HawkeyeMS
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I refer you to post #113
What would you do with Rooney?
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I refer you to post #113
Rooter
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noted. Ronaldo i will pick out, he is a big fish in a pretty poor quality pond, there was a joke flowchart on twitter with the portugese tactics,
Kick off - Pass to ronaldo - Did we score? if yes, kick off again, if no, pass to ronaldo.
there are plenty of "hyped" players that have done very well at the world cup:
I refer you to:
15 Ronaldo (the fat one)
14 Klose
8 david villa
6 Thierry Henry
6 Diego Forlan
HawkeyeMS
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There are indeed, my point however is that if you gave any England fan the chance to swap Rooney with either Ronaldo or Messi they'd do it despite the fact that they have both failed at World Cups in better, higher scoring teams than Rooney has.
P.S. All of those players were playing for better teams than England except maybe Forlan
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Birchy
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And have also played many more games possibly bar Forlan again.
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Oh dear
Rooney imo is a better player than Sturridge.
So on the above theory, if Rooney is played as a striker then he should start above Sturridge.
Or the simplest solution would be for the experienced England Manager to devise a setup/tactic/formation and play the strongest team where players play in their best position.
Rooter
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Great thing about football is it divides opinion! I think we will have the agree to disagree on the above point!!!
6inchcup
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how come there is no SELL HIM TO LIVERPOOL option??
SwingsitlikeHogan
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Rooney has to be in the team - likes of Sturridge, Welbeck and Sterling are great - but I really don't think they have the all round skills and vision of Rooney. Just because England can't work out how to utilise his skills integrated with the rest doesn't mean you drop him. When you play smarter teams who will work out how to neutralise most players you need someone like Rooney who can see and do the vision.
Like Kenny Dalglish in the Scotland team - when many wanted him dropped for not delivering - Rooney's problem may actually be the rest of the team.
Like Kenny Dalglish in the Scotland team - when many wanted him dropped for not delivering - Rooney's problem may actually be the rest of the team.
Rooter
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Think you are getting Rooney confused with Ronaldo.
Pin-seeker
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If Rooney gets dropped do we then discuss other players that don't perform?
It was pretty obvious before a ball was kicked that Rooneys performances was going to be scrutinized.
A few other players also got pretty low marks next to their names after the Italy game
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...Italy-Scorer-Daniel-Sturridge-stands-out.html
It was pretty obvious before a ball was kicked that Rooneys performances was going to be scrutinized.
A few other players also got pretty low marks next to their names after the Italy game
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...Italy-Scorer-Daniel-Sturridge-stands-out.html
JCW
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Get rid , he has had so many chances its time others had a chance , man u are only club stupid enough to pay him big wages , if he was that good the other big clubs would have come calling by now , he has grown fat on his wages that he is no longer got the hunger, give the others a chance
HawkeyeMS
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No hunger? Is that why he turned up to the training camp a week early to make sure he was ready and went out on his own after all the others had gone in to do extra training yesterday?
Maybe, just maybe, if everyone got off his back and tried supporting him (strange concept for many England fans I know) we might see the best of him.
quinn
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Play him where he plays for his club for a start, 39 goals for England's a good reason not to drop him, England fans always look for somebody to blame, didn't here anybody slating him when he dropped that cross onto sturridges foot from 30 yards, he's not a defender so you can't blame him for the second goal, if you watch the game again, baines doesn't do a lot to help him, play him down the middle behind Sturridge, guarantee he'll create chances
Slime
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Quality comment, spot on :thup:.
Slime.
Ain't gonna happen though. Even if he scores a hat-trick in the next game, people will still be slagging him off for something or other!
Pin-seeker
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Well said that man.
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What is said on here makes zero difference to how Rooney or in fact any player performs
The fans at the stadium supported him as they have done in every major tournament
Rooney is a decent player that there is no doubt but he can be replaced - he hasn't been that main player in the tournaments - he has failed to deliver when it matters for England during the tournaments - he isn't that only
Woy can persevere with him in the hope he gives a performance soon or he can try something else and maybe the dropping him to the bench might be a wake up call - remember this is the same player who when England had qualified already into 2012 EC decided to lash out getting himself banned for two games in the tournament I think it was. Build a team - Rooney isn't good enough to have a team built around him - and if Rooney can't perform in the team created then give other players a chance.
The fans at the stadium supported him as they have done in every major tournament
Rooney is a decent player that there is no doubt but he can be replaced - he hasn't been that main player in the tournaments - he has failed to deliver when it matters for England during the tournaments - he isn't that only
Woy can persevere with him in the hope he gives a performance soon or he can try something else and maybe the dropping him to the bench might be a wake up call - remember this is the same player who when England had qualified already into 2012 EC decided to lash out getting himself banned for two games in the tournament I think it was. Build a team - Rooney isn't good enough to have a team built around him - and if Rooney can't perform in the team created then give other players a chance.
HawkeyeMS
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It's Roy you %*!#*^
Slime
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Leave it mate, he's obviously got no qualms about mocking people with afflictions.
Slime.
Pin-seeker
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http://m.skysports.com/article/sports//9352380
Pretty much spot on.
At least we won't have Pirlo out classing our Midfielders on Thursday.
Pretty much spot on.
At least we won't have Pirlo out classing our Midfielders on Thursday.
richy
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Why do you insist on calling him Woy? His name is Roy, or can you not read. Maybe we should take the mick out of you for not being able to read like you are with Roy's speech condition
