Another international break

It's came at a great time for us, gives Wilder time to adjust.

Hopefully England qualify for the World Cup on Friday too.
 
It's absolutely awful. I'm a tournament England fan. I have little or no interest in qualifiers as we pretty much breeze through (we don't even have to get out of 2nd gear). I don't even look to see what the squad is.

I imagine the majority of club managers just pray they come back fit. We are pretty 'lucky' with only 3 away (I think).

That said T20 semi on Wed and hopefully a final at the weekend 👍
 
I'm sure one of Wenger's proposals to improve the game is to have all the international qualifiers/fixtures played in something like two main batches at the start or end of the season. A better idea than his crackpot biannual World Cup cobblers.
 
theredrooster said:
I'm sure one of Wenger's proposals to improve the game is to have all the international qualifiers/fixtures played in something like two main batches at the start or end of the season. A better idea than his crackpot biannual World Cup cobblers.
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Having them in the summer between seasons makes sense.

But Wenger's suggestion was for a month long international break in October which is the worst of all worlds, one huge split in the season as it's just getting started instead of 4 average sized ones throughout.
 
As others have said perfect timing really in terms of injuries and giving Wilder a bit of time on the training pitch he wouldn't otherwise have playing twice a week.

Bonus that it's come off the back of a very good point away from home too, morale should be fairly decent, no dwelling on a bad defeat.

But yeah, I also agree, international breaks - bloomin boring.
 
How can people hate watching the best England team in decades? Even with those left out or withdrawn it's still a squad packed with talented lads.

Get a couple of beers after a working week on Friday and enjoy.
 
Nero said:
How can people hate watching the best England team in decades? Even with those left out or withdrawn it's still a squad packed with talented lads.

Get a couple of beers after a working week on Friday and enjoy.
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I don’t mind them if they’re competitive games, but the majority of qualifying games are massively one sided.
The nations league is surprisingly good in comparison.
 
Nero said:
How can people hate watching the best England team in decades? Even with those left out or withdrawn it's still a squad packed with talented lads.

Get a couple of beers after a working week on Friday and enjoy.
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It's not hating watching England, although most qualifiers are processional, it's more the lack of Boro matches and then all the other televised club games we live on a diet of.
 
They should filter out the amount of teams in the groups, have groups of 4 instead of 5, to reduce the amount of games at least.

A way of doing this could be making the likes of Gibraltar and San Marino compete in qualifiers for the qualifying groups.
 
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