Midweek Internationals

[Nick77]

I thought Wales played extremely well last night. When you look at the two teams, we're miles behind England. We put in an excellent performance and on balance deserved a draw in my opinion.

Good start from Speed.

2 words - Aaron Ramsey. Brilliant for his age & will only get better imo...

[Vermilion]

Before the game people were talking 4 or 5 goals for England, Rooney could beat wales on his own etc etc.

Typical day after deflation has set in now it seems, as usual.

[ronanm]

Yes.

He's gone very grey very quickly.

A lot of them dye their hair so guess he no longer has the bottle

[Craig_H]

Before the game people were talking 4 or 5 goals for England, Rooney could beat wales on his own etc etc.

Typical day after deflation has set in now it seems, as usual.

It was a typical 'do just enough' thing. If england had needed to win by 3, they would've probably done it.

[Mostar]

Few pics from yesterday. Young really finds Downing attractive

[Mostar]

[Craig_H]

I love the fact that, even though it's just water or an energy drink (hopefully), in light of what's been said lately, a picture of Carroll stood next to Capello, simply has to involve Carroll taking a swig of drink

[Craig_H]

Crikey, that's a bit close to the bone. (No pun intended).

[Shaggy]

Did you not notice when they embraced after the goal they had a bit of a nose clash and both moved their heads the same way ...it was very awkward.

[Craig_H]

Nah, i wasnt watching that closely

[Reece]

Haha yeah I spotted that too

[kris90210]

It was a typical 'do just enough' thing. If england had needed to win by 3, they would've probably done it.

That's quite an arrogant position. You're possibly right, but I don't think anything should be taken away from the Welsh performance. England would certainly have wanted a second before going into cruise control - they annihilated us at Cardiff and were 0-2 up in about 5 mins. This was a totally different scenario, and it feels like we're making progress under Speed.

If only we had a goal scoring centre forward and a dominant centre back...! I still don't think we'd do that well, but we'd compete for qualification at least.

It's tough being a Wales fan

[Neil Young]

I heard on the radio Earnshaw has been getting stick for "missing a sitter". It was a great chance obviously and one you'd normally expect him or any other striker to score but it looked like a great save to me so I don't think he can really be blamed.

[Craig_H]

That's quite an arrogant position. You're possibly right, but I don't think anything should be taken away from the Welsh performance. England would certainly have wanted a second before going into cruise control - they annihilated us at Cardiff and were 0-2 up in about 5 mins. This was a totally different scenario, and it feels like we're making progress under Speed.

If only we had a goal scoring centre forward and a dominant centre back...! I still don't think we'd do that well, but we'd compete for qualification at least.

It's tough being a Wales fan

It's not 'arrogant' really, i'm not remotely an england fan, so it's not like i'm speaking from a "We could beat you by 3 if we wanted" point of view I couldnt care less about the england team - but generally (and especially towards the latter stages of a tie/qualification campaign) teams do tend to slip into the 'do just enough' mindset - and i think that sums up England last night.

They played without real urgency or tempo, because having got the goal, the job was done - of course, if Earnshaw could hit a barn door, he would've grabbed a point for Wales and i would've laughed my arse off at England

Wales put in a good performance - but saying england could've won by more if they'd needed to, isnt taking away from Wales - a team can play well, and yet still be on a hiding to nothing if, as was the case, there is a [graciousgooner]big gap[/graciousgooner] in quality/ability between the sides.

[kris90210]

It's not 'arrogant' really, i'm not remotely an england fan, so it's not like i'm speaking from a "We could beat you by 3 if we wanted" point of view I couldnt care less about the england team - but generally (and especially towards the latter stages of a tie/qualification campaign) teams do tend to slip into the 'do just enough' mindset - and i think that sums up England last night.

They played without real urgency or tempo, because having got the goal, the job was done - of course, if Earnshaw could hit a barn door, he would've grabbed a point for Wales and i would've laughed my arse off at England

Wales put in a good performance - but saying england could've won by more if they'd needed to, isnt taking away from Wales - a team can play well, and yet still be on a hiding to nothing if, as was the case, there is a [graciousgooner]big gap[/graciousgooner] in quality/ability between the sides.

Fair enough. I actually made a similar point to my flat mate, about how I reckon England would have stepped their game up if we'd have scored.

England didn't actually look that great before they scored mind you!