Wales Squad

[Der Kaiser]

How many times has he said this?

At least once in the run up to the last international games.

[City123]

How many times has he said this?

What about consistency for Colwill in particular? I've not seen today's press conference reports but he said it last month and when he wasn't included in March off the top of my head. He's also talked about the general need to play regularly

I think the part of my reply you cut out would be a reasonably straightforward approach

[Der Kaiser]

So you think Liam Cullen is ahead of him? LOL

Forget Liam Cullen, at least he regularly features for Swansea and has quite a lot of championship experience.


The real question is how much is Jason Koumas paying to have his son included? Has he actually done anything apart from disappoint for Stoke?

[City123]

i think people are reading too much into this.
rubin plays as an attacking midfielder, of which we have several options that are clearly ahead of him at the moment.
we are very light on numbers at centre midfield, but it's good to see Joel keeping his place even with Ramsey and Ampadu coming back.

I'm a massive fan of Rubin and I can't honestly say that I would definitely have picked him in these squads

We've selected 7 wingers including one who hasn't scored a league goal for 10 months. I think there's a clear space for Colwill

[City123]

Forget Liam Cullen, at least he regularly features for Swansea and has quite a lot of championship experience.


The real question is how much is Jason Koumas paying to have his son included? Has he actually done anything apart from disappoint for Stoke?

Cullen isn't a starter for Swansea

Agree on Koumas

[J R Hartley]

Unless Bellamy wants to completely ruin the player I hope he’s only brought Kpakio in for training purposes. He’ll get murdered against England and Belgium.

[Rjk]

We've selected 7 wingers including one who hasn't scored a league goal for 10 months. I think there's a clear space for Colwill

i don't think Rubin is an effective winger, he needs to play in an advanced central role.

[J R Hartley]

Forget Liam Cullen, at least he regularly features for Swansea and has quite a lot of championship experience.


The real question is how much is Jason Koumas paying to have his son included? Has he actually done anything apart from disappoint for Stoke?

Cullen plays in Colwills position. Koumas doesn’t.

[J R Hartley]

i don't think Rubin is an effective winger, he needs to play in an advanced central role.

Clearly missing the point

[Hilts]

Im waiting to see how Bellamy reacts with a few dodgy results or getting dumped out of the World Cup.

Seemed to be wound up after losing to Canada.

Rubin hopefully doesn't let Bellamys rejection of him get to him.

[Der Kaiser]

Cullen plays in Colwills position. Koumas doesn’t.

Move players around then to include the best possible players. Problem solved.

[Rjk]

Move players around then to include the best possible players. Problem solved.

shoehorn players into a system that makes no sense ?- we aren't England mate

[J R Hartley]

Move players around then to include the best possible players. Problem solved.

Putting square pegs in round holes has never been a problem solver.

[Der Kaiser]

Cullen isn't a starter for Swansea

Agree on Koumas

But he does feature regularly for them.


He also scored 11 goals last season. Probably more than the vast majority of our (Wales) forwards can say for themselves.

[City123]

i don't think Rubin is an effective winger, he needs to play in an advanced central role.

I agree, I'm pointing our where we can easily trim the fat of the squad for an additional central player.

[Der Kaiser]

Putting square pegs in round holes has never been a problem solver.

We aren't England who get to have conversations about not forcing all your best players into a team or squad for the benefit of a system. We have a wafer thin bordering on poor squad. You ram the square peg into round hole and make it work.

[Der Kaiser]

shoehorn players into a system that makes no sense ?- we aren't England mate

Yeah you're right we aren't, we have a near poor squad. Nations like ours should pick their best players and sort the rest out later.


Otherwise you end up with Lewis Koumas in the squad.

[The Lone Gunman]

Cullen plays in Colwills position.

Does he? Not a rhetorical question, I honestly don't know if that's the case.

Cullen's Championship stats last season:

35 (+7) appearances, 11 goals

Colwill's Championship stats last season:

24 (+19) appearances, 1 goal

If they do play in the same position, it's not difficult to see how Cullen got ahead of Colwill in Bellamy's thinking.

[Rjk]

Does he? Not a rhetorical question, I honestly don't know if that's the case.

Cullen's Championship stats last season:

35 (+7) appearances, 11 goals

Colwill's Championship stats last season:

24 (+19) appearances, 1 goal

If they do play in the same position, it's not difficult to see how Cullen got ahead of Colwill in Bellamy's thinking.

I'm no fan of Cullen, but he doesn't deserve to be dropped for Wales

[The Bloop]

Unless Bellamy wants to completely ruin the player I hope he’s only brought Kpakio in for training purposes. He’ll get murdered against England and Belgium.

Similarly, Madueke ran rings around Neco Williams the other week in the Forest Arsenal game. Can't say I was disappointed when he got ruled out as that would have been a painful watch. Just Saka to deal with now instead 🫣

[Rjk]

Yeah you're right we aren't, we have a near poor squad. Nations like ours should pick their best players and sort the rest out later.


Otherwise you end up with Lewis Koumas in the squad.

we have a poor squad by Wales' standards. it's as poor as I can remember in terms of the number of top level players.
shoehorning your best players into a system that makes no sense only serves to make you play less than the sum of your parts. we don't want to go down that road , certainly not to accommodate rubin colwill, who's time will still come.

[City123]

we have a poor squad by Wales' standards. it's as poor as I can remember in terms of the number of top level players.
shoehorning your best players into a system that makes no sense only serves to make you play less than the sum of your parts. we don't want to go down that road , certainly not to accommodate rubin colwill, who's time will still come.

I raise you our squads in the late noughties. Who remembers the two Carls *shudders*. Jermaine Easter and Freddie Eastwood as the next great hopes

There's a lack of depth but we have 9 players who play in the best league in the world and much of the rest play in what must be the best second tier

[jon1959]

https://www.nationalworld.com/sport/...all-up-5339860

Get David Attenborough to a safe-house, wrap Mary Berry in cotton wool and someone please check up on Ant and Dec.

After 13 months away from international football, celebrity grim reaper Aaron Ramsey is back in the Wales squad for their upcoming World Cup qualifier games.

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Wales will play England in a friendly at Wembley Stadium on Thursday, October 9, before hosting Belgium at Cardiff City Stadium the following Monday.

However, it does leave a window of opportunity for the infamous Aaron Ramsey curse to strike once again.

Typically, when Ramsey scores a goal, the showbiz world holds its collective breath, as a celebrity often dies in the following day or so. There’s a proven track record of this, with more than 25 celebs falling foul of the curse.

Most recently, Ramsey scored the winning goal for Pumas in a league game against Atlas - which was followed by the death of Giorgio Armani.

Here are the celebrities who are alleged victims of the Aaron Ramsey curse, and when they died.

Ted Kennedy - August 25, 2009

Andreas Monte - October 16, 2009

Osama Bin Laden - May 2, 2011

Steve Jobs - October 5, 2011

Muammar Gaddafi - October 20, 2011

Whitney Houston - February 11, 2012

Ray Williams - March 22, 2013

Ken Norton - September 18, 2013

Paul Walker - November 30, 2013

Rubin Carter - April 20, 2014

Robin Williams - August 11, 2014

David Bowie - January 10, 2016

Alan Rickman - January 14, 2016

Nancy Reagan - March 6, 2016

Nicky Hayden - May 22, 2017

Gregg Allman - May 27, 2017

Bruce Forsyth - August 18, 2017

Stephen Hawking - March 14, 2018

Eric Bristow - April 5, 2018

Burt Reynolds - September 6, 2018

Keith Flint and Luke Perry - March 4, 2019

Kenneth Kaunda - June 17, 2021

June Brown - April 4, 2022

Olivia Newton-John - August 8, 2022

[Rjk]

I raise you our squads in the late noughties. Who remembers the two Carls *shudders*. Jermaine Easter and Freddie Eastwood as the next great hopes

There's a lack of depth but we have 9 players who play in the best league in the world and much of the rest play in what must be the best second tier

Yes to be fair that was arguably worse, but we would have had Bellamy in the side, and Bale and Ramsey starting to come through.

For most of the time we've had 1 or 2 elite level players - playing at the top end of the premier league and in Europe.
We don't currently have that.

Smaller nations with a sprinkling of elite level players are a very different prospect to teams with a bigger pool of average players IMO.

[the other bob wilson]

But he does feature regularly for them.


He also scored 11 goals last season. Probably more than the vast majority of our (Wales) forwards can say for themselves.

I was reading a discussion on Swansea this season somewhere and it was being said that Cullen had rather been left behind by all of the signings they’d made in the summer.