WiFoxes Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Coming into this season our midfield worried me most. I have never been so happy to have been proven completely wrong. Best midfield in the league over 30 games, and both players deservedly called up by their national teams today. Congratulations to them both.
danny. Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Is this the most Danny/Daniels in an England squad yet?
Tuna Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Read this on Mail Online: There is a huge Jack Wilshere-shaped caveat to his place in the England squad - if the Arsenal man is fit he has been earmarked for his place at the base of Hodgson's midfield, and there is little Drinkwater can do to change that. What's wrong with England, the FA and Woy in a nutshell. Pathetic.
Wolfox Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 A post I made after we smashed Derby in the promotion season. Nobody likes a smart arse ;-)
Wolfox Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Really well deserved... Now stop fannying around and start the boy Woy!
Mark_w Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Going to be so funny watching Arsenal/Liverpool/United/Chelsea etc. and England fans having their Middlesbrough Match Thread moment.
Oxfordfox83 Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 So Drinkwater gets a call-up to the England squad, yet people are still lambasting Hodgson for tactics and selections he hasn't even made yet! The guy just cannot catch a break at all. One gets the feeling that the England job basically turns anyone into a dead man walking. Well, there will be a simple acid test: If we open our first game of the tournament with an overweight, over the hill, ill-tempered relic of Man Utd's increasingly distant glory years in the squad, Woy's had a nightmare. If said potato-faced granny-fiddler is on the pitch, wearing an armband, then Woy should be exiled on a charge of bringing English football into disrepute. His problem is not who's changed, it's who's stayed the same...
Loggy88 Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Danny really deserves it, hope he grabs his chance. Same with Kante, hope we don't end up becoming one of those clubs who moans about players playing too much footie though!
4everfox Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 James Milner being selected over Marc Albrighton is an insult.
DennisNedry Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 I thought Milner looked very very good for Liverpool when we played them.. also Walcott terrorised us at Arsenal. Agree that Henderson, Clyne and maybe a few others are questionable.
filbertway Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Drinky Alli Lallana Barkley Sterling Sturridge (Kane if he's injured) Would be a pretty sexy (for england) starting attack. Though I'd like to see Lingaard called up so we had another actual winger.
Foxhateram Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 So Drinkwater gets a call-up to the England squad, yet people are still lambasting Hodgson for tactics and selections he hasn't even made yet! The guy just cannot catch a break at all. One gets the feeling that the England job basically turns anyone into a dead man walking. It's the statements he makes when he has called up the players from the smaller teams that doesn't sit well with me Shen. Comment about Vary being lucky to be here (like it's some sort of competition he has won at his dad's work place) and now the statement about Drinky being made in such a patronising way. I just can't stand the bloke. He is so snobbish of us and 'the rest' of the premier league or below. It really bugs me.
possiblygeorge Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 "Here's to you, Danny Drinkwater..." has been stuck in my head since finding out he's been called up haha
LanguedocFox Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Delighted about Drinkwater but the consistent picking of Walcott and Welbeck, regardless of form is absolutely criminal by Hodgson. And Lallana. And Sturridge, and Henderson, and Sterling, and Walcott. And as has been said elsewhere, once Wiltshire climbs out of his sickbed and staggers on to the pitch for five minutes, he'll be in.
LanguedocFox Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Drinky Alli Lallana Barkley Sterling Sturridge (Kane if he's injured) Would be a pretty sexy (for england) starting attack. Though I'd like to see Lingaard called up so we had another actual winger. He's always bloody injured: https://twitter.com/arnieee4/status/696772557186400257/photo/1 The fact is that Sturridge has played less football this season than most of our team have played since the beginning of January.
KP Fox Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Congratulations Danny! Your hard work has finally paid off!
Leicesterpool Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 I'm so pleased Drinky it's well deserved and timed perfectly with the euro's just a few games away. Fingers crossed he's given a decent run out.
crisp packet Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Glad for the lad . Told a friend a swans fan on holiday two years ago, Vardy and Drinky would be England internationals. Great player...
whoareyaaa Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Based on form we should have 4. Simpson outperforming Clyne Albrighton outperforming Lallana Agree with Simpson he deserves a chance.
davieG Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Betting Spy: Roy’s England is a closed shop Grant Prior19 mins ago Share England manager Roy Hodgson’s love-in with the “big” teams continues as his squad was unveiled for the Euro 2016 warm-up games. Roy isn't one of life's risk takers Leicester’s Danny Drinkwater gets a well-deserved first call-up after a fine season. But the inclusion of five players from an under-performing Liverpool side tells you all you need to know about Hodgson’s thinking. Surely West Ham’s Mark Noble deserves a chance to challenge Jordan Henderson, Adam Lallana and James Milner for a place in the middle? The Liverpool trio have hardly set the Premier League on fire this year. Henderson and Lallana have spent as much time in the treatment room as on the pitch while James Milner has surely had his chance at major tournaments. Raheem Sterling, Danny Wellbeck, Daniel Sturridge and Theo Walcott are others seemingly included on reputation and who they play for rather than form. I doubt even the most ardent fans of Liverpool, Arsenal and Man City would argue these players should be guaranteed places in the squad. And things are little better at the back where Phil Jagielka and John Stones represent an Everton side hardly noted for its defending. Who really thinks Drinkwater would have got a look-in if Jack Wilshire had shown any sign of emerging from the treatment room? Hodgson’s favourites have cruised through the qualifying rounds – but had no one of note to beat. Now is the time to say “thanks and goodbye” to a few stalwarts and give some form players a chance to surprise a few people in France. Otherwise an England led by Wayne Rooney and stuffed with familiar old faces will suffer a familiar fate – an early exit as soon as we face a decent side in the knock-out stage. Michail Antonio and Aaron Cresswell at West Ham are also worth a look and Hodgson should be brave with his team selection. Kane and Vardy up front with Ali, Barkley, Drinkwater and a pacy maverick like Antonio in the middle would be a refreshing change. But Hodgson screams conservatism and I fear the country will be screaming at the telly come this summer.
Bluetintedspecs Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Well deserved Drinky and should boost his confidence for our title run in
Ric Flair Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 Quite disgusting that Noble didn't get a call up, in fact how has he never had a call up? He's class.
ThaiFox Posted 17 March 2016 Posted 17 March 2016 I love to see Leicester City players picked for England, but with Woy in charge I always feel they will have the confidence knocked out of them because Woy's tactics are hopeless. I just hope he doesn't shatter Drinky by playing him for 3 minutes at the end, or in a totally different position like right back, or on the wing. He's already messed around with Vardy and I just have no confidence he will do anything positive with Drinky. Let Woy stick to his favourite spuds players for now please, and leave ours alone until someone decent manages England and can actually help our players, and play them because they fully deserve to be in their correct positions and not on the pitch as a Woy afterthought.
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