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Norm Smith Medallist
- Aug 17, 2015
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i am of a certain agenow where the desent into full on grumpy old bastard is a steep slippery sloap but in 2019 there are a few things footy related that are really really getting on my goat ...
1. The Dan Hannabery thing - the guy is injured just like many many other players from every club is.. how this get spun into some sort of dig at the player and the team get my goat up ... and the talk of the trade being a total fail cause he has a soft tissue injury really gets my goat... give the guy time to get over his injury.. remember when we signed Gardy from the WCE for two seasons he basically didnt play for us but once he got right and got into the team he was a HUGE influence in the teams fortunes, when we were running around with 19 consecutive wins no one was saying the trade was a bust cause he missed the first season entirly .. Hannas is here for 5 so if year one is written off to injury that bad luck but not the end of the world .
2. this weeks talk about how the saints over came a depleated Hawks ... FFS yes hawthorn had injurys but F my brown dog they are not alone in having injured players ... rather than look at who they had out lets look at who they had in - from my count they still have MULTIPLE players who have won multiple grand finals .. they had multiple guys who have been AA players.. do take away from our huge effort to grab that win with the excuse of oh the hawks were walking wounded is a major slap to the face - if the hawks had managed to win yesterday the talk would be how great they were to overcome us with the walking wounded they had not how they overcame a St Kilda missing 5 guys who would be auto best 22 for the team or how we were running one short due to injury ... even last week the talk was how Freo overcame losing Fyfe in the third... credit needs to be given to the saints who while being well behind in the talent level are working harder than the opponent to make up for that talent deficet ...
what has got your goat about this year so far ????
1. The Dan Hannabery thing - the guy is injured just like many many other players from every club is.. how this get spun into some sort of dig at the player and the team get my goat up ... and the talk of the trade being a total fail cause he has a soft tissue injury really gets my goat... give the guy time to get over his injury.. remember when we signed Gardy from the WCE for two seasons he basically didnt play for us but once he got right and got into the team he was a HUGE influence in the teams fortunes, when we were running around with 19 consecutive wins no one was saying the trade was a bust cause he missed the first season entirly .. Hannas is here for 5 so if year one is written off to injury that bad luck but not the end of the world .
2. this weeks talk about how the saints over came a depleated Hawks ... FFS yes hawthorn had injurys but F my brown dog they are not alone in having injured players ... rather than look at who they had out lets look at who they had in - from my count they still have MULTIPLE players who have won multiple grand finals .. they had multiple guys who have been AA players.. do take away from our huge effort to grab that win with the excuse of oh the hawks were walking wounded is a major slap to the face - if the hawks had managed to win yesterday the talk would be how great they were to overcome us with the walking wounded they had not how they overcame a St Kilda missing 5 guys who would be auto best 22 for the team or how we were running one short due to injury ... even last week the talk was how Freo overcame losing Fyfe in the third... credit needs to be given to the saints who while being well behind in the talent level are working harder than the opponent to make up for that talent deficet ...
what has got your goat about this year so far ????