Thought it was criminal how little we looked for him to get involved. Sometimes we really should force feed him and kagawa the ball more instead of always looking to the right flank.
Hopefully that's the case there's times when we go wide with the ball and feck about with it passing it back and forth instead of getting to the wing and into the box as soon as possible. I want to see the strikers busting a gut to get into the box once they realise we are going to the flanks. I know Becks was a freak for crossing and that's how we best utilised him but we have good crossers in Valencia, Nani and Young who are also a lot wicker than beefs ever was and when you whip balls it causes problems for the defenders.
The comments about Van Persie being peripheral just show how spoilt we've been with Rooney's workrate. Brwnded posted stat last season showing that Rooney has 3 or 4 times as many touches in an average game. Van Persie is about as involved as any other striker. It's just that Rooney does so much more.
Kind of ironic, seeing as Rooney's the one with a reputation on here as being a fat, unfit waste of space.
We will notice it soon enough Pogue, we will certainly miss his work rate only plus is at least we know Kagawa is good at hustling for the ball so in Rooney's absence there is a positive. The only thing I've always not got with Rooney and his tackling is why he doesn't seem to harass players like messi does? I'm not trying to make this some form of comparison or anything I'm just amazed at that kind of ability to pinch the ball from opposition players if you know what I'm talking about.
We all know Wazza is brilliant at working for the team but can he not get this to his game, he seems to stand off people a times. Maybe I'm loosing it I don't know. It just seems to me he could be a lot better at pinching the ball from people and catching a defence completely out of position.
