England's Goalkeeper

If you were England manager and you had to decide now who would be your No1 in between the sticks next summer (and apparently Capello HAS already decided who his No1 is, who would it be

F365 seem to think its James still, but in all honesty, I'd be worried by that. He's deep into the years at which goalkeepers start to look a bit shit and retire. He started last season well, but since then I personally don't feel that he's been particularly impressive.

Green. Not the best keeper in the world but pretty reliable a steady eddy. You wouldn't expect a big howler from him. The rest you would.

Damn!!!

Isn't there a scottish/irish/welsh keeper that's any good that can be converted?

David James

L r dd wrote:Green. Not the best keeper in the world but pretty reliable a steady eddy. You wouldn't expect a big howler from him. The rest you would.

I agree.

When James is on the pitch, I always feel that a horrific, game costing error is just around the corner. Green may not be able to pull off the uber-spectacular like James sometimes can but he's definately a steady-eddy. He has had a couple of nervous moments for England, but I think that if we put our trust in him, he can hopefully become more confident in the role and iron those errors out.

James will almost be 40 come the summer and that's really the cut off for professional goalkeepers.

Joe Hart has an outside shot, but he lacks the experience that Rob Green has and I think that will count against him.

The rest are IMO, non-runners.

Ben Foster possibly has a very outside shot at it, but he'll have to retain the gloves at Man Utd for that to happen - which is incredibly unlikely.

Green

Chris Kirkland and Ledley King would be in all my England squads from now til D-Day and worry about their injury history when it's immediately relevant.

Kirkland is a shite keeper

Quite odd England never really has good goalkeepers!

Fey wrote:Quite odd England never really has good goalkeepers!

Not for the last ten years or so. We were spoiled a bit in the past though with Banks and Shilton and to a lesser extent, Seaman.

If fit, I think squad should include James, Green, Kirkland. Foster and Hart could both get there in future, but neither has enough experience that I'd want to trust them at World Cup (not that Green or Kirkland have much experience at this level, but at least they have several seasons of being 1st choice keepers in PL).

I think James should still be #1, assuming he's on decent form for Portsmouth. It's his last tournament, but he will have played so much with Terry-Ferdinand-Cole in front of him, and that should mean they have very good understanding.

Turnbull

But yeah..Green.

Rob Green,

as LRD points out - not the best GK in the World,

but he is good enough to play internationally for England - steady and unlikely to drop a howler.

Has been excellent for West Ham over the last 2 seasons

Fey wrote:Quite odd England never really has good goalkeepers!

It's not odd because it's not true.

debaser wrote:If fit, I think squad should include James, Green, Kirkland. Foster and Hart could both get there in future, but neither has enough experience that I'd want to trust them at World Cup (not that Green or Kirkland have much experience at this level, but at least they have several seasons of being 1st choice keepers in PL).

I think James should still be #1, assuming he's on decent form for Portsmouth. It's his last tournament, but he will have played so much with Terry-Ferdinand-Cole in front of him, and that should mean they have very good understanding.

Hart wasnt deemed good enough for city so he shouldnt make it for me. Kirkland is just crap and unreliable he'll be lucky to ever play for england again.

I fault him in 4 out of the 5 goals