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Have the club given a date when the new kit will be released?

Southgate has got a lot of stick, some of it deserved. Deschamps should be fucking locked up for crimes against football. Fuck me, he played a keeper, 4 defenders and 3 defensive midfielders last night; dull as ditch water… and that’s very unfair on ditch water.

SuBo is a filthy bitch though and sometimes that’s what’s needed.

This, in spades. Really happy he’s signing a new contract.

My point is the format of the group stages lends itself to boring football.

Agreed, good for 35 minutes - get the goal, drop deep to defend the lead, secure the win, now only need a point from 2 games. You could argue that England played the format well. Did what was needed, which wasn't particularly difficult to achieve.

Why not? I’m talking about the competition as a whole, I think the format has led to many turgid games.

This group format of only losing 8 from the 24 nations after 3 games is bollox. The big nations can turn up at 60% and qualify at a stroll. Many games have been turgid, essentially don’t lose and you’ll more than likely qualify. There’s been few high quality games and many games had pre-season feel to them. The competition starts for real on Saturday.

agreed and so does the assist

The left hand side was pathetic. The long ball approach in the second half was mindless. I enjoy supporting England but that was hard to watch.

Nick is his middle name, first name is Phil

Now now, calm down dear, you’ll give yourself a hernia. The revelation was quite literally the sentence you wrote. Time will tell with Will. Jack hasn’t established himself as a premier league player and probably isn’t going to. RM could be blowing smoke up their arses for all we know.

No matter what the managerial changes that may or may not occur, there's a very good chance we will be relegated at the end of the 24/25 season. RM is still growing as a manager, we know he can get a team out of the Championship given the right players, ideally he's given the space to experience a full Premier League season so if we are relegated he gets to at least the following Christmas to show we're on target to be promoted back in to the PL. Second season in the PL with the right resources will be where he has to really prove himself. You also don't need to engage with ChatGPT to predict how some of the users on this forum will react following our, likely, opening day defeat.

What Dusic said..

To be fair; Bloom's record in recruiting managers, Sami Hyppia aside, is pretty fucking impressive.

Fuck me, how selfish of you to sit on this revelation.

We’re talking about Charly Alcarez not fucking Lionel Messi. I like Charly but he’s not even close to being good enough to be classed in the “luxury player” bracket.

People forget they couldn’t play a 3 in midfield with Beckham. Selecting Beckham essentially dictated a 4 in the middle.

Scholes made a career lasting 60 minutes or so. It’s not difficult to manage. 5 subs per game is not proving to be disruptive.

Ignore the stats. I’ve seen him a few times this season and he’s still more than capable at performing at premier league level. He won’t last more than 60 minutes but can be an asset for us if used appropriately, which I’m sure will be the case.

Why? Their keeper had fuck all to do.

Looks like Russ has found a way not to be the most divisive person at the club 😂

Let’s be honest, Neville was bang average. Walker and Stones are stronger than Neville and Terry. Southgate should’ve spent the last 2 years replacing Maguire not pissing about with all that loyalty bollox. Grealish has never really let England down but he’s not on the bus so clearly the loyalty was horse shit. We’ve a front 5 to scare the shit out of world football but you know we’ll play 7 defensive players.

Have I missed something? Why are we announcing the squad before the final friendly?

Can’t help but think we’re sacrificing creative talent because they’ve failed to create a central defensive pairing due to the ridiculous loyalty shown to Maguire, therefore we’ll be overloaded with defenders some of whom have a handful of caps between them. Southgate has dug this hole.