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Sam
King Luis
Fairplay to him
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King Luis
Flash.
Nothing to lose? It's the World Cup for fucks sake. Everything every national team has been doing for the past 2 years (even 4) has been leading upto this.
You take your best players and do whatever is possible to get as far as you can in what is the biggest tournament on earth and the pinnacle of a footballers career, whether you're Brazil, England or North Korea.
I'd actually say it's the worst possible time to be taking plenty of youngsters.
Ninja
I don't think anyones going for the experience judging from what we've heard of the team selected, there's at least no outrageous selections like Walcott in 2006 (who bizarrely after playing in 2006 won't get another chance at a world cup till 2018, potential for the longest break between tournament record?)
Jamieandhisego
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Deano
Smalling? I know you can't please everyone one but someone explain to me how he is in there ahead of Stones. Smalling has been a liability all season and Stones has been in amazing form?
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Slashman X
Defence seems a bit "light", Cahill injury and they're fucked
Deano
Tommo.
Tommo.
I like Caulker. May have got relegated but been one of their best players
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Stones has played 21 Premier League games and is vastly inexperienced. Smalling at least knows how to play in big matches. Stones did well to make the standby list.
Deano
Bullshit. Smalling is a liability in any match he plays in. 21 games or not for Stones, He's been playing like he's a seasoned defender.
King Luis
Deano
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Smalling is far from a top-class defender but he's not a 'liability in any match he plays in' by any stretch of the imagination. He's played a number of times for England has looked alright. Stones has been impressive but if you want to take players based on their performances over a relatively small number of games then Adam Johnson would be going. It's the right call by Hodgson.
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This I agree with. Barry should have been in ahead of Lampard in the actual squad.
Deano
Meh, Think i'm just taking it personally for the lad. When you see someone playing as good as he has been for a lad as young as he is only to see Smalling get in irrelevant of experience or not is highly frustrating.
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It's just come too soon for him. I'm sure we'll see him feature plenty more after the World Cup and if he will surely go to Euro 2016 if his form continues.
Deano
Barry has been phenomenal this season for us, completely revitalized under Martinez. Yet overlooked. Typical.
Carroll.
Number 1
I don't think Oxlade-Chamberlain or Wilshere have been consistently fit enough recently to go, but can't really think of anyone else to have gone instead. Certainly not Cleverley, who would struggle to get into a hypothetical England D team with his form this season.
Sam
Surprised Smalling is in the squad tbh.
Slashman X
Ninja
The Platypus
Better than Jagielka?
Ninja
Yeah. With Cahill the best one going. That's not to disparage Jagielka but Smalling has been consistently excellent centrally all season at centre back, people just bundle in he shit on the stick he produces at right back and lump in in with genuinely poor players like Cleverley.