Ronaldo

He was when he was called up.

Aye. 'Mixing' things up with the likes of Zamora will no doubt reap huge dividend.

Not at the expense of players that've shown more over a longer period he doesn't. Cahill, perhaps. But I've no idea why the likes of Jagielka, Jones and Smalling are getting dragged into this.

Because he can get better, its quite relevent dont you think, as they might but as it stands he is a better player on current form than Cahill, Jagielka and Terry. Ah, because you saw Terry slip against Arsenal you conclude that Taylor is better 'on current form'. Stop wasting my time, muppet.

Smalling and Jones are much younger than him and Cahill is the same age. Why you're mentioning that I don't know.

Emre should never have been sold in a million years.

Why ?, and in what way. You're actually asking me why?

They're all better defenders than him. I don't remember many on here expecting a Kevin Nolan call-up last season.

There's quite a bit of footage that makes Jamie Carragher look great though. Believe me ,Ron, McGrath was the finest central defender I've seen. Pace to burn, great in the air and read the game outstandingly too. Hansen and Lawrenson were also outstanding but lacked McGrath's physical presence. Yeah, my dad says exactly the same. No reason to doubt him or you.

It looked like a Patek to me.

Hope England get absolutely annihilated.

There's quite a bit of footage that makes Jamie Carragher look great though.

You're a year older than me, Tooj. How the f*** can you be in any position to nominate Paul McGrath?

We have a fucking thread about that gimp Lee Ryder. Nowt wrong with this discussion.

This.

:gm's dummy:

Duff was somewhere between average and crap during his time with us. He's near the top of the list.

I dunno, he wasn't bad. Especially in the 06/07 season, where him, Saylor and the two keepers were the only ones to come out with any credit. Martins, Milner and Sibierski all had a good season tbf. Not sure which 2 keepers he's referring to either. Krul played once and Harper and Srnicek looked crap. Taylor had a poor season too.

Can't we introduce another part of the forum that goes underneath football and chat for this lot? I'll happily donate.

Only Chris Hughton could engineer an away win for Stoke.

Capello.

Joe Cole is finished and shouldn't be anywhere near.

Of course they do and on that note, well done to Simpson for forcing the first goal and also some very good balls into the Everton box, as well as defending down our left side at one point. And I acknowledged that yesterday. It's still a big dificiency in Simpson's game that will preclude him from the next level. Neither full-back is good enough if we want to finish in the top 6, in my view.

He was better at rightback yesterday than Ryan Taylor was at leftback. Ryan Taylor scored a very good goal and deserves praise for that but it doesn't make him a better defender. A full-back's responsibilities go further than defensive work.

Being part of a defence that has the best defensive record in England, a defence that contains 3 english men, cant see why he doesn't deserve it like. Because there are half a dozen English players who can play in his position that are far better. isn't it for friendlies, a well done and a chance to have a closer look at fringe players, jesus wept, it's not like it's a play off. He isn't a 'fringe' international player, though. He's played well the last 3 games but he just isn't at that level.