James justin receives first international call up

[Tielemans63]

Congrats to James 

 

Don't break him Southgate 

[ARM1968]

5 hours ago, Arriba Los Zorros said:

Yes lad!

 

Madders and Barnes now need to have that as their goal going forward.

Not sure how much more Madders can do. He’s outperformed ALL the other England midfielders this season. 

[Foxdiamond]

2 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

Not sure how much more Madders can do. He’s outperformed ALL the other England midfielders this season. 

I have no doubt that if Madders did not have a history with Southgate he would have been selected. Cutting of his nose to spite his face

[ARM1968]

1 minute ago, Foxdiamond said:

I have no doubt that if Madders did not have a history with Southgate he would have been selected. Cutting of his nose to spite his face

He’d fall over surely?  Backwards. 

Edited 24 May 2022 by ARM1968

[East Langton Fox]

Didn’t know anything about him

whem we signed him from Luton but having watched him regularly since then a top player, very athletic and doesn’t make many mistakes. Fantastic to have him in the England squad, he can only get better from the experience 

[Deeg67]

7 hours ago, Fazzer 7 said:

Good for him, but looks short of his pre injury form. Astonishing that Maddison isn't included.

Southgate never liked Maddison to begin with and then Maddison gave him a convenient excuse to blacklist him.  Not surprising in any way to me.

[KFS]

Southgate is so weird man. Love JJ but he used the excuse that TAA doesn’t play because of his defensive contributions - has Southgate seen JJ under a raking switch or long ball over the top since he came back for us? Defensively he has cost us big goals since coming back because of basic positioning errors.
 

He’ll get it back which of course benefits us, but GS logic is proved inaccurate yet again. He’ll get himself in trouble with these inconsistencies soon. 

[turlo]

11 hours ago, FOXYTALK said:

Needs everyone possible to criticise the decision to omit him. Its criminal. 

He's in the squad.... Congrats JJ on being called up. 

[SheppyFox]

I don’t think this is a good thing, not keen on our players being anywhere near England. 

[Deeg67]

13 minutes ago, SheppyFox said:

I don’t think this is a good thing, not keen on our players being anywhere near England. 

The tactical mindset actually isn’t all that different.

[shiv]

Happy for him, but I don’t know how he’s made the squad if I’m honest. Hasn’t looked anywhere near his best, and has cost us a few goals with his mistakes.

 

Not sure if Southgate actually watches Leicester given Madders’ omission & JJ inclusion. 

[Guest Chocolate Teapot]

5 minutes ago, shiv said:

Happy for him, but I don’t know how he’s made the squad if I’m honest. Hasn’t looked anywhere near his best, and has cost us a few goals with his mistakes.

 

Not sure if Southgate actually watches Leicester given Madders’ omission & JJ inclusion. 

We have no decent left backs.

[Ric Flair]

13 minutes ago, shiv said:

Happy for him, but I don’t know how he’s made the squad if I’m honest. Hasn’t looked anywhere near his best, and has cost us a few goals with his mistakes.

 

Not sure if Southgate actually watches Leicester given Madders’ omission & JJ inclusion. 

A) England have no left footed left backs available better than him and last season he was better than all of them anyway bar perhaps Chilwell

B) The mistakes he made after his return from injury and poor performances were generally at right back were they not? Since he's moved back on the left and Castagne on the right he's been much better.

[David Hankey]

Well done, James, thoroughly deserved.

[dmayne7]

40 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

A) England have no left footed left backs available better than him and last season he was better than all of them anyway bar perhaps Chilwell

B) The mistakes he made after his return from injury and poor performances were generally at right back were they not? Since he's moved back on the left and Castagne on the right he's been much better.

Not in the hating Chilwell camp but JJ was miles ahead of him and a bit ahead of Luke Shaw (who'd had a great season). And that was with playing wing back, right and centre back in a 3.

 

Gets back to that form or even close to it and he should be a shoe in for every tournament squad because of the versatility.

 

Just glad Rodgers finally remembered that he's our best left back

[shiv]

50 minutes ago, Ric Flair said:

A) England have no left footed left backs available better than him and last season he was better than all of them anyway bar perhaps Chilwell

B) The mistakes he made after his return from injury and poor performances were generally at right back were they not? Since he's moved back on the left and Castagne on the right he's been much better.

Targett has kept 8 clean sheets this season which is 1 more than our entire squad in 5 less games.

 

I’m not denying his talent and last season he was a class above. But has he done anything to warrant a call up this year? Not for me. I would much rather we picked players on form than prior performances.

 

Also on your last point I’m fairly sure a couple of his mistakes were at LB (I remember 2 headers he didn’t challenge well enough for).

Edited 25 May 2022 by shiv

[filbertway]

Well deserved for the lad! Hopefully he can cement himself as a regular over the next 6-12 months. Looked a rough diamond and over the course of the 20/21 season he became a phenomenal player. Hopefully he can get back to those heights with a good pre season behind him. 

 

[FOXYTALK]

4 hours ago, turlo said:

He's in the squad.... Congrats JJ on being called up. 

Wrong person. 😅

[TonyN11]

11 hours ago, ARM1968 said:

Not sure how much more Madders can do. He’s outperformed ALL the other England midfielders this season. 

If he starts next season like he finished this one I reckon he's got an excellent chance of a World cup place.

[turlo]

1 hour ago, shiv said:

Targett has kept 8 clean sheets this season which is 1 more than our entire squad in 5 less games.

 

I’m not denying his talent and last season he was a class above. But has he done anything to warrant a call up this year? Not for me. I would much rather we picked players on form than prior performances.

 

Also on your last point I’m fairly sure a couple of his mistakes were at LB (I remember 2 headers he didn’t challenge well enough for).

Southgate is looking towards the world cup knowing he might be without his first choice left backs from last season and is taking a punt that JJ will rediscover his top form at the start of next season but wants to take a good look at him now.  You could argue he should be calling up 2-3 prospective left backs in this squad to have a good look at them now, in the event that Chillwell and or Shaw don't make it to the World Cup. The situation at left backs isn't very good considering Thomas was being mentioned as a v possible option a few months back (clearly not ready for that level) and Southgate was watching him closely in the u21s - think it was Mitchell from Palace who got called up in the end who's done OK this season. 

[Guest Basildon Fox]

It is a bit of a weird one. I have a feeling he would have been Englands first-choice left-back at the Euros had he not done his cruciate.

 

The problem is that he is still not back to his best following the injury.  Surely it would be much more beneficial for him to do some more rehabilitation work in the summer along with rest so he is as close to full speed at the start of next season. It would possibly be better for England long-term too.

[AyewJoking]

So he will definitely start given how chilly and fatty are out?

Pointless calling him up if he's sitting on the bench watching Henderson play left back.