Germany came to Wembley, Brazil came too yet we never go to those countries to play!?
Should they bring back home internationals
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Those were just rough dates, could be earlier if needs be. Players involved would go back to training later just as they currently do if they are involved in a summer competition.
Benefits would be giving players on the fringe of say the England squad the chance to play in a tournement atmosphere the year before a major competition (should we have qualified) to see who of those on the fringe could handle that step up if needed.[/quote]
Would it be more or less beneficial to play a short series of games against (say) Croatia, Denmark and Chile ?
And then the next year play Scotland, Australia and Russia ?
Expose the players to a variety of styles, provide more interest to the fans.
One year where it is the Scotland ROI and Wales might be interesting but playing the same set of teams on a regular basis - when we see the players involved every week anyway ?
Those were just rough dates, could be earlier if needs be. Players involved would go back to training later just as they currently do if they are involved in a summer competition.
Benefits would be giving players on the fringe of say the England squad the chance to play in a tournement atmosphere the year before a major competition (should we have qualified) to see who of those on the fringe could handle that step up if needed.[/quote]
Would it be more or less beneficial to play a short series of games against (say) Croatia, Denmark and Chile ?
And then the next year play Scotland, Australia and Russia ?
Expose the players to a variety of styles, provide more interest to the fans.
One year where it is the Scotland ROI and Wales might be interesting but playing the same set of teams on a regular basis - when we see the players involved every week anyway ?
Behindu Would it be more or less beneficial to play a short series of games against (say) Croatia, Denmark and Chile ?
And then the next year play Scotland, Australia and Russia ?
Expose the players to a variety of styles, provide more interest to the fans.
One year where it is the Scotland ROI and Wales might be interesting but playing the same set of teams on a regular basis - when we see the players involved every week anyway ?
I think a mix of both is good. The interest aroused by home internationals shouldn't be underestimated. Not only is there the bragging rights to compete for but for the fans it's sometimes more interesting to see two teams they know more about up against each other than a bunch of relatively unknown 'ic's and 'ski's coming over on a tourist trip.
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StrandedTBM Why is it we never play friendlies away!?
Germany came to Wembley, Brazil came too yet we never go to those countries to play!?
England's next game
Friendly: Austria V England - 16/11/07 8pm.
Not Germany or Brazil but an away Friendly - and we're going to France and Spain for friendlies in 2008.
A friendly 5 days before a Vital Euro Qualifier ?????
IMO this just goes to show how inept the FA really are!
Katie Marsden International friendlies should be scrapped, no one cares and even the players don't put any real effort in. Their main concern is avoiding injury and rightly so. Why risk injury for a nothing game?
Rubbish.
If you scrap friendlies you may as well scrap international football.
What needs to happen is for them to be taken seriously and used for the learning about the players and the team.
Both Sven and McLaren wasted the friendlies and so they became meaningless.
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bigmikeStrandedTBM Why is it we never play friendlies away!?
Germany came to Wembley, Brazil came too yet we never go to those countries to play!?
England's next game
Friendly: Austria V England - 16/11/07 8pm.
Not Germany or Brazil but an away Friendly - and we're going to France and Spain for friendlies in 2008.
A friendly 5 days before a Vital Euro Qualifier ?????
IMO this just goes to show how inept the FA really are!
It's fairly common across football to play a friendly international when you have a blank day on double header weeks.
Stranded It's fairly common across football to play a friendly international when you have a blank day on double header weeks.
It's also a very good idea to get the team shape etc back before the important qualification game.
Injuries are a risk, but they can occur in training anyway, so why not have a friendly?
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Hoop BlahKatie Marsden International friendlies should be scrapped, no one cares and even the players don't put any real effort in. Their main concern is avoiding injury and rightly so. Why risk injury for a nothing game?
Rubbish.
If you scrap friendlies you may as well scrap international football.
What needs to happen is for them to be taken seriously and used for the learning about the players and the team.
Both Sven and McLaren wasted the friendlies and so they became meaningless.
Friendlies these days are about making money, nothing else. Look at Brazil and Argentina playing games in Europe. The FA just want to cram in as many games at Wembley as they can so they can start raking in the money.
The odd friendly every 3 months won't help the team gel. I'd argue extra training before a proper international instead of a pointless friendly would be much more useful.
I've witnessed about 1 decent friendly game in the last decade and that was the 3-2 game with Argentina.
Why should the players bust a gut and risk injury for a pointless friendly when they have vital league and Champions league games coming up
I'd hate to play for England, you can't win. One week you're the hero, next week public enemy number one. The stick Lampard, Ferdinand, Ashley Cole, Rooney and Gerrard get is nothing short of disgraceful. I'd love to see all 5 retire from international football, then we'd see how far 'passion' from the likes of Joey Barton and Kevin Nolan gets us.
The majority of England fans are fickle w@nkers who don't deserve success.
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should play a home international tournament every other other year when there is no major tournament. playing 4 games each it wouldnt take more than 2 weeks. take it in turns hosting it too so there will be no need for home and away ties.
you'll learn more about your players in games like that than you would against trinidad and tobago.
plus it would give scotland a chance of winning something.
you'll learn more about your players in games like that than you would against trinidad and tobago.
plus it would give scotland a chance of winning something.
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IN!! for Home Nations matches on friendly weekends.
No thanks. We've just spent millions on Wembley Stadium and don't want a repeat of these scenes.
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