The Most Boring Derby in Memory
Three inescapable conclusions emanate from a semi-successful week at Manchester United. First, Louis van Gaal’s team is capable of mixing it with the best domestically. The side also emerged from a difficult away tie in Europe with a hard-earned point. Finally, captain Wayne Rooney is shot. Permanently. Ed & Paul discuss all the fall-out from this week’s pair of bore draws at CSKA Moscow in the Champions League and one of the dullest derbies in recent memories. There’s also a review of this week’s fixture against Middlesbrough in the Capital One Cup and next weekend’s difficult looking tie at Crystal Palace.
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YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its evidently clear you gents don’t like Wayne, which is fine, it is a rant after all but you do have to appreciate what he’s achieved in a United shirt and what he’s contributed in his 14 years playing top flight footy, bare in mind he’s played in 4-5 positions in his career. He’s a brilliant player, soooooooo much more that a striker and when he’s on top of his game he’s awesome to watch. He’s nonsense at the moment, but form dips all the time, but class is permanent and he will come good. Some time off the pitch is needed though, just to take attention away from him.
I love comments like this. How to contradict yourself three times in the same sentence
LOL @Ed, contradictions aside, you get my point. All i’m saying is lets not throw feces at guy who needs to find form, he still has a lot to contribute this season
If class were permanent, Scholesy would still be in the team. Every player reaches a point where he is past his best and there is no turning back the clock. Rooney is on the downward slide and it’s there for all to see.
He should be playing @Steve, He’s still that good, although he’d suffer in LvG system. I’m not saying Wayne’s the player he was 5-6 years ago, all i’m saying is lets not throw the chap under the bus, its only October for goodness sake. Give him a chance..
I think that now he’s 30 he should be treated like Carrick, Schweinsteiger and like Rio was. You play every other game and/or come off after an hour. Let’s see if he would benefit from being rested a bit to give him fresh legs.
He’s getting stacks of chances because he plays every game.
Van Gaal has to bite the bulllet and put together a side where Rooney does not have a key role. He should be dropped, rested or at least benched. United cannot continue like this.
Martial at no.9 is a must, then build around him.
@Sakhile
Agree that Rooney is suffering under LVG’s system.
Unfortunately so is everyone else.
However Rooney has lost his touch and he should not be first choice.
@Steve
On current form we shouldn’t be developing our play around Wayne, Martial needs to be the focal point. And yes we do need to rest him. Where I have a problem is that many times this season we’ve made Wayne a scapegoat for our overall performances and that’s nonsense. We play far to slowly and we string meaningless passes together. This makes it difficult for creative players to perform and for strikers to find space and score.
enjoyed that guys. Nice for a bit about the some of the other teams in the PL at the end too. ?
As I’ve said elsewhere, we’re sacrificing more than Martial up front by keeping Rooney in there.
We’re not playing Mata in his right position, we’re freezing Lindgard out and we’re wasting Herrera and we’ve sent Janazai or loan. It’s ridiculous.
And if we think Martial was some deep plan by LVG, we’d be wrong. That was sheer, dumb luck. A panic-like buy. We wanted loads of other players, settled on Martial. He was available. Falcao part ii.
Can you imagine how bad we’d be without that lucky buy? Where in the table, etc… And yes Paul, if you drop Rooney everything does get better…
Scholes is either talking out of his arse ref his support for Rooney or he has completely lost the plot. No matter, time is running out for Rooney and he hasn’t got long left and he will NOT break Bob’s Utd goal scoring record.
Your Boro predictions look a bit sick boys! Good listen as ever though. Keep up the good work.
Another goal-less draw.
This is a drab team with no flair whatsoever and moribund striker.
Will LVG figure it out or continue with his stubbornness? We’re un-watchable…
Wayne seems to be that kid in primary you pick on either to pin blame or just to have a laugh. I personally think Wayne needs to grow his beard again coz he we much sharper with a full face of hair. LOL..jokes aside United are rubbish to watch and I feel like throwing old cabbage at the telly most of the time. The general play is so predictable and so slow that you can see in advance when play will break down and who’s likely to lose the ball..and at the moment thats Wayne..Should he be dropped..YES, is he as bad as we’re seeing..DEFINITELY NOT, is he being made a scapegoat..OH YES.. The performances this season havent warranted victory and we can throw feces at Wayne all we want it hasn’t been good enough collectively, the lads aren’t enjoying their footy and dropping him might not be answer everyone is hoping for
The Dutchman needs to go home to his wife now. Sooner rather than later.