Scott Sinclair is good enough for that England squad

I know mate but he was injured firstly not dropped just before the Rangers game and then Dembele got a hat trick so kept his place.

I honestly think he has not played much as we are hiking up Dembele price or trying too

That's why he's not after a move away

You see Griffths doing his traDemark scarf around the post

No Chaser. Surprisingly I'd switched off by then.
I like Griffiths, a bit daft but seems a decent guy.
Did he have his many wives and kids there?
At least he looks after them.

He wouldn't have to deal with Iceland because he's not good enough for the squad.

His first ambition should be to win a Champions League group game.

Fook knows but someone trolled him on mothers day about all his kids to different birds

TBH i think he could have pulled they birds without his money

Hippie name 2 left sided players who are 100% in your opinion better than Griffiths in that squad

If wingers like Downing and such got 30+ caps is it not fair to say Sinclair should have had a shot

I'm glad he's not in anyway he uses all his energy in Celtic games and Banging Rosie Webster must take some energy out him on International breaks.

I know Celtic play at a low standard, but it is technically classed as playing abroad instead of a non-league side.

Thus he would be ineligible for the England C side. Otherwise I agree with you completely.

Than Sinclair FFS

getting mixed up in 2 convos here

CJ he played at the Olympics for GB you tool

Mind you Mo Farah ran for GB

Lallana, Lingard, Sterling & Rashford have appeared in that position so far this qualifying campaign. He's not going to displace any of them.

They will always do well in the qualifiers

Don't count them as serious games do you ?

Scotland are fighting for 2nd must be a tough group

They 4 players set Europe alight this season

Scotland are a pub team and England are leaders

So england are the King of Pub teams in the UK imo

Wales got further without 11 EPL stars

N/I got past the groups with SPL players

Ignoring friendlies, England have lost 1 game of 20 since the World Cup in Brazil in 2014. You can only beat what's put in front of you.

Ashley young same type of player with 30+ caps

The managers are not allowed to pick players the FA don't think will be big enough names and that's the downfall

I said Defoe should have been at the Euros and then Big Sam came out and said the same.Big Sam gets the gig and doesn't pick Defoe but now Defoe is back.

So why did big sam not pick him after saving Sunderland and saying he would have if he was manager

Same as Celtic Hippie we can only beat whats in front of us just a pity we got Barca/City/Bremen in our group

England got Iceland hard life

Gladback not bremen

16/06/16 EUC England 2 - 1 Wales. Go Wales.

2 weeks after Iceland did England, Lincoln Red Imps did Celtic. Nice double for anyone crazy enough to back it.

The comparison of Celtic's situation with the England football team is right on the money

Cruise through the qualifiers battering diddy teams the same way Celtic steamroller SPL sides, but because they get no competition, they are then found out when they go up a level against the big boys.

hippie thinks England are a top side

not even top 10 now

hippie 02 Apr 17 19:37 Joined: 07 Jun 05 | Topic/replies: 8,880 | Blogger: hippie's blog
16/06/16 EUC England 2 - 1 Wales. Go Wales.

2 weeks after Iceland did England, Lincoln Red Imps did Celtic. Nice double for anyone crazy enough to back it.

I seen plenty slate Celtic for this but tbh most Celtic fans expected a win but no 5-0s etc as far too early in the season.I suppose the rest of the UK cleaned up on the IMPS.

Still never seen one bet placed o the IMPS that is how much the non Celtic fans believed in Celtic winning.They know we can batter them sides when needed so no one placed the bets.

Anyone got a bet on the IMPS well done

1Gordon
4AmbroseBooked at 10mins
9Griffiths
10DembeleSubstituted forCiftciat 74'minutes
6Bitton
18RogicSubstituted forArmstrongat 58'minutes
63Tierney
8Brown
17ChristieSubstituted forForrestat 57'minutes
22Janko
28Sviatchenko


This team started v the IMPS this side wil never play together again

No Sinclair the main man

Big Efe now a top man with the Hibs.
Wee Lenny doin what Brenda couldn't do.

currently 14th in FIFA's pointless rankings despite beating Switzerland (11th) both home and away in Euro qualifying and Wales (12th) at the Euro's themselves and all 3 are ranked above multiple World Cup winners Italy (15th).

Meanwhile, you think a player that plies his trade in the country ranked 67 (between Benin and the UAE) is good enough for the England squad.

AKA at the WC 2014 lennon was in the studio and Ambrose had fired a cross in the stand  ( maybe over the stand )

He was laughing saying why are Nigeria playing him n the right he cannot cross a ball

The problem with England is less to do with the playing personnel, who have lost only once (against Iceland) in the games that matter since 2014, and more to do with the morons behind the scenes running the show. Their latest act of idiocy was to award the top job to a manager that has got nothing to show on his CV except Premier League Manager of the Month for August 2008. The task he's been given is to make the first thing he ever wins the World Cup. We hold out little hope for him.

Sinclair's best season with Swansea was in the Championship. He produced next to nothing in the Premiership and left it when the team he played for got relegated. He hasn't done enough to warrant a place in the England squad although if Celtic were to put in a reasonable showing in the Champions League group stages next season that might change but it's unlikely. He's better off concentrating on what he can do for Celtic.

Big mistake i see players do thing and it doesnt matter who is i goals they shots cant be stopped

We all got opinions though maybe it's im a Celtic fan i think he should get a shot.But i said the same when he was down south i coldnt believe he had ZERO caps not even a friendly.

Don't you find it a little strange zero caps but capped at every junior levels

2005–2006    England U17    5    (3)
2006–2007    England U18    4    (3)
2007–2008    England U19    5    (2)
2009    England U20    1    (0)
2010–2011    England U21    7    (1)
2012    Great Britain    4    (1)



Citeh ruined his game but not his bank

From his wiki entry it looks like he's twice made the mistake of following the money and his career suffered as a consequence, first to the chavs then to citeh. If he had concentrated more on football and less on contracts he might have developed into a full international, but if he had you probably wouldn't have him in your team now.

cannot disagree with that

we got got a gem for peanuts

He's been superb this season but he's entitled to have been, in the SPL. Reminds me a bit of Mark Walters running riot against Scottish defences.

So, I do think some of the praise is a bit over the top. He's just one of a bunch of Celtic players that have had great seasons. Armstrong and Dembele will fight it out for player of the year, imo.

Just about good enough for a lower league Premiership club and nowhere near good enough for England.  Comparing him to Mark Walters, who is imo the most underrated wide player of the last 30 years, is a joke.  He was fantastic for Villa, where I believe he was at his best, and pretty good for Rangers and Liverpool.  Sinclair was rubbish for Villa, an average player in a very average team.  Not many wide players have the consistency and longevity that Walters showed.  Far worse wide players played several times for England.  Just so happened that in John Barnes and Chris Waddle, England had two better, but they were only just better.

hippie
hippie 02 Apr 17 19:05 Joined: 07 Jun 05 | Topic/replies: 8,883 | Blogger: hippie's blog
Lallana, Lingard, Sterling & Rashford have appeared in that position so far this qualifying campaign. He's not going to displace any of them.

Anyone who thinks Sinclair is better than them should audition for the One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sequel.

Scottish league is a pub league.

Rashford would score a hat trick every week in Scotland.

he would be as good as any of them for England but that's only because every player turns to shít when they play for England. The team is not organised and doesn't play to its strengths

Walters is the best comparison. very similar in ability to Sinclair, pacey, beats players, can score goals as well. A star in Scotland, but never in England. You make Walters sound like Brian Laudrup FFS. Not even close.

since when has being in the england squad been a measure of anything?  1990?

The English think they Sinclair wouldn't get in as he plays pub sides every week

Remember the Euros where you played 4 top teams .....NA ME NEITHER

impressive display at hearts - i had Celtic down as a mid table EPL side before the new year and a struggling EPL side /Championship side 2 years ago .

make that  a top 5 EPL team  now  -they  look a superb outfit  - Sinclair a hot prospect

as good as Larsson and the Donk

the question is ,can Celtic keep it all together  ?   big leagues will start to take interest -

Celtic need to get into the Norwegian/Swed or Dutch/Belg league - Swansea have been allowed to play outyside their country

Berwick also play in Scotland they are English

Cardiff played in the EPL

Celtic will just keep collecting CL monies for the time being and selling people for 5x what we pay for players

theres an english based team in the welsh prem and several welsh clubs in the english system.  derry city play in another countries league, theres form for it, just a case of having somebody elsewhere giving a sh1t

Tippenliegen beckons

can't see any Atlantic leagues getting set up they could crumble fast if no interest after a few years the novelty of travelling would wear off every 2nd week and not all could afford it.

Some kind of league involving the best Welsh and Irish teams could be a plan but England already got the bigger Welshies

Teams like Newcastle would maybe join the League as they have no chance of CL football via PL route

Doubt any of the English teams either in the EPL or with a realistic chance of getting in would be interested Chaser.
Too much cash up for grabs in the EPL.

OK ok maybe Carlisle

The English team idea might be scuppered by this Chaser.

fences like this seen all over Scotland ( health and safety not apply ) the immigrants will have trouble jumping them if the barb wire is equipped

difficult one  really it is .

diddy countries could retain leagues ,have shorter season and then have a 10 team Nordsee league - top 2 from Sco,Den,Nor,Swe,Ned,Belg  -12 teams ,22 games  played Feb-June


Portugal would have to bark at a different tree

maybe 3 from Dutch and 1 from Norw

I would score 15 to 20 goals a season playing for Celtic in the SPL.

Premier League should add the two Glasgow sides. A team from Dublin would be money as well.

sides from portugal in la liga?  dutch in the bundesliga, belgian and swis sides in the frogs league?  eastern european league?  nordic league?  greek teams to italy?

itd get a bit silly imo.

it would tbf clacher.


in all fairness  Belg,Sco,Dutch and Portugese league get a lot of viewers/spectators ,more than the big leagues apart from the EPL .

it's the French and Italian leagues that are the worst supported (apart from obviously the Polish league which is atracious)   

English football is propped up by TV money yes, but it is  by far the most viewed throughout the turnstiles .  Throughout the 4 leagues .

The Champions league needs to come up with an idea so the clubs in the bigger leagues arent advantaged so much . Quite how that can work in reality is debateable .

I mean ,why are Ajax and Celtic for example so bad ? they both get massive crowds.  compared with say Monaco,Juventus or Sevilla .  How much does Sevilla recieve in TV monies ?

debatable

receive

{X} i should re read my posts for spelling errors

The Scottish Premier League is known as National League South in England

neill d 04 Apr 17 01:20 Joined: 19 Aug 09 | Topic/replies: 9,221 | Blogger: neill d's blog
I would score 15 to 20 goals a season playing for Celtic in the SPL.

many have said the same

Coachbuster 04 Apr 17 15:54 Joined: 08 Apr 06 | Topic/replies: 36,294 | Blogger: Coachbuster's blog
{X} i should re read my posts for spelling errors

No need when im here i dont give a fcking hoot chief

Young , Rashford and Lingard 3 English wide men playing for United tonight and as far as im aware Sinclair would have done more than all 3 on his own.

Luke Shaw for Young

If this United team had Sinclair he would be creating something

It wasn't Hearts they were playing. Sinclair was shiiite in England. Fact.

Not for Swansea

Played 13 for Man City. 0 goals.

Played 8 for West Brom. 0 goals

Played 36 for Villa. 3 goals.

That's played 57. 3 goals. In 5 seasons.

As I say...he now plays in a pub league.

Did the Champions not buy him after a cracking season ?

I know it's maybe all about having so many English players in squad etc but no one was better to go and get that good and obviously not too expensive like Young and Downing etc

it's the  SUNDAY  pub league 

it's called SPL for a reason 

They did. And then after a massive 13 games they realised what the **** they had done and got rid.

As I say...shiiite in England and shines against crap up north

Look at Downings scoring record

Remember the season he never got a goal or assist for about 20 games.Im just wondring why ZERO caps when it's clear players on the same level as him have had 30+.

Wallycott averages about 5 goals a season at Arsenal and he said he was a frontman

Downing is another dud.

Fair enough so can you understand why he got 30+ caps

TheCollector 04 Apr 17 22:22 Joined: 18 Mar 14 | Topic/replies: 1,573 | Blogger: TheCollector's blog
They did. And then after a massive 13 games they realised what the **** they had done and got rid.

As I say...shiiite in England and shines against crap up north

19 games on wikipedia the games listed at the right hand side are only league games

league one league /two opposition

he will score chaser - decent forward ,but Dwight Gayle would score that many up there and he's in the second division with the castle

Infact forgot the mentioned players why no Troy Deeney hes proven in EPL

Has a Championship player ever been called up to the main squad or do they just find Scottish ancestors

Lets be honest ,

Celtic have played 5 decent teams  this season (twice over ) 

so 10 games .


vs    Beer Sheva ,Astana ,Borussia,Barcelona and Man city (of which maybe Beer and most certainly Astana fall below EPL level )

Sinclair failed to score in ANY of those 10 games  - please correct me if he was out injured in any  of them or banned.

Motherwell and St Mirren no such problems 

and Sevco

Coach im not saying he is a world beater

But if he played against the teams England have played against then he would do job i think

Not as if they play any big nations at Tourneys now

Just an average team so i dont understand why not given a chance but he did at every other level

Was given a chance at under 21s etc

Englands opponents are so called pub teams Scotland / Wales / Iceland

Apr 4, 2017 -- 8:20PM, TheChaser wrote:

neill d 04 Apr 17 01:20 Joined: 19 Aug 09 | Topic/replies: 9,221 | Blogger: neill d's blogI would score 15 to 20 goals a season playing for Celtic in the SPL.many have said the same

I'd deliver for you mate, if Conor Sammon can make a living there, and Anthony Stokes was even prolific there; Stokes face has been numb since age 11.

Apr 4, 2017 -- 9:24PM, TheChaser wrote:

Young , Rashford and Lingard 3 English wide men playing for United tonight and as far as im aware Sinclair would have done more than all 3 on his own.

There are levels to this ****, its not just luck that these guys play at Manchester United, Sinclair wouldn't be mapped, had a good 6 months at Swansea; that's it. Ashley Young was a very good player at Watford and Aston Villa over many seasons. Its empirically proven!

Sinclair has been lucky to get what he has out of the game, he was a flash in the pan that didn't deserve his city move and has now found his level.

Young was playing for a top 6 club Sinclair wasn't

Never done much at international level

I'm not onboard the Sinclair bandwagon at all, but I wouldn't swap him for Ashely feckin Young !

Plat i don't think he is a superstar

Just pointing out that the rest of the English wide men are no better

Rashford and Lingard have a lot to prove

was that a Celtic draw i saw tonight against those world beaters Partick Thistle ?

Scott Sinclair missed a pen. Perfect for those tourney shoot outs

He still scored playing with half the first team

Missed penalty. Looking good for an England call up. Chasers jinxed him.

Better for Celtic if he is out the squad AKA he bangs his misses on International duty and comes back fresher

Have to admit though whats the chance of this.I even had in the opening post he can take a penalty

I was just about to cut n paste that