crafty cokcney
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Red Forever said:Saying this it is MacLaren that picks the team and he needs to grow a pair and pick a team and not a bunch of individual players.
Absolutely. When MacLaren dropped Beckham from the get go, I was thinking, "Hello, we finally got somebody that might make a difference." It was a pleasant surprise to see such an extreme move by an England coach by dropping the teams current captain and making a statement about change. However it was short lived because of too many experimental decisions to play key players out of position.
To have a central midfield that has Hargreaves and Gerrard with Lampard and Carrick sitting on the bench to come in, would be the envy of many international teams. Is it the best in the world.?, Probably not, but it aint bad. Lennon should be down the right it is obvious from his club form at Spurs. I know our left side has been a problem for years. If SWP was playing regularly at another Premiership club, he would of possibly made that position his for England. Joe Cole has done well there on occasion and should probably be in the squad for his creativity and versatility. If all your looking for is a decent left foot, put Garreth Barry there. Rooney and Johnson works for me and I think the more they play together the better it will be for England in the long term. Supporting cast of Defoe, Bent and I think Ashton when fit again to give a bit of prescence against big teams. Rio and Terry are decent as are Cole, Carragher and Richards. I've always been a big Ledley King fan too.