04 Jan 2018 00:42:16
Just some info regarding capped players v good players argument. RE SG34.Just to put into to context and with no malice or argument intended.
Some dodgy stats:
only 180 of the 1.5 million players who are playing organised youth football in England at any one time will make it as a Premier League pro. That's a success rate of 0.012%. same chance of meteorite hitting you on the way home.

Now to succeed as a capped player then the probability shrinks to 0.001333333% based on a squad size of 20. Same chance of meteorite hitting you on the way home but you head it back knowing one person that could prevent disaster and has a history of trying to destroy massive, powerful, majestic, beautiful universal masterpieces is Tom English. Unfortunately he underestimated the size and power of the meteor and was never seen again.

So I suppose it depends on the size of country you play for and the playing population, if you are capped for Brazil (207 million) where there is a high playing and actual population then you can assume you are indeed, very good. Could a similar argument be made for Mexico with a population of 127 million? But I can take SGs point with regards to smaller countrys eg. Finland, population 5.5 million then that is different particularly if the playing population is small so there is a better chance of being capped.
PS. Puts our past success in to perspective with a population of around 5 million and dwindling playing population, no wonder our national team are playing on fumes. The only way forward is to increase the playing population as we had in the 50s, 60s, 70s etc so we can get those 1 in a million players, unless that happens we will regress even more.
And yes I have been drinking.

1.) 04 Jan 2018
04 Jan 2018 11:08:42
Class post mate. Bottoms up. 🕺🏻

2.) 04 Jan 2018
04 Jan 2018 17:34:37
I replied earlier to your post TJBB but yet to be shown but it was along the lines of Rafael Sheidt has Brazilian caps and guys like Konterman, Namouchi, Capucho, Muscat, Ostenstad, Rothen all have caps for there respective countries yet they were all mince but i'm sorry to hear you stayed up half the night gathering your “info”