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Boring.

Should be held in the centre circle. Completely wrong that managers get to talk to their whole team.

Amazing how far Germany has fallen in 10 years. Not sure if any of their team gets in England's.

There are loads of gaps in the squad that I think a discussion like this is almost pointless. There are very few players currently here that will flourish in a possession for possessions sake side. I know a lot on here thought that we were this sort of team under Enzo but we weren't. Enzo was all about dominating space and territory whereas Martin is just about keeping the ball and hoping something happens at the end of it. The paradox we have is that he does generally buy quite well and brings in good quality young players. It's one of his biggest strengths. However, he won't get the opportunity to do that here because we simply are not capable of working on more than one deal at a time. Rudkin is simply not capable of going out and bringing in two or three targets in a week.Any time we've brought in multiple players in the same week it's because we've been approached by agents. So we're signing a below average manager who plays a system we are not capable of playing with this current squad and we're tying one hand behind his back by not letting him rebuild the squad with the 10-15 new players we'd need to get out of League 1. I''m more annoyed at the concept of Martin, because it's showing more proof that nothing changes here until Aiyawatt and Rudkin go.

Because professional footballers are able to take a touch and pass the ball 99 times out of 100 and a player over pressing leads to space in behind. The risk is minimal.

Pretty sure we played multiple Premier League teams in friendlies when we were up there. Granted they were abroad and more like exhibition matches but still.

Goals like that don't annoy me half as much as goals where we're just a soft touch. Long balls not dealt with, strikers bullying defenders, an inability to stop a cross etc... these basics of defending drive me loopy and these are the goals we will concede under a manager like Martin. I can accept losing the ball under a press leading to goals conceded because the idea is objectively right and you're still only relying on a player getting the basics right (touch and pass). Beating a press leads to chances, counter attacks and goals.

Mexico and South Africa were both horrendous. A League 2 level game. I know Mexico have a great record at the Azteca but if it is England's fate to play them there, we should have absolutely no issues.

Oh brother do I have good news for you.

Their comeing over here, nickin are flags and dying there hair 😡😡😡😡😡

The PG way of describing exactly what MTWG said.

Up and at them.

It'll get plastered with a betting sponsor as well. Truly gopping.

The club announced that he was contracted "to the end of the 2025/26 season". The last day of the Championship season was 2nd May so anything beyond that would be a flagrant waste of money and the person responsible for writing the contract should be sacked for gross incompetence. There's not a single reason why Gary Rowett should be on the payroll beyond the 2nd May.

He doesn't have links to terror organisations. He has the same name (Abdulkadir) as someone high up in Al Shabaab. That's it. It would be like refusing the entry of Adolf Hutter (the Frankfurt manager).

Yer da passionately discusses Leicester City on Facebook.

He made a terrible decision to leave Boro for Wolves. Left them in 2nd position for a team that looked destined to break Derby's record. I doubt he'll want to make a similarly bad decision in signing for the worst run club in English football.

Guns will be involved.

These incidents have followed Stokes around for his entire career. You can sort of overlook it when he's performing magic tricks every week with bat and ball but he's been awful for far too long now. Since he became captain he's played 45 test matches and has only taken 78 wickets and has scored 2188 runs. His fielding isn't keeping him in the team much either given he's only taken 43 catches. Averaging 48 runs in a test and 1.7 wickets per test is shocking form.

It's an impossible argument to make IMO. If the points deduction is applied during the season then do Leeds only get 4 points from their final 6 games? To me they imploded because they couldn't keep up and it all got too much. Alternatively, do we beat WBA and then thump Southampton and PNE if it's still as tight as it was? The pressure was lifted for us and it wouldn't have been if we were 1 point clear.

Stokes dropped. Root back as captain. Brook overlooked despite being vice-captain.

Leeds would have a very good case to go after us if this is a precedent. Strap in. Rock bottom is a long way off yet.

Goalkeepers: Dominik Livakovic (Dinamo Zagreb), Dominik Kotarski (Copenhagen), Ivor Pandur (Hull City). Defenders: Josko Gvardiol (Manchester City), Duje Caleta-Car (Real Sociedad), Josip Sutalo (Ajax Amsterdam), Josip Stanisic (Bayern Munich), Marin Pongracic (Fiorentina), Martin Erlic (Midtjylland), Luka Vuskovic (Hamburg). Midfielders: Luka Modric (AC Milan), Mateo Kovacic (Manchester City), Mario Pasalic (Atalanta), Nikola Vlasic (Torino), Luka Sucic (Real Sociedad), Martin Baturina (Como), Kristijan Jakic (Augsburg), Petar Sucic (Inter Milan), Nikola Moro (Bologna), Toni Fruk (Rijeka). Forwards: Ivan Perisic (PSV Eindhoven), Andrej Kramaric (Hoffenheim), Ante Budimir (Osasuna), Marco Pasalic (Orlando City), Petar Musa (Dallas), Igor Matanovic (Freiburg). Loads of experience in there with some really decent young players like Vuskovic and Sucic. Some of their more experienced players aren't crazy old either (aside from Perisic and Modric). England should have far too much for them but it's a decently tricky starting game. England have to win or they'll play someone like Spain or France far too early.

It's two very small nations in terms of footballing ability in a City with next to no Scottish or Haitian population. Which means there's a little interest from local people. With the way that the ticket resale platform works, there will be a lot of tickets available with relatively little demand. Prices will plummet and I think a lot of local fans will be able to get tickets on the day for a very good price.

Some of the stories coming out of Belfast following last night's riots are horrendous. People have every right to be angry and scared after what happened but burning and looting the property of foreign nationals is a disgrace.