Jock wrote:dogfound wrote:Jock wrote:SirJimmySchoular wrote:pembroke allan wrote:Wolfpac wrote:I might be one of the minority and might sound unpatriotic but what’s the point in the Welsh football side, yes we have some young blood coming through but not many of them will make the grade, David Brooks looks very talented and Ethan Umpooloompa whatever his name is looks a prospect but the rest look shite, Bale is injury prone, Declan John is dreadful, Sam Vokes upfront come on the guys slower than Doris Hare, I just don’t see the point in having the side play at Principality stadium, for me the worst stadium ive ever been to, hate the egg so went for the champs league final and thought it was a dreadful atmosphere.
Giggs was alright back in the day overated IMO, and his legacy tarnished by shagging his brothers wife and this chump is managing the national side - BEHAVE
Should gone to some of the Wales game there then ! Romanian game atmosphere most intense in my 40yrs watching football Italy germany fantastic atmosphere only in bad days of Welsh football was it crap but it is whenever stadium half full just like ccs is , and not sure why you and others relate to rugby when it's a football crowd ? Guess by your attitude to Welsh team you would like a combined UK only team?
As I've said elsewhere, Wales is never going to be able to compete at the level of big footballing countries for purely demographic reasons, but it's a regrettable consequence of this that various great and world class players such as Gareth Bale never get to play at the top international level and big numbers of British football fans ( cause it's true for other two small home nations too) never get represented in the World Cup. Therefore ,and I expect it'll be controversial, but I've always thought a UK team would be better.
Demographic reasons haven’t prevented Croatia, Denmark or Sweden competing at international level, all with populations around 5m.
but it probably would prevent them if they were a 1/3 rd smaller and had another sport attracting 70k plus attendances..
so many young boys in this country are really decent at both sports and play both for a while but eventually have to choose....they don't all choose football
Fair point mate.
The other issue being is young players are not being snapped up by clubs either, I know of an 18yo GK with caps for Wales U19’s who is only playing local football, if he’s good enough to be selected for Wales then surely he’s good enough to be picked up by a football club seems the scouts don’t go to local club matches anymore or if they do it’s few and far between