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Post by staffsvilla on Jun 25, 2015 23:38:49 GMT
Southgate was told by 'woy' he could pick any eligible players and there would not be a problem, southgate himself confirmed this but said he'd chosen bye and large to stick with the squad that had got them to the championships, so only one person to blame southgate ! no win situation though to be fair if he'd dropped half the players that got him there (very impressively i might add) in favour of "Big name" Premiership stars he'd get slagged off for not trying to bring through the proper youngsters i.e. the ones that hadn't yet made it at first team level in the Prem plus, what kind of message is that sending out to the players that DID get them there? "Cheers for all you've done lads but you can piss off now as we want bigger name stars in now thanks" in what way is that "Developing" the stars of tomorrow? what should be happening is these big name stars should be doing everything they can to play in all U21 internationals instead of suddenly picking up niggling injuries for their club sides the week before an U21 friendly/qualifier so coincidentally ruling them out of those matches.....and then suddenly fully recovering in the build up to a full England team friendly/qualifier in the hope they get a call up for that instead staggering how so many on here constantly slag off England's management for pandering to player's egos then slag off Southgate after this tournament for NOT doing exactly that! being loyal to the players that got us to the tournament in the first place, giving them experience and trying to bring them on is EXACTLY the right thing to do in my opinion. great post mate and i totally agree, my point was that it was southgate's decision NOT to pick Stirling and co therefore he must shoulder the blame for what turned out to be abject failure, not forgetting the media for hyping up yet another England squad, if i was a suspicious person i'd say southgate was set up for a fall
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jun 26, 2015 5:16:40 GMT
He should have taken his best players end of.
Not to is 1) stupidity 2) short term thinking that is endemic in English football.
Look at that side that played for the 21s the other day. 1/2 stick out as getting 50+ caps for England. It should and could have been 6/7. It's doing no good for the development of the players.
Southgate's always been wank though so this is of no surprise.
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jun 26, 2015 5:54:15 GMT
And I didn't realise Ben Gibson is the nephew of the Boro chairman.....
I wonder why he's got so far in football? It's definitely not down to ability.
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