With Gold Coast United assistant coach Paul Okon in the stands, Rooney, 19, put on another impressive display scoring twice in Sydney's 3-0 win over Perth Glory on Saturday.

Rooney told au.fourfourtwo.com his A-League ambition is to make the step up onto a senior contract as soon as possible.

"I hope to get an A-League contract in the first grade," he said. "If not at Sydney, I hope somewhere else. I hope at Sydney - but if not, I'll go somewhere else.

"I've just got to keep scoring goals and working hard. And I've got to improve my finishing. I've scored a few goals but I could've scored a lot more."

On Saturday, Rooney opened the scoring on four minutes with an easy chance inside the box thanks to good lead up work from Chris Payne and Brendan Gan. But Rooney's second late in the game was a peach.

The pint-size hitman found himself with his back to the Glory defence just inside the box but swivelled and shot low and hard past Glory keeper Dejan Aleksic.

Rooney is on a one-year deal at the club and is enjoying playing for one of the most entertaining youth sides in the competition, boasting a 100 percent record from its six games.

"It's very good," Rooney added. "I've got great support from players running from deep. The boys work really hard and I just try to finish it off. I love it, the NYL."

However, like a number of players, they found the going tough on the artificial surface at Seymour Shaw Park on Saturday.

"It's really, really spongy. Very heavy on the legs," noted Rooney who featured in FourFourTwo magazine's Best Players Outside The A-League of 2006.

After breaking his hand earlier this year, the Blacktown Demons been working hard to impress the coaching staff at Moore Park.

Also impressing has been Sydney's flying midfielder Kofi Danning. He says the three attacking options of himself, Chris Payne and Brendan Gan behind Rooney is a natural fit.

"We've got a pretty good structure," said Danning. "We help each other out. I guess that's why we've done so well.

"We try to play off each other's emotions and body language."