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Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:17 am**

Wayne rooney will be out for an estimated 6 weeks which will mean missing just the paraguay game he has had alot of games this season so he wont miss to much match fittness but will miss manure last 2 games and both of our warm up games v jamaica and v hunguary

So should we take him

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:28 pm**

hes the difference between winning and losing the world cup. if he can plkay any part u have to take him. the guy cannot be replaced and is well worth teh risk

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:37 pm**

We can probably manage the group quite well without him, but he will be a prize asset in the knock-out rounds. If he can get half an hour opn the pitch in last group game, he'll be fine. Nowt 100%, but good enough.

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:40 pm**

He'll probably be out for all the first 3 games, so were probably looking at the knockout stages before he can play. We should be able to put a team together to win the first 3 games ffs ,so hopefully he will get 8wks to get himself right . So in a word yes ,we should take him.

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 12:52 pm**

A Rooney not 100% is better than the alternatives.

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 1:23 pm**

hopefully he is fit for the sweden game i wouldnt start him but in like the 60th minute bring him on and see what he can do

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 2:37 pm**

dont take him unless he can prove his fitness before the world cup, we dont need another bekham situation

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:01 pm**

Being an aussie i dont really care but If i was english i'd want him there for sure

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:04 pm**

We took beckham in similar circumstances in world cup 2002, so why not.

Cant deny he is a great player and we would miss him, still hate the :censored:

tho.

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 4:07 pm**

we shoulod play gerrard in the rooney role with lamps and becks in the middle behind him

Posted: **Sun Apr 30, 2006 11:21 pm**

On sky earlier they said sven was taking him even if only for the knockout stages so it looks like he IS goin'. I'd probably take him myself as there isn't anyone else with the quality of a 60-70% fit Rooney in the country and what alternatives are there?: Emile Heskey

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2006 12:26 am**

Take him or not,England ain't going to win it

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2006 12:40 am**

H_K_LFC wrote:Take him or not,England ain't going to win it

Bold statement there HK!

Me for one would take him as I believe the group is there to be won and Rooney will be more than fit for the later stages.

I've heard a lot of comments about how we can't win it this year....BUT..... it seems to me, seeing a few comments from a few of the English players, that there is a real hunger that i've not seen in quite a few years.

I'll certainly go out on a limb and say we can win it. This may well be our year where we arn't found wanting. :buttrock

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2006 1:03 am**

My inital thoughts were that if there is a possibility he could play in the knockout stages we should definitely take him. If we can't get to the second round without him, then we don't deserve to win the World Cup, and once it gets down to the knockout stages, his skill is likely to make the difference whether or not we beat teams like Brazil, Portugal, Argentina, Spain etc.

But I can't think of any top players who have been taken to the World Cup where the coach has gambled on them being fit enough to play in the latter stages, where they have actually made any difference to the team. Anybody have any examples where this gamble has actually paid off?

Posted: **Mon May 01, 2006 2:23 am**

Him and Owen should be great even if they're both not quite 100%.

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