I assume you don't extend this attitude to other aspects of your life otherwise you would have killed yourself by now. So why view your football club like this?
Are you 13? I haven't enjoyed football this season for a number of reasons, one of them is that imo my football club has gone backwards. Making up numbers in the finals gives me no satisfaction, especially when we were not in the best 8 sides to play this year and if we wanted to be honest it would be very easy to mount an argument that we were not in the best 9 sides this year.
I am not trying to take away from others joy, I am saying I get no joy out of this season and this finals series and i will be doing something other than listening to or watching the football next Sunday, because at the moment I could not give a crap. Now thank goodness I don't seek your permission to be quite flat about my team this year, I have followed them long enough to have a right to feel however I like about this season and I have stated how that is.
You say you are not trying to take away from others joy yet come on the Carlton SUPPORTERS Club forum to question the confidence of other supporters towards their team and outline reasons to view the teams chances in an entirely negative light. And you question my maturity? Strange behaviour from someone who claims not to give a crap.
Of course you have the right to feel however you like and more than enough reason to be quite flat about your team but you and your misery have come to the wrong place in pursuit of company. So while I will be at the 'G on Sunday cheering my lungs out in support of the Club I love, win or lose, I will spare a thought for you and genuinely hope that whatever it is that you wind up doing is as rewarding as I know my experience will be.
What about our season says to people that they should have great confidence in this team? Could not put away Essendon who over the last 6 weeks have lost their other 5 games by an average of about 55 points. We have beaten Port and Richmond since the GC game and lost to the Bulldogs and Essendon. Both the Port and the Richmond game they should have put us away and if it was finals, I don't think you come back in either of those games.
Port have been a better team than us all year and if I was Richmond I would rather play the soft as crap Carlton, who 'may' show their class, but probably won't, than the Power who you know will give it everything and play it like it is the end of the world. Every day give me the soft cocks, because there is a huge chance our crap side shows up and they do to us what we done to Essendon in the finals a couple of years back and belt the pants off us.
I am embarrassed that we are playing finals with our performances this year and hold no excitement going into this weeks game. We have 11 wins for the season and many times have looked completely inept. I would rather just have the off-season roll on and see how next year shapes.
I assume you don't extend this attitude to other aspects of your life otherwise you would have killed yourself by now. So why view your football club like this?
Unless the Dagpies win by 700 goals tomorrow, it will us and the Tiggers on Sunday next.
So very, very interesting to read that the Tiggers were scared we would lose and the Kangabies would win - they were nervous about meeting them, but not us.
Seems the Tiggers lacked confidence had they had to play the Kangabies. They are extemely confident that they will beat us. Boastingly confident.
Heard this type of thing from Bitchmond supporters during the week. Statements like 'kangas have the wood on us, we haven't beaten them in 10 games' to which I replied 'and you've beaten us once in the last 10'. Cue pin drop. And for what it's worth Rich v Nth last 10: Rich - 3, Nth - 6, 1 draw. They are trying to convince themselves, nothing more. I know which loss would hurt them more. We will get to see it on Sunday, if we can maintain pressure (scoreboard or otherwise) from the start of the game, sooner or later they will fold. In spite of the round one result we still own these pricks.
I was at the game, our boys tried so I don't get the lack of effort comments. We're just not very good.
Nup - that's a cop-out mbb. Our blokes do not work hard enough for long enough, they pick 'n choose when they wanna crack in. Who leads? Who gut runs? Who works hard to be an option downfield? Where are our blokes around the stoppages? Where are our loose blokes on the counter-attack? Don't make easy excuses for them mbb, they don't deserve it.
Thats what i was so pi55ed off with too Brettie. No-one wanted to run hard enough for long enough. Thats why we had to bomb the ball so often and were so easy to read. Can someone explain to me our game plan?
How many times did Murph stream into the forward 50, only to meekly pop the ball up in the air to a 2-1 contest against? Is he fcuking retarded?
And the 1 was often Betts with the 2 being six+ footers! Wtf is wrong with these blokes, it's not farkin rocket surgery!
