Official Match Thread Season 28 Rd 11 - Fighting Furies vs Gold City Royals at rfctigerarmy's hippodrome

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Kennedy Parker said:
Now let's set the record straight. There's no argument over the choice between peace and war, but there's only one guaranteed way you can have peace -- and you can have it in the next second -- surrender.

Admittedly, there's a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson of history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face -- that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand -- the ultimatum. And what then -- when Nikita Khrushchev has told his people he knows what our answer will be? He has told them that we're retreating under the pressure of the Cold War, and someday when the time comes to deliver the final ultimatum, our surrender will be voluntary, because by that time we will have been weakened from within spiritually, morally, and economically. He believes this because from our side he's heard voices pleading for "peace at any price" or "better Red than dead," or as one commentator put it, he'd rather "live on his knees than die on his feet." And therein lies the road to war, because those voices don't speak for the rest of us.

You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin -- just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain. Where, then, is the road to peace? Well it's a simple answer after all.

You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, "There is a price we will not pay." "There is a point beyond which they must not advance." And this -- this is the meaning in the phrase of Barry Goldwater's "peace through strength." Winston Churchill said, "The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits -- not animals." And he said, "There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny.

We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness.
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Tigerturbulance said:
McEvoy please excuse TJASTA as he is going through a hard time as he comes to the understanding the Furies under his watch are falling apart and well becoming the Gumbies.

Lets talk about more important things like how do you make your coat so shiny and full.
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not the gumbies
anyone but the gumbies
 

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Woohoo fwd pocket. Look forward to improving on my 1 behind effort last week. We got this.
 

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Gonna be a couple of posts in a row here, maybe. My apologies if nobody jumps in.

Firstly I want to congratulate McEvoy on 100 career games in the Sweet FA. We've certainly missed her presence in the top half of this season and needless to say we'd be celebrating this a little sooner if RL wasn't in the way but it is looking like the tide is turning for her. She's a true gun poster and has cut many down with a whipcrack. While she spent the bulk of her career as a Rat (55 games) and had a little run with the Bombers (less said the better after 18 games there) McEvoy has been a valuable member of the Royals for coming up to 27 games and I hope by the time she's done it's the Royals she will have spent most of her time with.

McEvoy Awards & Other:
No Awards.
Highest DT Points: 113 DT - Season 23, Round 14 West Coast Wonders vs. (Sin City Swamprats)
100+ DT Points: x4 occasions
Highest Disposals: 29 Disposals - Season 27, Round 11 (Gold City Royals) vs. Baghdad Bombers
20+ Disposals: x19 occasions
Highest Goals: 4 Goals - Season 23, Round 08 (Sin City Swamprats) vs. West Coast Wonders & Season 23, Round 14 West Coast Wonders vs. (Sin City Swamprats)

Congrats on this milestone McEvoy, on behalf of the Gold City Royals and what the hey, I'll speak for the Sweet FA itself.

 
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