Is it time to lose International football?

[Slim]

I still watch England games because...England. However they still piss me off, especially when we head into a season and then right away there is a break so we can play qualifiers, this got even worse last season when they took a break to play a pair of friendlies. What I am really annoyed about is we always seem to come out of the matches with injuries, in this case Delph and Sagna. What if that was Silva and Aguero? Yaya and Hart? That could derail our season and if it was last season, for a fucking friendly.

So while I think it needs fixing I don't want to see it gone.
1. International friendlies are only to be played in the weeks prior to major tournaments.
2. Introduction of a winter break, other leagues have them and manage quite well, might even help in the Europa/CL for our club teams.
3. Qualifiers for the Euros and the WC to be split among three "windows". 2 Winter breaks and 1 Summer break.

Lastly, I really really want country FA's to cover the wages of international players during these international break. If I don't show up at work for two weeks, I wouldn't get paid and there is no good reason for why the clubs have to cover this. Any players injured on international duty is covered by the clubs insurance, however there have been times where a player has been selected when he was quite clearly a high risk for injury(just returned from injury usually), they get selected because "fuck the club, that player will be healed by the next lot of internationals". Let the FA's cover this as well, how many times would Reyna or RSC have gotten selected if that were the case?

while i agree with 90% of that, it's true that if you don't show up for work for two weeks the rest of the team has a fucking party and enjoys themselves wildly. FACT.

cheers

If I don't show up for two weeks...well nothing really, if they know I'm gone I'd be surprised. Although my boss just got promoted so there is every chance I'm not joking.

[DoomMerchant]

I still watch England games because...England. However they still piss me off, especially when we head into a season and then right away there is a break so we can play qualifiers, this got even worse last season when they took a break to play a pair of friendlies. What I am really annoyed about is we always seem to come out of the matches with injuries, in this case Delph and Sagna. What if that was Silva and Aguero? Yaya and Hart? That could derail our season and if it was last season, for a fucking friendly.

So while I think it needs fixing I don't want to see it gone.
1. International friendlies are only to be played in the weeks prior to major tournaments.
2. Introduction of a winter break, other leagues have them and manage quite well, might even help in the Europa/CL for our club teams.
3. Qualifiers for the Euros and the WC to be split among three "windows". 2 Winter breaks and 1 Summer break.

Lastly, I really really want country FA's to cover the wages of international players during these international break. If I don't show up at work for two weeks, I wouldn't get paid and there is no good reason for why the clubs have to cover this. Any players injured on international duty is covered by the clubs insurance, however there have been times where a player has been selected when he was quite clearly a high risk for injury(just returned from injury usually), they get selected because "fuck the club, that player will be healed by the next lot of internationals". Let the FA's cover this as well, how many times would Reyna or RSC have gotten selected if that were the case?

while i agree with 90% of that, it's true that if you don't show up for work for two weeks the rest of the team has a fucking party and enjoys themselves wildly. FACT.

cheers

If I don't show up for two weeks...well nothing really, if they know I'm gone I'd be surprised. Although my boss just got promoted so there is every chance I'm not joking.