I would hope, with all due respect to them, that the games in the Qualifiers for tournaments (like the 2014 World Cup currently) offer sufficient test grounds for new tactics and what have you. Even if it doesn't work chances are if you do it against San Marino or whoever there'll be no adverse consequences. Similarly, training also offers opportunity to try out new things and play 11-a-side matches against each other. The fact that Captain Clueless played 4-4-2 last night shows just how little of it was taken seriously.
Wembley I believe.
Indeed, after messing up a the Euros tournaments in 1996 and 2000 and getting to the Final in 2002 largely because of Kahn, Ballack and Klose Germany went in to a period of huge reform and are feeling the effects now - a world class XI and surely one of the favourites for success next year at the World Cup. The FA here however are either too stupid or too arrogant to do such and as a result we're stuck with a hopeless imbecile who thinks 4-4-2 is still an effective formation and has no Plan B when it inevitably fails. England stick with the same crop of Top 7 team players, who can't play together as the last decade has demonstrated yet never look to fringe players like Lambert, Forster or Hooper for change, instead just breaking it down and starting the same again.
It was half empty at Wembley last night, which I think says all we need to know.
Indeed, which is why I am against the concept of a national stadium. It should have been demolished and left. It was much better when England travelled around the country for international football, and FA Cup semis were at Villa Park and whatever. Wembley is just an overpriced, atmosphere-less hole that unfortunately English football is stuck with for decades.