Lawnchair Larry
Cancelled
- Apr 1, 2015
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- Port Adelaide
Everyone has that feeling.This is what I don't understand.
I got to the TV about 2 minutes after the start of the game. I started watching, and it took me around 20 seconds to realise this was stuffed - and going to be a 100 point loss (or thereabouts).
How can a team be so badly mentally prepared, that the outcome is obvious in that space of time?! What are team doing in the lead up to the game?!
Did anyone else get this feeling? What exactly was it that I was picking up on?
Melancholy seeps through the TV, and straight at you.
It's based upon a weird counterbalance of past experience (dreadful) and glorious anticipation that things may be different.
The latter quickly dissipates and the scales tip when you see Dixon run under the ball, you see flimsy tackling attempts brushed aside and you see basic skill errors enacted as if they were part of the teaching program at the club. It takes but a few minutes to register.
You see all that, and then the TV pans to the troubling image of Hinkley sitting expressionless in the booth. The link between coach and performance becomes finely focussed at that point - when abject performance images on field are butted up against images of a torpid Hinkley.
It's continuous rewind with no inkling (Hinkling?) of change, that really is troublesome.