The England National Team

How must Clyne feel? Picked in a squad and then the guy who comes in as a replacement for an injured player starts ahead of you. Would love a journalist to ask Hodgson some of these questions. How can he say he is picking players based on form and then do that. Kick in the teeth to players in the league like Shawcross aswell and others who are in good form but never selected.

Rooney again showing he is massively overrated.....Cue second half hat trick

Goalkeepers
Fraser Forster, Ben Foster, Joe Hart

Defenders
Leighton Baines, Gary Cahill, Calum Chambers, Nathaniel Clyne, Kieran Gibbs, Phil Jagielka, Luke Shaw, Chris Smalling

Midfielders
Ross Barkley, Michael Carrick, Stewart Downing, Jordan Henderson, Adam Lallana, James Milner, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Raheem Sterling, Andros Townsend, Jack Wilshere, Theo Walcott

Forwards
Rickie Lambert, Wayne Rooney, Daniel Welbeck, Saido Berahino

Who are better than these players though?

Nathan Dyer is the only player I'd argue that is in good enough form to warrant selection and even then - is he even any good?

Charlie Austin maybe too.

England aren't a team that can afford to pick players on form anymore - you have to pick the best possible players regardless if they're performing for their clubs or not.

But Walcott is better than Dyer?

Barry and Carrick are non entities in that squad for me - both too old and shouldn't really be playing for England. I'd rather have Barry though, you're right - we don't play with a 4-3-3 and a defensive midfielder though, so that's pointless including him as he's nowhere near mobile enough to play in a 4-4-2.

But these players aren't good enough, the players selected there with the exception of Austin over Lambert are the best players available for England?

England don't play with defensive midfielders ever - it's part of the reason we're so poor. People like Cork will never get a start over Henderson and Wilshere regardless of what they offer.

Barry > Carrick, Dyer > Walcott (going by form, Walcott's played about 10 mins in 9 months), Austin > Lambert (offer the same style, Kane might've been useful but not the same 'mould' as Lambert), anyone > Townsend.

Still no Shawcross either, which is a bit shit

England aren't a team that can afford to pick players on form anymore - you have to pick the best possible players regardless if they're performing for their clubs or not.