The Football Thread.

guitars4you

2 nights on the trot- only seconds to go 

LionAquaLooper

Great goal.
Germany, Hungary, now Italy getting in on the last minute heroics. 3 in 2 days. Unheard of. 

Shrews

So who's going to win the final? 

Spain A or Spain B? 

mgaw

Fantastic finish, sad for Modric though

Placidcasual79

Wow - that was astonishing...... 

scrumhalf

Cracking goal from Italy.

Sad for Modders, a fantastic player.

Placidcasual79

Also -  and I know this is as devise as a 98th minute Italian winner - Rooney is becoming a pundit......I knows hes getting big help from the UOB - but he's actually starting to talk tactics, real opinions and insight....

sev112

Shame about his green suit though

Placidcasual79

sev112 said:

Shame about his green suit though

Ha ha -  fair -  I mean it's a shame about a lot of Rooney. I  guess I am just surprised by his recent appearances as a pundit and guest - admittedly the bar of expectations he's risen above was LOW.

UnclePsychosis

Rooney is shaping up to be an excellent pundit. A pleasant surprise. 

LionAquaLooper

Better than Shearer, that's for sure. 

guitars4you

Placidcasual79 said:

Also -  and I know this is as devise as a 98th minute Italian winner - Rooney is becoming a pundit......I knows hes getting big help from the UOB - but he's actually starting to talk tactics, real opinions and insight....

Sounds like Plymouth will have a great season then

thecolourbox

guitars4you said:

Placidcasual79 said:

Also -  and I know this is as devise as a 98th minute Italian winner - Rooney is becoming a pundit......I knows hes getting big help from the UOB - but he's actually starting to talk tactics, real opinions and insight....

Sounds like Plymouth will have a great season then

Let's hope he does better there than he did at Blues

mgaw

Enquired about getting season ticket for the coming season, waiting list of nearly 4000, there’s been a big waiting list for a few years, very well supported team

guitars4you

thecolourbox said:

guitars4you said:

Placidcasual79 said:

Also -  and I know this is as devise as a 98th minute Italian winner - Rooney is becoming a pundit......I knows hes getting big help from the UOB - but he's actually starting to talk tactics, real opinions and insight....

Sounds like Plymouth will have a great season then

Let's hope he does better there than he did at Blues

exactly

CHRISB50

UnclePsychosis said:

Rooney is shaping up to be an excellent pundit. A pleasant surprise. 

I really like him too. 

He’s got some great stories. 

guitars4you

Agree with Rooney about tonights team 

I'd like to see Anthony Gordon come into the team. I'd play Jordan Pickford in goal, then Kyle Walker, Marc Guehi, John Stones and Kieran Trippier. I’d play Gordon off the left, Bukayo Saka on the right, with Declan Rice and Jude Bellingham in the middle. Phil Foden is number 10 and Harry Kane up top.

The other option tonight is to rest 3-5 key players and bring in the likes of Gordon, Watkins, Wharton, Eze and Palmer - I can see the logic of this - Yet tonight is also a touch of a freebie, so chance to put out your best team and try to blend and put right what has not worked - Not sure if any one is on a yellow card, so at risk of missing a last 16 match, in which case rest them tonight 

My view is if you don't play Bellingham alongside Rice, then you need to drop Foden and bring in Gordon on the left

Shrews

I can't see us resting 3-5 key players tonight. Finish 2nd and we play Germany (not checked, read it somewhere), but win and we play a 3rd place team.

If we finish 3rd ourselves then it's Portugal or the winner of the group with Belgium in it.

I think he will likely stick with the TAA "experiment" go for another low energy win and it will be in the knockout stages where we see the emergence of other players and higher energy tactics. Possibly 2nd half tonight if we can't deal with Sesko up front.

But 3-0, low energy, slow, boring, but still well on top and picking off Slovenia as they put additional risk into coming forward. No surprises if it's 0-0 at half-time and 'Southgate out' breaks the internet. 

AlbertC

Slovenia have a lot to play for, so I’m not counting on much entertainment from this evening….
to borrow a phrase from elsewhere, another “ming vase” performance from England I reckon 

LionAquaLooper

Gallagher will start I reckon.  
Maybe also Palmer.