40 ordspråk av John Toshack
John Toshack
It's a difficult process but hopefully a year or 18 months down the line they will be experienced enough, know how we work and we can put the pieces into the puzzle as we feel fit,
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It's a lot easier to destroy than to create and if you look at Azerbaijan's games they're difficult to beat,
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It's easy to praise Ryan, he is always such an influential player and he scored two special goals. But I was delighted for David Vaughan. He is a clever, skilful player and he rarely gives the ball away. I asked him to play in an advanced role and he was outstanding all night.
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It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.
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Mark is an experienced performer and at the moment fitness wise we don't see a problem with him,
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Maybe if there's a communication breakdown, it's between the Blackburn medics and their manager,
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Obviously match fitness is something else but that's a problem we have had since this season started. We would expect to start with him.
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Poland are very good. We did our best but there is no doubt that by far the best side won.You would expect England to win their home games, though.
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Robbie [Savage] quit Wales after being told he was dropped!
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Rooney has those things that you cannot teach players - the positions he takes up just behind the front men is a European trait,
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The players know us a lot better and we can say things to them without them getting offended,
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The players know what this game is all about. They've been looking forward to it coming around and they know the quality of player they are up against.
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The six of them did so well with us that I told Brian, 'I will keep the lot of them and send you three of the others from the squad! You can have them instead'.
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There are one or two players with a few niggles, so we will need to take a look at them before we decide what to do,
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We all have our pride to play for and we will do our best here, and we will stick to a similar pattern before maybe changing things around for Northern Ireland and Azerbaijan in our final two qualifiers,
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