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Even if you could spell it correctly it would be a pathetic thing to say. Hodgson is a decent manager doing the best he can with what is one of the poorest group of players England have had for many years. He is trying to build something by playing a lot of youngsters.

Hodgson puts a lot of emphasis on how players perform for England and not so much their club form hence picking Townsend who TBF has always performed well for England.

I'm afraid I tend to agree with Supersonic. Now I don't agree with Hodgson playing Jones ahead of Clyne but much as I want him to do well Clyne was poor in his last two England games. He also lost a bit of form playing for Saints. Now he can either have a hissy fit like most of the posters on this thread or he can knuckle down, work hard and try and become a better, more consistent player and make the right back spot his own.

Hope you don't say that to your students

Bearsy was a very funny guy IMO. If you think different then I'd have to question your sense of humour.

Where do you get your info?

Read the quote I was commenting on again: "virtually forcing them to move to so called bigger clubs if they wanted to play for England." He is suggesting Hodgson forced players to join bigger clubs if they wanted to play for England when they were already playing for England.

But they were already playing for England, the statement is a contradiction in terms. Lallana, Lambert, JRod, Clyne, Bertrand, Shaw all played for England whilst at Southampton. This argument that Hodgson only picks players from the big clubs just does not stand up. Delph plays for Villa, a team close to getting relegated this Summer, he is a regular starter for England. Don't get me wrong I don't agree with everything Hodgson does, picking Jones ahead of Clyne for instance but it seems that people just want to knock him because that is the thing to do.

Some embarrassing comments on this thread, I do wonder if a lot of you know much about football. And then of course Alpine has to chip in, hoping England lose, this guy who f*cks off to Austria and is forever whinging about the country and whinging about Saints. Well Alpine f*ck off you utter tw*t. Mods, infract me or ban me if you like, in the immortal words of Morgan Freeman "I don't give a ****".

I take it all back. Fecking Hodgson, what a useless c***! Actually, I agree with Sour, Clyne has been poor in his last couple of games. I'll still watch it and hope they win.

He'd certainly be inept at using the English language mixing up past and future tenses.

Well he didnt say that did he? He was simply making the point that the most important thing is a win. Perfectly reasonable.

"We are concentrating on breaking them down, scoring goals and - if I'm brutally honest - winning," he said. "I'd take a show or a lucky victory. At the end of the day winning or not getting beaten are the important factors." Not really much wrong in that is there?

Totally agree. I can't stop supporting England just like I can't stop supporting Saints. It's your country FFS, just because we are not very good doesn't mean you should give up, this sounds like the big club plastics. Did you all give up on Saints when they were in L1? People moaned when Sven took us to 3 quarter finals but perhaps that was our level and perhaps we are at our level now. We simply don't have that many decent players. Look at the team, many of them don't hold down regular places at club level. It's no good blaming Hodgson or the FA. Look at the big clubs who would much rather buy a top player from abroad than bring through a youngster. But get behind England anyway, as I said its your country. Rant over, suns out.

Apologies, but when I say his name it makes me want to sing this.

I don't normally watch Thronecast after GOT but I did last week as Carice van Outen (sp) otherwise known as Melisandre was on. Oh my!

Agreed, such a brilliant speaker

Balding, ex-hooligan, internet warrior, full of predictable and repetitive jokes.

Not a one off though is it? The way I read it you will have to pay this each season. Also, will it make much difference to availability of away tickets. As Plastic mentioned a big question is whether you can buy multiple tickets. I take my nephew every so often so it would mean having to pay for his membership too. I will probably do so but don't agree with it.

Agreed, means I may have to fork out another £25 I wouldn't otherwise have had to.

Yep, a bit too pedantic of me, apologies.

Then don't state it as fact.

Your opinion mate, not fact. Much as I like Austin I think Ings will prove to be a better player.

Busy time for Charlie, currently in the England squad, then he gets married at the end of the month. Apparently his parents live in Poole.

The Game ended last night, very good although difficult to follow at times for a thicko like me.