As poor a performance we saw from our midfield, I thought Rice was outstanding for them. I remember ~3 years ago for West Ham at the Turf he was head and shoulders above anyone else on the pitch but seems to have taken it to another level.
A shame we have to see these players dominate against our own team but in him and Bellingham, England's midfield should be sorted for the next 10 years.

He’s a great player but he won’t have many easier games this season.

I thought he was immense too. Always in the right spot for receiving the ball off the defence but more importantly sniffing out any potential threat we had. There was a moment first half where Amdouni & Fofana had a bit of a break on and he intercepted the move with an outrageous sliding tackle. Like you say with him, Bellingham and Foden in this form it should be exciting for England.

Yes he had an excellent game but let’s be honest we allowed him to be. He must have thought this is so easy, nobody seems to mark me so I’ll show them what I’m about.

We gave him oceans of space.
Even an average Championship midfielder would have excelled against
us yesterday, never mind Rice. Must have thought it was his birthday.

Awful stuff from us.

One of if not the best English midfielders in the Premier league, his stamina is phenomenal.

He looked very accomplished.

On £250,000 per week, I think.

A class above.

On the year we went down I came to the Turf to see WHU. He was the best player I had seen that year, and better than I even thought he was. A proper Rolls Royce

RVclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 8:02 am

I thought he was immense too. Always in the right spot for receiving the ball off the defence but more importantly sniffing out any potential threat we had. There was a moment first half where Amdouni & Fofana had a bit of a break on and he intercepted the move with an outrageous sliding tackle. Like you say with him, Bellingham and Foden in this form it should be exciting for England.

It should be exciting for England, but with play-it-safe Southgate I doubt it will be

A bag of pilau would do all right up against our midfield.

But yes Rice is a very, very good player.

warksclaret wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 18, 2024 7:21 pm

On the year we went down I came to the Turf to see WHU. He was the best player I had seen that year, and better than I even thought he was. A proper Rolls Royce

Completely agree. He looked a colossus that day.

I think our front line and midfield share this view. They certainly enjoyed watching him do whatever the f=-k he wanted. So frustrating to see us give him acres of space to just do whatever he wanted to in. Really poor.