lennon's neural pathways are deep and intimidating structures, but when hes jolted out of them (as was the case for a large part of last year) he's better than walcott will ever be, i think. i don't think walcott's good enough at football to be successfully included in a team that likes to keep and pass the ball. i cant understand how he's still at arsenal, tbh.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Lennon has suffered a bit from a) his injury last season and b) the emergence of Gareth Bale at the same time. Spurs players used to pass to him at every opportunity, now he barely gets the ball because it's always going out left.
Nothing about any of these future England XIs being compiled convinced me that they will have enough to compete internationally for the next ten years or so.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
ok well i've previously included them both in mooted england teams
fast players with great touch and adaptability would be nice. lennon needs to move to a club where 4-4-2 is not practiced
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:22 (thirteen years ago) link
lennon needs to move to liverpool
haaaa
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not practised at Spurs very often any more, but Lennon strikes me as a straight 4-4-2 kinda winger, not the kind that can adapt very well to being the right side of a front three. It's more likely to be Adam Johnson playing there in future.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god yeah I forgot him, he has ability even if his movement might not be quite there
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Also he's left-footed but whatever.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
that isn't so much an issue, viz. every decent european side currently playing
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a left footer, but his main strength is shooting/crossing with inswing on that foot, so right side it is
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
lampard can play in the middle for england until the next euros imo, he's more needed than everyone thinks, but he needs good players around him - lampard, wilshere, huddlestone, hargreaves/rodwell/cattermole axis of short-passing splendour
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno that lampard's short passing game is anything like as good as his long cunting game tbph
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:33 (thirteen years ago) link
thread needs pete w right now - lampard's short passing game is pretty good tbpfh
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:35 (thirteen years ago) link
he just hasn't had people to short-pass to
perhaps lee cattermole will become the english essien
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
pf, daswo i'm tawkinbaaaht
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:36 (thirteen years ago) link
dunno, even based on chelsea i don't think pass and move is his thing. he got mad defence-unlocking passes, no doubt, but not sure he's really a give-and-go type
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
he's a kinda deep-lying give-and-go initiator maybe
hmm
scholes plz be 25 again
― acoleuthic, Thursday, 18 November 2010 22:45 (thirteen years ago) link
hargreaves/rodwell/cattermole axis of short-passing splendour
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
you
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 00:51 (thirteen years ago) link
it's easy to snipe from the sidelines
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 00:53 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean look at rafa............
nothing against hargreavres and rodwell btw
cattermole is just a cunt
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 00:59 (thirteen years ago) link
hargreaves snapped in half trying to pick up his injury file, let's be real
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
tragic story of english football is the first red card of season book....first half dozen names are usually all english
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:02 (thirteen years ago) link
is a possibility, ideally we'd have a good long-term replacement for hargreaves (rodwell? cattermole? lol)
dude i provided the lol caveat
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:05 (thirteen years ago) link
rodwell is proper player
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol applied only to cattermole, do the rhetorical math
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
well then the brackets shouldn't have been around both of em iirc
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
oh i understood
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:10 (thirteen years ago) link
(nakhchivan + darraghmac) / (cattermole - rodwell) = scorchedearth.jpg
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:11 (thirteen years ago) link
(Rodwell, Cattermole)lol = lol rodwell, lol cattermole
what you wanted is
rodwell, (cattermole, lol)
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:12 (thirteen years ago) link
dammit beaten to the xp by my tardy factorisation, mrs quigley had me well spotted for a dunce in second year i fear
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:13 (thirteen years ago) link
no, (rodwell + cattermole x lol) = rodwell + catterlol (soz for the a hoy hoy)
(rodwell + cattermole) x lol = england for the next 6 years
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the serial question mark suggests the following clause would refer to last item only, otherwise x, x? would be used
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:16 (thirteen years ago) link
this henderson kid tho
proper player or new gareth barry/?
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
(henderson + cattermole) x (chelsea - lampard) = ?!
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:17 (thirteen years ago) link
henderson's assist for gyan when he tricked his way down the wing and put in a brilliant cross is a surefire sign for me that using him as anything but a roaming attacking midfielder would be a terrible waste, he is nothing like Barry for he has close control, pace and lampardian burst boxwards
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:19 (thirteen years ago) link
most of all, his mentality is to create goalscoring chances and not 'contain' - horribly misused vs france
against chelsea he defended by using possession positively and forcing chelsea out of shape
'dynamism'
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link
'lampardian burst' surely a stomach wall malady
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i reckon henderson's gonna be better than barry but that's not saying much
― nakhchivan, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
england the natural home of roaming attacking midfielders iirc
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
what could possibly go wrong there
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
the trick is turning them into roaming space-filling diffusions of mercury - when an englishman roams, it tends to be with rhinocerine charges
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:25 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah le tiss of the 18 caps was a fucking lumpfoot of the highest order it's troo it's troo
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
you and your kin all know that he is a whopping great silken-toed anomaly
― acoleuthic, Friday, 19 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
first dropped points and it would be off with the luxury player's head, and barry would be grafted back in. cos he grafts, the boy. making basic shit look difficult = grafting in england international midfieldery parlance.
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
le tiss, gazza (ok, utilised correctly for a change, but then remember that when this was the case ye were actually pretty fukn good), scholes, ????
who's gonna line up for that 'stick him on the left, e's a good ployer e'll work it out' role?
― Goths in Home & Away in my lifetime (darraghmac), Friday, 19 November 2010 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link