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Post by frankiegth on May 4, 2006 18:38:20 GMT
I know hindsight is 20-20 but why didn't he take Rooney off when Man U were 3-0 down with nowt to come. Could it be 'cos he's a Scot? Before anybody says owt, I'm half Scots
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Post by bonehead on May 4, 2006 20:24:13 GMT
You're a manager. You have one of the best strikers in the Ingerlish league. You see no reason to take him off because he isn't playing crap. I can't imagine AF or any other manager thinking, "We're losing 3-0I . I'll pull xx off just in case he gets injured and can't play for Ingerland in the World Cup'. Reality check???
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Post by frankiegth on May 4, 2006 20:30:06 GMT
Of course no manager would do it. We all know that. I (like everybody else who want England to do well) wish AF had took Rooney off Don't you?
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Post by Sultan of Cannock- SRFC on May 4, 2006 20:47:15 GMT
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Post by luvlydory on May 4, 2006 21:48:54 GMT
why did he play at all ? i thought he was injured
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Post by ambersalamander on May 4, 2006 23:47:23 GMT
this is how he got injured in the first place!
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Post by peekay on May 5, 2006 3:06:10 GMT
Gives us all yet another reason to detest Chelski.
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Post by medibot on May 5, 2006 13:09:16 GMT
Gives me another reason to snigger about how the supposed best team in the world falls apart at the loss of one player. Wales might not be very good or at the world cup but at least we aren't so cripplingly reliant on one player.
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Post by Giggy of Telford on May 5, 2006 15:21:28 GMT
I always thought that putting our hopes on just one player to win us the cup was a bad idea, all we needed was an injury or a bad run of form for Rooney and apparently we don't stand a chance.
Surley one player won't be the difference between winnig and losing.
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Post by medibot on May 5, 2006 15:39:10 GMT
It screwed my idea for an amusing cartoon based on Rooney injuring himself during the world cup because he was chasing after a pie.
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Post by frankiegth on May 5, 2006 17:46:30 GMT
Never a good idea to rely on one player I agree.
Agentina managed to win the world cup with Marradona and ten "extras" though. Not that rooney's as good as the poison dwarf was.
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Post by medibot on May 5, 2006 22:25:11 GMT
The problem with Roooney is, he is a magnificent player but people put too much weight on his contribution to the team. Give him a chance and more than likely he will smash it away but as FGTH says, he's not as brilliant as making chances for himself in the way Maradona always managed to. The other goal in the hand of god game would be your prime example.
Unfortunately, people and the press are under the illusion that they need Rooney to achieve anything, he is a lethal striker but he is not the be all and end all of England. If England ever had the good fortune of a good manager they would win the World Cup, with or without Rooney, fortunately for the Welshman amongst us that won't happen this year cos i really think Sven is capable of screwing up a team consisting of some amazing players yet again...
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Post by ojiveojive on May 6, 2006 20:43:51 GMT
he's not as brilliant as making chances for himself in the way Maradona always managed to. I disagree. I think Rooney can make chances for himself. The problem with England is Sven never having a plan B (remember Euro 2004, we were s h i t e once the wonderkid had been injured) unless you count playing eight along the edge of the penalty area and hoofing the ball up to the two dwarves, Owen and Vassell as a plan. God help us if we end up with Crouch and one other, he'll just pump it up to Crouch, who for a man of six foot ten doesn't seem to be able to jump more then two inches off the ground and even when he gets the ball his touch is so poor that he makes Emile Heskey look competent.
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Post by medibot on May 6, 2006 20:53:48 GMT
I suppose you always have to bear in mind a half chance for mere football players is a full blown one for somebody like Rooney.
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Post by pies on May 8, 2006 12:52:26 GMT
Why should Ferguson take his best player off? Just to please England fans? Ferguson's only football priority is Manchester United FC, Rooney was United's best attacking option on the day, why should SAF have taken him off? At least England have a couple of games to test other options out, such as Defoe. Hey, Sultan, lovely end of season collapse for citeh, eh? Couldn't sell-out your away allocation at Blackburn, thought citeh were massive lol!
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