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Heres mine:

Hart
Foster
Ruddy

Johnson
Baines
Shaw
Jagielka
Cahill
Lescott
Stones

Gerrard
Carrick
Henderson
Milner
Barkley
Wilshere

Lallana
Oxlade-chamberlain
Sterling

Rooney
Sturridge
Wellbeck
Lambert

No point taking 8 defenders when we will need the legs in the middle, so its whoever can play centre half and rightback gets the nod...stones shows promise so id take him

whats your squad?

Not bad.
Like your omission of the United guys but it ain't going to happen I'm afraid.

Not sure if Forster is a better keeper than Ruddy but to be fair have had more chance to see the weaknesses of Ruddy.

i think England are mad to leave Cole out, still one of the best in the world, Baines not a patch on him and only has 6 appearances against the part timers in competitive games. Madness.

Dubciteh wrote:i think England are mad to leave Cole out, still one of the best in the world, Baines not a patch on him and only has 6 appearances against the part timers in competitive games. Madness.

Hasnt Cole retired though? or was he told he wouldnt be picked so retired in a huff? I dont know
England has to use this tournament to get this next lot playing together...and if they get out of the group they deserve credit

Bianchi on Ice wrote:

Dubciteh wrote:i think England are mad to leave Cole out, still one of the best in the world, Baines not a patch on him and only has 6 appearances against the part timers in competitive games. Madness.

Hasnt Cole retired though? or was he told he wouldnt be picked so retired in a huff? I dont know
England has to use this tournament to get this next lot playing together...and if they get out of the group they deserve credit

he retired after been told he would be left out. Baines isnt too young himself though(and i am prob one of the few people who dont rate him, especially not defensively).

Hart
Foster
Forster

Johnson
Jones
Jagielka
Cahill
Lescott
Baines
Shaw

Oxlaide-Chamberlain
Lallana
Gerrard
Barkley
Milner
Henderson
Lampard
Wilshere
Sterling

Rooney
Sturridge
Welbeck
Wickham

That new Rag wunderkind has to be in there. He has the requisite 60 minutes playing time.

Big mistake for England not to take Cole to the WC. Easily England's best player at the last two tournaments. Fair enough he is getting old but Baines is hardly a spring chicken and has no top quality experience. Shaw and Cole is the best of both worlds.

BBC predicts no Carrick :-)

Its a terrible squad imo, and the standby list is so poor too.

Call me biased but im taking Joleon there all day long. Stones ffs??

How many are injured?

Chris Smalling and Danny fucking Wellshit WTF is going on?!!!

I'd have took Wickham over Welshit.

I'd have also had Lampard in there.

lets all have a disco wrote:I'd have took Wickham over Welshit.

I'd have also had Lampard in there.

Lampard is in the squad mate

Burt wrote:

lets all have a disco wrote:I'd have took Wickham over Welshit.

I'd have also had Lampard in there.

Lampard is in the squad mate

Didnt see him for some reason.

Good boy Roy.

I'm just relieved Hodgson saw saw some sense and didn't include Cleverly, albeit he is in the backup squad

There's an alternate thread currently running which asks if our current side is the best City side ever.

In view of that, perhaps this thread could be altered to ask if this is the worst England World Cup Squad ever.

Not much to argue about. Depressing to not have any options!
No point arguing about the 4th striker or the 8th defender, as you wouldn't want those players on the pitch anyway.

We all know that Lescott is twice the defender the likes of Smalling or Stones are, but he hasn't kicked a ball in months.

My major worry is the midfield, as there doesn't seem to be an alternative to Gerrard in the holding role (which is an alarming prospect itself, if you ask me).

The Italian Job wrote:My major worry is the midfield, as there doesn't seem to be an alternative to Gerrard in the holding role (which is an alarming prospect itself, if you ask me).

His slips are behind him now :-)

Burt wrote:Chris Smalling and Danny fucking Wellshit WTF is going on?!!!

I am not watching any England games because of them shit bastards being in the squad.