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But if we just drop players without replacing them then we'd end up with six or seven players on the pitch.

Sorry, just reads like a load of vague platitudes to me. I've not made any age arguments apart from to suggest the "why don't you play xxx" tends to be about young players. Being that you've no opened it to all players of any age it seems perplexing that you can't name anyone that would have been better than the "same old names". Who should have gone to Brazil instead of the same old names? Is Lallana a same old name then, or now, or wasn't then and is now or both or neither? And as you are moaning about successive England managers, who are all these players that would have been so much better? Who was better in 2004? 2006? 2008 was a car crash of management but sure you can put a different team out. I'm not asking for wonder kids, but you seem to think we have teams of unpicked players that could have got us into, say, semi finals of tournaments (or last time out into the group stages) but can't name a single one. Surely you are talking about Premier League players and they're all on TV every week so you must have some idea. Your whole approach seems to be pick the England team like Garth Crooks team of the week which may have some merit but I'm not sure. Anyway. I'll give you, for free, the game changer Mark Noble. And Gabby Ablonglahor. Fresh, dynamic, pushing the boundaries stuff. Give me another twelve and we've got a squad for a friendly.

Nah. English players just not that good full stop. It won't be long before its Dele Ali is being slagged off and why do we keep picking the same old names. The current "why don't we pick X" just becomes the future "why do we keep picking them?" The England Euro 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 squads are all better than what we'll be sending to France. And those squads weren't that good. The 2016 squad is better than the last couple of tournaments but that's because we have some marginally better players. I don't subscribe to some notion that the management are refusing to pick a load of English wonder-players because they "haven't got the balls" to drop people. The alternatives have really just not been there. Everyone likes to pile in and complain about Owen, Beckham, Gerrard, Rio and John Terry as was and Rooney now and so on but let's see how Dele Alli''s career pans out and let's see how he's judged when he's 29. I notice already some moaning about Wilshire who at all of 24 is veering towards the "why do we persist with him" camp for some. Brilliant. Anyway we've got some better players in this crop and they've been picked. And theyve been picked by, err, exactly the same manager as we've had for the last two tournaments.

Although Ronnie B wrote it, the real star of Four Candles is Ronnie C. Just brilliant reactions. Possibly my favourite sketch of all time is the one where Ronnie C keeps being thrown down the laundry chute in a hotel. Love it. What a life. RIP.

Wellbeck, Lallana, Walcott all proven to be poor at international level. The rest will prove to be poor at international level, it's just a matter of time and tournaments. Sturridge can barely string fives games in a row. Kane can be as good as Shearer was, that's about it. And everyone was fed up with him by Euro 2000 and everyone soon got fed up with Michael Owen and so on and so on. But Ross Barkley is the next Messi and definitely not the next John Barnes/Steve McManaman/Trevor Sinclair/etc/etc.

We're only about three years away from people grumbling about why oh why are we continuing to stick with the same old same old players like Harry Kane.

Didn't Nicholl end up being assistant to Ray at Walsall a few years later? That Nicholl team of 89-90 is unquestionably why I became a Saints fan - up to that point I wasn't really interested in football but my brothers and Dad were. That was the team that changed everything.

Surely there's tons of this stuff out there, and if Jeremy ends up fighting a general election he is going to get buried under it.

Being that you only ever post on threads about Nigel Adkins then I think this forum can survive without your sparkling contributions. Whatever utterly pointless sh ite you post on this forum is never, ever going to change what Nigel Adkins did at our club. But keep being bitter, it's quite funny if nothing else.

Pretty much nails it.

That is dreadful.

I don't need to twist things when you come out with utter rubbish like this. As whelk rightly says, you are absolutely desperate to see Islamaphobia in anyone and everyone on this forum so you can puff yourself up as some courageous "moderate" fighting the good fight. All we ever get from you is primary-school level stating of the bleeding obvious but delivered in such a way that you'd think you were Emmeline frigging Pankhurst. No one thinks all Muslims are terrorists but you are desperate to pretend people here do. No one thinks other religions don't have a history (and present) of violence/terror but you are desperate to pretend people here do. Stop making stuff up is my advice. No one thinks the things you spend every single day grandstanding about. No one.

The sad thing is that if that march was stormed by a load of EDL fu ckwits and it all kicked off, that would be news.

I'm not convinced that anyone whose response is to go onand on about how the Nazis were, like, Christian and stuff is someone that can claim to understand global terrorism and ISIS in particular. However it does seem to give the likes of SOG some perverse satisfaction and dissipates the evil of ISIS in his eyes and allows him to lay into Christianity (defined as anyone who has ever been or knows anyone that has been to a nativity play). Bizarre, but we are where we are.

You write that as if we don't already have trade links with Africa. The UK has long gone beyond "thinking about" trading with that region and, er, actually is. It's a common theme with the our persuasion that leaving the EU will suddenly open up all these new markets that we were somehow being stopped from trading with. All leaving will do is make us have to start anew with this countries and rewrite trade deals rather than just carry on, like, trading with them.

And of course Villa sneak it out while an England match is on ITV. What a club.

We won't let his contract run down is what I am saying. One of the options in the negotiation would be to let him go if we can't resolve his contract. It wouldn't be "dishonourable" or be "giving him grief" if he says he doesn't want to commit to the club beyond next season and we pay up his contract, ie honouring it in full. Much the same with players, we don't want anyone with an eye on the exit for an entire season, and nothing suggests we won't treat Koeman in exactly the same way. If he doesn't want to give the players and the club the security that he is intending to stay longer, then it is in the clubs better interests to replace him with someone that does. Handshake, no hard feelings. We've had an astonishing run of brilliant managerial appointments since Pardew and one day we will employ a dud, but lets think we are capable of getting someone else in who can be as good. Koeman isn't going to be our manager forever, so you might as well start getting used to it. However, I have said several times that I think he will stay, but he will sign a rolling contract and more than likely go at the end of next summer anyway. But we will not drift into next season and week after week after week of contract questions at press conferences. Won't happen.

WHAT ALL ONE BILLION OF THEM etc etc etc

If we have all finished laughing at SOG then googling Belgium False Flag chucks up some absolute solid gold guff, the kind of which former legendary contributors of this parish are currently masterbating over, while accusing other people of being gullible. Research thus far - "look at that fake baby ato themail airport" with lots of self assured YouTube comments from virgins saying "babies wouldn't move like that". Also something about the number 322 (22nd March in, er, US date format. Geddit?) which is (obviously) a number linked to the illuminati or lizards or something. Cast iron proof. There's other stuff - the fact that they hit near to the EU buildings is evidence of conspiracy rather than, well, evidence that the terrorists were targeting a seat of power. Like, obviously, sheeple. Then I stopped reading as it made me feel depressed. There are some utter dins out there, and some make SOG look like Henry Kissinger.

Very happy with a local company. Much prefer that to a gambling company. Have people not seen the Ladbrokes adverts? Cretins.

The club will not let that happen.

I think that is part of it. And that's not necessarily bad - If we said nothing to the press then plenty on here would interpret that as the club not trying/dithering/doing nothing etc etc. Clearly we will treat Koeman like we did Clyne and the rest (and Victor this summer). No one is going into the final year if their contract. Sign, or go. Koeman could go either way - if he gets us to sixth then he may get a big offer but in all honesty I don't really know who he would get a job offer from that is "elite". The top six here are settled or won't go for him, and the other big European giants? Can't see it. Obviously Barcelona is the exception but that doesn't look likely this summer. Dutch national job is the other realistic opportunity but unlikely to be on the cards this summer. He might just want a change and to pootle off to a second tier CL/Europa club, and if he does good luck. I still think as I said before that he will sign an extension but he will only do the three seasons and then go. Likely a nice rolling contract.

So SOG is falling over himself to emphasise how much of a Christian Hitler is, but seems to get awfully upset when anyone dares to suggest that Islamic terrorists are even remotely Islamic at all. Perplexing stuff.

No evidence to back that up - he couldn't win L1 with Reading and with Reading and WHU only managed the play offs in the division above - with West Ham especially he stuttered and stammered through two Championship seasons with one of, if not the, biggest club in the division. And his record since then is littered with hot and cold runs of form, verging on triumph (Newcastle 5th) and disaster (Charlton rock bottom of Championship). His last few seasons have been hot and cold and it's been a common theme through his career. I like Pards and he would have got us out of L1 but he would have been as likely to scrape us through the play offs as win the league, something he has never achieved anywhere.

Well, there's Nazi gold and there's forum gold. SOG delivers, yet again.