northernlybreeze

We played him in a competitive league.

Hard to compare the standard of leagues but we played Brighton just before the start of the season who were crap. Guess who scored the winner.

Adam Rooney scored his 50th goal in 91 games today. No idea what you tried to do with him.

20th goal of the season, 28 in exactly one year.

Gary Hooper got 31 in one season playing for a much much better team with much better service and was sold for £5m straight into the Premiership.

Can't believe how good he is now compared to his time with us, fitness? formation?

 

Imagine Rooney and Forte in our team together *sigh*

He's playing in an incredibly strong team at the moment.

We could have comfortably closed out a 2-1 win against Real Sociedad earlier in the season but needed to score 2 more to go through due to away goals, played something resembling a 2-3-5 for the last 5 minutes and ended up losing.

The fact we tried to hoof it to his head didn't help, nor did the fans that began to sarcastically cheer him in the warm ups and matches. Although he didn't do enough himself either: too distant from the play too often and sometimes looked disheartened very early in the match.

 

Don't think it was ever destined to work but we didn't help ourselves and nor did he.

 

How do most of his goals for you come (other than penalties!) and what formation do you play?

Were playing 4-5-1 last season. Scored in his first game with a rebound header, became a hero straight away.

Second game, cup semi-final, gets an assist in the first minute, scores the 3rd to make it 3-0 and kill off the game when St Johnstone were on top. Well worth a watch:

Scored the winner against Celtic from a diving header 3 weeks later, and a heap in the weeks before and after that.

Then scores the winning penalty in the cup final. 8 in his first 11 games, plus that penalty.

Scored 5 in the first two Europa League games this season, then a penalty away to Groningen to send us through to play Real Sociedad. Think he's still joint top scorer in the EL this season!

Anyway, we signed David Goodwillie and changed to a 4-4-2 which benefited Rooney massively, Goodwillie getting nearly all the assists. Started scoring for fun..Rooney got 5 in the first 3 games. All different types of goals, 20 yarders, headers, tap ins.

Now got almost as good a set of players possible to supply Rooney. Cracking right back, left winger, attacking centre mids and strike partner. Would put my money on him getting over 30 this season.

Aberdeen fan...

Adam Rooney - 15 goals in 22 games this season. Think it's 24 goals since he joined in January. Used wrongly or poor service? Don't understand why it never worked for him at Oldham.

Before the standard of Scottish football argument - most of our best players end up doing well at the top end of the Championship and quite rarely Premier League, average players bottom of Championship/League One and absolute dross in League Two. Rooney is definitely in the first category.