Dark Savante
17 Apr 2009, 03:58 AM
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I bet it took you a blink of an eye to guess this thread would be about Wayne, right?
After yet another brilliant performance out in Portugal whilst practically being martyred for the team out on the right side of midfield, Wayne has emerged (as if we didn't already know) as one of the players who governs our destiny in the remaining games we play.
Over the aggregate of two legs against Porto there can be no doubt Wayne was our main player. He was MotM for us in the home tie and in the second leg, he did a huge job on Cissokho, a full-back a lot of clubs will be looking at after his performances in the QF, on a right flank that the manager knew would be heavily targeted due to the apparent weakness of O'Shea and Ronaldo not supporting his man on the back-end.
What has been most impressive about Wayne is his willingness to help out the team in any position he is deployed in. He is moved around, for the benefit of others, more than any other top player and yet he goes out there and is dogged to that position for as long as he is told to play there. That takes a tremendous amount of self-control to do, y’know.
Left wing-forward
Right wing-forward
Support striker
Striker
Left midfielder
Right midfielder
the guy is a veritable dream for Fergie and a nightmare for opposing managers to tactically prepare for.
'Yes, yes we know all this' you collectively bellow.
Well, did you know Wayne's one yellow card away from missing the CL final should we get there?
With a PL team to play, the pace and emotion of those games and with the invariable 50/50 calls that may not go Wayne's way, we've got a situation on our hands.. or have we?
Fair enough, if he gets carded in the first leg going for an honest challenge in sane mind.. with us doing the job and winning through to the final he can play in, there’s no problem, but the concern I have is what happens if Wayne sees red and the familiar rage makes itself known?
If we win through to the final, this could be career-defining and career-shaping moment for Wayne.
In both the scenario where we get through with and the one where we get through without him, something monumental will have occurred for our 'Wayne Banner', consider:
Scenario A - with: This means the manager has either 'rested' Wayne for the 2nd leg, or.. Wayne managed to keep himself in check with the kind of discipline he shows us by sticking studiously to any job brief he is given. In this instance we would have proof that Wayne can eventually channel his rage and that from this point onward, we should really looksy on how Wayne chooses to carry himself when he feels the anger building.
Scenario B - without: Unless it's an innocuous incident or just plain shite refereeing, this will mean Wayne, at some point, 'lost it' and did something he may well regret for as long as he is a professional, especially if we lost the final with his game and presence sorely missed.
There can be no doubt whatsoever that these two games have an importance to the 23-yr-old Wayne, that won't be fully appreciated by many once we're in the throes of the game, but for Wayne himself - and perhaps his manager - their will be an added biting of the lip.
Of course, this could be negated with a four nil thumping of Le Arse at OT with Wayne then stalling a set piece long enough for the card to be issued that sees him miss the 2nd leg or him not getting carded at all and being ‘rested’ in the away leg.. but that's an unlikely scenario, isn't it?
We need Wayne out there keeping up the exceptional run of form he has been on whilst not giving in to his demons, to win the CL, imo. He, Ronaldo and Rio are all key... but there's only one player there who would be likely to give us cause for self-destructive concern.
Let's hope we see none of this:
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/Apex_Zwei/10045779.jpg
And plenty of this:
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/Apex_Zwei/2673527850103265676S600x600Q85.jpg
Fingers crossed.
I bet it took you a blink of an eye to guess this thread would be about Wayne, right?
After yet another brilliant performance out in Portugal whilst practically being martyred for the team out on the right side of midfield, Wayne has emerged (as if we didn't already know) as one of the players who governs our destiny in the remaining games we play.
Over the aggregate of two legs against Porto there can be no doubt Wayne was our main player. He was MotM for us in the home tie and in the second leg, he did a huge job on Cissokho, a full-back a lot of clubs will be looking at after his performances in the QF, on a right flank that the manager knew would be heavily targeted due to the apparent weakness of O'Shea and Ronaldo not supporting his man on the back-end.
What has been most impressive about Wayne is his willingness to help out the team in any position he is deployed in. He is moved around, for the benefit of others, more than any other top player and yet he goes out there and is dogged to that position for as long as he is told to play there. That takes a tremendous amount of self-control to do, y’know.
Left wing-forward
Right wing-forward
Support striker
Striker
Left midfielder
Right midfielder
the guy is a veritable dream for Fergie and a nightmare for opposing managers to tactically prepare for.
'Yes, yes we know all this' you collectively bellow.
Well, did you know Wayne's one yellow card away from missing the CL final should we get there?
With a PL team to play, the pace and emotion of those games and with the invariable 50/50 calls that may not go Wayne's way, we've got a situation on our hands.. or have we?
Fair enough, if he gets carded in the first leg going for an honest challenge in sane mind.. with us doing the job and winning through to the final he can play in, there’s no problem, but the concern I have is what happens if Wayne sees red and the familiar rage makes itself known?
If we win through to the final, this could be career-defining and career-shaping moment for Wayne.
In both the scenario where we get through with and the one where we get through without him, something monumental will have occurred for our 'Wayne Banner', consider:
Scenario A - with: This means the manager has either 'rested' Wayne for the 2nd leg, or.. Wayne managed to keep himself in check with the kind of discipline he shows us by sticking studiously to any job brief he is given. In this instance we would have proof that Wayne can eventually channel his rage and that from this point onward, we should really looksy on how Wayne chooses to carry himself when he feels the anger building.
Scenario B - without: Unless it's an innocuous incident or just plain shite refereeing, this will mean Wayne, at some point, 'lost it' and did something he may well regret for as long as he is a professional, especially if we lost the final with his game and presence sorely missed.
There can be no doubt whatsoever that these two games have an importance to the 23-yr-old Wayne, that won't be fully appreciated by many once we're in the throes of the game, but for Wayne himself - and perhaps his manager - their will be an added biting of the lip.
Of course, this could be negated with a four nil thumping of Le Arse at OT with Wayne then stalling a set piece long enough for the card to be issued that sees him miss the 2nd leg or him not getting carded at all and being ‘rested’ in the away leg.. but that's an unlikely scenario, isn't it?
We need Wayne out there keeping up the exceptional run of form he has been on whilst not giving in to his demons, to win the CL, imo. He, Ronaldo and Rio are all key... but there's only one player there who would be likely to give us cause for self-destructive concern.
Let's hope we see none of this:
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/Apex_Zwei/10045779.jpg
And plenty of this:
http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g71/Apex_Zwei/2673527850103265676S600x600Q85.jpg
Fingers crossed.