Rooney

[Bluelass]

Neville, i dont think one Evertonian likes Rooney but most of us admit what a great player he is. For me personally, it was'nt the fact he joined United that i dislke him so much. It was in the manner he left and what followed, ie ripping into Moyes and the distain he shows towards blues fans now. I would love to ask him the questions, do you still have affections for Everton and are you still proud to be a scouser? It really annoys me when United fans sing about hating scousers yet they have one in their squad and he is their second best squad player behind Ronaldo.

Spot on.
It's not about him going, it's just the way he went and how he has behaved ever since. He is not particularly intelligent and like many footballers, would have nothing going for him if he hadnt been blessed with a god given skill and ability to kick a ball.

If the silly little boy had used some sense and left in a more dignified manner, I for one, would have been bursting with pride watching him develop, even if that pride would have been touched with sadness because he had outgrown our team and his boyhood team.
Instead, I just cringe when I see him, thinking of all the badge kissing stuff. It's like watching your ex laughing and joking with his new woman at your expense.! Remember all the times he said he loved you? Yeah right, only until a fitter and better looking bird came along!

Yes, we give him a hard time but even if we didnt, I doubt he would have the brains or good grace to play a game against the Blues without at least one show of crass bad taste.
He's been gone a long time and I would like to forget he ever even played for us.

 

[neville]

Neville, i dont think one Evertonian likes Rooney but most of us admit what a great player he is. For me personally, it was'nt the fact he joined United that i dislke him so much. It was in the manner he left and what followed, ie ripping into Moyes and the distain he shows towards blues fans now. I would love to ask him the questions, do you still have affections for Everton and are you still proud to be a scouser? It really annoys me when United fans sing about hating scousers yet they have one in their squad and he is their second best squad player behind Ronaldo.

Evening Steevie

Beware sweeping generalisations

Believe me mate the 'Scouser' chant refers to Liverpool FC AKA Gary Nevilles taunting

Viva Steve Coppell

 

[neville]

Ah well, I'd rather you acted like your true self

Its not a problem mate

May the best team win tommorow


So long as they play in red


Your in your away kit

 

[steevie]

Evening Steevie

Beware sweeping generalisations

Believe me mate the 'Scouser' chant refers to Liverpool FC AKA Gary Nevilles taunting

Viva Steve Coppell

Evening Neville

Aahh, but you see Nev, Liverpool fans are Norwegian, Irish infact anywhere but from Liverpool, those that go the games anyway. When your lads are singing that tomorrow in the direction of their fans, you are not actually chanting at scousers. Everton are the peoples club dont you know?

And you will win tomorrow 3-1. Rooney, Ronaldo and Vidic with Gerrard "one man team" scoring for them.

 

[Bluelass]

Evening Steevie

Beware sweeping generalisations

Believe me mate the 'Scouser' chant refers to Liverpool FC AKA Gary Nevilles taunting

Viva Steve Coppell

I would like to believe you, really I would and I don't doubt that Man U supporters dislike LFC more than EFC but we get the scouser thing at every match from every team and Man U are no different.
I'm convinced that rooney has been having some sort of speech therapy - he's beginning to sound coherent when he speaks.
Must be the good burghers of Prestbury that are teachin' 'im to talk proper like.

 

[TX Bill]

Then you obviously don't know the real Wayne Rooney.

He is living the dream nowadays, flash car, flash house, fit wife, high celebrity status and loads of money etc.

But none of the above will ever change him as a person. His upbringing shaped him as a person. Underneath it all he's just an ignorant scally, thats all he is and it's all he ever will be, no matter what he achieves on the football pitch.

& thats why he will never return to Everton. Not having a dig, thats just my opinion.

Hey may not come back. I wouldn't be surprised if he did sometime in the distant future at the end of his career. But it would be a big "if."

 

[NeoNaoNeo]

Don't understand Wazza sometimes.

Does he not want to be able to come back to Liverpool when he quits?

Since he's gonna end up with red and blue alike severely hating him, he'll end up getting bottled a fair few times...(unless he continues his habit of sneaking in for an hour then going back to Manchester)

 

[danzante]

Where's me lollipop? some of you are truly children regarding Rooney as Ghost of Dixie intimates, you really need to grow up....and get a life, the lad is the best thing since sliced bread and yers know it.

He loves Everton, period.

"HATE" is a word that's easily uttered..."I ******' hate these sausages"..my missus is the worst cook ever "hate this bike, gonna change it".

How many times have you heard fans singing "We hate Nottingham Fooooooorest! we hate Liverpool tooo......" an so on?

Whoever said they'd rather have Moyes than Rooney should be on Comic Relief.

 

[Neiler]

To be honest i feel sorry for him, a typical example of a lad who seduced by the glitz and glamour at a young age. Was he wrong? Probably not he got the medals he wanted. But if youve any bit of an Evertonian in you and acted the way he did there will always be a measure of regret. When it all dies down and your 60, no one wants to know you, you sit back in arm chair and you reflect on life not just footballl a decion that allienated you from the people you grew up with, the place your from the way you were brought, what shaped your boyhood dreams will always bring a measure of regret.

In a professional football sense I can see him in the future regretting an awfull lot of not what he acheived in his career, but the way he went about a lot of decisons in his career. Lets be honest instead of comiong out and saying he had to leave Everton as we were rank he could have said, he wanted to move to improve his chances in football and wanted Everton to have the best possible deciosion, that the club would always have a special place in his heart and one day he would possibly like to come home. This would be more palpable. Equally when he has returned if he never celebrated when he scored against us this would have left us with an immpression of a lad who still has feeling and respect for the club and what we gave him.

Like Danny my huge problem with him is the manner in which he left and the massive, pile of crap we could have been in as a result. He didnt care.

That makes him a bad meff, albeit not a very clever boy who will have a lot of regret in the future in a personal sense.

 

[AustrianToffee]

That Rooney case reminds me on the Campbell case years ago. Jews wanted to kill him for leaving Spurs and joining arch enemy Arsenal.

Now I think many Everton fans feel the same about Rooney. Fact is money talks and thats a shame, most clubs seem to consist of soldiers who play for one team the one season and for another team the season after no matter if that team is a rival team. That's why I nowadays prefer mainly watching lower league games.

 

[Cahill's Metatarsal]

Where's me lollipop? some of you are truly children regarding Rooney as Ghost of Dixie intimates, you really need to grow up....and get a life, the lad is the best thing since sliced bread and yers know it.

He loves Everton, period.

"HATE" is a word that's easily uttered..."I ******' hate these sausages"..my missus is the worst cook ever "hate this bike, gonna change it".

How many times have you heard fans singing "We hate Nottingham Fooooooorest! we hate Liverpool tooo......" an so on?

Whoever said they'd rather have Moyes than Rooney should be on Comic Relief.

When has he ever shown that since he left the club? Every time he's ever played against us he's acted in a way that shows he has no feelings of respect towards the club or the fans, he treats us with utter contempt. Not once have I read/heard him say anything remotely nice about the club since he ****ed us off & there are loads of things he's said in an attempt to damage the reputation of the 1st team manager.

It's easy for you to just say "He loves the club" but words mean **** all when someones actions show the complete opposite. He clearly has no good feelings towards the club which is fine, but people who say he loves Everton are deluded. He's done nothing to suggest he even likes the club in all the time he's gone, let alone loves the club

 

[Dutch Toffee]

When has he ever shown that since he left the club? Every time he's ever played against us he's acted in a way that shows he has no feelings of respect towards the club or the fans, he treats us with utter contempt. Not once have I read/heard him say anything remotely nice about the club since he ****ed us off & there are loads of things he's said in an attempt to damage the reputation of the 1st team manager.

It's easy for you to just say "He loves the club" but words mean **** all when someones actions show the complete opposite. He clearly has no good feelings towards the club which is fine, but people who say he loves Everton are deluded. He's done nothing to suggest he even likes the club in all the time he's gone, let alone loves the club

Spot on!

 

[linglong]

I can understand him leaving when he did because he'd been arguably the player of the tournament at Euro 2004 and we had finished in 17th place, looking pretty dire for the coming season. I don't really have a problem with that.

What has been sad however is the lack of grace he's shown on so many occasions. I know that he's probably copped a lot of stick but I don't suppose he's had any more than other returning players, Sol Campbell when he returns to Spurs for instance. Kissing the badge etc. is so commonplace now as to be almost meaningless so that doesn't even bother me too much, but if I recall he acted the spoilt brat on the Alan Ball day when Ball's kids were presented to the crowd. It's one thing for Rooney to have a pop at the club or the fans but I feel he disrespected the memory of Alan Ball that day. It showed a distinct lack of class.

But as the saying goes, you don't hate those you don't care about, and I suspect that goes both ways in the reactions shown by both sides in this. For me I'm past caring about him. He's a United player now and we as a club have improved no end since he left so he is very much part of the past and will remain there for me.

Great post that now,after a couple of years feeling very naffed off about shrek,sums my feelings up about him.

In fact i would go as far as to say if he had stayed the club could have gone down,he was a big time charlie in a team that was and still is just that,a team.

 

[GSB876]

We offered him £50,000 a week to stay at a time we could not afford it, if he had stayed we would not have had the cash to buy the players we did to get a decent finish.

Also since he kissed the Man U badge at Goodison park i would say "NO LONGER A EVERTONIAN"