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| FroomeDog99 |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:00
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cactus-jack wrote:
jph27 wrote:
England are atrocious. Per usual.
I don't follow the English news that much, but could this be the first championship where England hasn't allready won before the whole thing starts?
There wasn't much hope at Euro 2012 to be honest. Not much has changed since then.
Edit: Rooney! 1-0. Scrappy but I'll accept it.
Edited by FroomeDog99 on 11-10-2013 21:04
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| kumazan |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:07
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jph27 wrote:
We have been slightly above average in a group of average teams - Montenegro, Poland and Ukraine. It's painful.
What is painful? That's England performing at their normal level.
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| ruben |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:07
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Isn't it logical? English PL is flooded by foreigners. English youth barely gets a chance and the quality of most English hopefuls is therefore pretty poor |
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| FreitasPCM |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:08
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André Almeida? Ricardo Costa? Ruben Micael? Where the fuck is Danny? Or Éder? And why does Josué and Custódio have chances on the team, and not Adrien? I've never seen such a shitty team. |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:09
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English youth do get a chance though. Problem is they are shit mostly.
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| ruben |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:10
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kumazan wrote:
English youth do get a chance though. Problem is they are shit mostly.
then their youth system obviously sucks |
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| I_Mayo |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:11
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FreitasPCM wrote:
André Almeida? Ricardo Costa? Ruben Micael? Where the fuck is Danny? Or Éder? And why does Josué and Custódio have chances on the team, and not Adrien? I've never seen such a shitty team.
Take out 5-6 best Portugal players and that team would finish 3rd or 4th in every qualification. |
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| mede33 |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:18
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6-0 for France against Australia ! After 1222 minutes without scoring, Benzema has scored, and the all stadium was singing "he has scored again, he has scored again" ! 
The new PCM France : https://www.legruppetto.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=67
Just have a look, there's shirts and stages for you !
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| I_Mayo |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:18
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issoisso wrote:
I_Mayo wrote:
FreitasPCM wrote:
André Almeida? Ricardo Costa? Ruben Micael? Where the fuck is Danny? Or Éder? And why does Josué and Custódio have chances on the team, and not Adrien? I've never seen such a shitty team.
Take out 5-6 best Portugal players and that team would finish 3rd or 4th in every qualification.
There's no need for that many.
Take out Ronaldo and Moutinho -> average non-qualifying team
The most laughable thing is that since Pauleta retired they haven't had any even halfway decent strikers. Postiga? Almeida?... it's just... |
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| kimiopn |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:21
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issoisso wrote:
I_Mayo wrote:
FreitasPCM wrote:
André Almeida? Ricardo Costa? Ruben Micael? Where the fuck is Danny? Or Éder? And why does Josué and Custódio have chances on the team, and not Adrien? I've never seen such a shitty team.
Take out 5-6 best Portugal players and that team would finish 3rd or 4th in every qualification.
There's no need for that many.
Take out Ronaldo and Moutinho -> average non-qualifying team
Someone scored a goal for Portugal! Yeahhh!
Glad we're back on under-20 and under-21. Benfica only has 1 portuguese playing sometimes and he got the place. Maybe if they and Porto have some more we wouldn't be such an average team. |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:22
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issoisso wrote:
Any coach or other insider writing a book on the english youth system says the same thing: they privilege being big and fast and nothing else. That kills talent.
Yup, and it's the same in many other places, notably France, although I'm not sure if they have taken some steps to change it since Blanc pointed it out (with a wrong choice of words admittedly). Germany, on the other hand, are already profiting of a change in that model.
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| Miguel98 |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:23
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Altough is has been a couple of minutes, our defenders score a lot more than our strikes definetelly. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:24
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8-1 lol
This game made me Hungary. *badum tsss* |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:28
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The only good thing about this is that we are trying more than before.
But, still utter crap of course. Just with more chutzba.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| ruben |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:29
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issoisso wrote:
ruben wrote:
kumazan wrote:
English youth do get a chance though. Problem is they are shit mostly.
then their youth system obviously sucks
Yes, it's not the foreigners. Spanish league is also flooded, but spanish youngsters are great.
Any coach or other insider writing a book on the english youth system says the same thing: they privilege being big and fast and nothing else. That kills talent.
But there's also something else that contributes (less) to it: the weather doesn't allow for the short passing style that develops skills.
The weather? Seriosuly? It rains as much in the Netherlands as it does in England. Yet we almost constantly defy the odds by always developing great technical players (and not 1 good defender lol). |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:32
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issoisso wrote:
ruben wrote:
kumazan wrote:
English youth do get a chance though. Problem is they are shit mostly.
then their youth system obviously sucks
Yes, it's not the foreigners. Spanish league is also flooded, but spanish youngsters are great.
Any coach or other insider writing a book on the english youth system says the same thing: they privilege being big and fast and nothing else. That kills talent.
But there's also something else that contributes (less) to it: the weather doesn't allow for the short passing style that develops skills.
Too wet to play technical football? Which side of the Dover-cliffs are you playing on?
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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| viking90 |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:42
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Niiiceeeee! Playoff it is!  |
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| lukaas |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:48
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I love you ich liebe dich Zlatan Ibrahimovic. |
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| ruben |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:50
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again isso, half of the netherlands, except maybe the east side, has as much wind as england..
And most of our good players come from the west, close to the north sea, the big cities. |
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| cactus-jack |
Posted on 11-10-2013 21:59
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viking90 wrote:
Niiiceeeee! Playoff it is!
How much money would it take to get Zlatan a norwegian citizenship? We're good for 3500 billion kroners, just name a price.
There's a fine line between "psychotherapist" and "psycho the rapist"
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