I always think there is poor research into how opponents may play.

The last six-eight years gerrard interviews its about what we do, the lads are buzzing etc.

They never seem to know much about what opponents may do

Hand out free citizenships to foreign PL players? Extradite Rooney, forbid Nike to run stupid ads.

And sack Chiles ...

Right, you've convinced me. Forget Jose.

Invade South America and make it an English territory.

Ardiles and Villa might have a comment on that.

We need to drastically change our mentality and the way we play for a start. All this kick and rush crap needs to stop and be replaced with intelligent and composed possession football. Our players need to get it into their overrated heads that you can't play an international game the same way you play a Premier League match.

Chris Waddle was right in what he said as well: we have to start picking a team rather than just picking the best players on paper. I'd like to see some players from the smaller clubs being given a chance. A great player at a big Premier League club doesn't necessarily make a great international player. We never gave a guy like Le Tissier a chance for England because he played for a lowly club side and he is one of the most naturally talented players we've ever produced.

We need fundamental changes because there are 50 years of total failure testifying to the fact that the English style of football doesn't cut it at international level.

Already made the first mistake with Dyke saying Hodgeson will stay in charge. At least take some time to consider if this is the best option. IMO it isn't , the whole England setup needs reviewing again.

Make all these noises but nothing will ever change.

The Premier League will continue to make money, television plows in money, clubs won't invest in academies, more foreign players come in, etc.

Put a rocket up their backsides ..... They looked tired, drained, lethargic and disinterested before they even started playing.

Too much passing backwards.

Dock them a load of money from their next pay cheque because they're hopeless.

People keep saying that Hodgson should go, but who is the alternative?

Harry Redknapp certainly isn't the answer.

Glenn Hoddle

Redknapp noooooo. Man united, Liverpool and others recognised they had the wrong manager and did something about it. Go and find the right person. England have a reputation for always going with safe old school managers at every level and then wonder why they make no progress.

I think we should follow Crickets example with Central Contracts it may or may not work but I think we should do on Trail basis to see what happens

Make the other team's goal much bigger, but make our goal much smaller.

Great post.

Just watching videos on Sky Sports of these pundits saying where we went wrong, most of them aren't looking at the bigger picture with them saying England were unlucky, on the wrong side of a tight game etc.

Get the feeling England with all the top pros don't really know how to fix the problem with England failing at tournaments and the bigger picture of why and how to rectify this.

drag Gary Lineker & Alan Shearer out of retirement

Bring back the grandfathers of the 'old guard'

Seriously.....not enough.

Make the other team's goal much bigger, but excuse England from having to have a goal to defend

The best manager we had in the 2000's was Sven IMO and (for a while) Capello, who had us playing differently.

Invade Wales. Hey didn't we do that nearly 1000 years ago? What happened? A bit like the USSR giving Ukraine autonomy.

Danny Mills being on the FA Commission gives his opinion on how England can improve. Good points but does it go far enough

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27960739

Also experts have their say on England's failure. Le Tissier says Hodgson could have been braver picking the flair players

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27963053

Watching Iran's marvellous effort against Argentina with them having Charlton Athletic's reserve striker up front really emphasised how we lack guts, passion and desire. Iranians were busting a gut for 90 minutes and would run through a brick wall to make a challenge.
Anyway, I reckon Tony Pullis should be given the manager's job as he seems to be the only coach we have who can extract the best out of whatever resources he has and his teams always have plenty of bite and desire too.

I don't doubt the English players have passion and desire. But it's often misguided -- they run around like headless chickens half of the time. The Italy game was a perfect illustration of this, one team knew how to conserve energy, the other didn't.

And you can't say England will learn from the experience because they won't.

Whenever the next Under 18 or Under 19 tournament is, pick the best squad of players, available and elligible. Sod the clubs, the time of year or whatever else is going on.

For the next U21 finals tournament, pick Sterling for it, pick Barkley, Shaw, Wilshere if he is elligble, Stones even if he is in the first team by then.

Instead of ignoring Walcott, Owen and Rooney who probably have about 10 caps between them.

Interesting that USA has 5 german dual nationals in the squad

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/17/sp...n-brooks-hero/

We should pick up the promising Welsh players.