Enda Stevens

Usual hyperexaggeration but he does look like he belongs in the Premier league for sure and I finally feel for the first time in so long, we have a left back capable of performing  at international level, that was always our biggest weak spot though now plenty of others further up the pitch. I think looking ahead, and with the players coming through we should look to cut out the wingers and just give Stevens and Doherty full reign to attack the flanks.

Trap junior wrote: The back 5 is set imo:                                               Randolph Young Doherty           Duffy                        Egan                  Stevens I'd drop Coleman ta feck

Trap junior wrote: The back 5 is set imo:                                               Randolph Young Doherty           Duffy                        Egan                  Stevens I'd drop Coleman ta feck

TonyNotJack wrote: Trap junior wrote: The back 5 is set imo:                                               Randolph Young Doherty           Duffy                        Egan                  Stevens I'd drop Coleman ta feck The posters who are saying if we qualified for the euros we'd get a similar humbling to 2012 are not taking into account how much better our defence is now to then. Then we had a badly injured keeper pretending he was fit, great servant 33 year old Richard Dunne at centre half on his last legs, great lad but journeyman and injury prone Sean St Ledger partnering him, 31 year old, one too many injuries John O'Shea at full back and Stephen Ward on the other side, who probably became a better player later towards the end of his career.

I remember looking at the squads of all the qualified nations in a supplement to the IT or the Indo and I was genuinely stunned at the gap in quality between our squad and the rest of those at the tournament. Most notably that our key members had debuted over 10 years previously and most had been integral at the 2002 World Cup. That and the number of “unattached” players, along with a number who had been relegated with Wolves that year. We also left about 8 worthy candidates behind and other useful players totally on the bench.

Scores vs Norwich to make it 1-1

engpad wrote: Great move for him.  Seen him play live in a few games for Pompey this season and he was head and shoulders above League 2 level. He's a Championship player and I wouldn't be surprised if he's in the squad within a year.

You'd imagine himself and Egan will be receiving a revised contract offer in the summer. Someone on here mentioned Egan was on 7500k a week.

That's an insane wage for Jagielka. How players of that age can command such a contract is laughable. They should be on a downward sliding scale not matching his wage from everton who wanted him off the bill ffs.