Poll: John Terry to lose England captaincy AGAIN

Who should replace John Terry as England captain?

  • Joe Hart

    Votes: 30 22.9%

  • Ashley Cole

    Votes: 2 1.5%

  • Glenn Johnson

    Votes: 1 0.8%

  • Frank Lampard

    Votes: 7 5.3%

  • Gareth Barry

    Votes: 5 3.8%

  • Scott Parker

    Votes: 23 17.6%

  • Rio Ferdinand

    Votes: 1 0.8%

  • Steven Gerrard

    Votes: 45 34.4%

  • Wayne Rooney

    Votes: 12 9.2%

  • Someone else (specify in a post)

    Votes: 5 3.8%
  • Total voters
    131
I hope John Terry doesn't play at all for England again. No loss at all in my opinion. What does he even do? Run around slowly and order people about. He's way over rated.
 
But England are just there to make up the numbers at the Euros. Choice of captain wont help them get beyond the quarterfinals <ducks>
 
Tummy said:
I don't really understand the obsession over the England Captaincy.
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Same.

Nor the media's obsession with dragging away attention from the actual football and creating drama/headlines to disrupt things rather than just shutting up and letting the team perform for once.
 
England have such a poor choice of players that could be considered captain material. :(

I voted for Joe Hart, due to the lack of any good choices. /:
 
CasKirensys said:
England have such a poor choice of players that could be considered captain material. :(
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Parker is captain material but the problem is he was overlooked for too long so it is difficult to to see a player who hasn't really been a regular in the squad to be given the armband over veterans like Gerrard and Lampard who have nearly 100 caps and have been vice-captain in the past. Of course it depends a bit on who Capello views as starters, Lampard has maybe fallen out of favour a bit of late at least at club level.

In terms of the future I think depending on how he develops maybe Wilshere could do it, when we played Barcelona last year he gave a real captain's performance, geeing up the players etc but that is some way off, realistically he will be behind Vermaelen in the pecking order at Arsenal so perhaps more something to consider for 2018 depending on what happens with other players of course.

edit: as an aside I'm a bit baffled by the decision to take the armband off JT, it clearly isn't Capello's decision based on the statement the FA gave, but he's the one who has to lead us to glory in the summer, not some guy in a suit and he's been undermined a bit here. Had the court case been held and JT been found guilty of some offence then by all means, but until that point we should pick the best man for the job (or rather, the manager should pick whoever he deems the best man for the job). I know it is all a bit controversial but I genuinely believe that had he remained as captain, come the tournament there wouldn't be much focus on the whole issue people would be more concerned about what is happening on the pitch, it would only cause problems afterwards (which is fine because by definition there is nothing to disrupt).

If it's a case of JT being deemed too disruptive/disliked in the dressing room then he needs to be dropped from the squad altogether rather than just taking the armband off him.
 
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On the subject of it not being Capello's decision. He's supposed to have told an Italian radio station that he disagrees with the FA's decision and considers Terry his captain.
 
It was wrong of the FA to make the decision without even consulting Capello however I doubt Capello would be saying this had he been staying on beyond the summer.

This is going to become a even bigger mess though. We saw at the WC how well Terry took not being captain, god knows how bad he'll be (if picked) now.
 
It was wrong not to strip that odious little man of the captaincy immediately.
The England squad is shameful when the best excuse of a captain is a racist adulterer.
 
Tom84 said:
That's true and even now the idea of Hart as captain doesn't sit well with me but if a long term captain is named now what other options are there? It's far too soon to give it to Jones and that's not going to change in the next year.

Prior to today I always expected Terry to be around for at least 1 more tournament after the Euro's now though it's surely the end of him.
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Is there anyone you do think should be captain? Yiu seem to dislike everyone.
 
To be fair to Capello, perhaps he's saying its wrong to strip JT now, and the FA should have done it at the start of this saga if they had intentions of doing it at all?
 
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