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Have you ever watched a match where a player has an especially bad game, where nothing goes right for him and everything wrong, where he cannot take a trick and when everything he does seems to make it worse? A game where things go as badly for him as things do for Larry David in the popular sitcom 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'.
One especially bad game I remember dates back many years happened to a player who normally was a very good, hard working and reliable player, John Gastev. Gastev played for the West Coast Eagles in 1987-1988 and the Brisbane Bears from 1989-1994, and often was a shining light in some pretty ordinary Bears' teams.
Not so in a game between the Adelaide Crows and Brisbane Bears at Football Park in Adelaide in Round 14 1991, the first meeting between these teams. After an even first half where the Bears were able to stay with the more powerful Crows outfit, the South Australians buried the Queenslanders with an 18-goal second half, Adelaide sending Brisbane packing with a 66-point thrashing, 23.18-156 to 13.12-90.
Playing in the over-worked Brisbane defense, one thing after another went wrong for John Gastev, kicks going out of bounds on the full and sometimes directly to Adelaide opponents. On one occasion when kicking in after a Crows' point, Gastev miskicked the ball which travelled a few metres straight into the turf, where it ricochet directly to an Adelaide player.
I was still at high school at the time, and had the game on in the background while working on a Geography assignment but I soon became distracted from cartography, remote sensing and topography and watched the game, which I still remember years later.
Have you ever seen games like this where you look at a player when he leaves the field after such a bad game that you hear the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' theme song - Frolic by Luciano Michelini - playing in your head?
One especially bad game I remember dates back many years happened to a player who normally was a very good, hard working and reliable player, John Gastev. Gastev played for the West Coast Eagles in 1987-1988 and the Brisbane Bears from 1989-1994, and often was a shining light in some pretty ordinary Bears' teams.
Not so in a game between the Adelaide Crows and Brisbane Bears at Football Park in Adelaide in Round 14 1991, the first meeting between these teams. After an even first half where the Bears were able to stay with the more powerful Crows outfit, the South Australians buried the Queenslanders with an 18-goal second half, Adelaide sending Brisbane packing with a 66-point thrashing, 23.18-156 to 13.12-90.
Playing in the over-worked Brisbane defense, one thing after another went wrong for John Gastev, kicks going out of bounds on the full and sometimes directly to Adelaide opponents. On one occasion when kicking in after a Crows' point, Gastev miskicked the ball which travelled a few metres straight into the turf, where it ricochet directly to an Adelaide player.
I was still at high school at the time, and had the game on in the background while working on a Geography assignment but I soon became distracted from cartography, remote sensing and topography and watched the game, which I still remember years later.
Have you ever seen games like this where you look at a player when he leaves the field after such a bad game that you hear the 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' theme song - Frolic by Luciano Michelini - playing in your head?
