World Cup conundrum

[Branton Rover]

Should England finish runners up in the group the round of 16 match is going to be 1500hrs Saturday 3/12/22 when DRFC entertain Walsall at the Eco Power - this will be a real test of club v country like never before been encountered - fingers crossed we win the group so this nightmarish test of loyalties doesn’t occur.

[Panda]

Couldn't care less about England so it's a no brainer for me. Rovers all the way! 

[glosterred]

Club for me


COYR

[NigelJ]

Should England finish second, then all league games would move, no doubt.

[DonnyBazR0ver]

Should England finish second, then all league games would move, no doubt.

Yes, probs brought forward to 12 or 12:30pm. Would be a good warm up for the England match.

[Michael Shaw]

After Rovers were trounced by Mansfield and they considered that was acceptable, England for me. England still have some drive and ambition, Rovers however .....

[Colemans Left Hook]

After Rovers were trounced by Mansfield and they considered that was acceptable, England for me. England still have some drive and ambition, Rovers however .....

Mansfield only have a 16/17 man squad so if injuries and stupidity (getting players sent off like dead flys as per last season) they will be fcuked AGAIN for a while

[Retdon1]

They would move all games to the Sunday of bring the kick off times forward

[IDM]

After Rovers were trounced by Mansfield and they considered that was acceptable, England for me. England still have some drive and ambition, Rovers however .....

Rovers however… have 14 points from 7 games. 

Yeah, you’re right, that’s shite, eh.?

[Spud]

Club, not really excited about this wc so far tbh, that said I'll probably grow into it.

[Glyn_Wigley]

The clubs won't want attendances to suffer because of any fixture conflict due to people watching England so they will have the league matches moved.

[Glyn_Wigley]

After Rovers were trounced by Mansfield and they considered that was acceptable, England for me. England still have some drive and ambition, Rovers however .....

Yet England were trounced by Hungary and you think that's acceptable..!

[Padge_DRFC]

If we finish second in that group with the players we've got Gareth needs sacking

[Panda]

I think it's amazing he's still in a job. Bottled a WC semi and EC final despite getting the easiest of runs to both. Both games against Croatia and Italy, defeat taken from the jaws of victory due a manager more intent on holding onto a lead rather than winning the game.

[IDM]

Off with his head, eh Panda.?

How often do the England side get into major tournament semi finals and finals?   Just not good enough is it.?  Or perhaps the opponents were half decent dontcha think.?

[Panda]

Just because he got to a semi and a final doesn't mean there weren't faults that cost England a place in the WC final and cost them the EC trophy. He did well to get to where he did in both tournaments but that was because England had a virtual bye all the way through.

In the WC, England played nobody of any note until Croatia where they took an early lead and lost.

In the EC, England needed extra time to knock out Germany (fair enough) but other than that they played nobody until Italy. They took an early lead and lost.

Getting to a final and a semi easily and losing is not the mentality that England need but are forced to endure as they have a loser boss. Nice bloke though, when he's not abusing his position trying to coerce young impressionable football fans into getting the Covid vaccine.

[LincsRover]

No contest, I’ll be at the keepmoat (eco power!) .

[dickos1]

Just because he got to a semi and a final doesn't mean there weren't faults that cost England a place in the WC final and cost them the EC trophy. He did well to get to where he did in both tournaments but that was because England had a virtual bye all the way through.

In the WC, England played nobody of any note until Croatia where they took an early lead and lost.

In the EC, England needed extra time to knock out Germany (fair enough) but other than that they played nobody until Italy. They took an early lead and lost.

Getting to a final and a semi easily and losing is not the mentality that England need but are forced to endure as they have a loser boss. Nice bloke though, when he's not abusing his position trying to coerce young impressionable football fans into getting the Covid vaccine.

Look at the route Portugal had when they won the euros, nobody questioned that.
Just the typical English mentality, oh we only did well because the games were easy,
Same with donny oh we were only unbeaten for the first 6 games because we were lucky.
It’s just twoddle,
We beat Germany in the euros, anybody that describes the route to the final which includes Germany in the knock out stage needs to have a think about their sanity.

And no they didn’t need extra time to beat them,

[Panda]

Just because he got to a semi and a final doesn't mean there weren't faults that cost England a place in the WC final and cost them the EC trophy. He did well to get to where he did in both tournaments but that was because England had a virtual bye all the way through.

In the WC, England played nobody of any note until Croatia where they took an early lead and lost.

In the EC, England needed extra time to knock out Germany (fair enough) but other than that they played nobody until Italy. They took an early lead and lost.

Getting to a final and a semi easily and losing is not the mentality that England need but are forced to endure as they have a loser boss. Nice bloke though, when he's not abusing his position trying to coerce young impressionable football fans into getting the Covid vaccine.

Look at the route Portugal had when they won the euros, nobody questioned that.
Just the typical English mentality, oh we only did well because the games were easy,
Same with donny oh we were only unbeaten for the first 6 games because we were lucky.
It’s just twoddle,
We beat Germany in the euros, anybody that describes the route to the final which includes Germany in the knock out stage needs to have a think about their sanity.

And no they didn’t need extra time to beat them,

You can't read properly. I singled out the Germany game as being the only tough game England had on the route to the final.

Take your point about how they were beaten though. Late on and not extra time.

[phil old leake]

If I was able it would be a 100% no brainer.  Watch the mighty rovers even if they are playing badly

[dickos1]

Just because he got to a semi and a final doesn't mean there weren't faults that cost England a place in the WC final and cost them the EC trophy. He did well to get to where he did in both tournaments but that was because England had a virtual bye all the way through.

In the WC, England played nobody of any note until Croatia where they took an early lead and lost.

In the EC, England needed extra time to knock out Germany (fair enough) but other than that they played nobody until Italy. They took an early lead and lost.

Getting to a final and a semi easily and losing is not the mentality that England need but are forced to endure as they have a loser boss. Nice bloke though, when he's not abusing his position trying to coerce young impressionable football fans into getting the Covid vaccine.

Look at the route Portugal had when they won the euros, nobody questioned that.
Just the typical English mentality, oh we only did well because the games were easy,
Same with donny oh we were only unbeaten for the first 6 games because we were lucky.
It’s just twoddle,
We beat Germany in the euros, anybody that describes the route to the final which includes Germany in the knock out stage needs to have a think about their sanity.

And no they didn’t need extra time to beat them,

You can't read properly. I singled out the Germany game as being the only tough game England had on the route to the final.

Take your point about how they were beaten though. Late on and not extra time.

Yeah so you included Germany as a bye to the final,
As I say most major tournament winners will have had easy games on paper to get to the final, but nobody remembers that.
And we’ve had plenty of easy games on paper in the past and lost, so to say we only got there because the games were easy is rubbish.
We got knocked out by Iceland not long ago, so didn’t even get out the group of a World Cup not long ago.
Whatever way you want to look at it, reaching the euros final is a great achievement

[colincramb]

If we finish second in that group with the players we've got Gareth needs sacking

The squad isn’t as strong as people lead you to believe. Weak in midfield and no back up for kane. Plus a back 4 that with exception of Walker isn’t playing for their clubs

[Reg of the Rovers]

It's a difficult one for me, one team has a manager who seems out of their depth struggling to find cohesion in a decent squad of players and the other...

[Panda]

If we finish second in that group with the players we've got Gareth needs sacking

The squad isn’t as strong as people lead you to believe. Weak in midfield and no back up for kane. Plus a back 4 that with exception of Walker isn’t playing for their clubs

I agree but most other countries in world football these days aren't that good either compared to recent years gone by.