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Originally Posted by Sam#1
I thought we were going to get players picked on performances and good form ? It doesn't matter how big a name you are, you will play if you are in form, this excited me, I thought, at last, a manager who will reward players for playing well, and not for having a big name.
Then, what do we get....
Beckham
Terry
Hargreaves
Downing
Owen
Crouch
Walcott
What have any of these done in the last few months to earn a place in the England squad, let alone a start ?
All this while players like Green, Woodgate, Young, Agbonlahor, Bentley, Carrick, Defoe etc are either left on the bench or not even in the squad!
It's already plainly obvious that not much will change, and that we'll get the same players, the same team, the same results.
No, I don't expect us to win the World Cup, to be honest, I don't even expect us to beat France, we simply aren't good enough. But, I do expect players to be selected on form, not name. Yet, after just two games, it seems that won't happen. To be honest, Terry will probably even keep the captaincy.
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I had a similar thought to you when I saw the 23, and then the first 11.
But then, couldn't it just be Capello having a look at the old guards to see why they were so special and picked all the time?
For the last 7-8 years, it's been the same team over and over again. The top talent, not necessarily the best on the day they played, but the top talent of the country nonetheless. They made their reputations for playing well in big games for their clubs and every international game is supposed to be a big one.
With time I'm quite sure he'll drop some big names that never perform and start to introduce ones that can play well for him. He'll need a mixture of both experience and form if he's ever to succeed.
It wouldn't have been fair for Terry, Lampard, Owen, or Crouch if he didn't let them prove themselves at all in favour of the other untried players. It wouldn't be fair if he decided to make another player captain before giving Terry one more chance either, so don't hold your breath when you see Terry captain the next game.
He did say he had only 5-6 matches to look at every available player, so you can't say he did wrong by wanting to see how the top talents of the country play football first hand.
I don't think you can judge him from all these friendlies that he is using as a try-out. The same way you shouldn't judge a club manager in his first 6 months on the job. The same should apply to national manager.