Owen out for 5 months

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Sky News have just reported that Michael Owen will be out for 5 months after his knee exploded during the game between England and Sweden.

This leaves us with just 2 strikers in Crouch and Rooney, and one of those is coming back after injury himself. And an untried kid as backup What a stupid descision to bring Theo, Sven should be sacked.

 

[Scotty Mac]

shit

 

[zefarelly]

f*** off dickhead

 

[Deano's Right Foot]

It actually exploded?

That sounds extremely painful.

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

f*** off dickhead

Eh?

 

[Goring Gull]

What a surprise! Bet Newcastle are loving it not!!!! How much did he cost and how many game shas he played for them.

 

[Silent Bob]

It was always stupid to just take 4, especially when gambling on three of them.

Poor Michael.


http://home.skysports.com/worldcup/...lid=4161&title=Owen+ruled+out+for+five+months

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

It actually exploded?

That sounds extremely painful.

Well maybe not exploded, I may have made that bit up, but he will be out for 5 months according to Sky News.

 

[Scotty Mac]

poor sod has no luck with injuries

so much for him being top scorer

 

[Da Man Clay]

f***ing hell bad news for the lad

 

[Silent Bob]

poor sod has no luck with injuries

so much for him being top scorer

Were it not for injuries then he would already have smashed the England goalscoring record already.

 

[zefarelly]

Eh?

sorry, knee jerk response, I think it was pretty obvious that Owens injury wasn't a tweak and we wouldn't be seeing him again, however, we have more than 2 strikers and a wealth of top quality attacking midfielders, we won our group, we have an easier than expected next round, so things aint that bad !

I sincerely believe Sven would have brought Theo Walcott on last night had Owen not got injured/and or Ferditwat had not gone off early, sometimes you get forced into decisions, we will see him though theres no reason not to bring him into a match

as I said earlier . . .remember Owen in 98 . . .

 

[Napper]

injury after injury

gerrard could be player of the tournament if played in proper position. Unfortunately we cant try out any other systems as should of done this before WC . I would be inclined to stack the midfield and play Rooney on his own. . . . bringing Crouch on as a plan B, No system is ideal and all have a flaw though

 

[Beach Hut]

Feel very sorry for Owen so now we must start with Rooney and Crouch and suggest Gerrard as back up forward as clearly Theo will not be picked.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

A blow, but not a devastating loss really. We have enough back up if we want to play 4-5-1 with Rooney flying solo.

Walcott can do a job. You don't have to have Premiership experience to perform well in the world cup.

 

[CHAPPERS]

We've got LOADS of options before we have to play Walcott. Crouch and Rooney, Crouch and Gerrard, Rooney and Gerrard, Rooeny on his own with two attacking players in support are all options. Walcott may not even be called upon but may be brought in to add some pace into the attack though even then I'd bring Lennon on up front. Yes he only took 4 strikers but we were never going to need 5 and we didn't have enough decent strikers to warrant that anyway.

Edit: Poor bloke, it was a really shitty thing to happen too.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

It actually exploded?

Yeah - it was an al qaeda sucide ant got lucky. On the right blade of grass at the right time, though rumour has it he was after Ljungberg for his unholy pants advertising

 

[Man of Harveys]

Yeah - it was an al qaeda sucide ant got lucky. On the right blade of grass at the right time, though rumour has it he was after Ljungberg for his unholy pants advertising

I wonder if this terrorist ant has been paying tax on its too-implausibly-large-to-carry-leaf collection? I doubt it somehow! :Littlejohn:

 

[Schrödinger's Toad]

A blow, but not a devastating loss really. We have enough back up if we want to play 4-5-1 with Rooney flying solo.

Unfortunately, Rooney is totally unsuited to the lone striker role; his game is about dropping off and picking the ball up from deep - a lone striker needs to lead the line and hold the ball up. Without Defoe, we're f***ed.

 

[Da Man Clay]

Without Defoe, we're f***ed.

Not really, there are much better lone strikers than Defoe and we aren't going to leave Rooney out to play anyone else as a lone striker and definately not to play Defoe if we had to leave Rooney out. Therefore it will be Crouch and Rooney starting unless one gets injured or suspended.