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You’re right. The worry there is, we lose our first choice 9 and then play a resilient, well-organised side who get a bit of luck and out we go.
Think Denmark, Croatia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy… teams we should be beating but would be one injury away from a much more difficult game.
"Lightweight" by what measure? ........Relative to whom? ......I don't see how much more stacked at CF you'd expect England to be.
HK - GOAT
OW - Just had a banner EPL season - 19G / 13A
IT - Good ST (Problematic season; but previously hit 20 EPL goals and 3rd in the golden boot race.)
JB - Hot as fuck season / Balon D'or contender (albeit more as a proxy striker)
It's not the 90s where we'd churn out of top STs one after another...... No-one does anymore.
I have explained by what measure. You just ignored it.
All you really said was "experience".
At the end of the day, competition is relative to the other teams around you; so the pertinent question remains........ Who has better (and more experienced) options?
I’m a lot more worried about our left back and centre backs tbh.
If Kane was injured I do think we’d play Bellingham false 9.
Have you ever tried that in a game?
I’d definitely be testing that at least once before the tournament…
That’s not the pertinent question. The pertinent question is, how much of an effect would it have if we lost our first choice striker and our opposition didn’t?
Answer: it would not be good.
The same of course, is true of many other teams. My point is only that when the margins are tight, neither side has a reliable backup and it would be truly detrimental. England have other glaring weaknesses too (as
Deuterz
has said, left back and centreback) but it’s not true of every position.Pickford, stones, rice, shaw, and Kane would all be huge losses for England.
Maignan, Mbappé, Grizou and Giroud would all be huge losses for France.
I think collectively as a nation we’ve decided to ignore the possibility of Kane ever getting injured or indeed retiring.
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That’s not the pertinent question. The pertinent question is, how much of an effect would it have if we lost our first choice striker and our opposition didn’t?
Answer: it would not be good.
The same of course, is true of many other teams. My point is only that when the margins are tight, neither side has a reliable backup and it would be truly detrimental. England have other glaring weaknesses too (as
Pickford, stones, rice, shaw, and Kane would all be huge losses for England.
Maignan, Mbappé, Grizou and Giroud would all be huge losses for France.
Obv. losing Kane would not be good; primarily because of how good Kane is (including his all round ability beyond his goalscoring)........ Not cos of how poor our back-up is.
I think your point is far more pertinent re: Shaw & Stones.
I think the drop off from Bellingham to Foden or sala to Palmer is far far less of a concern than Kane to Watkins.
There’s a lot more confidence in Watkins than is merited.
If stones isn’t fit for the knockouts we should just go home and I’m only half joking. Zero chance if he’s not available.
I think we have enough forward quality that if Kane was out, the others pick up the slack. Without Stones we would be fuuuuuckeeddd.
Walker too tbh. That Man City right hand side of defence is where all our hopes are in terms of being competent back there.
Palmer is less experienced in every sense than Watkins (years in the game, top flight and international) so how does that work then?
I think if you’re talented enough then experience of international football is overrated. It’s just football. Generally if anything it’s a lower level !!
Rooney’s debut tournament was insane. Young players who play without fear can be devastating. I think for older players the fear they are running out of tournaments can be a hinderance.
So many young players have made their name in a big tournament. Obviously this doesn’t really apply to Watkin. I do think the whole ‘international quality’ marker is bollocks too, some absolutely shite footballers (Enner Valencia) have thrived in internationals.
Rooney’s debut tournament was insane. Young players who play without fear can be devastating. I think for older players the fear they are running out of tournaments can be a hinderance.
So many young players have made their name in a big tournament. Obviously this doesn’t really apply to Watkin. I do think the whole ‘international quality’ marker is bollocks too, some absolutely shite footballers (Enner Valencia) have thrived in internationals.
Palmer has put up more goals and assists in fewer games at 21/22 than Watkins has at 27. In a worse team.
I think Palmer is more likely to have a good tournament than Watkins because he has more talent.
However we do in this tournament, we're going to be in much better shape in the next one squad wise. Braithwaite, Colwill and Quensah will all be more experienced and will certainly strengthen the centre of our defence. Wharton and Mainoo are hopefully going to be ballers by 2026 and not just top prospects. Then there's other talent such as Rico Lewis, Tino Livramento, Harvey Elliott and Morgan Rogers who you would think will have really kicked on by the time the World Cup comes around.
Heard this soooooo many times before!
As Spurs fans we should expect injuries though, he used to get them every season playing for us.
I don't think he's had any injury issues since he changed his style up to put less pressure on his ankles, nothing major anyway.