without being biased, the 3 of stones, baines and barkley should be in England's best XI right now without a second's thoughy. Smalling's been brilliant so i think he deserves to be ahead of jagielka right now, but the other 3 should be shoe ins.
I don't think hodgson has done bad at England, he hasn't had a great squad of players in his whole tenure, not compared to the previous bosses for sure, but they're never going to do anything of note with them because he's reminiscent of moyes' final years here - plays it too safe. I said it before the WC, England need to look to the future because they won't even get out of their group - but he still picks players like gary cahill.
They haven't had one test in qualifying, so they arrange friendlies against some top class teams - this is the perfect time to get the youngsters to form partnerships, you're looking at smalling with stones; kane, barkley, oxlade-chamberlain and sterling as an attacking quartet. The future's not dreadful, but they should be heading to the next WC as a fully gelled unit coming into their prime years. They won't be. You'll still have phil jones' and james milner's knocking around the place.