Ins and Outs

[Rev72]

Dunno, it could be worse, some people have a hard life....like me, having to cool myself down in the 40 degree heat with a crate of Harry Brompton´s alcoholic iced tea
Times are hard for both LUFC and BeniBlanco!

Ain't life a bitch mate.

[españablanco73]

The missus has got bored of standing in front of me wafting the fan Rev, looks like ill have to buy one of them electric ones now, life is indeed a bitch!

[whitestomper45]

I think you are missing WTF's point here, it's not about whether our squad should be English or not per se, but a comment on the prospects for our national team if we aren't investing in home grown talent through our academy; we are following in the footsteps of other big teams in importing our talent and I don't see how anyone can think that is a good thing? If we don't take collective action to address the problem then we are only going to get worse at national level. In any case isn't there a rule about having to have a certain amount of home grown talent in the squad (is that a Prem thing?). News today of another Spaniard to oversee the u23 squad does nothing to convince me that we have any intention whatsoever of nurturing home grown talent from grass roots.

This is the same WTF who said a few months ago..he couldnt give a toss about the national team and the international breaks were doing his head in... right?

[WTF11]

This is the same WTF who said a few months ago..he couldnt give a toss about the national team and the international breaks were doing his head in... right?

Shows how easy it is for those who wish to do so to delude themselves into believing things.

What I ACTUALLY posted was that it was an unwarranted risk to allow Jansson, Wood etc to go on international duty when there was a challenging domestic competition to play for.

My views on the national squad are just as clear, I've said many times that there is something rotten at the heart of the English game, with our national squad reduced to a laughing stock because the rules cooked up by the FA, FIFA & EUFA allow clubs to field teams made up of more or less entirely foreign line-ups and our PL (and increasingly Championship) clubs having taken advantage of that ability to a far greater extent than other leagues around Europe and elsewhere, in the pursuit of success at club level.

Do a bit of digging, see if you can find where I've said otherwise, you won't. Then again, why spoil a snide post with anything approaching the truth eh?

[whitestomper45]

Shows how easy it is for those who wish to do so to delude themselves into believing things.

What I ACTUALLY posted was that it was an unwarranted risk to allow Jansson, Wood etc to go on international duty when there was a challenging domestic competition to play for.

My views on the national squad are just as clear, I've said many times that there is something rotten at the heart of the English game, with our national squad reduced to a laughing stock because the rules cooked up by the FA, FIFA & EUFA allow clubs to field teams made up of more or less entirely foreign line-ups and our PL (and increasingly Championship) clubs having taken advantage of that ability to a far greater extent than other leagues around Europe and elsewhere, in the pursuit of success at club level.

Do a bit of digging, see if you can find where I've said otherwise, you won't. Then again, why spoil a snide post with anything approaching the truth eh?

Eh ...at from your "reasoning" no players would be available for International qualifiers during the season as there is always some pending important match...It's why there is an International break in the first place, and you never grasp that for some playing for their country is a privilege... The Premier League/Sky money not the FA is the reason so many overseas players are in theplastic league. That and young homegrown players who take bad advice and are happy to sit on benches/continuously loaned out for big wages.

[CLIVETHELEEDSFAN]

You know we could play green ayling Denton Pennington Cooper bridcutt Okane Phillips roofe dallas and wood, then you've got all English first language 11, but I think a few of the foreigners might do well, berardi jansson sacko hernandez antonsson are all decent, alioski looks like he has potential, Wiedwald is experienced at a high level, I really think we will be fine e, there's still time, let's see how the squad passes so out come the Bolton match

[WTF11]

Listen you smug patronising knobhead, Where do you get that [Apart from us all being not intelligent enough to respond to your boring , racist rubbish] we're all dewy-eyed and fawning about anything? not seen any of that, have seen a few people saying positive things about the new set up and the fact that we have retained the core of last season's squad, and added significantly to it - and haven't finished yet by all accounts.
Most thought last season was a successful one though Monk only seemed to have a plan "A" and it was recognised that we had a small squad, well from where I am these issues look to be being addressed - could be the case - may be proved wrong - but for f ucks sake lets see them all in action before slagging every fecking thing that has happend since the buyback of the club.

I don't think you are a troll - just a sad moaning fecker that just never seems happy and never lets anything drop.
Whatever "News" hits this site - sure as eggs are eggs - we all know that you will pop in to have a whinge or a moan - like death and taxes.

BORING AS F ECK:

ps - Used to be just me slagging you off - seems you've got no one - apart from Silentmoan on your side anymore.

OK, where has anything, and I mean anything I have posted been racist? How very dare you!

And "sides" are you serious? How old are we 10?

I have no need of support, I have my opinions and if others agree or disagree that's up to them.

On the player front, "never mind the quality, feel the width" seems to be the strategy. Worked well last time we did that, didn't it.

Let's see where we are end of October.

[CLIVETHELEEDSFAN]

Just imagine if there were only English Scottish Welsh NI and Irish players in England's 4 divisions, all of a sudden our players might actually improve as they'd be playing games

[WTF11]

Just imagine if there were only English Scottish Welsh NI and Irish players in England's 4 divisions, all of a sudden our players might actually improve as they'd be playing games

Glad somebody picked up the comment about rules that allow the proliferation of foreign players employed by our top clubs in pursuit of the Sky millions.

One fosters the other, cause and effect.

[WTF11]

Eh ...at from your "reasoning" no players would be available for International qualifiers during the season as there is always some pending important match...It's why there is an International break in the first place, and you never grasp that for some playing for their country is a privilege... The Premier League/Sky money not the FA is the reason so many overseas players are in theplastic league. That and young homegrown players who take bad advice and are happy to sit on benches/continuously loaned out for big wages.

Precisely. It won't happen, but yes I'd have a ban on Internationals (particularly friendlies) during the season, why would I change my mind on that?

As for Sky vs FA/FIFA/EUFA, it's not an either or, it's both. The Sky money fosters demand for success at club level, rule changes on foreign players are the governing bodies response to that demand.