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Wharton rice and Bellingham would be one of the best midfields at the world cup

Theres plenty of top class players I'm the England team. Argentina won the World Cup without a single World class player

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We should refer to it as a half back and go full retro. Apart from Number 1 and number 9, until Carragher, Neville and all the other double pivot bros started using it. I had never in my life, playing or watching heard fans or fellow players use numbers to describe positions. Adams, Baresi and Moore want their number back ! What position does number 14 play?! Anyway England do what we always doz cruise through qualifying against teams that would struggle.innthe championship. We've as much a chance as anyone at the world cup. Southgate nearly did it and he was a nice bloke but tactically limited. If Tuchel can avoid falling out with people beforehand there's every chance.

Not sure what Tuchel said about the Wembley atmosphere is worth crying about. It's a graft to get to Wembley midweek and hard to get back via public transport, so that doesn't make for a rousing atmosphere. For me, it would be so much better playing at club grounds around the country and saving Wembley for the important matches.

The date for the venky era is wrong. We were infected with them in 2010 and symptoms starting showing almost immediately. It is very important to emphasize how everything was going great right until we contracted the venky virus. November 2010 is when Blackburn Rovers ceased to exist and venky FC was born.

Wrong.

I once scored a hat trick for Langho against Blue Star, think more people were watching to be honest.

Loved watching Byrom - played with intelligence and a sense of imperiousness. Would have thought he was round about the 1 goal in 2 game mark. Really surprised he never played for one of the 'big boys'.

Anderson is a good player but I am not convinced that he is beyond good Premier League standard. He also doesnt play as deep for Forest so it isnt necessarily a position hes most comfortable in. Against poor to awful opposition, thats not been tested at all so far in an England shirt and hes had free reign really. Against better teams, I would wonder how he would fare. I do think that Wharton is more well suited to that role as he plays it every week.

Think Anderson and Rice partnership works. Anderson is a clever football. Very good player and only going to get better

Yeah.... Theres a conventional view that the defensive player is the deeper midfield partner, and the offensive one further forward. But often it works better the other way round. Tugay and Savage were like that. Tugay would drop off and pick up the ball deep and do his incredible passing. Savage would push up and closing down ahead of him to win the ball back.

6 is defensive midfielder not a centre back. Source: Coaches' Voice https://share.google/idnRsiFDoMUERo130

Tuchel didn’t hold back in his praise for Anderson. “He’s just a very, very good football player,” Tuchel said. “He has the physicality, he’s very mobile at No 6. He has the body, he loves to defend, he loves to put his body inside to duels. He loves passing, he loves to break the lines, he’s very mobile in this game. It was a pleasure to see .l

Anderson as the number 6? Wouldnt fancy him at centre back.

Not sure Tuchel has any issue with the away support, cracking fans, but Wembley is a morgue, who would argue with either statement?

He lost me after the Burnley game. To not come out and apologise after that shambles told me a lot.

Who was in charge of Rovers today?

Anderson has the 6 is working next to Rice is working and looks good overall partnership Tuchel is playing a balanced team with players playing in their correct position. No shoehorning of players to get them in. Looks a good overall team. Eze must go to.the world cup. Gives you different type of player in a couple of roles

This is an exciting project for us…it kind of takes the “Mount Rushmore” theme on here & injects it with steroids! It’s possibly important to emphasise the “tells the story” element here - in other words it’s not just the best players, indeed it’s not just players. There are many other actors in the Rovers story who have influenced the tale for better or worse…without taking the field. What we do with the final list is the subject of much discussion but the possibility of a special 4000 Holes edition - perhaps even a book (there’s an idea eh?) &/or other merchandise possibilities are all on the table. Please do get involved over the next few weeks…🤍💙

It's a result driven business not performance or stats. At Ewood certain stats will get you the job and keep you in it regardless.

Yeah, its a total waste of time trying to judge against such dreadful opposition. One thing I do think is that Tuchel seems happy to try and build the most balanced team, rather than the one with the best players. England's best position is clearly number 10, with Bellingham, Foden and Palmer, and even beyond that, Eze and Rogers. All (or at least the first 4) are better than anyone we can muster up wide left. But Kane is slow and drops off, to get the best out of him we need a quick left winger who can go in behind so its either Gordon or Rashford. No sticking a Foden, a Palmer, even a Grealish there, the main thought is balance. He clearly wants 2 out and out wingers. Same in midfield. Rice has often been wrongly used as a holding midfielder, now hes being balanced off with Anderson. Its the right approach after decades of imbalanced teams but the question is, even if its balanced, how far can a team go with a number of players that are good but nothing special in it, complimenting the stand out players. Expectations in the past have been built on the idea of all of our stand out players on the pitch at the same time. I do think he needs to get in one of our top class number 10s, probably Bellingham, and get Foden, Palmer and Wharton amongst it fighting for the first 11. Just not all of them playing at the same time.

Best fans in the World Tuchel. It will do you good to remember that.

England are making it look easy. It's a far cry from the 1-0 dirge fest against Andorra. What strikes me about the game, and the Wales one for that matter, is who isn't playing. James, TAA, Livramento, Wharton, Palmer, Bellingham, Foden, and Grealish, aren't even in the squad. Tuchel has some thinking to do.