Where now for Wales?

[Cyncoed Slumdog]

Re: Where now for Wales?

But if Gunter goes, who’s going to supply the music ? :hehe:

Jonny Williams does the karaoke. Gunter is in charge of quizzes.

[City123]

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He just signed a 4 year deal 2 months ago he isn’t going anywhere.

At the very least he will get the next Euro qualification.

He needs someone more tactically astute alongside him. Can anyone say what the gameplan was at at the World Cup? What we wanted to do with the ball?

[Citizen's Nephew]

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Is this me or that comes across as very Jimmy Savile?

Bloody hell, it does, doesn't it?! I can hear it in my head. Good spot! Was entirely unintentional of course as I had a more Gavin and Stacey script in my head but now it's just creepy! Thanks Jordi, I won't ever be able to get that image out of my head now!

[Rjk]

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In Bale we had an absolute superstar, one of the best players in the world at his peak and someone who could and did win matches single handed almost at times.

I don't see any of the current youngsters, as promising as they are, reaching anything like that level.

Ramsey was a champions league level player, and if we are lucky we might find a couple more like that

Realistically we are going to find it a bit tougher over the next couple of years, we do have some talented youngsters, so lets play them.

The next world cup will be 48 teams, with 16 qualifying from Europe - this makes it slightly easier to get there, and if we do manage to get there it would be almost impossible to get a group as hard as the one we just ended up in.
There will be 6 concacaf teams, 9 african and 8 asian going.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Back to normal, struggle to qualify for anything because most of the players are average and the good ones are no longer World class, I doubt anyone over 50 will see Wales in a World Cup again.

It was fun while it lasted, and at least they made it!

[Citizen's Nephew]

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Back to normal, struggle to qualify for anything because most of the players are average and the good ones are no longer World class, I doubt anyone over 50 will see Wales in a World Cup again.

It was fun while it lasted, and at least they made it!

:thumbup:

[Rjk]

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Back to normal, struggle to qualify for anything because most of the players are average and the good ones are no longer World class, I doubt anyone over 50 will see Wales in a World Cup again.

It was fun while it lasted, and at least they made it!

World cups are going to be slightly easier to reach from now on, with 48 teams going, so some of the times we *almost* made it, we might now start actually going.
So perhaps one in every 3 or so world cups rather than every 64 years.

Also it is possible that this level of success we have had means that more kids are getting into football instead of rugby or other sports, and that might lead to more success in the future.

[North Cardiff Blue]

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World cups are going to be slightly easier to reach from now on, with 48 teams going, so some of the times we *almost* made it, we might now start actually going.
So perhaps one in every 3 or so world cups rather than every 64 years.

Also it is possible that this level of success we have had means that more kids are getting into football instead of rugby or other sports, and that might lead to more success in the future.

Good points, I hope you're right, I can't see many quality players coming through at the moment, but we should try and build on this success.

We definitely need to scout out any youngsters for Welsh Grannies.

[J R Hartley]

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World cups are going to be slightly easier to reach from now on, with 48 teams going, so some of the times we *almost* made it, we might now start actually going.
So perhaps one in every 3 or so world cups rather than every 64 years.

Also it is possible that this level of success we have had means that more kids are getting into football instead of rugby or other sports, and that might lead to more success in the future.

Not necassirily for European teams. 16 more places but only 3 more for UEFA.

[Rjk]

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Not necassirily for European teams. 16 more places but only 3 more for UEFA.

Yeah it's a bit of a joke when concacaf are getting 6 spots and asia 8, but it's still doing to be a bit easier.

[BLUETIT]

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Gotta do a “Tosh”, kids, kids and more kids

Blood ‘um now, whilst Bale and Ramsey are still about to encourage and bring them through the system

[North Cardiff Blue]

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Gotta do a “Tosh”, kids, kids and more kids

Blood ‘um now, whilst Bale and Ramsey are still about to encourage and bring them through the system

Agreed we need to start all over again!

[Divine Wright]

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Gotta do a “Tosh”, kids, kids and more kids

Blood ‘um now, whilst Bale and Ramsey are still about to encourage and bring them through the system

Apart from Colwill, do we have any other players coming through with the potential to become the next Bale or Ramsey, or even elite footballers ?

It seemed at one time, after the 2016 euros you were hearing about a new name coming through every other month. I know Johnson is a reasonably new name in the squad and a lot of the younger players like Wilson, James, Ampadu have come through since 2016 but there doesn't actually seem to be any "special" talents coming through atm from the U-18 or U-21 squad does there ?

I'm probably a bit out of the loop in that regard but nobody comes to mind apart from Colwill.


....What's Cooper's story, he sounds like he has a Cardiff accent, but was born in Derby.....assuming he went to school and stuff in cardiff whilst his dad ws playing here.

[Jordi Culé]

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Bloody hell, it does, doesn't it?! I can hear it in my head. Good spot! Was entirely unintentional of course as I had a more Gavin and Stacey script in my head but now it's just creepy! Thanks Jordi, I won't ever be able to get that image out of my head now!

I didn't recognise the Gavin & Stacey reference as I've never watched it but picked up on Savile immediately.

Says more about me doesn't it?

'Now then...'

[Divine Wright]

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........how are these lads coming on ...... for example...

https://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/premier-league-teenagers-north-wales-21932481