This is what happens when we 'play the kids!!11!!1!'
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I'll admit that my performance last Sunday was also sub-par. I spent most of the match lying on the couch (thanks hangover) eating cake and I even changed channels a couple of times. I didn't yell at the tv once or jump up and down in frustration at some of the stuff that went on out there. I feel partly responsible for such a lacklustre performance and I understand I'll need to lift over the next few weeks to ready myself for the season proper.
My form slump will continue no doubt. I have no intention to even re-watch the tape. That's how I usually perform in pre-season.
On a serious note, we are reigning premiers, 4 weeks behind most teams, have reasonable depth, have bolstered our major weakness in the offseason, played in the wet for 3/4 of our games, blooded some kids, got the legs ticking over of a few seniors and there was no injuries. Sounds reasonable to me leading into week 2 of the hit n giggle cup.
There should be a 'self-ban' feature on RWO that peeps can elect to subscribe to which prevents them from posting whilst games are actually in play.
I've mellowed a fair bit in the past 10 years at the game. My daughter always had a healthy circle of friends who would use our spare family memberships to come along. It was only later I found out they had no interest in the footy, but word had spread that Casey's dad was entertainment worth twice the cost of admission.
I'm sure I'd be embarrassed reviewing some of the thoughts I had during the game if I posted them online.
Obviously the concept of 'Better to be thought of as a fool then to open your mouth (or post online) and remove all doubt' has not gotten thru to everybody on the webernet...
Driver of the Dan Hannebery bandwagon....all aboard. 4th April 09
I looked at this game as a whole heap of first year players who haven't yet had a non Swans opponent, playing their first AFL game. 18 years old a lot of them. And they were up against GWS players who mostly had at least one season of AFL behind them, plus a Carlton side of similar/ish status. Even Towers hadn't played an AFL game before, so even at age 22 he is a bub.
By my calculation we had I THINK 8 premiership players, 3 AFL part time seniors, a few second year players, a couple of toppie pickups, One Ruckman (the last man on the list in many ways) and the rest were not even starters. Look at their builds (well, I do that a lot, but you know what I mean), not as much spaghetti as in previous seasons, but still. Not much seasoning in them yet.
Imagine being a first year, playing your first AFL game, with Goodsey, Peb, Macca and the senior coaching panel watching you. Plus a couple of older brothers. Nervous? Yep, you bet. OK, that's that game out of the way, lets see what happens next.
If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood
Listen Magic, Lambchop did much more and got the ball far more than certain other more experienced players. He did not fumble like Birdie who seemed to have butter on his hands all day. Poor young Harry is being tortured by getting him to play in the back half, definitely not his bag!!! He is a winger and that is that. If you want him to be defensive on his opponent then give him drills around that and make him be accountable as a winger not as a backman. He was hopeless as a back!! By the start of the season he would be ready. People wonder why we did so badly but don't think of the positional arrangements
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wolf you may have read magics post incorrectly ?
"be tough, only when it gets tough"
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