Manager for next season

[Tayls_7]

While I'm no great fan of Hodgson, I think there's a certain revisionism between the expectations of the World Cup in Brazil and what actually happened. As soon as the draw was made, it was doom and gloom and, 'oh well, we're going there for the experience and we should be aiming for 2016 anyway'. When we didn't manage to compete, as expected, with the likes of Suarez and Pirlo, everybody lost their shit and labelled it a disaster. What happened was pretty much what we all expected.

In the Euros, though, I don't see there's any excuse for England not to reach the quarter finals at least.

How can England not have a decent tournament with Kane and Vardy up front? Rooney isn't going to play is he?

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Some background reading on Moyes..

TSMIII

The Legacy

[DaveD]

If England have a decent Euro's I think Roy Hodgson will retire gracefully.

He blew that chance when he did not resign over the shameful and embarrassing tournament exit he is responsible for.

Lovely man who represents everything wrong with the England setup. While I am still gutted that Villa threw in the towel this January, England did it by keeping the proven failure of Hodgson around after he demonstrated how out of his depth he was.

Useless at the international level.

Shameful and embarrassing to lose by the odd goal to Uruguay and Italy with the poorest squad in living memory?

[SheffieldVillain]

If England have a decent Euro's I think Roy Hodgson will retire gracefully.

He blew that chance when he did not resign over the shameful and embarrassing tournament exit he is responsible for.

Lovely man who represents everything wrong with the England setup. While I am still gutted that Villa threw in the towel this January, England did it by keeping the proven failure of Hodgson around after he demonstrated how out of his depth he was.

Useless at the international level.

Shameful and embarrassing to lose by the odd goal to Uruguay and Italy with the poorest squad in living memory?

As for 'useless at the international level',  he did a very decent job with all three of Switzerland, the UAE and Finland and more than fulfilled expectations.

[pauliewalnuts]

If England have a decent Euro's I think Roy Hodgson will retire gracefully.

He blew that chance when he did not resign over the shameful and embarrassing tournament exit he is responsible for.

Lovely man who represents everything wrong with the England setup. While I am still gutted that Villa threw in the towel this January, England did it by keeping the proven failure of Hodgson around after he demonstrated how out of his depth he was.

Useless at the international level.

Shameful and embarrassing to lose by the odd goal to Uruguay and Italy with the poorest squad in living memory?

As for 'useless at the international level',  he did a very decent job with both Switzerland and Finland and more than fulfilled expectations.

I read an article a while back about the tiny number of players Hodgson can pick from. It pointed out that, the previous weekend, a total of 30 England-qualified players played in the top flight.

[LeeB]

I think Hodgson is doing a good job.

[Matt C]

I wish we'd got Hodgson when MON bolted.

[brontebilly]

If England have a decent Euro's I think Roy Hodgson will retire gracefully.

He blew that chance when he did not resign over the shameful and embarrassing tournament exit he is responsible for.

Lovely man who represents everything wrong with the England setup. While I am still gutted that Villa threw in the towel this January, England did it by keeping the proven failure of Hodgson around after he demonstrated how out of his depth he was.

Useless at the international level.

Shameful and embarrassing to lose by the odd goal to Uruguay and Italy with the poorest squad in living memory?

As for 'useless at the international level',  he did a very decent job with both Switzerland and Finland and more than fulfilled expectations.

I read an article a while back about the tiny number of players Hodgson can pick from. It pointed out that, the previous weekend, a total of 30 England-qualified players played in the top flight.

Yet in the 70s when the top division was full of English players, England struggłed to qualify for tournaments. Taylor's side didn't qualify in 1994 either when the likes of Ripley, Sherwood and Wilcox were burning up the top flight.

Think England have a decent chance this time. Light on quality at centre half and strangely still appear to favour average athletes (Milner, Henderson, Ox) in midfield ahead of playmakers like Noble or even Barry.

But Hart is one of the best keepers in Europe, full backs Walker and Rose have had great seasons. Alli is the most exciting English talent since Rooney. Up front, Sturridge, Kane, Vardy, Rooney - no other team in Europe has kind of talent to choose from. Even Defoe would be back up striker for most of the best teams in Europe.

Don't think Hodgson will be under any pressure to start Rooney now and that might work well. Kane has to start, as do Sturridge and Alli. Delph is a loss though, fine counter attacking player ideally suited to tournament football.

[Toronto Villa]

Much of that is perfectly valid until they come to tournament play and they find a way to collectively shit the bed. I hope Hodgson has the balls to pick the players on form and not fall back to selecting Milner, Walcott, Delph, Townsend etc. He has an opportunity to push England on at this event. Unfortunately I think he'll play it safe and some good on form players who deserve to be there will miss out.

[brian green]

Right TV.  He is the classic percentage player.

[Stirchley Villain]

And back to the original topic......

[ldavfc4eva]

This is an appropriate time to mention that my other half got me a Jazz Club t-shirt for my birthday last Tuesday.

Groovy

[oldtimernow]

This is an appropriate time to mention that my other half got me a Jazz Club t-shirt for my birthday last Tuesday.

Groovy

No way.....more like cool kat

[Steve67]

Slow news day eh? It has all gone rather quiet.

[oldtimernow]

all those reports that Remi would be gone in hours seem to have been somewhat off the mark,


is the power of the press waning?