S-Clarke

at bloody last, a bit of life. now a grand stand finish...

Glen Johnson is atrocious.

He's bit a bit pants tonight, it has to be said.

I can see what it's going to be now. 80mins, Lambert thrown on and 10mins of just knocking long ball after long ball up to him. Completely ignoring his actual quality.

That wasn't as bad as this.

Barkley coming on, would agree. But you have to ask, what's the point of taking Lambert if you're not going to make use of his obvious qualities? Maybe he doesn't see them.

Thought the same. The big players put those away.

Is it just me, or are our players always stretching for the ball? Seemingly under control, and they end up stretching for it, and losing it? Seems pretty inept.

We're shockingly bad. But hey, just keep it as it is Hodgson.

Uruguay simply look so much better than us. We're not at their level I don't think, even though they're pretty average.

Why wiltshire? What's he ever done? Don't get him, seems a nothing player. Would rather gamble with an unknown like Barkley.

Most teams retain the ball better. We're just ****. Hoof it is the way.

This is all a bit ****, really. Laboured, half-arsed, slow. There's just nothing there. The only bit of urgency were a few **** corners after they scored, good stuff. Would make some calls and bring Lambert, Lallana and Barkley on. Why not? Henderson looks out of his depth, Rooney and Welbeck have been tosh. Still confused to how Welbeck gets so many minutes in a world cup. But the reality is that players like Jagilka, Baines and Welbeck are sub-standard and we end up carrying them. I'm also still trying to work out which world class players Lallana is enjoying training with? I'm pretty sure we have more in our squad at Staplewood.

Joop Heile apparently.

It's a good start - lots of getable points from the first couple of months, it actually looks very similar to that of last year. A start that enables us to pick-up points and get a head of steam...

lol?

Just watch the Holland team in the world cup, their formation is based upon what Koeman did at Feyernord. Pretty epic it has to be said.

Were they the eyes he gave the ref, after he squirted his boots with the foam? His reaction to that was hilarious!

It does look a mighty impressive facility, it has to be said. The tech geek in me wants to see the touch screen in a little more detail....! Good analysis tool.

Why? My brother is a year younger than Shaw, and him and his friends knew all about Koeman and the clubs he was at. Shaw is surrounded by football people, so what makes you think he wouldn't know who he was?

Is it just me, or is there a distinct lack of Kruger anywhere to be seen right now? The guy doing the PR and the press is Les - maybe KL has seen the reaction that RK has had, and has decided to pull him back from the public eye.... Even on the tour of Staplewood, it was just Les. It was Les signing the contract with the manager as well as Gareth Rogers, Les giving the interview and run down on the appointment.....and Les giving an interview a week or so ago prior to this appointment. Maybe everyone else saw what an awful PR job Kruger was doing?

Trust in Les is what I say. Criticise Kruger, fair enough, he's come across as a bit of a wolly - but Les knows what he's doing. He's been a part of our rise as much as anyone else.

Why not throw Shaw in? All the talk about experience, but this is Baines first ever WC - and a good player that he is, he's never quite convinced me at international level. so he's not exactly got experience either. We saw it with Italy and Darmian - had a fantastic debut. So throw Shaw in, one of the hottest young properties in the world. Stick Lallana in front of him and he'd have the cover.

attack, attack, attack.

He took Perez with him (Assistant), Miguel D’Agostino (first team coach) and Jimminez (GK Coach).