I have failed the English community. I set the dream as winning the world championship, & the target as qualifying for the 2nd round of European qualifying. Todays loss to Serbia sees those goals shattered. /the ladder hasn’t been updated yet, but this is how it finished:
Bosnia w:5 l:1
Serbia w:4 l:2 + 37
England w:4 l:2 + 35
Turkey w:4 l:2 + 32
3 more points today, or 3 less by Serbia would’ve seen us qualify.
We were expecting a CT from Serbia so their higher effort level wasn’t a surprise. That last quarter was torture to watch, with us being into the 2nd round for all but the final few minutes where we couldn’t hit a shot. While it is frustrating playing a majority of the game without your offensive focus due to injury, and falling a few points short of qualifying in the process, I am not going to blame our loss today on Paris playing 13 minutes as it doesn’t change the final result, and the only thing it achieves is increasing the frustration I am feeling right now
We move onto the consolation tournament, which is no consolation at all compared to where we want to be, but we will go as far as we can. It will be good next season to add a couple of the current u21’s who will play a vital role in strengthening the current team.
I apologise again for letting you down, but we still have work to do with a fresh batch of draftees being created in a couple of months to scout through & updates of tracked players required for the future of the England NT.