JohnM wrote:
Jarusa, you ask me what the club should have done tonight? Frankly, I couldn't give a rats about tonight in isolation. I think it's meaningless.
A nice happy feeling that'll be gone in a few days.
I'm more concerned about our season as a whole, where it leaves us and where we're heading.
We've been terrible when it mattered. Awful, with a percentage to prove it. Now that the heat's off, we look a bit better. It's going to take a lot more than us (with a full strength side) beating collingwood with around 8 key players missing for me to get warm and fuzzy about our prospects.
How is this helping us going forward? It's just like last season. Short on talent, eke out some wins, maybe finish in no-man's land.
Forgive me if I'd rather we
(a) played decent football when the finals were still a possibility, or
(b) bottomed out to get the best picks in the national and pre-season draft.
I'll take either. What I don't want is neither.
If people would rather rosy posts about how bright our future looks, well... I'm not going to provide them just for the sake of us all feeling a bit better.
I try to always see both sides of any discussion, and stay fair-minded. But, fair dinkum, if our club is dumb enough to miss out on a PP, then well, don't expect me to be happy about it.
Saints fans I know weren't exactly pleased when Timmy Watson was coaching them to all those two seasons of misery. Now, they're practically bestowing him with life-membership.
Hey - it's just an opinion. You say the club should try and win, I say we should try and drop our next two games.
Surely people can be mature enough to handle a difference of opinion, yes? Otherwise, let's just have an 'I agree' emoticon and save ourselves a lot of typing.
it is very easy to say what is the most logical or the best way forward.
But John, how do you propose we acheive it?
What if we do win another game?
What will you do?
Will you rip up your membership?
Is all hope lost?
Your initial post whether it is sarcastic or not is basically saying to a large proportion of supporters 'you are stupid'.
We all understand the logic, don't rub our noses in it. And when you propose a 'better way forward' spell out exactly how we should do it.
SHOULD WE DELIBERATELY TANK OR NOT?