After the World Cup qualifiers, Trinidad camp, South Florida camp and Iceland friendly, Beenie seems to have seen (and quite rightly so) all that he has to. He seems to have addressed his burning concerns about left sided options/ extra wing-defenses/team balance by enough experiments in the Iceland game and Florida camp and was glad to have a 2 goal cushion in the Iceland game to afford a potentially costly experiment. He may have made a subtle reordering of his bound-to-go-to Germany players and adjusted his likely-to-go players. I am trying to figure who are those few unfamiliar hard-to-figure-out players that are completing the 28 which will be trimmed to 23.
Don't be fooled by who was selected for the last game. Omissions from this last selection are actually are a good sign for some players whose spots are fairly secure, with Beenie having seen enough of them. Most of these players that we are seing are selected but a few are not sure if they are in the final 23 or just on the verge in the final 28 or seen as unable to cut it period.
There are several more friendlies to go but more time will be spent honing final team tactics rather than agonizing who can be selected.
Concerns may have been: 1. A need for extra wing backs to help Grey and John. 2. A need for wing backs who can ATTACK WELL and CROSS on the wing. 3. A need for left sided/ left footed midfielders/strikers to put more variety and less predictability in our attack. 4. A need for more bench depth in case of an injury just before the World cup and injury/yellow or red cards during the World Cup. 5. Stanbys for hard-luck injuries to crucial strikers just before World Cup games. 6. Keep enough pressure on the 3 keepers by having 4, so serving as competition and as a standby for injuries
Guaranteed to go at this point: 17 (in bold)...see team below
Likely to go at this point: 5 (Cox, Glenn, Rougier,Theobald and 1 wing back(?Henry vs Other))
Up for grabs for final 23: 1 Extra wing-back Henry vs Other. (Total now 23)
Standbys for pre-World Cup 28: 5 ( Two defenders, 1 midfielder, 1 striker, 1 keeper) as follows:
Atiba vs other, Henry vs other, Baptiste, Ince vs Warner again,
Glasgow vs Mc Farlane vs Sealy. (Total now 28)
Players for future campaigns: (Shakes, Neaves, Rahim, Warner, Noriega, Henry etc)
So here we go. Visualizing them on the field in a 4-5-1, say: (I feel Ince will pip Warner). Remember bold means guaranteed pick
Shaka, Jack, Ince
Andrews, Cox Lawrence, Sancho
Grey, Rougier John, ?Henry
Spann, Birchall Whitley
Carlos Latas, Yorke, Theobald Samuel
Stern, Jones, Scotland, Glenn (Total 23)
Standbys: Warner, Baptiste, Probably Glasgow vs Sealy, ?Atiba, ? Other defender (Total 28)
Tell me what allyuh fellas think.
