I saw this brought up in the game day thread and thinking more about yesterday's game it becomes painfully clear that we simply don't have enough *******s on our list.
We used to. Crowley and Ballas are 2 obvious ones. Even Zac Dawson was a bit of a knob. Guys that would go out of their way to piss off opponents just for the sake of it. Guys that wouldn't take any s**t from anyone and they don't give a rats what anyone thinks. Guys that argue the point with the umpires even though they're clearly in the wrong. You NEED those players, and every decent team has them. Richmond - Dusty is a flog extraordinaire, Lynch and Riewoldt are complete ********s, Broad is a tosser. Don't start me on Cotchin - he's such a twat he married one as well. Moving down to West Coast - you have ******* Darling, McGovern is a w***er under every possible meaning of the term and I reckon Tim Kelly is up there in the dickhead rankings. The Lions have Robinson and Rayner is a promising dickhead. Geelong - jeez, count the arsehats there. Full of them. All great footballers mind you.
Who have we got? Freaking nobody. Fyfe is the closest we have, but I reckon he only pipes up because he really cares and he's a bit eccentric, not because of any innate dickheadness. We delist our knobheads. We got rid of Hogan and McCarthy just last year. But when the chips are down and we need someone to make a stand and start mouthing off to fire everyone up, who can we turn to? We got to within a goal early in the third quarter and they kick a couple to open up a break. We need to do something to get back into it - so who's going to start a fight and fire us up? Brayshaw? Great player, but he's way too nice. He's not going to remind Tim Kelly what a ******* embarassment he was last week and how he cost his club any future. Serong looks the same. Mundy is waaaaaaaaaaaay too nice. Darcy should be getting into Naitanui about how he doesn't have the tank to run out of sight on a dark night. Hey, it might backfire, but you know what definitely won't work? Going into our shells and getting pounded for the rest of the game. It's the s**t blokes that give the rest of the team that extra reason to put your body on the line when the ball is there to be won. Ballas probably made his teammates cringe when he mouthed off to opponents, but i'll bet my left nut that the players around him went that fraction harder as a result. When one player talks the talk, it forces everyone to walk the walk.
The bottom line is that when it looked like we were on the precipice of falling well behind, we went back and got our arses handed to us even more - and that's the second time that's happened this year against 2 teams that are barely finals standard.
We used to. Crowley and Ballas are 2 obvious ones. Even Zac Dawson was a bit of a knob. Guys that would go out of their way to piss off opponents just for the sake of it. Guys that wouldn't take any s**t from anyone and they don't give a rats what anyone thinks. Guys that argue the point with the umpires even though they're clearly in the wrong. You NEED those players, and every decent team has them. Richmond - Dusty is a flog extraordinaire, Lynch and Riewoldt are complete ********s, Broad is a tosser. Don't start me on Cotchin - he's such a twat he married one as well. Moving down to West Coast - you have ******* Darling, McGovern is a w***er under every possible meaning of the term and I reckon Tim Kelly is up there in the dickhead rankings. The Lions have Robinson and Rayner is a promising dickhead. Geelong - jeez, count the arsehats there. Full of them. All great footballers mind you.
Who have we got? Freaking nobody. Fyfe is the closest we have, but I reckon he only pipes up because he really cares and he's a bit eccentric, not because of any innate dickheadness. We delist our knobheads. We got rid of Hogan and McCarthy just last year. But when the chips are down and we need someone to make a stand and start mouthing off to fire everyone up, who can we turn to? We got to within a goal early in the third quarter and they kick a couple to open up a break. We need to do something to get back into it - so who's going to start a fight and fire us up? Brayshaw? Great player, but he's way too nice. He's not going to remind Tim Kelly what a ******* embarassment he was last week and how he cost his club any future. Serong looks the same. Mundy is waaaaaaaaaaaay too nice. Darcy should be getting into Naitanui about how he doesn't have the tank to run out of sight on a dark night. Hey, it might backfire, but you know what definitely won't work? Going into our shells and getting pounded for the rest of the game. It's the s**t blokes that give the rest of the team that extra reason to put your body on the line when the ball is there to be won. Ballas probably made his teammates cringe when he mouthed off to opponents, but i'll bet my left nut that the players around him went that fraction harder as a result. When one player talks the talk, it forces everyone to walk the walk.
The bottom line is that when it looked like we were on the precipice of falling well behind, we went back and got our arses handed to us even more - and that's the second time that's happened this year against 2 teams that are barely finals standard.