Yeah - friendlies like the Argies game.

The pre-tournament warm ups are for nothing more than keeping up the match fitness.

Serves SGE right for playing the names in the friendlies instead of making sure we had a watertight Plan B.

Posted By: Arganth on May 4th 2006 at 09:55:31

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Rooney injury England have been their before (Other Football) - ghostof barry butler, May 4, 09:19:18
- Steve Bull 1988 - Euros in Germany... Spooky! (n/m) (Other Football) - The Editor of Milk, May 4, 09:35:57
- Whole thing will be a waste of time if Lampard and Gerrard play in the same midfield (Other Football) - pants, May 4, 09:25:43
  - might be to Gerrard/Lampard's advantage (Other Football) - Gunnys mullet, May 4, 09:33:32
    - You appeared to have dropped Owen (n/m) (Other Football) - conker, May 4, 09:35:07
      - aye (Other Football) - Gunnys mullet, May 4, 09:40:49
        
        or... (Other Football) - Duck and Chips, May 4, 09:43:12
        
        good shout... (Other Football) - Gunnys mullet, May 4, 10:07:46
  - It think It may work now If we dont play a striker to replace Rooney (n/m) (Other Football) - conker, May 4, 09:26:19
    - Agree - Lampard and Gerrard breaking forward with a holding midfielder (Other Football) - WorthyHatesFans, May 4, 09:36:57
      - Lampard has two holding midfielders for him at Chels (Other Football) - pants, May 4, 09:42:47
    - I don't understand why they need to be accommodated (Other Football) - pants, May 4, 09:33:20
      - Because they're world class (Other Football) - WorthyHatesFans, May 4, 09:45:45
        
        They both play for top teams that specifically (Other Football) - pants, May 4, 09:52:33
      - But if Rooney does play but then goes down mid-match who would replace him? (n/m) (Other Football) - Duck and Chips, May 4, 09:40:26
        
        Would it be that silly to suggest Lampard is tried up front? (n/m) (Other Football) - pants, May 4, 09:44:40
        
        Rooney doesnt play alongside Owen anyway (Other Football) - conker, May 4, 09:48:45
        
        You don't start experimenting 5 weeks before the tournament. (n/m) (Other Football) - Arganth, May 4, 09:48:43
        
        Well we still have friendlies (Other Football) - conker, May 4, 09:49:38
        
        Yeah - friendlies like the Argies game. (Other Football) - Arganth, May 4, 09:55:31
        
        There are still 3 games before the World Cup arnt there? (Other Football) - conker, May 4, 09:59:53
        
        There are -but they're warm up exercises. Not experimentation tests. (n/m) (Other Football) - Arganth, May 4, 10:08:50

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