21 minutes ago, sympatheticclaret said:

On the subject of the draw, is it just me or has Gary Mabbutt morphed into the late Bob Monkhouse !! 

How is Bob's health now?

More penny pinching it is clear now that Waggott and Broughton's task from the owners is to get rid of experienced players on higher salaries and replace them with academy kids, free transfers and youngsters on loan. I have faith that JDT will keep us up this season but I would be amazed if he is here next season and I fear very dark times lie ahead. 

1 hour ago, danger19_80 said:

He'll do nothing at an already dead and buried Sheff United i would wager. Would be best suited for a team fighting for promotion in the Champ, Leeds or Ipswich or whoever.

He was bugger all use the second half of last season for a team fighting for promotion in the Championship.

Time to accept that Buckley just isn't good enough to be playing Championship football. In a year or so he will be most likely plying his trade a league or two down the pyramid. 

Broughton has signed three centre forwards during his time here (Hirst, Telaovic & Ennis) in a combined 30 appearances they have not been able to muster a single league goal between them. The man is clueless.

Just now, BankEnd Rover said:

If an offer of 6-7m came in for Carter and it meant bringing in 2 more players and more in the pot then I’d snap your hand off.

If an offer of 6-7M came in for Carter you'd very quickly open your eyes and realise you were dreaming. 

29 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

Far too early to write Wahlstedt off. Far too many people are far too judgement in life. 

Or I can see the writing on the wall like I did with Mowbray about 3 years before you could finally see it.

8 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

GB didn't need to say he was our 1st choice to replace TK but he did and we scouted him properly, maybe tell to accept it instead of looking for conspiracy theories that aren't there

If he really was first choice I dread to think what 2nd & 3rd were like. It seems as though Gregg's identification of a goalkeeper is about as good as his identification of a centre forward.

7 minutes ago, chaddyrovers said:

another conspiracy theory 

Have you ever heard of any club signing a player and saying we only signed him because we couldn't land our preferred targets. 

2 hours ago, chaddyrovers said:

Wahlstedt was first choice to replace Kaminski as GB said in his post Transfer interview. 

What do you expect him to say that he was really 6th choice but that the other 5 were either too expensive or didn't want to come.

1 hour ago, oldjamfan1 said:

To be fair and just playing Devil's advocate for a moment. Yes, England could hardly have been any worse in this tournament but over the course of the last 4 years or so have pulled out some immense performances under pressure, in all formats. I think they had enough credit in the bank to fuck a tournament up.

We haven't been able to what Australia have done over many years and be very strong in both red ball & white ball cricket at the same time. It always seems to be one or the other with England. What Australia and India have shown this tournament is that on the whole your best players are your best players regardless of format.

1 hour ago, Gav said:

Australia won this at the toss today, completely different conditions batting second.

But all credit to them, at 43/3 it looked a difficult task but Travis Head was outstanding. 

Well done Australia, beating India, in India in a final, you deserve the trophy. 

India would still have batted first had they won the toss.

11 minutes ago, Riversider28 said:

What!! You must be the only Englishman to be thinking that. 

No he's not. They way this tournament has been set up it would be hilarious if India didn't win it.

1 minute ago, booth said:

Yep, he gave away possession under no pressure. So frustrating and easily avoided. Kids stuff because he’s a kid.

It's not about his age it's about attitude and his is arrogant and that is why such a simple pass was so sloppily given away.

Also there is no excuse for lack of effort which is what he showed by failing to get out to Whiteman.

Adam Wharton's attitude stinks he's a decent player with plenty of potential but no way near as good as he thinks he is. The winning goal all starts from his casual pass and then to compound it he doesn't attempt to get out to Whiteman and stop the cross coming into the box.

What a stark contrast how Potts defended Wharton at the back post earlier in the half to how Brittain defended the back post against their centre half then. Weak

2 hours ago, wilsdenrover said:

I’m anticipating the Bangladesh captain getting some short stuff later on…

 

 

He shouldn't even be on a cricket pitch, he should have been banned for life.

Wahlstedt is a liability the sooner Pears is back the better.

Whilst the top 5 have failed to fire they are undoubtedly quality players. Of the other 7 though only Rashid is up to it. Livingstone is little more than a slogger who might make a big score 1 innings out of 10-15 on a flat wicket but he isn't going to make runs in the sub continent pitches and coming with not many on the board. Moeen's dismal today summed up my opinion on him as a cricketer, half hearted. Woakes was never going to be a factor in India. Willey wasn't good enough to be selected 4 years ago and I wouldn't say he is an improved cricketer since then. As for Wood in this World Cup he has bowled as you would probably expect someone to who has bowled just 12 overs in ODI cricket in the last 27 months.

From the last world cup the leadership of Morgan, the X Factor of Archer & ability to take wickets in the middle overs of Plunkett has not been replaced. But it is very hard to identify players for a role like Plunkett's when players you would be looking to bring in don't play 50 over cricket and the most amount of overs they are bowling in a white ball games is 4. It is almost as though downgrading your domestic 50 Over competition to a 2nd XI competition in order to play a format which no one else in the world plays wasn't a good idea. Who ever would have guessed that. 

Very sad news about Bill Kenwright a good man, who was in football for the right reasons.

You'd hope that there are some Everton 'fans' taking a look at themselves in the mirror tonight and feeling ashamed.

Striking parallels between this World Cup and the 1936 Olympics in the way that it has been hijacked by the hosting nationalist government for political purposes. But all it has shown so far is that under Modi's Hindu Nationalist government India is not capable of hosting such an event, the organisation has been a shambles.

I'm not sure what Liverpool really can do but it is good to see a club not just accepting the apology and moving on. The PGMOL seem to think they can make cock ups week after week apologise and then everything is ok but given the amount of apologies they have dished out you have to wonder how sincere they are or is it simply PR.

Carthorse really is hopeless. 

Just now, neophox said:

Whartons been poor all season. Not the same as last season. He seems a bit unfocused at times losing balls and miss passes.....he should be up to speed by now.

Far too casual. Looks like he is starting to believe his own hype.