LittleDavey
NRL Captain
- Mar 25, 2013
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Yep, it's too soon. I watched a replay of the last 5 minutes last week....definitely too soon. It will always be too soon - never forget.
Everything's been said already. It wasn't that we lost, it was that we lost in that manner - a shit call on the strip (like so many others during the year), 3 missed tackles on JT which should have stuck, and then our sliding defense not sliding for, oh, the second or third time ALL FUCKING YEAR. Every other game last year we made multiple tackles in that exact situation. Defused the edges. ****. That will never go away. The try sealed our fate, not the drop off the restart.
Oh, and going to a defensive gameplan. What the actual ****. We hadn't played like that in a single game all year. It reminds me of Rommel and his Panzers in North Africa in WWII. The Aussies (and allies) in Tobruk were the first to inflict a defeat on his forces, and they continued to - with infantry. Rommel could not take Tobruk. In Rommel's words (and I paraphrase) {because I don't speak German :laugh:}: "We had to retreat and we didn't know how. We had pushed through Poland, (list of other Euro countries) and then in Africa and we had never lost a battle. We had trained in dozens of ways to advance but never once practiced how to retreat. So when we needed to, we didn't know how, and it was chaos."
We play aggressive attack footy again these days, that's why it's so good to watch. The boys are confident, always backing themselves. Look at some of Milford and Hunt's footage from last year - aside from class, it is just ultimate confidence in themselves, and in the players around them. That for me was the hallmark of our season last year - confidence. As soon as we lost that in the GF with 20 mins to go...I felt sick. Never forget. Never take the foot off the throat. Be ruthless, and back yourself and your teammates.
It will take a lot to go right - lack of injuries to key players, etc. But we are deservedly favourites, and anything less than another GF appearance will be a disappointment this year. Watching the trial was nice, flogging the Cows second grade team. We put on a damn good show in the UK as well, that was a masterclass.
Thursday. The healing and redemption begins.
Btw, I hear eel tastes like chicken...
Everything's been said already. It wasn't that we lost, it was that we lost in that manner - a shit call on the strip (like so many others during the year), 3 missed tackles on JT which should have stuck, and then our sliding defense not sliding for, oh, the second or third time ALL FUCKING YEAR. Every other game last year we made multiple tackles in that exact situation. Defused the edges. ****. That will never go away. The try sealed our fate, not the drop off the restart.
Oh, and going to a defensive gameplan. What the actual ****. We hadn't played like that in a single game all year. It reminds me of Rommel and his Panzers in North Africa in WWII. The Aussies (and allies) in Tobruk were the first to inflict a defeat on his forces, and they continued to - with infantry. Rommel could not take Tobruk. In Rommel's words (and I paraphrase) {because I don't speak German :laugh:}: "We had to retreat and we didn't know how. We had pushed through Poland, (list of other Euro countries) and then in Africa and we had never lost a battle. We had trained in dozens of ways to advance but never once practiced how to retreat. So when we needed to, we didn't know how, and it was chaos."
We play aggressive attack footy again these days, that's why it's so good to watch. The boys are confident, always backing themselves. Look at some of Milford and Hunt's footage from last year - aside from class, it is just ultimate confidence in themselves, and in the players around them. That for me was the hallmark of our season last year - confidence. As soon as we lost that in the GF with 20 mins to go...I felt sick. Never forget. Never take the foot off the throat. Be ruthless, and back yourself and your teammates.
It will take a lot to go right - lack of injuries to key players, etc. But we are deservedly favourites, and anything less than another GF appearance will be a disappointment this year. Watching the trial was nice, flogging the Cows second grade team. We put on a damn good show in the UK as well, that was a masterclass.
Thursday. The healing and redemption begins.
Btw, I hear eel tastes like chicken...
