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Congrats on the new job. Shame about the loss, I know what its like to lose to Finland.

Is there a reason this guy Stuart Deshpande (36290190) isn't on the team? Impressive salary for a PG.

Congrats on the new job. Shame about the loss, I know what its like to lose to Finland.

Cheers mate, and yes it was a tough one to take.

Is there a reason this guy Stuart Deshpande (36290190) isn't on the team? Impressive salary for a PG.

Yes there is, he's not good enough.

Tough loss. England at both levels seem to get targeted by similar level teams with effort.. Best of luck with the new job as well js, hope you have 'England u21 manager' on your cv ;)

England at both levels seem to get targeted by similar level teams with effort.

Yeah, funny that. You might almost get the impression that people don't like England. I do think that's part of the problem.

Some of it does actually come about because of our position in the BB world. Not a large country, not a micro. This does tend to leave us in a large group of countries chasing the same thing. Which makes us a target for the extra effort.

In the Euros especially we're usually the fourth highest ranked team, especially at NT, which means the four teams under us are most likely to target us rather than the top 3, and the teams above us might prefer to use extra just to make sure we stay below them.

One of my aims with the NT was to move us up so that might become less likely. I failed.

Yeah you're spot on with that and thank you mate haha!

ENGLAND 114-60 ARMENIA
After a tough loss to Belgium last time out, England matched up against a weak Armenian side looking to bounce back and hopefully improve on their point differential. We dominated every quarter and put in a good shooting performance all round with all 12 players contributing to the scoreboard. Phil MacNeish top scored with 17 points and also managed to dish out 6 assists whilst Joshua Boyle and Stu Feldman also recorded double doubles.

ENGLAND 58-70 GREECE
This game was a must-win for England if they were going to have any chance of qualifying. The game started slowly with both defences on top and all players having a tough time of scoring. The game burst into life in the second half and there were chances for us to close the lead and take advantage but unfortunately, we couldn't convert our chances and were still turning the ball over on too many occasions. The game ended with Greece winning by 12 to all but end our chances of qualifying out of this extremely tough group. On my behalf, I'd like to apologise as I got the lineup wrong. Witten defended well but just could not score and an alternative option would have been more beneficial for us in attack. Joshua Boyle should also have started, he shot the ball well but I felt Greene was a better option. The injury to Feldman was also a killer blow as he's progressed superbly this season and has been a key player at points.

It's not impossible to qualify from this position but we'll need a miracle if we are to progress to the next round. Game shape was a lot better this week and we might have beaten Greece if I didn't f**k up the lineup but hindsight is a wonderful thing and we have to move on. I won't give up on our chances as we play Estonia next week, who are undefeated.

It was a tough game to watch with the greek people in the chat as well. We where lucky that they did not run away with it even more. There SF might have 15od and he said 9-10 ID but Galloway can beat this with his stat's. Storie was good but took him a while to get on the score sheet but once he did he did well. Hat's of to Boyle though out scoring all of our players in just 10 game time.