They are a hybrid: technically impressive but physically imposing too, and the combination of their neat counter-attacking and their exhausting pressing meant they completely overwhelmed the hosts.
In the 35th minute, after some more neat counter-attacking play by the visitors, the unmarked Rooney headed a Hayes cross past the post from the middle of the goal when he ought to have at least tested keeper Craig Gordon.
But the reigning champion started to move with more awareness for oncoming traffic in the second, presenting a more elusive target, and, with the cushion of that lead, she let the punches flow freely, especially with some neat counter-rights to the rib cage.
He is a cagey operator, the southpaw, and he picked off the fast-improving and willing Buatsi with neat counters as he moved into range looking to unload.
But sidestep a mop and bucket blocking one aisle and walk to the south end of the store, and a neat little counter with a handful of stools reveals itself.
Two women, both workers at the laundry, keep quietly folding T-shirts, sheets and boxer shorts fresh out of the dryers and stacking them in neat piles on a blue counter.
Calling the song The Mummy in the first place was just another neat nod to its sly counter-cultural status.
Barnes and Aldridge are on the counter-attack now, exchanging neat passes, making up ground, with Richardson in pursuit.
Then pick up the mess on your floor and later clean any extra tables or counters that are not neat.
The neat little pile of raw meat on the counter must look "much the same as human flesh (why should it not?)," he writes.
