Southgate already creating excuses

[B17BLG]

Who?

 

[moyeslovechild]

He sets his bar at a semi final. Your bar is set just one game further. Sounds pretty similar expectations to me

Anything less than winning it is a failure. This is our time with the games at Wembley and Kane in his prime

 

[PaulPowersTash]

He has his favourites. I think we will see Sterling starting, as well as Henderson and Rice. Bellingham won't be anywhere to been seen, neither will Sancho or Foden.

Unbelievable that the fraud decided to pick 4 RBs, he really is clueless.

Sterling or Rashford shouldn't be anywhere near any starting line up on current form.
Henderson is about as useful as a traffic cone against teams who can actually play.
As you say 4 RB's - what on earth is he thinking? It makes you despair.

 

[LEONARD]

His grovelling re TAA makes me think he has had loads of mail from the Cult followers.

Probably bullets' in envelopes.

 

[Huyton Layne]

Explaining his decision, Southgate said: “Yes, we have four players who play sometimes at right-back for their clubs.
“Kieran here has been playing at wing-back as well as right-back. Reece James has played right of a three or right wing-back.
“Trent plays at right-back, Kyle Walker has played at centre-half for us in a the three and also played at left-back for us in a game against Denmark

Ridiculous drivel. They are right backs that can play in another position moderately well. Know who can play in those positions very well? People who play that position every week. You'd think he was managing a minnow and had shortage of professional players. Hope they bomb out and they finally get rid of him.

 

[WA Toffee]

Anything less than winning it is a failure. This is our time with the games at Wembley and Kane in his prime

Scotland are going to knock them out in the first round. Get used to it

 

[Rob17896]

Yesterday Southgate was quoted as saying anything less than a semi-final is a failure.
This is a smoke and mirrors preparation of an excuse for failure ... “ well we made it to the semis”
He has been in charge long enough
He has a squad strong and talented enough
He has been to enough major tournaments now to know how to win .
The bar is set at a place in the final .
The nation expects a winning attitude not a fob off plucky run to the semi-final excuse !

No we don't

 

[Billy Dean]

Thought his presser was excellent yesterday. All decisions well reasoned and well explained. Main concern for me is CB where we’re quite weak. Looks like we’ll be starting with a back 3 with Walker (and maybe also James) primarily in as right sided CBs rather than RBs.

 

[fandjango]

He sets his bar at a semi final. Your bar is set just one game further. Sounds pretty similar expectations to me

Totally different
Semi final is not remembered in history
Final most certainly is

 

[Billy Dean]

Thought his presser was excellent yesterday. All decisions well reasoned and well explained. Main concern for me is CB where we’re quite weak. Looks like we’ll be starting with a back 3 with Walker (and maybe also James) primarily in as right sided CBs rather than RBs.

In fact the more I think about this the more I think this could be the case. Conventional wisdom is you generally need 2 players per position. So if you have a back 5 you might need 10 defenders. If you break it down over the positions of RWB, LWB, CB, RCB, LCB there are 2 for every position.

 

[Billy Dean]

Totally different
Semi final is not remembered in history
Final most certainly is

We’ll likely come up against the world champions either in the last 16 or QF

 

[Yarrgh]

Bored of England.

We'll plod our way to seige the edge of the opponemts box who will drop, defend and laugh as we run out of ideas and await our elimination at penalties.

We are a nation of flat track bullies with no true fight or guile - that was all lost as we were suppressed and broken by the class system imposed by our Norman overlords.

I think I'd like my porn star name to be Norman Overlords.

 

[Yarrgh]

4 right backs...

Say no more. Such a lop sided, uninspiring decision.

Im certain that for Croatia, he’ll be trying all he can to shoe horn Henderson, Phillips, Rice and Sterling into the XI, paving the way for Foden, Grealish, Saka to be left on the bench.

Do you think we needed a 5th? That's the ballsy kind of decision that wins a tournament or sends you straight home. I like it!

 

[barneygumble]

Do you think we needed a 5th? That's the ballsy kind of decision that wins a tournament or sends you straight home. I like it!

Personally, more Matty Cash, Godfrey would have been perfect for me to be honest.

Wasted a space on that Harry Kane.

 

[Alan Whittle]

I think I'd like my porn star name to be Norman Overlords.

Threesome with Angela Sexon & Vi King?

God, I’m bored.