England v Spain match chit chat.

[foxfanazer]

2 minutes ago, trabuch said:

Is there anyone here who still thinks Harry Kane is world class? 

Glenn Hoddle maybe 

[Dan]

The reaction of the other players concern me here for Shaw. Does not look good.

[foxes_rule1978]

Smashed his head on the turf, looked nasty the way he hit it 

[UniFox21]

"Southgate looks concerned" 

Cheers Martin, surprised he isn't jumping for joy with Shaw knocked out 

[trabuch]

I love Maguire - the big spade faced banger. 

[foxes_rule1978]

Hope that isn’t too serious for shaw, was looking good 

[Jimothy]

Like Shaw has no luck does he.

[TheUltimateWinner]

Bloody hope shaw is okay  

[foxfanazer]

2 minutes ago, Facecloth said:

Like Shaw has no luck does he.

His goal against us but I get your point. Hopefully all of that was just precautionary. Looked a bad one though

Edited 8 September 2018 by foxfanazer

[Dan]

22 minutes ago, ScouseFox said:

tbf i have one friend who doesn’t drink so was obviously sober throughout the world cup and he said we were rubbish for basically the whole tournament, too. everyone else was just too aled in to notice or care. 

 to be honest there's a degree of truth in it. We beat everyone we were expected to and lost to everyone we were expected to. Undoubted improvement from the last few tournaments but we're nowhere near a top side, not even close and we shouldn't place unrealistic expectations on the team.

[trabuch]

We aren't as good as this new Spanish team. The old Spanish team (that was also better than us) got knocked out by Russia. I think we really have to get over the fact that we fluked our way to the semis and work a bit harder.. 

[Jimothy]

Just now, foxfanazer said:

His goal against us but I get your point. Hopefully all of that was just precautionary 

Oh yeah, I just meant career wise. Just as it looks to taking off he breaks his leg. Just as he starting to get back to that level again and get a England recall, this happens.

[Jaspa]

Cant tell what part of Carvahal Shaw connected with, its not the knee or hip and the elbow was glancing if anything. He was lights out on first contact

[foxfanazer]

Just now, Facecloth said:

Oh yeah, I just meant career wise. Just as it looks to taking off he breaks his leg. Just as he starting to get back to that level again and get a England recall, this happens.

Yeah really unfortunate. Hopefully just a minor setback 

[Jimothy]

35 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

This is a bit of a reality check.

The reality check should have been watching us at the would cup and seeing we created **** all, only scored from penalties and corners and lost to the only half decent teams we played. Surely anyone's whos ever watched football knew that wasn't a sustainable way of playing at the world cup and we weren't actually that good at all.

[BenTheFox]

The lack of quality midfielders really is holding us back. 

[ScouseFox]

4 minutes ago, Dan LCFC said:

 to be honest there's a degree of truth in it. We beat everyone we were expected to and lost to everyone we were expected to. Undoubted improvement from the last few tournaments but we're nowhere near a top side, not even close and we shouldn't place unrealistic expectations on the team.

tbf getting relegated to the same division of this tournament as northern ireland and wales should give everyone a kick in the right direction

[foxes_rule1978]

Just now, BenTheFox said:

The lack of quality midfielders really is holding us back. 

It is obvious today just as against Croatia... worrying for sure... we do have Maddison coming though 

[trabuch]

Kane is spurs.

[BenTheFox]

Spain have an embarrassment of riches in that department and we have Jordan Henderson. Decent player, but there's literally no other respectable player in that position. 

[foxfanazer]

1 minute ago, Facecloth said:

The reality check should have been watching us at the would cup and seeing we created **** all, only scored from penalties and corners and lost to the only half decent teams we played. Surely anyone's whos ever watched football knew that wasn't a sustainable way of playing at the world cup and we weren't actually that good at all.

So true. I got caught up in World Cup fever but not for one minute did I rate us. Lack of creativity as per usual and sticking with players despite poor form and fatigue. We’re just not very good 

[foxes_rule1978]

Gets the ball there ffs 

[UniFox21]

how was that a Foul?

[trabuch]

Ball

[Dan]

Brilliant tackle. What a joke decision.