Wayne Rooney | 2011/12 Performances
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Genuinely awful today.
Yet still a brace.
Yet still a brace.
Oops, misread post time, thought walrus posted seconds before the goal.
Not been enthused with his overall play this year but he's still getting goals when not playing well.
Genuinely awful? Jesus christ.
2 goals and involved in lots of build up play, He hasnt been genuinely awful whatsoever.
People need to get over this hatred of Rooney, without him wed be struggling. Without Wayne Rooney in the team, we dont look the same side. Hes a special player
If he was Emile Heskey, that'd probably be his performance of the season.
But he's Wayne Rooney. And for Wayne Rooney, that was shite.
But he's Wayne Rooney. And for Wayne Rooney, that was shite.
He was awful today, even his second goal the shot was poor and took a deflection. Still though, the stats will tell you he scored 2 and he's currently on course to at least match his best ever season for goals.
It was a very poor performance, but when you come out with two goals you can't complain really. If he can have this sort of impact during his bad games, instead of barron spells, that's more than we can hope for. His passing of late is just strange, it goes from being beyond spectacular, to being unable to play a simple ten yard pass. His movement has still been consistently excellent though, which makes the distrubution all the more noticeable.
Despite the two goals, he was honestly shit
Tbh that's classic rooney. Never seen a players who's touch can switch from silky to rapist and back again so randomly.
his passing was off certainly.
but he played well under pressure to score the peno and his attempts at goal were very good. He scored off a not very easy chance.
that is the class of the player.
but he played well under pressure to score the peno and his attempts at goal were very good. He scored off a not very easy chance.
that is the class of the player.
His second goal deflected, that's why it went in.
Genuinely awful? Jesus christ.
2 goals and involved in lots of build up play, He hasnt been genuinely awful whatsoever.
People need to get over this hatred of Rooney, without him wed be struggling. Without Wayne Rooney in the team, we dont look the same side. Hes a special player
That's very far from being true, unless being involved in the build up play involves constantly passing the ball to the other team and ending the actual build up play.
Looked like he couldnt give a shit at all...Still 2 goals so who am I to complain.
When he wasn't scoring goals, his touch was brilliant and so was his passing and now that he's scoring goals he's completely forgotten how to pass the ball. But as long as he continues to score, I won't complain.
But should we move Rooney further up and play him like we did in the 2009-10 season?
But should we move Rooney further up and play him like we did in the 2009-10 season?
The amount of attacks that broke down because he gave the ball away, I'd have said that was the last thing to highlight. His movement was great though.
One of his goals was a penalty, one was a deflection and his all round performance was terrible. Gave the ball away constantly both in passing and when trying to take players on. Especially when a lot of the other players were playing well (so it wasn't one of those "he played badly but the entire team played badly"), no excuse.
Nope, he is more effective in this role now, but he just has to find the right balance to it, which in fairness he does seem to be doing. Sometimes it just doesn't work like today, but when it does he looks fantastic with a bigger overall input.
Nah cause then we'd have to go to a 3 and I think Welbeck offers to much to do that. I think we just have to accept that sometimes he's gonna be off his game, but as long as others step up it's ok. In the past he could have a poor game, get frustrated and never score and probably do something silly, now he's calmer and can still contribute goal wise. It's just frustrating with him because when he does have a bad day his passing and touch can be so shocking at times.
He's been "off form" for about our last 10 games now. Thankfully he's scoring goals.
He seems to have lost some pace as well. Either that or something made him look slow and rusty.
Well he can continue to score and we won't complain. 31 goals 
For those wages, he should perform every game.
To add, two goals made up for today for him after that Wigan game.
To add, two goals made up for today for him after that Wigan game.
Though tbf to him he's played a lot of games for us. Infact no one has played more than him other than Evra and considering how much he's involved in every game maybe it's not a surprise to see him struggling a bit now.
It's not though, really.
Fair enough he wasnt at his best and mis-placed quite a few passes, but I thought he contributed in some of our play, and scored 2 important goals. He wasnt genuinely awful. People expect too much of him
If he just stopped to try and force passes to players. Scholes needs to have a word with him on how to pick your passes and Carrick needs to stand behind Scholes and be his yes man.
Yes because every top player performs amazingly every game.
These. Very annoying in the build up today, and a poor performance overall, but when you come away with two goals from him it's hard to complain too much.
I think his form has been quite average for a few weeks now, although for most of the last 6-7 games we've completely dominated the middle of the pitch and he's just been crowded out as opposition get 10 behind the ball. There's often only one pass on for him and it's Valencia, which he telegraphs to everyone and it gets cut out. He was shite today, and it's not because I "hate" him.
I can sense a big performance coming up at City. We need him.
I can sense a big performance coming up at City. We need him.
31 goals. What on earth are you complaining about?
He was failing with simple passes today often in the first half and sometimes in the second.
As against that he scored two goals and has moved onto 31 for the season.
To be honest, I'm fairly happy with his season. He's the only player we have at the club currently capable of a 30+ goal return and when you consider he's anything but simply a goalgetter he's worth the money he gets every week.
As against that he scored two goals and has moved onto 31 for the season.
To be honest, I'm fairly happy with his season. He's the only player we have at the club currently capable of a 30+ goal return and when you consider he's anything but simply a goalgetter he's worth the money he gets every week.
I'd rather he have his customary off day in a while at home vs villa in a 4 goal win. not complaining.
Fairly? C'mon what more do you want from your forward? It's a fantastic return. This thread should have been bumped purely to praise him passing the 30 goal mark.
We are so fortunate to have such a player
Poor first touch cost him today, but 2 goals is still an excellent return from one of his poorer performances!
If he had played well generally but not scored, would that be preferable? He would have had to have played extremely well to top 2 goals, i would have thought!
If he had played well generally but not scored, would that be preferable? He would have had to have played extremely well to top 2 goals, i would have thought!
Sorry, but I can't believe you're arguing this. His passing was completely off the boil, he probably misplaced more of his forward passes than he actually made.
I'm not downplaying the goals, his movement was also good. So no, he wasn't "awful" per say, he just wasn't good, and saying he was involved in most of our build up play is quite frankly, nonsensical.
Look, I was amongst the loudest, most vociferous and single minded in my criticism of him during the entire saga last year, starting with the hooker and ending with his brinksmanship with the club before he ending up resigning for us. I wanted him out of the club. But our manager knew we needed him as our heartbeat if we were to remain competitive at the highest levels of world football and so went on a limb to retain him.
I used to be his biggest fan and I no longer have that 'special' feeling for him: but the club decided to keep him, it took a long time for anybody who felt betrayed by him to get past that, but here we are. He was a massive reason why we won the league last year and most likely our POTY this year. His goals scored his as good as it gets in the PL for a striker, and he not even an out and out pure striker.
In the current climate of world football wages, where some elite players are paid staggering sums of money, Rooney is probably earning about the right amount. I might have an issue with the staggering amount of money football clubs pay footballers, but if I were in his industry, I'd also try and get as much as my employer would pay me for my services! I've no qualms with what the club pays him as long as he delivers. And this season he has.
Its time for all of us to get over last year and now get behind him. Yes, even I have now done that. Give the guy a break. He's as committed now as he ever has been, has already given this club 7 years of phenomenal service and most likely, if all works out well, will remain at our club until he retires as our record goalscorer.
May as well enjoy that rather than keep digging up a past that long sailed under the bridge.
frustrating game for him even though he did scored just before being subbed. his passing all went astray. even the crowd were giving him sticks for it.
Why? I don't think we should ignore everything else about his performance just because he passed the 30 goal mark. It seems like you're saying that his performance shouldn't be criticized because he scored today and we are fortunate to have him. It's not a bad thing, it's just talking about his actual game.
Great to see him still scoring even when he doesn't play well. That's what we need at this time of the season really. Performances aren't important; results are.
His contributions mean that your assessment cannot be right. By definition, he won us the game (by scoring 2 of the first 3 goals).
So he had an enormous impact on the game. ENORMOUS. ENORMOUS. ENORMOUS
Not bad when your own fans are saying your performance 'just wasn't good'.
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