see below as well but

you don't need to play loads of games for something to come together. It's a bit of a myth. If you look at Italia 90 Robson had two gameplans. A standard 4-4-2 which battled through games against ROI and Egypt. Then the Sweeper system which was deployed and produced the better performances against the better opposition with a bit of fortune in the Belgium and Cameroon and a major lack of it in the Holland and Germany games. Before the World Cup though, the sweeper system had not been used by Robson before but it got us to our best place finish away from home. I think Capello's Plan B could well do the same.

Posted By: Brandonio on June 2nd 2010 at 11:55:08

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now we know the squad - who will / should England play on the left vs USA? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 10:44:20
- james milner (n/m) (Other Football) - strap_on sally, Jun 2, 11:44:43
- He will start with Heskey and Rooney (n/m) (Other Football) - WOTB No1 Tipster 04, Jun 2, 11:12:27
  - not so sure - I think even he's starting to have his doubts - but (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:14:55
    - Joe Cole on the left. (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:15:46
      - Agreed. And that's Capello's Plan B? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:16:58
        
        What, Cole on the left ? Yeah he has a few times I think. (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:22:03
        
        Cole has started one competitive game for England under Capello (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:33:18
        
        (and of course - he's now not Plan B - he's Plan A, for our opening match (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:37:14
        
        Plan B is an in-game adjustment, but carry on anyway! (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:36:39
        
        see above (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:40:04
        
        see below as well but (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:55:08
        
        I remember 90 very well. And the buildup - and us stumbling (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 12:01:51
        
        Joe Cole on the left (what I would do) and Plan B are two entirely different (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:42:36
        
        I know you're refusing to answer this, but I'll try once more (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:54:18
        
        Cole has been injured a lot of that time (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:58:10
        
        Joe Cole (n/m) (Other Football) - WOTB No1 Tipster 04, Jun 2, 11:18:34
  - On the left ? (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:14:44
    - Oops. Must read better. I agree. (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:15:03
- who is their quarterback? (n/m) (Other Football) - UtterlyHuckerby, Jun 2, 11:03:33
- apparently he has a specific game plan to get at USA with pace (Other Football) - samcd84, Jun 2, 10:47:23
  - Spector is pretty shit so I would imagine we are gonna attack him (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 10:59:21
- Capello isn't the clueless idiot that Erikksson was though (n/m) (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jun 2, 10:47:15
  - AND he actually has a plan B (n/m) (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:11:58
    - Bollocks. The last week has taught us that he doesn't. (n/m) (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:15:55
      - quite the opposite. (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:49:48
      - Which last week ? It's a friendly. He is setting up to see his team play in certain (Other Football) - Steve in Holland, Jun 2, 11:23:42
        
        I guess Tricky means that England were bobbins for much of the last friendly (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jun 2, 11:50:45
        
        don't really care about us being bobbins (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:58:02
        
        but they didn't fail (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 12:04:04
        
        I know what you mean, but he did play Walcott, Bent, Huddlestone and Baines (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 12:08:17
        
        He was looking to see if they had something else to offer (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 12:14:51
        
        Agree with all of that (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 12:22:28
  - odd that he's ending up with almost exactly the same team though (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 10:48:51
    - but if he can get the team to play the right tactics then (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:00:15
      - You think? (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 11:06:06
        
        Of course (Other Football) - Brandonio, Jun 2, 11:13:01
    - Maybe (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jun 2, 10:53:17
      - he causes havoc for Spurs. I'm glad he's in the team (Other Football) - Tricky Hawes, Jun 2, 10:57:00
        
        Walcott is a shame but he ain't been doing that well... (Other Football) - Fierce Panda, Jun 2, 11:09:56
- totally disinterested. I'll watch and enjoy it when it starts, but that's it. (n/m) (Other Football) - megson, Jun 2, 10:47:14
  - Exactly (n/m) (Other Football) - BerlinCanary, Jun 2, 10:47:49

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