They are never played in the correct position so how can you get the best out of them. Carra should have been the mainstay of that defence for years.

You already addressed the point about why Jamie Carragher didn't become a mainstay of the England defence - versatility. He was constantly on the bench as a backup and had players like Wes Brown picked ahead of him for his preferred position, which (although this shouldn't happen) probably influenced his desire to play for England. I'm unsure myself if Carragher really would have been a true world class defender as most Liverpool fans would suggest - and don't get me wrong, I am most definitely one of them - I just think he doesn't have the awareness of defenders such as Terry (leave Ferdinand out of this...I fail to see how he has so much admiration from the footballing world when it's plain to see that when he loses his pace in a year or two that he'll be a shadow of the defender he is now). It's become all too obvious that Carragher is incapable of picking a forward pass and I think this may have affected his England chances; and rightly so. As for Gerrard, you have to question his job for a lot of the games he's supposedly played poorly in. A lot of the time he'd been shackled in order to let Lampard stand on the edge of the 18 yard box all game and hit anything that comes near him. Other times (read: More recently), he's been played in his "Liverpool role", namely a supporting striker. Gerrard is neither of these players. Liverpool have and always will give Gerrard free licence to run about the pitch doing whatever he feels like and that's what England should do as well. The only problem is that the "free role" is most easily accomodated by putting him in the "support striker" role - and that's fine. However, Gerrard doesn't have Torres in front of him when he plays for England, he has Rooney. Don't get me wrong, I don't intend to criticise Rooney in any way, I think he's a brilliant player, however, he's not a proper striker and is seemingly incapable and/or wasted playing up top on his own. England would benefit greatly from adopting Liverpool's little formation of playing 2 defensive midfielders to control play (Barry & Hargreaves?) ahead of 3 attacking midfielders-cum-forwards (Young/Gerrard/Rooney?) ahead of one "solitary" striker (No idea...Crouch?). That might get the best out of quite a few of the players that are so-called "underperformers". tl;dr Gerrard played out of position, Carragher too versatile.

george dont know squat and ill tell ya its because England is a poor side a lot of very good players who dont give 100 percent.

Am not! :(

Also, it's because Steve and Jamie aren't English, they're scouse. LOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL GOOD ONE