampard, niether justify thier place in the starting XI on current form.

He was always a poor second choice - His club record is nothing of note. The best man for the job is currently at Villa.

As an aside, did anyone watching the England U21's last night? Walcott scored a goal straight out of the Henry book - His pace was electrifying.

 

 

Er sorry for being abit dim but what has Cyprus got to do with anything when we are playing Croatia

 

i think it might be another 0-0, we are pretty solid at the back but lack any cutting edge up front, for me rooney and crouch have never been good enough, they might have had the odd good game but lets face it, they cant score at prem level consistantly!

 

agree to that beckham should be in the squad, he is proven at the op level and also, how can you go from being good enough to be england captain, to being dropped out of the squd for people like shaun 'im useless' wright-phillips

 

****e! they are sooo fuc*ing lame, god the macedonia game was a disgrace!

 

Because Numpy Nathan wants England to lose the sheep rapist. Cyprus play Wales so just for him I'll cheer on Cyprus (hes from Wales )

 

Ah ha Alles Klar

 

WHY AIN'T IT ON NATIONAL TV ???????

Our national game, and it's on ******* Sky

A) I don't have Sky
B) My local pub doesn't have it either. Cost to much.


England 1 - 0 Croatia

 

About the same as last time I reckon. Is McClaren getting the same money as Ericsson, who is still being paid for nothing!

Les

 

I agree, its a disgrace, luckily i have sky but it was the same with the ryder cup 2 hrs every night on the bbc where as i watched it live 7am-7pm, its not fair when it is a national event!!

 

Moved to the sports section at last, this means the post count will die on its ****

1-0 to England but if they play like Saturday, 2-0 Croatia

 

We need to see some quality ***** into the box before we see JT or RF getting on the end of a ball.

 

Ever the optimist, I think we'll sneak a 1-0 win.

Glad to see Parker getting a start, always 100% committed and reliable. Hopefully Carrick can pull out a performance too. He did the same on Saturday as he's doing at United; he's a great player and while he shows signs of pure brilliance, he needs a little more urgency about his game to really compete at the top, top level.

I agree with everything that has been said about Beckham. People forget (as McClaren clearly has) that when we were in the sh*t, it was Beckham (time and time again) who pulled something out of the bag. Granted, he's not the player he once was, but he still has that inspirational streak in him and is more than capable of providing a match winning set piece, cross, finish, etc.

 

Player of this, ****ty, season so far for the Toon.



misses yet another home game due to work and on ******* nightshift for the next

 

2/1 on a home win looks a good proposition, but not nearly as good as the 2/1 I got on Slovakia to beat Wales on Saturday.

You can also get 2/1 on the draw which is probably the better bet.

 

Ack. I see McClaren is talking about going to a 3-5-2. Saing "We have to change according to injuries and suspensions and who we are going to play".

THis is such a negative attitude. When was the last time France or Italy played anything but 4-4-2 no matter who they played?

Because they have beleif in thier abilities, they go out with the confidence that they will make the oppostion conform to the style of game that they want them to play - not the other way round.

To change a formation based on your opponent is admitting that with your usual line-up/formation, you will get beat - that you do not have the ability to impose your game on the opposition.

Every single sucessful club and international side makes the oppostion adapt and conform and compromise - not the other way round.

****ing McClaren.

 

1-0 down, and they're cheating *******

 

Bring back David James, all is forgiven Im not watching anymore of that ****. Turned it off now.