Excellent, so we can Have Rooney on the bench then if we are desperate in the final group game.</p> Good oh!</p>
Do you reckon Sven would pair Rooney n Crouch ? Leave Owen on the becnh when Rooney gets fit?</p> Or will he just drop Joe Cole and play Rooney in behind Crouch n Owen?</p>
RE: Do you reckon Sven would pair Rooney n Crouch ? I think Crouch would be axed and rightly so. I can't see him being a significant threat against the better sides. Italian defenders (for example) wouldn't be troubled by him. Fancy Crouch to cause a bit of havoc against the South Americans, assuming the referees don't blow up everytime he jumps higher than a midget defender.