England Squad - Mclaren a Genius or an Idiot ?

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England's 23-man squad:
Robinson (Tottenham), Foster (Man Utd, on loan at Watford), Carson (Liverpool, on loan at Charlton); G Neville (Man Utd), Richards (Man City), Ferdinand (Man Utd), Terry (Chelsea, capt), Woodgate (Real Madrid, on loan at Middlesbrough), Carragher (Liverpool), A Cole (Chelsea), P Neville (Everton); Gerrard (Liverpool), Hargreaves (Bayern Munich), Lampard (Chelsea), Lennon (Tottenham), Parker (Newcastle), Carrick (Man Utd), Dyer (Newcastle), Downing (Middlesbrough); Johnson (Everton), Rooney (Man Utd), Defoe (Tottenham), D Bent (Charlton).


so you know yer first choice left back is unavailable for the first game and that yer second choice is injured, so who you gonna call, Jamie Carragher to play left back :rolleyes:

Dont get me wrong carragher deserves to be in the squad and probably deserves on recent performances to be starting in central defence, my point is does it not make sense to call up well a left back ?

Now to start on the midfiled selections. 6 Central midfielders ? and two wingers ? what mclaren playing at, smacks totally of I cant leave my big names out syndrome.

Gerrard / Hargreaves / Lampard / Carrick or Parker for central midfiled

Lennon / Wright Philips / Downing and soemone like Barry for the wings, makes a much more balanced squad as opposed to the old playing square pegs in round holes.

safe to say unless the matches are being shown on ITV / BBC I'll not be watching.
 
He's an idiot.

Is not the man for the job and never was.

Pretty much every comment i've seen from people in the game have been that he's a top quality coach, but questionable as a manger.
 
wedgie22 said:
Pretty much every comment i've seen from people in the game have been that he's a top quality coach, but questionable as a manger.

Similar thing have been said about Venables in the past (that he's a world class coach), so I'm hoping the 'training camps' he's pressing for will prove worthwhile.

Then again, there's an argument that says at international level you need people who's skills lie more in tactics and motivational prowess, since players in the England squad shouldn't need a lot of coaching anyway.
 
We need an experianced side out against Israel, and Carragher has played left back before for England and done a decent job there. This isn't a game to start picking uncapped players.
 
if he doesnt play gerrard and hargreaves in central midfield then he needs shooting.

overall i think hes an idiot.
 
Cant be arsed to watch anymore.. dont want to spend 90 minutes watching Gary Neville knock the ball between the back 4 all day long only for Rio to hoof it forward
 
weringo said:
We need an experianced side out against Israel,.

????????

You could pick a village team against isreal and they would still cane them.
You dont need £300 odd million pounds worth of players to beat a team ranked 38th in the world, because well picking expensive players pretty much guarantees a win right?

You need a team of players who are going to play in their club positions, in the way they do for their club and thats it.

You pick a pedestrian centerback who's game is getting stuck in with blocks and putting his head in, you play him as a stopper with a sweeper as partner, you dont pick him to play left back, regardless of the opposition.

Mclaren like Sven has no clue.
 
Should've called Warnock up.

Fair enough, i'm a little biased due to being a Rovers fan, but he's been outstanding for us so far, and is a natural left back.

I'd have him over Carragher and Neville every day of the week.
 
atpbx said:
????????

You could pick a village team against isreal and they would still cane them.
You dont need £300 odd million pounds worth of players to beat a team ranked 38th in the world, because well picking expensive players pretty much guarantees a win right?

rubbish. we struggle everytime against opposition that we should bury before half time.
 
I'd say idiot IMO . He was the safe option for the FA. Still we're stuck with im now so may as well back him! just hope they play lennon hes been on fire for spurs :o
 
McBain said:
Should've called Warnock up.

Fair enough, i'm a little biased due to being a Rovers fan, but he's been outstanding for us so far, and is a natural left back.

I'd have him over Carragher and Neville every day of the week.
Warnock was as nearly as bad as Traore during his time at Liverpool
 
Like I said in my first comment 'he's been outstanding for us so far'

Hardly relates to his time with Liverpool.
 
Like i said he was 'nearly as bad as Traore during his time at Liverpool'
Hardly relates to his time at Blackburn.

He's extremely unreliable defensively and gets caught out positionaly all the time. There is no way i would pick him at LB for England, Carra may not be a natural LB but he's played there before and he's proberly the most natural defender about.
 
atpbx said:
????????

You could pick a village team against isreal and they would still cane them.
You dont need £300 odd million pounds worth of players to beat a team ranked 38th in the world, because well picking expensive players pretty much guarantees a win right?

We struggle against every side, Croatia caned us, we drew with Macedonia, lost to Romania and Nothern Ireland, drew with Iceland. Not exactly confidence inspiring. We're not as good as we would like to think we are.
 
regulus said:
We struggle against every side, Croatia caned us, we drew with Macedonia, lost to Romania and Nothern Ireland, drew with Iceland. Not exactly confidence inspiring. We're not as good as we would like to think we are.

Another one, try reading what it says rather than what you think it does.
 
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