Performance or Points?

[GlasgowBandit]

It's times like this I really wished I supported Scotland. 

Really??

Its comments like that, that make us Scots hate your poxy team more!


COME ON THE ARGIES!!

And comments like that, that make you look daft.

And how is that?

[The Baron]

Larsson has achieved more than Rooney I admit but Rooney is 20. We'll just again in 12 years and I'm sure we'll find that it is no contest.

My list would be:

Ronaldinho
Henry
Ronaldo
Shevchenko
Rooney
Raul (although not any more)
Crespo
Nistlerooy

In no order.

I haven't seen enough of Adriano to be convinced yet and he has long dry spells for Inter. Someone like Luca Toni I wouldn't put near the top. He's 30/31 and has only been banging them in the last year or two. Form doesn't mean world class. Drogba I just find funny.

Until he came back from Madrid, Owen would have made that list too.

[TightEnd]

OK guys

Passions are going to run high on these sort of threads

There will be different views, and no doubt some controversial views as well. Even Scottish views. Though why we allow them for this World Cup I am not sure.    

Lets all debate the games/teams/players agreeably and without resorting to flaming.

There's nothing that oversteps the mark, but I see signs that it might go down that path

Give me, as one of only a couple of mods that frequents this board, an easy time please. Thanks

[thediceman]

It's times like this I really wished I supported Scotland. 

Really??

Its comments like that, that make us Scots hate your poxy team more!

And Rooney is a damn fine player but I don't think he is one of the best strikers in the world!!

He plays better in the hole behind a mian striker, to be a great striker you have to have outstanding goal scoring records IMO Rooney doesn't have this yet.

COME ON THE ARGIES!!

Oh how I laugh, didn't take long for someone to bite.

Scotish Dave posts negative views re: England which I have no problem with but when I respond my jest comment it is taken as justification for hatred and maybe even an explanation for xenophobia.

Re: Rooney not being a striker I do believe he is listed as a striker. Indeed he plays that holding role but does that mean he is a defender or midfielder. Then again maybe he should be referred to as a goal keeper. Rooney is a striker. When were a goals to games ratio a determining factor in defining if a player was a striker or not. The team sheet says he's a striker, his club say he's a striker, his country say he's a striker and 99.9% of football professionals would describe Wayne Rooney as a striker. I guess the evidence is overwhelming, Wayne Rooney is NOT a striker. 

Maybe because Rooneys "goals to games ratio" is not sufficent enough for you to regard him as not one of the best strikers and reason enough that you wouldn't include a playert like him in your Scotish team but I personally right him as a pretty decent player.

Its fascinating that such a world class team has pinned all its hopes on one man.

You boys are up shit creek without a paddle if he comes in and gets injured - what then?

I don't rest ALL my hopes on one player, I've merely think he would be the icing on the cake.

Maybe we will win the world cup and maybe we won't be at least we have a chance.

[MrMoves]

This thread, although hilarious, is rather predictable in its anti-English Scottishness

What group are Scotland in again?

[Royal Flush]

This thread, although hilarious, is rather predictable in its anti-English Scottishness

What group are Scotland in again?

I am not Scottish.....i just have 2 eyes and am not biased.

[Nem]

Well Larrson has achieved mor ein the game than Rooney has but he wasn't top of the list Iw ould compile of world class strikers.

Schevchenko
Drogba
Crespo
Henry
Ronaldo
Adriano
Luca Toni


These guys are all better strikers than Rooney.

I find this statement hilarious.

[MrMoves]

This thread, although hilarious, is rather predictable in its anti-English Scottishness

What group are Scotland in again?

I am not Scottish.....i just have 2 eyes and am not biased.

I know.  I wasn't referring to you.

[thediceman]

Neither am I bias, I have merely dared to suggest that we have an opportunity to win the world cup as we are still in the competition.

Indeed we had a questionable second half and have manager who has demonstrated a history of poor substitutions and negative tactics in important games when we have taken the lead. But we also have a number of positives that means we still have a chance whether you think it is a remote one or not. Fact is we are still in the competition whilst others aren't.

And when was the world cup ever won on the first game. I recall 1982 that Italy were so poor in the "whole" of the first round having drawn all three of their agames against Poland, Peru and Cameroon that their fans booed them. However history will forever remember them as the 1982 World Cup champions.

[Gryff]

I love bitter scots, its the same on most in internet forums.

[GlasgowBandit]

It got nothing to do with being bitter.

I have no problem is admitting that England have a few world class players, but they are no where near as good a team as they are made out to be.

How many of these "great" players that you have would walk into any the top leagues in Europe and do the business?

Beckham aside all the top English players from the EPL who have gone abroad have been failures.

The problem that I and many other scots have is that when the World Cup or European Championships come around you all belive that you have a divine right to win. 

Also the fact that every time there is another game on we are subjected to inherrent nonsense from the likes of Lineker and Yorath about England, I want to watch each individual game with the talk being about that game, I don't want to know what Beckham had for breakfast or any other nonsense.

At least we Scots are realistic, we know we will never win any the big tourneys but at least when we get there we can enjoy ourselves, pictures in todays Scotish newspapers where showing English fans fighting with each other at one of the live broadcasts. 

Well enjoy the rest of the tourney, your boys will be home before the end of June. 

[ifm]

It got nothing to do with being bitter.

 

[Nem]

It got nothing to do with being bitter.

 

 

[MrMoves]

It got nothing to do with being bitter.

 

 

 


















Just kidding:

 

[GlasgowBandit]

Just watching that toughest job in football lol great larf watching all those failed English managers