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When Luis Aragones took over the Spanish team, he got rid of Raul and Guti - their influence over the team was too much. The same should apply to Gerrard now, whoever comes in or if Roy stays, they should drop him. He's had a brilliant season at Liverpool but his role for England is slightly different to that for Pool, no point in playing him when his influence isn't the same for country as it is for club.
On Gerrard, I agree, it won't surprise me if he retires after this tournament and concentrates on his club. |
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A bunch of untested kids, and has been's under a cluess owl was never going to work. Until those in charge of such things realise that Rooney (and others) are only good when playing WITH the world's best players, NOT against them, the farce will continue.
For some reason I've never been able to fathom, the governing body for the English football team consistently scupper whatever slim chances any team may have by appointing useless managers. Back in the day, for example, Brian Clough was snubbed, and this time around, dirty tricks ruled out Harry Redknap. Why this goes on, I have no idea. So, I now do not even bother watching England matches at any level. I prefer to watch teams who try, like Holland, Germany and Brazil. England, is was and probably always will be a team of underachieving overpaid habitual losers, wasting everyone's time. Both Italy and Uruguay are ranked higher than us and the conditions would have suited them more. It's a very tough group and I don't think we've disgraced ourselves .. the results were both close. The Italy game was one of the best I've seen England play. Brazil aren't exactly setting the place alight. |
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^^which is worrying because they top their group
I don't mind boring football as long as we're good at it, and we're not. Germany don't play what I would call "beautiful football" thats more the Dutch, but by christ they do it well. |
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They're both getting stick but they're rightfully not alone. Of course some fans have club-centric agendas but the bottom line is both were poor in one respect or another as were most of the players. Not all their fault, as the team balance and chemistry contributes, so Hodgson has to take a large chunk of responsibility.
Rooney is not Suarez and Gerrard is not Pirlo - they cannot be forced into those roles without compromise. So enough of this "my player is less to blame than your player" garbage and let's just look at the bigger picture - a picture that will probably feature neither. Or Hodgson. |
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^^which is worrying because they top their group
I don't mind boring football as long as we're good at it, and we're not. Germany don't play what I would call "beautiful football" thats more the Dutch, but by christ they do it well. Italy and Uruguay are both above England in the rankings ... only Costa Rica are below. It is a pretty horrendous group ... the worst most probably. Spain have under achieved far more than us ... not that that's much of a consolation
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The goal was entirely his fault and he has been a waste of a jersey in this world cup along with the anonymous Henderson. Gerrard effectively ended Liverpool's title challenge and now has practically put England out the world cup.
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Rooney semi-flopped he missed some gilt edged chances that you would expect supposed world class players to take, but I thought his overall play was good against Uruguay. Gerrard has developed a nasty habit of setting up the opposition at crucial moments. Never understood why he was so feted in his new Liverpool role, they conceded 50+ goals with him 'covering' their back four.
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Still not convinced gerrard will step aside.
Two months time before the Switzerland game same old, the lads are buzzing etc. |
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I think blaming one or two men when there are 11 on a team is stupid, England as a whole played badly last night. Gerrard was poor admittedly but where was everybody else when that second goal happened? Rooney missed a couple of chances admittedly but at least he pulled it back. As a team they played terribly last night. In my very limited opinion lol, I'm sure people will let me know if I got it all wrong lol.
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Rooney semi-flopped he missed some gilt edged chances that you would expect supposed world class players to take, but I thought his overall play was good against Uruguay. Gerrard has developed a nasty habit of setting up the opposition at crucial moments. Never understood why he was so feted in his new Liverpool role, they conceded 50+ goals with him 'covering' their back four.
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Can't blame Rooney alone as he played well in the last match despite missing some chances.
I wouldn't blame Gerrard alone as it appears that it was the entire defence in this world cup which has been our achilles heel, and poor man to man marking throughout the team. We looked very good in certain areas at times, but this hid our flaws. And obviously, we just didn't score enough goals from good chances we had. Poor concentration and lack of focus too worked against us. Actually there's a list growing now so I'll just stop there. I couldn't blame England's world cup on just one man. |
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There's no doubt Gerrard was poor but so was Jagielka and although Johnson played a role in the goal he simply isn't good enough most of the time.
Thought Cahill did OK and so did Rooney but in the end we simply don't have enough flair or naturally skilled players to compete with the best - although how that explains the Spanish teams dismal performances I don't know. England going out didn't surprise anyone but Spain's performances, by contrast, surely did. |
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Let's face it we are worse than bosnia.
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I don't think any England player emerged from last night's game with any credit.
We were poor in every area of the pitch. I have to say that I'm really worried about our defence. If that back four is considered to be our best and the foundation we have to build on for the future, we are in deep shit. |
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I'm not really one for scape-goating, but I thought Jagielka's been at fault for three of the four goals we've conceded.
Rooney and Sturridge did ok last night, both put in a lot of effort; Sterling and Wellbeck didn't seem to like their positions as much, but the truth is we're just not that great at breaking down well organised defences. |
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Hoddle was last night giving his views and said that Hodgson should continue. Fair enough. Then he was asked about Gerrard and Lampard and should they call it a day for England? He replied how old is Pirlo? He was adamant it would be a big mistake to for either to retire or get axed. He was talking sense up to that point.
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I might be remembering wrong, but I think Guti hardly ever played for Spain, sure I remember questioning why he wasn't in their team yet played well for Madrid.
On Gerrard, I agree, it won't surprise me if he retires after this tournament and concentrates on his club. |
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There's no doubt Gerrard was poor but so was Jagielka and although Johnson played a role in the goal he simply isn't good enough most of the time.
Thought Cahill did OK and so did Rooney but in the end we simply don't have enough flair or naturally skilled players to compete with the best - although how that explains the Spanish teams dismal performances I don't know. England going out didn't surprise anyone but Spain's performances, by contrast, surely did. |
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That's just rubbish ... the top players have to play against top players every week in the premiership and the champions league etc.
Both Italy and Uruguay are ranked higher than us and the conditions would have suited them more. It's a very tough group and I don't think we've disgraced ourselves .. the results were both close. The Italy game was one of the best I've seen England play. Brazil aren't exactly setting the place alight. Looking at some of the other groups Group H looks like a piece of piss compared to England's group. Groups C and E also look more like the makeup of groups we usually end up in. Looking back at earlier recent World Cups we've been put into groups that look very easy on paper and we made then look like really hard work. Scraping through with draws and one win against teams we'd expect to beat. This was a really hard group. The hardest I can remember, and I think a lot has to do with the order we have faced teams and how early we had to meet them. |
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