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[Football] Lewis Dunk for England.



Farehamseagull

Solly March Fan Club
Nov 22, 2007
13,771
Sarisbury Green, Southampton
He's still got every chance of getting in the squad before the world cup and during what could be quite an exciting time for England. As a post on the Spurs v Real Madrid game thread mentioned, we should fill the side with Spurs and Man City players and with a couple of other additions we could have a very decent side:

Butland;
Walker, Stones, Cahill, Rose;
Dier, Winks;
Sterling, Alli, Rashford;
Kane.
 


Se20

Banned
Oct 3, 2012
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What does Southgate know though, seriously?
RLC, Abraham in squad, just shows that he doesn't really know much about football.
Also will be hilarious if he puts Hart in his squad again, felt like he ran out of excuses last time he was in squad, and he's been poo since then, so can't wait to here how he justifies this one.

Hart had a blinder last week, back to his best imho .
Dunk's had 10 games in the PL, and he's behind a host of others, so no surprise there.
 






Napper

Well-known member
Jul 9, 2003
23,858
Sussex
Joe Gomez has started 7 premier league games, but still got in the squad.

Still prob done more than Dunk.

Lets face it Dunk is close but he is still behind quite a few who didn't make it.

Good season and an England failure in the summer and he may move up pecking order
 






Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo

Waxing chumps like candles since ‘75
Oct 4, 2003
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Hart had a blinder last week, back to his best imho .
Dunk's had 10 games in the PL, and he's behind a host of others, so no surprise there.

Dunk has more games than Gomez and is part a statistically meaner defence. Lofus-Cheek is playing for the team bottom of the PL and didn’t make the squad for either of your wins this season. Abraham I can understand getting a call up as he’s scoring goals in a poor side, but let’s face it Gomez has only got his call up because he’s a Liverpool player and Lofus-Cheek cause he’s on loan from Chelsea.

Isn't Joe Gomez a full back ?

Can play either full back or centre back. CB is his preferred position though.
 


Jam The Man

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
8,110
South East North Lancing
Dunk will likely get a call up when one of the currently named CBs pulls out over the weekend.

You heard it here first!
 






HCxUK

Well-known member
Apr 18, 2014
814
Harry Winks and Dele All were picked after only playing a handful of games. Dunk has the potential to be as much of a regular as that pair

Players from the top six clubs will always be fast tracked into the England setup, the fact is there was no way a Brighton player was going to get in the England team after playing 10 PL games, as much as he deserves to..
 


loz

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Apr 27, 2009
2,223
W.Sussex
Dunk has more games than Gomez and is part a statistically meaner defence. Lofus-Cheek is playing for the team bottom of the PL and didn’t make the squad for either of your wins this season. Abraham I can understand getting a call up as he’s scoring goals in a poor side, but let’s face it Gomez has only got his call up because he’s a Liverpool player and Lofus-Cheek cause he’s on loan from Chelsea.Can play either full back or centre back. CB is his preferred position though.

Surly that's not the criteria of how players are picked though. They must see him in a roll similar to which he played in the U21s, Southgate knows the player which must help. Dunk plays in a team which at the moment plays as a very tight unit often on the back foot making the 2 center backs the mainstay of the team...hopefully England wont plan to play that well. Dunk may well get a chance later on and I wouldn't rule him out for a place next year.
 




Tony Towner's Fridge

Well-known member
Aug 22, 2003
5,384
GLASGOW,SCOTLAND,UK
Players from the top six clubs will always be fast tracked into the England setup, the fact is there was no way a Brighton player was going to get in the England team after playing 10 PL games, as much as he deserves to..

Especially with a totally unbiased ex-Palace England Manager at the helm......MUPPETRY at it's very best!


TNBA

TTF
 


Pantani

Il Pirata
Dec 3, 2008
5,445
Newcastle
Hart had a blinder last week, back to his best imho .
Dunk's had 10 games in the PL, and he's behind a host of others, so no surprise there.

On Hart, one game does not make him good. He is letting in 40.4% of shots on target. Even the shite your mob have in goal is doing better than that, Hennessey with 38.6% and Speroni with 40%.

Hart is terrible now and should be nowhere near being England's number one.

Maty Ryan is at 28.2% by the way.
 


Ninja Elephant

Doctor Elephant
Feb 16, 2009
18,855
Loftus Cheek involved who's currently part of the worst team in the top 5 English leagues and Gomez who's in because he plays for Liverpool, no matter how much potential he may have, Liverpool seem to be an absolute basket case at the back. Do Brighton not have a better defensive record than them and one of their players in involved in the squad?

Well, that's badly informed. Benevento in Italy's Serie A have lost all 11 games so far.

I agree about Gomez, he's only in the squad because he's an Englishman playing for Liverpool.
 










Taybha

Whalewhine
Oct 8, 2008
27,135
Uwantsumorwat
In a selfish kinda way i'm glad he did'nt get the call at the moment, don't want all he is good at ruined by the England way of playing football , sideways sideways back sideways back for CB's , his time will come .
 




Prettyboyshaw

Well-known member
Feb 20, 2004
1,104
Saltdean
Joke that he hasn't made it as it would have been well deserved but for the club really happy he won't be playing for the current shower of shit England team.
 


TWOCHOICEStom

Well-known member
Sep 22, 2007
10,546
Brighton
I mean, we all know how good he is. But he is still cutting his teeth at this level. I don't think we can be OUTRAGED that he hasn't been called up at the first time of asking. Give it a while. If he keeps playing like this he'll be there in no time.
 



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