Never to the dark side Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 A bit late,I would have thought the clubs would have been told their fixture lists by now,as the fixtures will be released at 09:00am on Thursday 16 June https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1624422/England-boss-Gareth-Southgate-FA-Premier-League-World-Cup Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocking Red Cyril Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 Interesting but fair ask. Do not some country's in the past suspend there League programmes leading up to a world cup . I would prefer the season does not start until after the world cup. What comes first, country or club Just not opinion of course Sits, with tin hat on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 3 hours ago, Never to the dark side said: A bit late,I would have thought the clubs would have been told their fixture lists by now,as the fixtures will be released at 09:00am on Thursday 16 June https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1624422/England-boss-Gareth-Southgate-FA-Premier-League-World-Cup Well if we had a sensibly run league they would move that weekend's games forward to a Carabao cup midweek for all divisions and play the Carabao cup games on that weekend. Virtually all squad members won't normally play 3rd or 4th round of the Carabao cup. That would allow Southgate to get the squad together 2 or 3 days earlier with less worries about last minute injuries. They won't though because of Sky and international TV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyTonyTony Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 ewww. the express 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Geoff Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 Surprise, surprise, the first few paragraphs mention burn out and tiredness. If Southgate was that worried about tiredness and burn out he should have played a weakened squad during these 4 pointless Internationals and given all the Senior players an extra 3 weeks rest / holiday. 3 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sephjnr Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 (edited) This would be much less of an issue if big-six teams learned to USE THEIR F'KIN ROSTERS PROPERLY Edited June 14, 2022 by sephjnr Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
!james Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 50 minutes ago, sephjnr said: This would be much less of an issue if big-six teams learned to USE THEIR F'KIN ROOSTERS PROPERLY 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curr Avon Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 2 hours ago, !james said: Hen do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 10 hours ago, Never to the dark side said: A bit late,I would have thought the clubs would have been told their fixture lists by now,as the fixtures will be released at 09:00am on Thursday 16 June https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1624422/England-boss-Gareth-Southgate-FA-Premier-League-World-Cup It doesnt say when the FA asked, just confirmed that they had Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never to the dark side Posted June 14, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 fair enough,lets see what the fixtures are on Thursday morning Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcusX Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 4 hours ago, Sir Geoff said: Surprise, surprise, the first few paragraphs mention burn out and tiredness. If Southgate was that worried about tiredness and burn out he should have played a weakened squad during these 4 pointless Internationals and given all the Senior players an extra 3 weeks rest / holiday. Or you could read what he said: We’d have a preference for none of those big games but to be honest the difference it's going to make is fairly marginal. But it could help us with perhaps a medical report if a team played Saturday it would give us an extra day to assess. He hasn't specifically said anything about tiredness or burn out 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Geoff Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, MarcusX said: Or you could read what he said: We’d have a preference for none of those big games but to be honest the difference it's going to make is fairly marginal. But it could help us with perhaps a medical report if a team played Saturday it would give us an extra day to assess. He hasn't specifically said anything about tiredness or burn out I didn't say that he did. I said the article mentions...... In my next line I (wrongly) made an assumption but did not quote Southgate. I still stand by my opinion that he should have been thinking ahead to the busy schedule between August and November and left key players out of the squad for what imo are 4 pointless games. Edited June 14, 2022 by Sir Geoff bolded text 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe jordans teeth Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 9 hours ago, Rocking Red Cyril said: Interesting but fair ask. Do not some country's in the past suspend there League programmes leading up to a world cup . I would prefer the season does not start until after the world cup. What comes first, country or club Just not opinion of course Sits, with tin hat on Club all day long for most I would think when it comes to football,it’s personal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cityexile Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 Just very occasionally...thank god for cricket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bard Posted June 14, 2022 Report Share Posted June 14, 2022 4 hours ago, Sir Geoff said: I didn't say that he did. I said the article mentions...... In my next line I (wrongly) made an assumption but did not quote Southgate. I still stand by my opinion that he should have been thinking ahead to the busy schedule between August and November and left key players out of the squad for what imo are 4 pointless games. Totally. Any player at the euro who's played through the season should've been left out. Play the understudies like Wales did at home to Holland in the same competition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted June 15, 2022 Report Share Posted June 15, 2022 Big 6 - Gareth's into his reggae/ska then? For those of my age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Never to the dark side Posted June 16, 2022 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2022 Well Gareth got his wish. Wish it was that easy to NOT go to Hull Norwich Middlesbrough and Sunderland for mid week games 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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