Djstu23 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 1 month to go before it all starts again and could not see a thread. No "creative" title since im dire at that, that's someone's else's job..... Englands Games Norway (home) Wednesday 3rd September - Friendly Switzerland (away), Monday 8 September 2014 San Marino (home), Thursday 9 October 2014 Estonia (away), Sunday 12 October 2014 Slovenia (home), Saturday 15 November 2014 Scotland (away) Tuesday 18th November 2014 - Friendly Lithuania (home), Friday 27 March 2015 Republic Of Ireland (Away) Sunday 7th June - Friendly Slovenia (away), Friday 14 June 2015 San Marino (away), Saturday 5 September 2015 Switzerland (home), Tuesday 8 September 2015 Estonia (home), Friday 9 October 2015 Lithuania (away), Monday 12 October 2015 I would expect us to qualify but would not be surprised at all if we flopped badly. Switzerland will very tough in the opening game. Scotland away in November is very interesting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coulthard's Jaw Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I'll probably go to the Slovenia game on the 15th, Saturday tea time is ok, but won't bother with any of the evening kick offs, getting back from Wembley at that time just too much hassle. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggressive minor Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I would like to be optimistic, then I remember it's Woy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hilly_boro Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Early prediction - We'll get to the SF's after a very lucky draw and France will win. ALLEZ. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
merry_miller Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 It's England's year, believe Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren1983 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 From the end of September I'm gonna be based in Wembley so will try and get along to a few of the games. We'll qualify easily then get knocked out after the group stage. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD nawrat Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 We're gonna beat you in the semi-finals Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ri916 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 This has just reminded me what a dull qualifying group we have . Can't even get excited about pumping San Marino anymore. Will be funny watching all the Scottish people getting excited about a friendly in November anyway. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren1983 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 We're gonna beat you in the semi-finals Make it out of a group stage once in your history before talking of semi-finals mate Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD nawrat Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Make it out of a group stage once in your history before talking of semi-finals mate The fact you think we'll even get to the group stages is enough for me tbph Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluedave Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Get lost Downie you ABE. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 No August friendlies this season for anyone then? I seem to remember it being changed but thought it was for next season Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1981 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Keep saying I am going to knock it on the head, but inevitably I have shelled out another £60-odd and rejoined the supporters club for another two years and booked half a day off work for the Norway friendly. Not exactly enthusiastic about the qualifying campaign and don't fancy us against the Swiss, but then the expansion to 24 teams means we only need to finish third to at least make the playoffs. Well done UEFA, basically made the qualifying process even more boring than usual. Interested to see how low the Wembley crowds dip for the San Marino game in October - given that another UEFA initiative, the so-called "Week of Games", means it will now be on a Thursday night. When we get about 40,000 out of 90,000 sold, I'm expecting the red tops to stick the boot into "Roy's World Cup flops" and the "disillusioned fans" rather than blaming the comically poor scheduling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggressive minor Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Keep saying I am going to knock it on the head, but inevitably I have shelled out another £60-odd and rejoined the supporters club for another two years and booked half a day off work for the Norway friendly. Not exactly enthusiastic about the qualifying campaign and don't fancy us against the Swiss, but then the expansion to 24 teams means we only need to finish third to at least make the playoffs. Well done UEFA, basically made the qualifying process even more boring than usual.Interested to see how low the Wembley crowds dip for the San Marino game in October - given that another UEFA initiative, the so-called "Week of Games", means it will now be on a Thursday night. When we get about 40,000 out of 90,000 sold, I'm expecting the red tops to stick the boot into "Roy's World Cup flops" and the "disillusioned fans" rather than blaming the comically poor scheduling. Yet, they'll be major reasons along with the timing. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 I think the Swiss are so-so, capable of beating us, for sure but not terrifying in any way We really need to pick up some ranking points in this group. Swiss are ranked quite high so 4 points minimum from them would be lovely. Toughest game of the group first We're playing Scotland in November as well? Why? Pointless and no-win game for us (even if the las, recent game was genuinely entertaining) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 I think we tend to get better crowds in recent years against the minnows, don't we? Everyone loves a guaranteed win and goals, it seems UEFA got the centralised TV rights and lo and behold games spread over a week .. what a surprise. Let's not bother about the fans at all, eh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Blue Lou Posted August 4, 2014 SI Staff Share Posted August 4, 2014 UEFA got the centralised TV rights and lo and behold games spread over a week .. what a surprise. Let's not bother about the fans at all, eh On the back of that, Sky launched a new television channel (Sky Sports 5) to show the Euro 2016 qualifiers. I can't complain. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pouncer Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 No, I really want to agree with you here Razzler but in this instance I'm over the moon and cannot wait for a week of international football every night Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Meh, I'll watch England obviously and then depends on the fixtures. Not sure I'll be doing a World Cup stylee watching 2 games a day type deal though Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pearcey_90 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 I'm looking forward to the Lithuania game on the Friday, mainly because the town I'm from a very large % are from Lithuania so hoping there'll be a good 'friendly' atmosphere around the pubs and people from both sides don't go looking for a fight. The other games I literally couldn't careless about. If there's other things planned I'll happily do those things then watch a mundane low atmosphere England game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 We'll qualify easily, but only because two teams qualify from the group . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 I see we have Ireland in a friendly as well I think we should choose our friendlies a little better in terms of ranking points. Fans will turn up to watch England no matter what. Let's look at teams above us that we feel are a bit ropey. Get some CONCACAF side over in winter when their league is not going on, stuff like that Russia look a bit ropey, are they above us? Greece too ... Portugal when Ronaldo is injured, haven't played them in a while. Some African side at a stupid part of the season ... screw playing Scotland and Ireland, we're not gaining anything out of that, can only lose Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluedave Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Even 3rd place goes to playoffs. So ridiculous. Killed the Euros for me. 16 teams. 4 groups of 4 was perfect. The groups were competitive, they qualifying was competitive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 We'll qualify easily, but only because two teams qualify from the group . Then some of the 3rd placed teams going into the play-offs. Those play-offs will be great, won't they! I hope in games like San Marino these are the games where we try stuff a little. Give 90 mins to Fraser Forster. Give John Stones a full game or whoever else we're considering for centre back. Play a young winger in that game rather than 20 mins of a friendly with 8 subs already made Still got the core of the team but 1 or 2 fringe players or young players getting a full 90 and a proper competitive cap, even against the likes of San Marino or Lithuania Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baptista_8 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Tbf the tournament format itself isn't great! Four third best placed teams go through to the last 16...so you could have someone who finished 3rd in a group of 4 winning the whole thing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRL88 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Yeah the third place qualifiers are stupid. Teams like Finland will be fancying their chances . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pearcey_90 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 At least when we lose our first two group games under Roy, we can still have a chance of going through Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyh21 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Easiest qualification process England have ever had, top 2 to go through from a group such as this and 3rd in a playoff so what excuse can there be not to qualify, some mention Woy but even that cant be the total excuse. However yes I like new format of games bascially from Thurs-Tuesday and yes when England play it'll dominate things but to watch the likes of Belgium,Italy,Spain,Germany and of course Wales on different nights will make it a lot better, just like how the tournament is itself. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 I might watch some of the Jocko games as they have a semi-interesting group in amongst the awful, weak groups in this format Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1981 Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 Should be good to get some of the England games back on Saturdays and Sundays tbf, never really sold on the whole Friday/Tuesday switch after 2010. Quite like the "Week of Games" in theory, just can't see us getting any sort of crowd for a crap team on a Thursday or a Monday night. But then the FA shouldn't have committed to playing absolutely every home game at Wembley, then we wouldn't have had a problem. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kingcav Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 slovenia such a beautiful country. mon england. mon slovenia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony85 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Saw this picture today but it's not really worth opening a new thread over it so as it's Wembley might as well stick it in here. A picture of the first FA Cup Final at Wembley. It's strange to imagine how rural the area around it looked compared to now. http://pbs.twimg.com/media/BuOXigYIEAEiAwu.jpg:large Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Haha, cool Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
aggressive minor Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Given that I live in Wembley, that picture is amazing! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pearcey_90 Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 Wow. That genuienly looks like it's in the middle of no where Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cartman Posted August 5, 2014 Share Posted August 5, 2014 300,000 people in a 125,000 capacity stadium Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cartman Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 I'm officially starting the BWP 4 England campaign 29 in his prime Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 He can't be less effective than SWP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cartman Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 Jose ruined SWP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Philip Rolfe Posted August 7, 2014 Administrators Share Posted August 7, 2014 SWP ruined SWP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cartman Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 BWP in the MLS Games: 21(3) Goals: 18 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Cartman Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 SWP ruined SWP. True, for allowing Jose to ruin him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 7, 2014 Share Posted August 7, 2014 SWP ruined SWP. Bret screwed Bret!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett.spurs Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Chambers, Rose and Delph all in the latest squad apparently. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReggaeBwoy Posted August 27, 2014 Share Posted August 27, 2014 Without trying to discredit the performances of the aforementioned 3, breaking into the England squad is relatively easy nowadays. Especially for young ones. I remember Jenkinson got into it for basically featuring for Arsenal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Chambers can play centre back and right back and is playing for a top 4 side now so inevitable he'll get in Rose cause Shaw is out and so is Gibbs, I guess Stones not even starting for Everton atm, is he? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pearcey_90 Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 Not looking forward to Rooney being named England captain Looks like Roy and co forgot what he said after he put in a awful shift against Algeria in South Africa. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzler Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 There's no obvious candidates really, maybe Joe Hart Who has been named vice captain? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Philip Rolfe Posted August 28, 2014 Administrators Share Posted August 28, 2014 Probably Calum Chambers the way everyone's banging on about him. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skybluedave Posted August 28, 2014 Share Posted August 28, 2014 There is nobody else. I'm more concerned by what our midfield will look like. Big times ahead now. No Gerrard or Lampard. Henderson-Barkley-Wilshere potential long term when all fit? Not sure about that. Crying out for a holding guy there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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