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Post by terriersyndrome on Jul 7, 2018 18:08:54 GMT 1
Brilliant tournament they've put on. Massive credit to Russia & their team for getting so far. Is it just me or does the sound volume vary often goes quite quiet, needs some attention there after a few bottles of wine, for a few seconds seems moreso on ITV than BBC or is it just me? I've not really noticed it tbh. All I know is this tournament beats the shit out of Brazil, South Korea/Japan & South Africa.
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Post by ruggedivy on Jul 7, 2018 18:36:54 GMT 1
Who else is thinking about heading out to Moscow?
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Post by Malvern Tom (WAHLS) on Jul 7, 2018 18:41:02 GMT 1
Just thank the footballing gods that they didn't start with Pontus!!!!!!! Definitely missed a trick with his magic hat.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Jul 7, 2018 18:52:10 GMT 1
Bet LDP's agent has that clip of him robbing and outpacing Harry McGuire on speed dial. Is that the same LDP who isn’t good enough for the premier league ? * * no guesses needed where that gem came from That's him - who sits on our bench too often for me. Is it the fear of pissing one of them off that stops either being automatic starters? I've never quite been able to figure it out.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Jul 7, 2018 18:55:01 GMT 1
Thought they would at least put him at centre forward - don't like to see L&&ds making money out of the tournament. I'd have never have guessed when Russia were awarded the world cup that we'd have 4 players in the tournament & Leeds 1. How times have changed. By the time the season starts, who knows, we might have more. I don't know what the new director of football looks like but not heard any reports of him been spotted scouting players at the World Cup.
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Post by Frankiesleftpeg on Jul 7, 2018 19:14:47 GMT 1
I don't know if its already been mentioned but just a word on the referee today. He had the game and the players under control form the start and there was no need for the dreaded VAR. Wish we'd had him against those cheating Colombian barstewards.
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Post by terriersyndrome on Jul 7, 2018 19:22:09 GMT 1
I'd have never have guessed when Russia were awarded the world cup that we'd have 4 players in the tournament & Leeds 1. How times have changed. By the time the season starts, who knows, we might have more. I don't know what the new director of football looks like but not heard any reports of him been spotted scouting players at the World Cup. We'd be daft not to have someone at the world cup looking at players. I'm sure every other premier league club will.
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Post by Is It Eidur Gudjohnsen on Jul 7, 2018 19:26:18 GMT 1
I have to say the cameramen next fail to spot all the attractive women in the crowd especially when playing teams like Sweden.
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jul 7, 2018 19:26:20 GMT 1
Fantastic result today,I criticised Sterling earlier in the competition ,he was superb today and deserved his inclusion in the England Team (apologies Sterling). We seem to be maturing with every game , which is very exiting , come on England. The last time I watched England in the semi's I was island hopping in the Greek islands , the weather though is hotter in Batley in this competition . Sterling makes some great runs and has excellent pace but what's the point in having that if you're going to constantly make the wrong decision once in behind or fall over your own feet I have less confidence in him finishing a 1 on 1 than Quaner
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Post by Frankiesleftpeg on Jul 7, 2018 19:28:55 GMT 1
Two years on and Oti's favourite player finally got his revenge
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Jul 7, 2018 19:31:26 GMT 1
Fantastic result today,I criticised Sterling earlier in the competition ,he was superb today and deserved his inclusion in the England Team (apologies Sterling). We seem to be maturing with every game , which is very exiting , come on England. The last time I watched England in the semi's I was island hopping in the Greek islands , the weather though is hotter in Batley in this competition . Sterling makes some great runs and has excellent pace but what's the point in having that if you're going to constantly make the wrong decision once in behind or fall over your own feet I have less confidence in him finishing a 1 on 1 than Quaner He seemed to manage 20 odd times more than Big Coll last season, thought not many were one on one. I'm pretty confident he is going to get a goal in the next game! Belting goal from Alli. Surprised Loftus-Cheek isn't getting much game time in these later stages.
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jul 7, 2018 19:35:41 GMT 1
Sterling makes some great runs and has excellent pace but what's the point in having that if you're going to constantly make the wrong decision once in behind or fall over your own feet I have less confidence in him finishing a 1 on 1 than Quaner He seemed to manage 20 odd times more than Big Coll last season, thought not many were one on one. I'm pretty confident he is going to get a goal in the next game! Belting goal from Alli. Surprised Loftus-Cheek isn't getting much game time in these later stages. What makes you so confident? He's showing nothing to suggest he has the composure or belief to score or even provide an assist at the moment His decision making is terrible. Gets away with it at City because they create double figure scoring opportunities every game whereas they're at a premium for England so we need someone who will take them when they come along. I'm fairly sure Rashford would have hurried a couple of those today
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Post by Baby Ate My Eight Ball on Jul 7, 2018 19:42:02 GMT 1
He seemed to manage 20 odd times more than Big Coll last season, thought not many were one on one. I'm pretty confident he is going to get a goal in the next game! Belting goal from Alli. Surprised Loftus-Cheek isn't getting much game time in these later stages. What makes you so confident? He's showing nothing to suggest he has the composure or belief to score or even provide an assist at the moment His decision making is terrible. Gets away with it at City because they create double figure scoring opportunities every game whereas they're at a premium for England so we need someone who will take them when they come along. I'm fairly sure Rashford would have hurried a couple of those today Would Rashford have made all the runs in behind that Sterling did? He allowed us to stretch the game and get in behind Sweden and it was an important part of the win.
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jul 7, 2018 19:47:34 GMT 1
What makes you so confident? He's showing nothing to suggest he has the composure or belief to score or even provide an assist at the moment His decision making is terrible. Gets away with it at City because they create double figure scoring opportunities every game whereas they're at a premium for England so we need someone who will take them when they come along. I'm fairly sure Rashford would have hurried a couple of those today Would Rashford have made all the runs in behind that Sterling did? He allowed us to stretch the game and get in behind Sweden and it was an important part of the win. I'm not sure but for all his stretching of the game it didn't lead to much. We need someone in there who is actuslly going to contribute be it through goals or assists. He cocks up so many good chances it is getting beyond a joke
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Post by sapphireblue on Jul 7, 2018 19:48:59 GMT 1
I don't know what the new director of football looks like but not heard any reports of him been spotted scouting players at the World Cup. We'd be daft not to have someone at the world cup looking at players. I'm sure every other premier league club will. Nah, a Dr on here says you can see enough on the telly. ;-)
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Post by Leporid on Jul 7, 2018 19:53:38 GMT 1
Martin and Lillian are Danish, Kenny, they won’t care😉 Thanks, my bad. Pale ale kicking-in. But in my defence, they are Scandi’s. Who is Scandi?
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Post by joeyjoneslocker on Jul 7, 2018 19:53:54 GMT 1
Would Rashford have made all the runs in behind that Sterling did? He allowed us to stretch the game and get in behind Sweden and it was an important part of the win. I'm not sure but for all his stretching of the game it didn't lead to much. We need someone in there who is actuslly going to contribute be it through goals or assists. He cocks up so many good chances it is getting beyond a joke I think some people are thinking the Sterling that plays for City...attack, attack, attack, is the same Sterling playing for England. Different role completely. His work rate is phenomenal and his running off the ball drawing defenders out and creating space and time for others is excellent. This isn’t a PlayStation game to dribble as much as you can and score if you are an attacking player, there are other attributes that he is showing, not always easy to see on the tv. That said he should have scored today.
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Post by Farsley Terrier (UK product) on Jul 7, 2018 19:57:55 GMT 1
Sterling had a great game. Just the type of player needed, one with shit loads of pace. Sure he might not have scored today but he put in a shift. Fair play.
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jul 7, 2018 19:58:26 GMT 1
I'm not sure but for all his stretching of the game it didn't lead to much. We need someone in there who is actuslly going to contribute be it through goals or assists. He cocks up so many good chances it is getting beyond a joke I think some people are thinking the Sterling that plays for City...attack, attack, attack, is the same Sterling playing for England. Different role completely. His work rate is phenomenal and his running off the ball drawing defenders out and creating space and time for others is excellent. This isn’t a PlayStation game to dribble as much as you can and score if you are an attacking player, there are other attributes that he is showing, not always easy to see on the tv. That said he should have scored today. That's the same argument people make on here for VLP. At the end of the day you're playing as part of a front two and you have to start scoring goals or assisting at some point and he just doesn't look like doing so. He panics, stumbles, gets the ball stuck under his feet etc I agree he makes great runs and stretches teams but we are going to need more than that to get through the Semi final and stand a chance in the final.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2018 20:01:16 GMT 1
Sterling played well today. End of. Something I never thought I'd say. Definite starter for the semi.
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Post by kennyk2 on Jul 7, 2018 20:01:21 GMT 1
Thanks, my bad. Pale ale kicking-in. But in my defence, they are Scandi’s. Who is Scandi? Scandinavians. navians dropped, Scandi's an abbreviation by using an apostrophe. More here if you need to read up Migon Fogarty
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Post by softboy on Jul 7, 2018 20:01:26 GMT 1
I see that Kane Ali Young and Sterling only got 6 out of 10 on BBC ratings - clearly they are not good enough !!
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Post by Leporid on Jul 7, 2018 20:02:24 GMT 1
Scandinavians. navians dropped, Scandi's an abbreviation by using an apostrophe. More here if you need to read up Migon Fogarty. Not required.
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Post by AndySk on Jul 7, 2018 20:04:13 GMT 1
Fantastic performance. Trippier has been one of the players of the tournament, brilliant again today.
It's coming home
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jul 7, 2018 20:09:46 GMT 1
I see that Kane Ali Young and Sterling only got 6 out of 10 on BBC ratings - clearly they are not good enough !! I'd agree with all those ratings Kane wasn't in the game Ali took his goal well but admitted himself that he was poor Young was better than the other night but his refusal to use his left foot 99% of the time effects the fluidity of our play Sterling I've already commented on Trippier, Stones, Maguire, Pickford were all excellent
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Jul 7, 2018 20:10:49 GMT 1
Fantastic performance. Trippier has been one of the players of the tournament, brilliant again today. It's coming home He's been our best player by a long way at this tournament and that's saying something given one of our players is likely to collect the golden boot
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Post by Baby Ate My Eight Ball on Jul 7, 2018 20:20:39 GMT 1
Would Rashford have made all the runs in behind that Sterling did? He allowed us to stretch the game and get in behind Sweden and it was an important part of the win. I'm not sure but for all his stretching of the game it didn't lead to much. We need someone in there who is actuslly going to contribute be it through goals or assists. He cocks up so many good chances it is getting beyond a joke How did you know it didn’t lead to much? We ran them ragged at times, sounds as though it’s been a while since anyone has done that to them. Sterling was at the heart of it all.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Jul 7, 2018 20:22:59 GMT 1
He seemed to manage 20 odd times more than Big Coll last season, thought not many were one on one. I'm pretty confident he is going to get a goal in the next game! Belting goal from Alli. Surprised Loftus-Cheek isn't getting much game time in these later stages. What makes you so confident? He's showing nothing to suggest he has the composure or belief to score or even provide an assist at the moment His decision making is terrible. Gets away with it at City because they create double figure scoring opportunities every game whereas they're at a premium for England so we need someone who will take them when they come along. I'm fairly sure Rashford would have hurried a couple of those today Think he is more important to the way we play than Rashford. Why am I confident that he will score - well I'm confident that he will get in better positions to score than Rashford - whether he converts them - we will see but law of averages must be on his side. I don't see enough from Rashford to say that he should replace Sterling - so important when he holds the ball up and gives the team a chance for a breather and get organised. Rashford far too rushed from that point of view. Happy we have both of them to be honest; 70 minutes Sterling, 20 minutes Rashford. Scoring hasn't been too much of a problem so far, although maybe we should have wrapped Colombia and Sweden up quicker.
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Post by goodshot (FGS) on Jul 7, 2018 20:31:01 GMT 1
I think some people are thinking the Sterling that plays for City...attack, attack, attack, is the same Sterling playing for England. Different role completely. His work rate is phenomenal and his running off the ball drawing defenders out and creating space and time for others is excellent. This isn’t a PlayStation game to dribble as much as you can and score if you are an attacking player, there are other attributes that he is showing, not always easy to see on the tv. That said he should have scored today. That's the same argument people make on here for VLP. At the end of the day you're playing as part of a front two and you have to start scoring goals or assisting at some point and he just doesn't look like doing so. He panics, stumbles, gets the ball stuck under his feet etc I agree he makes great runs and stretches teams but we are going to need more than that to get through the Semi final and stand a chance in the final. Think that's where your argument breaks down. He has a far wider remit than playing as one of the front 2. TBH Harry hasn't shown much sign of scoring from open play but he is having a terrific tournament.
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Post by space hardware on Jul 7, 2018 20:39:18 GMT 1
Never really rated Trippier before but, fair play, he's been superb throughout.
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