The BBC have a story up with the headline "Could Kane and Ali squeeze England captain out?"

I mean it shouldn't even be a question at this point but it might actually happen for real.

Can do yea.

At least fat Wayne gets a game in goal

"True GOAT, think Messi, Ronaldo, Welbeck..."

I wonder if Hodgson will do the most Hodgson thing ever by playing Rooney alongside Dier if Wilshere isn't fit.

Well done fellas for keeping the International break content down to its stellar low standards. I came in expecting to be put on life-tilt and got my money's worth.

I've seen Rooney play CM for one competitive PL match #samplesize and it was like watching some Zidane/Molby hybrid - he was amazing.

Not really, though if our central defense at the EURO is Rüdiger-Tah, may god have mercy on our souls

Probably not this match but I remember this when he was actually good. He just hammered it across the pitch and never failed with any of these passes. It was glorious to watch.

why its different this time: kane and alli are not the usual story of highly promising young talent shining on a mid table side (ala ross barkley 2014), they are leading their team to a legit PL challenge. this is really important for selection purposes imo. there's always been a big club bias and spuds are doing a great impression of a big club this year.

fat wayne has incumbency, experience (groan) and ofc the captaincy on his side, major factors in his favour, but everything else is against him: form, ability, team results, media sentiment, public sentiment, fitness, fifa chemistry bonus. everything

i realise ive made the same poast about 4 times on this. probably reveals some insecurity about my analysis.

rashfordgoat could do his country a rather large favour by keeping fat wayne out of the mun xi for the rest of the season. that would seal his fate. as would a spuds title (yuck)

Is anyone of the opinion he shouldn't even be in the plane?

i'd have him on the plane ahead of welbz

He should be in the squad, just sacrifice Walcott.

Rooney's form picked up a fair bit before he got injured or he was just running hot with scorepoints?

No way I drop Welbeck for him, for one reason or another defenders seem to have a hard time dealing with Welbeck.

There was probably someone on another forum saying similar stuff about Walcott aged 17 in 2006

The thing is no one England could pick has meaningful experience deep in international tournaments. Is Rooney gonna lead his team to victory due to that memory of stomping bronaldo's nuts?

I'd take the good players with no experience over mediocre players with moderate experience.

ye maybe but kane & alli are busy racking up 20 blitw scoarpoaints each whereas walcott had about 2 career goals at that point

one question quiz

kane and vardy are currently 1 & 2 in tblitw scoring, but who was the most recent english bloke to top the blitw scoring charts

one point for the name, two points for the year, and 2395830495 points for the number of goals he scored. no cheating

I looked it up. my guess wasn't even close

Rooney never finished top scorer?

totally hazardous guess Andy Cole 2001 26 goals

kevin philipps, 2005, 21 goals

Kevin Phillips 30 goals 1999/2000

Yeah Kevin Phillips would have been my guess

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Lol no.

The Premier league make mini documentaries that are shown during half time of the streams I'm usually watching. Earlier this season there was an episode about Kevin Phillips and his first season in the PL.

And I collected the stickers album for that season as well