Brighton Mod
Its All Too Beautiful
With the awful performance of the national side should we see some Championship players in the squad. I remember Peter Ward being selected when we were in the 3rd Division, clearly the current crop are not on it!
Chris Waddle had a good point - don't pick the 'best' 11 players in the country, pick 11 who work together. The majority of the Costa Rica team seems to be made up of players not from "big" teams - there is no reason why, to my mind, a tricky Championship right back or a tough old Championship defensive midfielder, should not be considered. Just because they're not playing for Man U or Liverpool or Chelsea, means little next to nothing.
I'd go further...
...Get a complete team made up of Championship players in. Have a system in mind, get team players playing to it and **** the premiershite off out of it and leave them to eat themselves. It's gone beyond a joke now and no amount of tinkering at the edges is going to change anything in our lifetime. We need a complete radical re think for the national team.
A team full of championship players is an experiment that the results of Scotland and Wales show wouldn't work.
Have a look at this as some food for thought. http://spiritofmirko.com/2012/05/17/foreign-players-in-the-championship-20112012/
Not sure how the bang up to date figures are to be fair. Not quite as favourable to England would be my guess.
Hypothetically, if England were in the premiership where do you think they'd finish?
I'm really not sure myself but they certainly wouldn't be top four
If the England 23 were to train together 4-5 times a week for 10 months a year and play 40-50 games a season then they'd be a very good club side - top 4 certainly. Any half decent club side would do ok in the World Cup because of that reason.
The notion that you could put a squad of 23 Championship level players together that only got together 7-8 times a year, and that they would somehow be better than the current squad because they 'wanted it' is nonsense.
Chris Waddle had a good point - don't pick the 'best' 11 players in the country, pick 11 who work together. The majority of the Costa Rica team seems to be made up of players not from "big" teams - there is no reason why, to my mind, a tricky Championship right back or a tough old Championship defensive midfielder, should not be considered. Just because they're not playing for Man U or Liverpool or Chelsea, means little next to nothing.
Wasnt Steve Ball not a Championship player when he played for England ?
Chris Waddle had a good point - don't pick the 'best' 11 players in the country, pick 11 who work together. The majority of the Costa Rica team seems to be made up of players not from "big" teams - there is no reason why, to my mind, a tricky Championship right back or a tough old Championship defensive midfielder, should not be considered. Just because they're not playing for Man U or Liverpool or Chelsea, means little next to nothing.
Steve Bull? Yes he was. Made the Italia 90 squad; although never really a key player. Gary Pallister was in Division 2 when he won his first cap as well.