Micky

I am really struggling to understand this policy of possession, when clearly it means the square root of fuck all. They've had the football for all of five minutes and absolutely murdered us, while we've cocked around on the half way line looking like Billy Big bollocks, but offering nothing. Add to that, the manager won't change when it's obviously all going Pete Tong. Crap 45.

Yep, but we all know that he's not going to stop fuck all, so giving them free shots is not going to help.

Given away by Holgate, goal....! We're going to hear that a lot this season. Crap.

No we're allergic to good defending.

Looked a class above when he came on, but we need players to get onto his end product, hopefully they will learn quickly that he can deliver. Could really be a big part of the project both off and on the field, great start.

Don't know enough about women's football, but Spain looked much better than us, we created nothing they looked likely to score every time they came forwards.

We've been reduced to hoofing it with ten minutes left, need to calm down, we're giving it to Spain.

It appears to me that the ref is just 'guessing' most of the decisions..!

Penalty incoming...

Nearly 2, Spain much better all over the pitch, not looking good for us atm.

Yet more pointless, passive possession. No end product. Boring.

Top pro, I wish him all the best.

I won't refer to it as 'defending' because that would be an insult to professional defenders, but our attempts to stop the opposition scoring are frankly laughable. On this showing, not a hope in hell that we are anywhere near promotion, time to focus on some basics, never mind playing out from the back and worrying about possession, possession wins nothing, goals do. We look as if we've learned nothing from last season, just as soft on the pitch and mentally.

I wish the lad all the best. He may not be the most talented midfielder but he owes us nothing. You would rarely see him hide or not try, he obviously has a great affinity to the club but he has to do what's right for him. Thanks and farewell.

I'm assuming your predictive text got the better of you and you meant minefield, in which case, yes he'd be right at home in all the chaos.

So all this pointless passive possession counts for absolutely nothing if you don't have the know how, or players to turn it into goals, so what is the point of making it a key area of our tactics? I would much rather have the lions share of the goals than the lions share of possession. Sounded like we were at our woeful worst tonight, it's going to be a long hard season.

What fucking idiot would buy any of those ffs?

Not a good start....!

Did it the hard way, will need to play much better from here on in.

To be honest England have been pretty poor throughout this tournament, scraped past Haiti and Denmark before beating a very poor China. If they pull this one out of the fire it may spur them on, but all in all i think they have been poor.

What / who are you classing as our first eleven?

Great header.

Very soft.

Soft.

How many of this side will still be here at Christmas?