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Re: If you were Dean Bailey this week....
Oh boy I know what you mean. After the hiding against the Cats the week before I just had a terrible, sinking feeling. We had been smacked by the Eagles in the finals the year before while close to top form ourselves so our injury wracked, completely imbalanced team was on a hiding to nothing.
... the line "players who ... were never going to be ready again" fills me with a deep nostalgic sadness, actually. Didn't know you were also a poet, mjp! Poor Darcy, really. (I did my left ACL exactly the same week he did his first one and we both went to the same surgeon, actually.. I was so worried when he did his second that I didn't run for a whole month after and just did bike work).
Couldn't have said it better myself. The media just latch on immediate trends without examining anything in depth or logically (I think it's called 'generalising from the specific' or some such thing).. I mean, so many 'experts' who picked us to finish low also said that the 'story of the year' would be whatever it was that very week and no one even remembers it anymore.
Definitely a better team this year than the start of last year. Really hope we get up tomorrow night, if only for the membership numbers.
Oh boy I know what you mean. After the hiding against the Cats the week before I just had a terrible, sinking feeling. We had been smacked by the Eagles in the finals the year before while close to top form ourselves so our injury wracked, completely imbalanced team was on a hiding to nothing.
... the line "players who ... were never going to be ready again" fills me with a deep nostalgic sadness, actually. Didn't know you were also a poet, mjp! Poor Darcy, really. (I did my left ACL exactly the same week he did his first one and we both went to the same surgeon, actually.. I was so worried when he did his second that I didn't run for a whole month after and just did bike work).
Couldn't have said it better myself. The media just latch on immediate trends without examining anything in depth or logically (I think it's called 'generalising from the specific' or some such thing).. I mean, so many 'experts' who picked us to finish low also said that the 'story of the year' would be whatever it was that very week and no one even remembers it anymore.
Definitely a better team this year than the start of last year. Really hope we get up tomorrow night, if only for the membership numbers.
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