Norway vs. England, Friendly: Saturday 26/05/12, 19:45 Ullevaal Stadium, Oslo [R]

I'd like to see this please:

----------------Hart
Johnson---Cahill----Terry----Cole
---------Lampard--Barry
Ox---------Gerrard-------Young
-----------Welbeck


Maybe rest the 3 Munich starters. I would swap Parker for Barry if he was fit, but we are so short in midfield. I like the look of that front 4 though, all good on the ball and lots of pace and skill.

 

I like it, only thing I would change, just because I want to see how it works, is Jones in for Barry...

 

First glimpse at what Hodgson is planning. Lets hope it aint a basic 4-4-2 .

 

Martin Kelly gets the nod over Micah Richards???
At this point you have to ask if something personal has happened between Richards and England/Capello/Hodgson/Fa as his exclusion is simply absurd.

 

Future? Richards is 1 year old than Kelly and easily the better player.

According the Hodgson, Richards would be the 3rd choice RB at Liverpool even though he's better than both Johnson and Kelly.

It's not the fact that it's one match...it's the way Richards keeps getting overlooked that's disgusting.

Hodgson has already shown he's clueless.....this just reaffirms the belief.

 

Because he isn't very good, that's why.

 

Good for Kelly. It will be good for him to train with the senior squad.

Don't see any point in resting the Chelsea players. It will be an entire week between games. Hodgson needs to use these warmup friendlies to work out his Euro team. No point wasting them.

 

How has his form been this season?

 

I guess a week isn't too bad.. would be good to see them come off at half time though.

We don't want to be going into the tournament on a string of bad performances like last time, scraping past Mexico and Japan..

 

Caulker and afew of the swansea players deserved a chance .

 

All this business with Rooney ,Kelly and the Chelsea Players is why we should have had a prelim squad of about 30 players .

 

It's not just the games though it's the training. You can't really expect Lampard and Cole to meet up with Hodgson today and train for Norway, after having such a big game only a few days ago. I would have taken Cahill though considering he has already had a few weeks out before the CL final, and did not actually train for the final

 

Trublu stop going on about city players, Richards isn't going even if we all think he should

 

Were going nowhere, roys made too many mistakes already

 

I take everyting you post below face value.. 99% of it is negative towards England, and now this from the same person that said Welbeck was awful and Sturridge should be playing in his place..

 

Apparently Welbeck is still struggling with his injury and might not make the game Saturday. Down to 2 forwards.....