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I disagree. I started this thread hours before last night's match precisely because I saw what Hodgson was going to do and I feared the worst. I don't think there was too much wrong in the Wales match - they're a good side and we kept Bale quiet in open play. Fair play to Hodgson for...

My comments were more about pointing out how far he'd fallen than the merits of selecting him. That said, with 20 mins to go I would rather have seen him come on than Kane, who looks like he needed a complete rest from last night's match. Go back a year and you would have thought Stones...

I don't think you can analyse the changes on an individual basis and come up with the correct conclusion unless you also factor in the CUMULATIVE effect of the six changes. We took too much out of the side that has been working well, the XI that went out of the pitch knew it and we struggled to...

WTF has happened to Ross Barkley? Not getting a sniff despite the fact Lallane is goalless, Sterling is clueless, Wilshere lacks fitness and Henderson is a donkey.

Nobody's mentioned Bertrand, but zero crosses, he committed three fouls before the inevitable yellow and looked pretty ordinary. Rose is a far better player.

Although Clyne was excellent Walker is a more powerful footballer and he's in the form of his life. I fancy he'd have torn that left back a new one tonight. We'll never know now.

Great work, Roy.

Woy: "We'll give 'em a wight woyal wodgering without Wooney and Walker"

It's a massive gamble. Walker has been our best player, Rooney is our captain, Kane our main forward and Alli the X Factor in midfield. It's the Rooney and Alli ones I find most puzzling.

Expected starting XI: England: Hart; Clyne, Cahill, Smalling, Bertrand; Wilshere, Dier, Henderson; Lallana, Vardy, Sturridge. So Rooney out along with Alli, Kane, Sterling, Walker and Rose. Has Roy got this wrong? Domesday scenario - If we lose ( Slovakia are no mugs as they showed in...