UKTexans Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 BTW England are absolutely dreadful. Another undefeated qualifying campaign about to be followed up by an absolute disaster of a tournament. Feel sorry for the 50,000 or so who had to watch that dross live, I've made that mistake twice, never again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drd23 Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 2 hours ago, texans_uk said: 80% chance only? Apparently. I thought the same when I saw it, but either way the thing I take out of it is that there is a reasonable chance that both teams that contested the last two Copa Americas (regular one in 2015 and the Copa Centenario in 2016) in Chile and Argentina both don't make the WC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madridista Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 6 hours ago, drd23 said: The WC % assumes that whoever comes 5th has an 80% chance of beating New Zealand over the 2 legged inter-continental play-off Interesting that Argentina has the least chance of making it according to their system This is madness and I love it. Rooting for Colombia, Peru, and Paraguay to grab spots 3-5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madridista Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 On 10/2/2017 at 3:44 PM, PAW said: He should've turned down the call up. Kind of hypocritical to play for the national team of a nation you don't want to be a part of. Absolutely. Makes no sense from his perspective Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKTexans Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 7 minutes ago, ninerfanwheelz said: Absolutely. Makes no sense from his perspective What's even dumber is he kept saying "oh maybe I will quit", like, OK, be a man of your principles and do it. Just sounds like a Prima Donna other wise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Smithers Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 24 minutes ago, ninerfanwheelz said: This is madness and I love it. Rooting for Colombia, Peru, and Paraguay to grab spots 3-5 Nah we need Messi and Argentina at the WC. I'm not rooting for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eagles $5$ Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 12 hours ago, texans_uk said: BTW England are absolutely dreadful. Another undefeated qualifying campaign about to be followed up by an absolute disaster of a tournament. Feel sorry for the 50,000 or so who had to watch that dross live, I've made that mistake twice, never again. Kane and Rashford are the only hope England has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKTexans Posted October 6, 2017 Share Posted October 6, 2017 58 minutes ago, Eagles $5$ said: Kane and Rashford are the only hope England has. I just really don't understand how they can be so poor all the time. Southgate is a bang average manager, but no manager succeeds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TedLavie Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 11 hours ago, texans_uk said: I just really don't understand how they can be so poor all the time. Southgate is a bang average manager, but no manager succeeds. I don't know if they will be bad in the WC tbh. At the Euro lots of young guys started their first big international competition so they may have lacked experience against Iceland. I think they'll be decent in Russia. That being said, if you look at the starting XI, aside from Kane, very few players would start for Brazil/Spain/Germany/France so fair expectations would probably be quarterfinals Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kip Smithers Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 When I saw Paul Mersons England squad I was like lol this English team is weak. Just get ready after the WC for calls for reform of the English youth system which will again amount to nothing. Then in two or 4 years the cycle repeats itself Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKTexans Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 2 hours ago, TedLavie said: I don't know if they will be bad in the WC tbh. At the Euro lots of young guys started their first big international competition so they may have lacked experience against Iceland. I think they'll be decent in Russia. That being said, if you look at the starting XI, aside from Kane, very few players would start for Brazil/Spain/Germany/France so fair expectations would probably be quarterfinals It's the same every 2/4 years. Unbeaten qualifying campaign. Beat Germany/Spain/Italy in friendly. Clueless at tournament. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kempus Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 (edited) 2 hours ago, TedLavie said: I don't know if they will be bad in the WC tbh. At the Euro lots of young guys started their first big international competition so they may have lacked experience against Iceland. I think they'll be decent in Russia. That being said, if you look at the starting XI, aside from Kane, very few players would start for Brazil/Spain/Germany/France so fair expectations would probably be quarterfinals Kane is the only world class player England currently have. But, even when they had world class players littered across the team, they still failed miserably at tournaments. I don't know the solution, but playing as a team would probably be a good start. Edited October 7, 2017 by kempus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKTexans Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 The 2018 WC participants is starting to take shape: Germany, Spain, England & Belgium have all qualified. Interest turns to Group A, D & I where top spot is still wide open Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeEvans Posted October 7, 2017 Author Share Posted October 7, 2017 34 minutes ago, kempus said: Kane is the only world class player England currently have. But, even when they had world class players littered across the team, they still failed miserably at tournaments. I don't know the solution, but playing as a team would probably be a good start. I've said it before but they really need to go all in on the younger players that they have at Spurs and Liverpool and try to play a bit like them. It might fail but at least it's something new and different and could maybe develop a bit of an actual style of play/system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-mac Posted October 7, 2017 Share Posted October 7, 2017 16 minutes ago, texans_uk said: The 2018 WC participants is starting to take shape: Germany, Spain, England & Belgium have all qualified. Interest turns to Group A, D & I where top spot is still wide open Have to fancy France, Poland, Portugal, Iceland and Serbia to wrap up the automatic spaces. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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