This is the team i'd ultimately like to see start for us at the Euro's. I read a brilliant article the other week regarding the old guard, and couldn't agree more. Let's not let the same old keep trying and failing, let's brood the youngsters to play as a team and give the next World Cup a go with a new look England side.
I'd like to see
--------------------------------------Hart
Walker-------------Smalling--------------Lescott-----------Baines
------------------------------------Carrick
Walcott ----------------Wilshere----------Cleverley--------Sturridge
-----------------------------------Rooney
I think this formation would work. It has the blend of experience and youth. With Carrick providing much needed defensive cover over the back four (he's been brilliant for us this season), with the pace and technical qualities of the midfield and Rooney up top, who imo works best on his own.
I think this team would obviously need time to gel as a unit and would probably need sacrificing this euro's, but hell in a few years time what a team this could potentially be!
My team for the Euro's
posted on 3/2/12
Hart
Richards Smalling Terry Baines
Carrick
Cleverley Wilshere
Sturridge Rooney Welbeck
Easily our best team.
posted on 3/2/12
So many people picking Cleverly...
Hes only played a few games at the top level and hes an automatic pick. Give the guy a chance to come back from injury and play his way in.
Hart
Richards Smalling Terry Cole
Gerrard Carrick Wilshere
Sturridge Rooney Welbeck
posted on 3/2/12
Carrick over Parker? No thanks
posted on 3/2/12
Anybody else think Parker will get a red card/ suspended at the Euro's?
He throws himself about a lot and you can do it in the PL, not so much with Europeans.
posted on 3/2/12
Give the guy a chance to come back from injury and play his way in.
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The same could be said of Gerrard. He's done no more to merit a place in that side than Cleverley.
posted on 3/2/12
Just years of experience of playing at the highest level (in English football).
We need to have a blend of experience and youth, hence my keeping Terry, Cole, Gerrard, etc...
posted on 4/2/12
Hart, Richards, Smalling, Lescott, Cole, Milner, Parker, Wilshere, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Rooney/Gerrard, Welbeck
Subs: Stockdale, Ruddy, Kelly, Baines, Terry, Jones, Cahill, Sturridge, Johnson, Britton, Gerrard, Nathan Dyer
posted on 6/2/12
hart
richards, jagielka, lescott, cole
parker, wilshere, gerrard
sturridge, young
wellbeck (rooney after 2 games)
posted on 6/2/12
Cheese1886 (U12971)
After seeing Rooney do what he does best yesterday, you would put him up top where is least effective?
posted on 6/2/12
probably still, perhaps you can drop him back, remove gerrard and put wellbeck up top. i don't predict an easy starting 11 to choose from either, i think that johnson, walcott and oxlade-chamberlain might all be fighting hard for a starting birth. i don't like to build my team around rooney for england because i don't thin thats helped his international form in the past. As an attacking midfielder he would be expected as the 'creator' although maybe he would prefer that to the goalscorer. With young and sturridge, or any other wide player he could easily interchange however, but capello is to rigid in his positioning to allow that sort of freedom that our players crave and that is what stops rooney performing at international level. might not matter what we do with him!!!