OMFG ( oh my friggin footballs or insert another suitable phrase, hee,hee) viewers are you just as dumbfounded as myself? FFS ( for footy's sake...yes insert another suitable phrase of one's choice) how friggin' crapola was that? not what i expected. i genuinely thought we were in with a 50/50 chance and securing a win for the bank would have been a great bonus. i tipped with half a head and half a heart round four and yes some of them i didn't pull off. should have listened to son number two and picked GWS but i was being optimistically positive and thought there were a few good signs from round 3 to work with. how wrong i was and have to say that was one of the worst displays (apart from the recent showdown) that i have witnessed and boy does it suck big time. our bad footy is certainly bad and our best footy is yet to come. yes i know we have seen it but seriously folks this is 2016 not 13, not 14 although i for one would put my hand up to transport our team back in time so they can see themselves playing with flair, fearlessness, confidence and skill. oh yes and actually playing as a team.
what has happened folks? is there some footy sharman employed by another club lurking in the background? did some other club hand out port voodoo dolls as part of their membership package this year? did i forget to hand in my port raffle tickets again? mm, let me check...nope. OMG coz it doesn't make sense to me but let me pause for a moment...what round is it? mm, yes round four just finished and now we are about to enter round five. is it early days? well you could say so but after round five we are heading towards a quarter of the season having being played out so anything from there on is going to count big time. well anything from round one is going to count big time that is really the reality. you have to make every game count.
have you set your membership on fire yet? have you written a letter of complaint to the club? have you camped outside the players residences chanting the creed with a megaphone 24/7? have you just lost your friggin" mind? well i have to admit i lost my resolve to not eat sugar and comfort ate my way through some chocolate, 70% mind you if that is any consolation. yes fellow fans i know you are angry, disappointed, shocked and wondering what on earth has happened to the darlings of the AFL who surprised everyone with their tenacity and never give up attitude in 2013. back then there was nothing to lose, no expectations just a feel good story that took a basket case to happy football land. then in 2014 we almost got that fairytale ending and i for one genuinely believe we could have pinched that premiership if things had just gone our way. to be so close yet so far away one would think that would have been motivation enough but as we saw from last season too many narrow losses did not equate into premiership points. we were coming good but it was too little too late...WAH!!! and yes not making finals after being touted premiership contenders one would think that also would be motivation enough to come back and prove the critics wrong.
and now we are being faced with a barrage of criticism, media, fellow fans, other fans who have not wasted the opportunity to be smug. i heard one crows fan on triple m yesterday who thought he was a comedian describe hinkleys defence as the colander defence. well my answer to that is to not answer. so much can change in the blink of a handball and not wishing disaster upon anyone ( ok maybe a few, hee,hee, shame on me!!!) significant injuries can derail your path to success, just take the doggies right now for example as time will tell and test their resolve. however, having said that footy is also about being resilient and making the most and best of what you have as the eagles did last season when faced early on with two serious injuries. some perhaps would have written them off. so my advice to our team is put your thinking in charge and not your feelings. emotions lead to frustration, negativity creating a collective cloud that you don't want to be hanging over the club. how evident was that on sunday? vent your frustrations now, get it out in the open and all of you own it. forget about the blame game, forget about our injuries the fact we are without ryder and monfries. focus on now and what you can all do to turn things around. start showing some care for each other and lead by example. we should not have to have players apologising to us about performance. a performance will be forgiven if the effort is there, some days it is just not your day...end of story.
and the same can be applied to us the fans who turn up to each game to support our team no matter what. forget about the crows, they have every right to be happy and can afford to gloat as much as we hate it, we too must suck it up. ( i did watch the game and it was a great game of footy even though i was hoping they would lose in the dying seconds, lol) good football is good football regardless of who is playing and who you loathe. team first speaks for itself. and yes we are entitled to our opinion and should not have to sugar coat the truth. football is a brutal and dog eat dog industry now. it is a business influenced by sponsorship deals and driven by success on the field. it is not a part time endeavour where you can hang out at the pub with your mates and have a few beers after training. it is a full time job sought by those whose passion is to fulfill a childhood dream of playing at an elite level and being part of a team who can take home the prize. yet perhaps the difference could now be in the desire and hunger to play. who is better off now? these elite players who have everything at their disposal, have everything monitored within an inch of their lives or the hard nuts of the past who didn't have to over think things or let alone front up to the media after a humilaiting loss? football for thought.
i at least know where i stand or where i sit, lol. i will be back for footy business as usual and front up to the game on saturday night even though i have to get there when the gates open to secure our seats, that is my choice and i do what it takes to get the best possible vantage point. ( go lady army!!!) we should not allow this lapse to divide us now because then we play into the hands of those who will take delight in us turning against one another. i don't care if you have barracked for fifty years or fifty days we are all supporters, however, some of us know firsthand what it is like to see the great, the good, the bad and the ugly. and yes that game was a big pile of sh%t so time to flush it where it belongs...over and out!!!
FFandF :)
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| Paul McCarthy' ballon sculpture...artsjournal.com sums up last weeks game |
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