Man Utd v Hull

ntlbell

starbelgrade wrote: »

???

tweak your sarcasm detector

eagle eye

p_larkin99 wrote: »

Well that turned out to be rather pleasant viewing.

Rooney is God

Even though I'm not a United fan, I said at the time that they bought him that it was very likely to be the best signing Ferguson ever made. I think thats proven to be true already.
Its not just the goals but the work the lad does is just phenomenal. I always rated Ronaldo but never thought he was the most important player on that team. I thought Rooney should have been World player of the year two years ago and not Ronaldo but everbody gets carried away with goals.
Now Rooney is scoring them so cue his being in contention for that award.

adox

mike65 wrote: »

Jasus without Rooney Utd are nothing, you better all be praying he stays fit.

A bit of an overstatement but he is playing out of his skin. With most of the rest of team playing so poorly all season his importance is being somewhat exagerrated. Still he is of course I wouldnt like to see injured.

Jaysus, never thought Id say this but, Nani was really impressive. It must be his most mature performance in a United shirt.

I know it was only Hull but there seemed to be a real pace and fluidity to Uniteds play that heas been missing over the last few months.

CR 7

p_larkin99 wrote: »

Well that turned out to be rather pleasant viewing.

Rooney is God

:cool:

starbelgrade

ntlbell wrote: »

tweak your sarcasm detector

It broke after someone started the "Are Fergie & Utd Finished?" thread.

Paul Tergat

eagle eye wrote: »

Even though I'm not a United fan, I said at the time that they bought him that it was very likely to be the best signing Ferguson ever made. I think thats proven to be true already.
Its not just the goals but the work the lad does is just phenomenal. I always rated Ronaldo but never thought he was the most important player on that team. I thought Rooney should have been World player of the year two years ago and not Ronaldo but everbody gets carried away with goals.
Now Rooney is scoring them so cue his being in contention for that award.

I do agree with some of what you are saying. OK, we paid a lot for him and its likely it was the full 30m paid seeing as we won everything but its well worth it for a few reasons. His age means that I dont think we are seeing the best of him yet. His hard work etc may often work against him but its just so refreshing to see someone with his attitude to fight for everything. You get the feeling that he is willing to play wherever Fergie tells him too. He still needs to work on his petulance though but again I still think he's time to mature.

Disagree with you on the World Player of the Year though, Ronaldo rightly won that. It wasn't just his goals, he dragged us through a lot of games and scored a lot of the important goals but, and in fairness to Ronnie, he often acknowledged the work of other people in him getting the goals/awards.

Meh, overall Rooney = God.

So glad he's English too, will be massive for us in the WC on the back of what's looking like his best goalscoring season.

starbelgrade

p_larkin99 wrote: »

So glad he's English too, will be massive for us in the WC on the back of what's looking like his best goalscoring season.

Que for Rooney to break his Metatarsil in May.

Paul Tergat

starbelgrade wrote: »

Que for Rooney to break his Metatarsil in May.

feck off

you lot can keep your voodoo ****e to yourselves, or buy and Henry doll!

starbelgrade

p_larkin99 wrote: »

feck off

you lot can keep your voodoo ****e to yourselves, or buy and Henry doll!

I've already booked a helicopter for the summer in case you boys end up in a penalty shoot out!

Fuzzy_Dunlop

What exactly did Ferdinand do? No mention of it in the BBC match report

Johner

Who's this Rooney chap?

nicklauski

playa3 wrote: »

What exactly did Ferdinand do? No mention of it in the BBC match report

Mc Shane had the ball out on the right hand side. Was going to cross it in, Rio threw an elbow and decked Fagan.

Johner

nicklauski wrote: »

Mc Shane had the ball out on the right hand side. Was going to cross it in, Rio threw an elbow and decked Fagan.

3 match ban would you say? Was in definitely intentional?

nicklauski

Definitely.
Caught on camera too, so I'd say he'd be lucky to get away with only 3.

edit : The ball wasn't coming in at the time either, so you couldn't say it was in a challenge for the ball.

nkay1985

Johner wrote: »

Who's this Rooney chap?

Promising youngster. Remember the name. I think you'll be hearing a lot more about him.

Johner

Thanks, I'll take note!

jaykay74

Fergie post match

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxbEo1giTLY

Rooney post match

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70yL5kWfRiM

deise48

good chance rio will be injured for his ban anyway

ctrl-alt-delete

Didn't see the match today but fair play to Rooney,

He really is the best player in the Premiership when he is on form for me, and one of the best even when he is not on form, that is the quality of the man.

Ronaldo leaving has given him the opportunity to step up again and he has, i just hope everything goes well for him between now and the summer and that he can light up the World Cup like players like himself deserve.

Liam O

adox wrote: »

Jaysus, never thought Id say this but, Nani was really impressive. It must be his most mature performance in a United shirt.

The 4-0 FA Cup game against Arsenal in his first season is the best I've seen him play to date. He was immense in that game as were the whole team. Ronaldo was missing for that game and it just shows how well the team could play without Ronaldo even when he was the main man. Most people will look to the Roma win as the defining moment of that season but that FA Cup game was my favourite.

nullzero

I thought Myhill actually had a decent game.
Rooney was on great form, and much like Ronaldo before him benifited from the good play of his team mates.
Nani had flashes of daftness, but was overall preety good, although it'd be nice to see him be more consistent on a regular basis. Nice cameo from Berbatov, Owen probably should have had a hat trick of his own. Over all a decent days work, but the real test is over turning the deficit on wednesday night.

TonyD79

nullzero wrote: »

I thought Myhill actually had a decent game.
Rooney was on great form, and much like Ronaldo before him benifited from the good play of his team mates.
Nani had flashes of daftness, but was overall preety good, although it'd be nice to see him be more consistent on a regular basis. Nice cameo from Berbatov, Owen probably should have had a hat trick of his own. Over all a decent days work, but the real test is over turning the deficit on wednesday night.

I wouldnt call the city defence as a "real" test. Our real test comes away to Arsenal the week after!

nullzero

TonyD79 wrote: »

I wouldnt call the city defence as a "real" test. Our real test comes away to Arsenal the week after!

The "real test" aspect is that City are dying to not only beat us but humiliate us, especially that strangly bunny boiler esque Tevez character.
We need to win a game in which the opposition are desperate to beat us, because lately we haven't been so hot in those situations, think Leeds and the last three Liverpool games. We have a point to prove, to ourselves and everyone else.

PHB

I'd take the win over Arsenal compared to a win over City in a second. League will always come first, and 3 points against them would be huge.

Nonetheless, it'd be nice to beat City tomorrow. IMO we deserved more than a 2-1 defeat to them in the last match, so at home, I hope to be able to take them. Rio in defence should help us get a clean sheet, as both of those goals last week were preventable.

Headshot

PHB wrote: »

I'd take the win over Arsenal compared to a win over City in a second. League will always come first, and 3 points against them would be huge.

Nonetheless, it'd be nice to beat City tomorrow. IMO we deserved more than a 2-1 defeat to them in the last match, so at home, I hope to be able to take them. Rio in defence should help us get a clean sheet, as both of those goals last week were preventable.

Wednesday

CR 7

Liam O wrote: »

The 4-0 FA Cup game against Arsenal in his first season is the best I've seen him play to date. He was immense in that game as were the whole team. Ronaldo was missing for that game and it just shows how well the team could play without Ronaldo even when he was the main man. Most people will look to the Roma win as the defining moment of that season but that FA Cup game was my favourite.

Ronaldo came on though, didn't he, and got kicked out over the sideline for showboating. The same was attempted on Nani after balancing the ball on his head. He seems to have cut that all out of his game, thankfully.

As has been said, if he can replicate that against the "weaker" teams in the league consistantly, and leave Valencia do it against tougher opposition, I'll be happy.

Theresalwaysone

Can I get some refresher opinions on Berbatov off the people here?

Interested to see if views have changed or not, and why?

edit wrong thread actually, But still interested. Will post in the Man Utd thread too.

jj72

Went to the game myself on Saturday. Thought Paul Scholes was absolutely briliant. Didnt make one mistake and was up there with Rooney for Man of the Match. Also thought Owen worked his ass off only for some poor finishin he could have bagged a few. What do people think of Rafael on Sat? i thought he looked like he could be shoved off the ball very easily, just havent got much confidence when i see him play. Hopefully give him time he will change my thoughts!!