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UEFA EURO 2024 (14 Viewers)

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HadjiChippo

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  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,891
At least there’s no chance of the worst officials at the tournament reffing our games.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,892
How did Anthony Taylor even get the call up? He's terrible
 
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oscillatewildly

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,893
Nick said:
How did Anthony Taylor even get the call up? He's terrible
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Community service/refresher course?
 
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Frostie

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,894
robbiekeane said:
But as someone else said it looked like the ref asked him to put his flag up? So did the ref overrule the linesman so that they could put it to VAR? Fucking joke
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VAR review every goal regardless so no conspiracy of "putting it to VAR", they have to give what they think is the correct decision on the field.

Ref would have thought he was impacting the keeper which lino obviously can't tell, clarified it with him & that he was in an offside position & came to (probably) the right decision.
Why it took so long for the VAR to confirm that was just ridiculous though.
 

HadjiChippo

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,895
Not impressed by France at all, have been very average in both their games considering their squad.
 
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SeaSeeEffCee

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,896
I thought it was the right decision by the letter of the law tbh. He was in an offside position and blocking the keeper. Whether the keeper was going to dive for it doesn’t really come into it as per the laws of the game.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,897
How didn't they give a foul then?
 

Mucca Mad Boys

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,898
HadjiChippo said:
Not impressed by France at all, have been very average in both their games considering their squad.
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Agreed, but to be consistent with my thoughts on England… it’s the group games and the only important thing is getting out of the group.

Netherlands winning the group would be (potentially) good for us if we get our act together.
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,899
Arsene Wenger at Slovakia game in Dusseldorf a few hours ago, now Leipzig for this.

Private jetting all over Germany.
 

Paul Anthony

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,900
That was a pretty rubbish game.
 
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HadjiChippo

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,901
If Maignan had dived and come near Dumfries I’d have agreed with ruling it out but Maignan was never anywhere near, and was never reacting fast enough to stop that(or reaching it anyway). It’s a perversion of the offside rule, no advantage was gained.
 
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Mcbean

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 21, 2024
  • #1,902
Germans and Spanish still
Look the pick of the teams
 
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chiefdave

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,903
Just catching up on highlights. Hardly heard a word about VAR so far this tournament. Put the PGMOL idiots in charge for a game and it's a shambles. Pretty clear where the problems lies.
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,904

England players not fit enough to press effectively, claims Gareth Southgate

Gareth Southgate has claimed England players are not at the fitness levels required to carry out his Euro 2024 game plan
www.theguardian.com
 

Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,905
Sick Boy said:

England players not fit enough to press effectively, claims Gareth Southgate

Gareth Southgate has claimed England players are not at the fitness levels required to carry out his Euro 2024 game plan
www.theguardian.com
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So, tired, divots, the devastating news that Kalvin Phillips wasn't available, ......what's next
 
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Sick Boy

Super Moderator
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,906
Otis said:
So, tired, divots, the devastating news that Kalvin Phillips wasn't available, ......what's next
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At the moment it feels like the excuses are being put in for an inevitable defeat on Tuesday.
 
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Otis

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  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,907
Sick Boy said:
At the moment it feels like the excuses are being put in for an inevitable defeat on Tuesday.
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Well yeah, you say that, but if the sun is in several players' eyes as a Slovenian attacker skips past 6 of them to slot in a goal from a tight angle, you can hardly blame the players can you.
 
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Ashdown

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  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,908
The match commentators suggested that VAR were trying their damndest to rule out the Dutch goal and I’m inclined to agree.
Its a sham of a system that can be abused and manipulated.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,909
Sick Boy said:

England players not fit enough to press effectively, claims Gareth Southgate

Gareth Southgate has claimed England players are not at the fitness levels required to carry out his Euro 2024 game plan
www.theguardian.com
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Desperate stuff.
 
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Frostie

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  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,910
Ashdown said:
The match commentators suggested that VAR were trying their damndest to rule out the Dutch goal and I’m inclined to agree.
Its a sham of a system that can be abused and manipulated.
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It was ruled out on the pitch.
 
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Evo1883

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  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,911
 
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Otis

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,912
If we haven't got enough problems already. Trippier on the left causes such an imbalance.

We really should have taken a fit left back.
 
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Tommo1993

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  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,913
I don’t know if it was just a stupid gamble hoping he’d be fit in time. Suppose an option was Tyrick Mitchell from Palace. At least there’d have been a dynamic with him and Guehi.

‘Dynamic’ - something we’re completely lacking all over.
 
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Evo1883

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  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,914
Really messed this squad up
 

SBAndy

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,915
It’s absolute ‘rocks in your head’ material. With the best will in the world, we didn’t need to take all of Dunk/Konsa/Gomez. It’d take a bloody disaster for any/all of them to have ended up on the pitch. The idea that Konsa gave us RB cover when you had Walker, TAA, Trippier already in the squad is bonkers. I kind of get not taking Chilwell - his season has been plagued by injury. But take someone! I know Branthwaite isn’t a LB but at least he’s left footed, same way as Ake/Gvardiol aren’t left backs but play there for Man City.
 
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Liquid Gold

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,916
Sick Boy said:

England players not fit enough to press effectively, claims Gareth Southgate

Gareth Southgate has claimed England players are not at the fitness levels required to carry out his Euro 2024 game plan
www.theguardian.com
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Manager coming out against the players is never a good sign.

In Southgate’s previous tournaments something we’ve never lacked is team spirit. Looks like this has finally gone here.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,917
Evo1883 said:
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What did he expect? He hasn't played since February so going to throw him in at the knockout stages with no match fitness?

Get the clown gone.
 
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Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,918
Liquid Gold said:
Manager coming out against the players is never a good sign.

In Southgate’s previous tournaments something we’ve never lacked is team spirit. Looks like this has finally gone here.
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Didn't he see them train before hand? It's weird as you would have thought he would see then their fitness levels.
 

Nick

Administrator
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,919
Otis said:
If we haven't got enough problems already. Trippier on the left causes such an imbalance.

We really should have taken a fit left back.
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Not an ugly one?
 

fatso

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,920
Otis said:
If we haven't got enough problems already. Trippier on the left causes such an imbalance.

We really should have taken a fit left back.
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Yep, that's down to Southgate.
We could be out of the competition before Shaw is fit, and yet we leave out the 2 players with the ability to unlock defences.
Madness.
 

Tommo1993

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,921
Meh. His last tournament has been pissed up the wall. Spain or Portugal for the win.
 
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Ashdown

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,922
Not fit enough ?! Did they all have a complete binge out between the end of the season and the beginning of this……maybe they’ve all been on the Wayne Rooney diet
 

SBAndy

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,923
fatso said:
Yep, that's down to Southgate.
We could be out of the competition before Shaw is fit, and yet we leave out the 2 players with the ability to unlock defences.
Madness.
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“the two players with the ability to unlock defences” because, of course, Foden, Palmer, Eze are completely incapable. If you think that’s the issue we’re facing then you’re miles off.
 

Evo1883

Well-Known Member
  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,924
Let's be honest we've not been very good since 2022 .. and leading upto this tournament we drew with Macedonia and Belgium (not as good as they were ) lost to a second string Brazil, beat Bosnia but were dire and lost to Iceland

The only games we've won since 2022 that are remotely worth mentioning are the 2 wins against Italy in qualifying

We've won 15 drew 8 lost 6 in the last 2 years , and of those 15 , 5 were friendlies against shite and the others were euro qualifying against all shite but 1 team .

In Qatar we beat Wales, Iran and Senegal

We also got relegated from our nations league group without winning a game including a 4-0 loss to Hungary
 
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Skybluekyle

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  • Jun 22, 2024
  • #1,925
Nick said:
How did Anthony Taylor even get the call up? He's terrible
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Still one of the worst penalties I've ever seen given was Preston away

Kyle McFadzean: Attempted foul, now honestly, did they ever give someone a Nobel Prize for attempted chemistry?
 
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