Current Player #3 Ciaron Brown

Steve Gilbert said:
I completely understand why Brown would want to go on international duty, it is an honour to represent your country.

However, as someone who doesn’t like these pointless friendlies at international level, it frustrates me when one of our players has been called up and not even played a single minute.

I’d be interested to see how many minutes the players that went on international duty actually played, and in meaningful games.

I thought they were putting the nations league in place to stop pointless friendlies but we have just had 2 right before the biggest stage of the season.
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Exactly what I'm implying.

Some, though, think travelling about 4000 + air miles and going through about seven or eight airport terminals, preparing for games, and not playing a second is relaxing and having a good time with your mates. In my opinion resting somewhere near Oxford with your feet up is preferable.
 
dickwalton1964 said:
Exactly what I'm implying.

Some, though, think travelling about 4000 + air miles and going through about seven or eight airport terminals, preparing for games, and not playing a second is relaxing and having a good time with your mates. In my opinion resting somewhere near Oxford with your feet up is preferable.
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Yes, but your opinion is worth less than nothing tbf.
 
Steve Gilbert said:
I completely understand why Brown would want to go on international duty, it is an honour to represent your country.

However, as someone who doesn’t like these pointless friendlies at international level, it frustrates me when one of our players has been called up and not even played a single minute.

I’d be interested to see how many minutes the players that went on international duty actually played, and in meaningful games.

I thought they were putting the nations league in place to stop pointless friendlies but we have just had 2 right before the biggest stage of the season.
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But they are not really pointless are they? The players need to play and train together, can’t just turn up for qualifying and get the best out of them, the manager needs to see them in person and try stuff out.

International football would die if the players were not interested, but that doesn’t happen because they choose to go, no one is forcing them, they can just say they are not interested.

Training and playing with different players and managers can improve a player as well, especially a league one player, so it’s not as if we get nothing out of it at all.
 
m said:
Yes, but your opinion is worth less than nothing tbf.
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Your opinion, fine. You aren't exactly the most enlightening or interesting conversationalist yourself. Not someone I'd want to be stuck having a pint with, put it that way!
 
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dickwalton1964 said:
Exactly what I'm implying.

Some, though, think travelling about 4000 + air miles and going through about seven or eight airport terminals, preparing for games, and not playing a second is relaxing and having a good time with your mates. In my opinion resting somewhere near Oxford with your feet up is preferable.
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One of those games was in Glasgow, not much further than Carlisle.

In the bigger country’s what he has done is just routine, it’s hardly like he traveled to New Zealand.

Give players time off and they f**k off to Dubai which is further away than Romania.

Your beloved Man U go to China, Australia, the US etc for really pointless pre season and even winter break games, but because you are a man u fan you don’t like international football and for some reason using it as a stick to have a go at Brown and Northern Ireland.
 
holdsteady said:
But they are not really pointless are they? The players need to play and train together, can’t just turn up for qualifying and get the best out of them, the manager needs to see them in person and try stuff out.

International football would die if the players were not interested, but that doesn’t happen because they choose to go, no one is forcing them, they can just say they are not interested.

Training and playing with different players and managers can improve a player as well, especially a league one player, so it’s not as if we get nothing out of it at all.
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I do tend to agree with you, I’m just grumpy he didn’t play any minutes and I’m also just not a fan of international football these days.
 
Steve Gilbert said:
I do tend to agree with you, I’m just grumpy he didn’t play any minutes and I’m also just not a fan of international football these days.
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Well, you don't agree with him at all. Your view is the opposite.

*BREAKING NEWS* - It is ok to have your own opinion on this forum! Try it! Nothing to be frightened of!
 
m said:
I could be a golfer, who knows?
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Are you a boring middle aged man who dresses like they are on an episode of Saint and Greavsies 80s quiz show sporting triangles? If you have answered yes to all of that chances are you enjoy the worlds most dull sport Golf.
 
holdsteady said:
Are you a boring middle aged man who dresses like they are on an episode of Saint and Greavsies 80s quiz show sporting triangles? If you have answered yes to all of that chances are you enjoy the worlds most dull sport Golf.
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Not a golfer myself but there are far duller sports in my opinion.
 
dickwalton1964 said:
Well, you don't agree with him at all. Your view is the opposite.

*BREAKING NEWS* - It is ok to have your own opinion on this forum! Try it! Nothing to be frightened of!
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While I appreciate you trying to tell me what I think Baldy, I do agree with him that the player will benefit from training with other players, some better than what he will train with at club level.
I also agree that teams will need to train and play together before a tournament just as club teams need to have a pre season.
That doesn’t mean that I like the international friendlies nor do I enjoy watching them when they are on as I tend to find them very boring affairs. I also can still be annoyed when I see that a player that has gone on international for 2 friendlies and not got 1 kick.

It’s called seeing both sides of the argument because life isn’t so black or white.
 
m said:
I could be a golfer, who knows?
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I don't know. I always think of you as a golfer who swings both ways. As Katie Hopkins once said (I think it was in that TV debate with William Buckley Jr) "acts might be homosexual, people aren't.".
 
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