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"Oh dear oh dear oh dear"

"You've got to really take your hat off to the tactical approach of Northern Ireland coming in this game" says Graham Le Saux. Yeah, what a genius move it was to lob everybody behind the ball for the first half and hope in the second. Note: I'm not knocking the NI performance, but the tactics really were exactly what you would have predicted.

But Sven, one of that game's well-respected managers, can do worse, oh yes. Not only did we have to continue with the nonsensical 4-5-1 rubbish (we're playing Northern Ireland ffs, a team we should be attacking for 90% of the match, on an extremely narrow pitch. whywhywhwyhwy?) but then, at the end of the first half when bloody Shrek-fase decides to act like a retarded monkey why on earth didn't Sven pull him off straight away? Rooney may be almost completely devoid of common sense, but A) he was playing greedily, and poorly, and B) he's never going to learn that he can't act like an idiot when he wants to unless you show him a lesson.

And then, after NI score and you start to think things couldn't get any worse, that complete buffoon of a manger takes off the player with the best long range shot on the pitch and replaces him with a holding midfielder. There's 15 minutes on the clock, you're 1 - 0 down to a team you shouldn't be, and you bring on bloody Owen Hargreaves. An out and out midfield scrapper. Absolutely illogical.

Nice one, you passion-less Swedish hove.

Mozzy wrote:
> I'd rather have Defoe upfront with Owen, I hate shrek-boy so much. If
> we make it to the WC not only will I be suprised, i'll expect
> shrek-boy to loose his temper and hit the ref.

Thats just ridiculous. Rooney pretty much carried England in euro 2004!

AfroJoe wrote:
> If Rooney continues to develop at the pace he is doing so, he will
> eventually be better than Henry, but right now, no chance.
>
> His temperament is still a major issue, and Henry is far more
> effective for Arsenal than Rooney is for Man United. Henry scores a
> bundle and sets up pretty much all the rest; something which is way
> beyond Rooney right now.
>
> As I said, no doubt he will in the future outclass Henry, but
> currently, he's never better.

Hmm. I agree, my earlier statement was a bit of a "lash", in response to whoever said he hated "Shrek Boy".

To me, Rooney's temperment is virtually his only weakness, if he can sort that out, I think it would be closer between the two.

Dringo wrote:
> I also prefer Cisse to Henry.

Now that's just madness.

Pick someone with more of a future :D

I find Rooney more exciting... I dunno why. A thug, but more exciting.

I also prefer Cisse to Henry.

Yeah, you know what Henry can offer, which is 30+ goals a season and loads of assists as well. So why pick anyone else?

I'd still rather have Rooney in the team than Henry... you know what Henry can offer... with Rooney you've just touched the surface.

down wrote:
> footballing intelligence

That's where they're both outstanding, in my opinion. Few players truly are - I think it's much more of a natural ability, but can develop with experience and maturity.

Wouldn't like to call a difference between them in that respect. They can both do things which are absolutely genius.

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Because we're talking about Premiership club opinions, as opposed to ACTUAL QUALITY.

Rooney is much better than zlatan. If you asked all the prmiership clubs who they'd rather have in their team, wayne rooney or zlatan, rooney every time.

Agree with down, Kaka is better than Rooney.