What if about five weeks ago Pago Pago gave up the ghost for dead. Season's shot, the wooden spoon is ours picks 1&3 are in our hands.
What to do?
get Kade playing on the wing, give him game time for next year.
De Luca? Damn the lad's not long term so Setanta can't be played. Oh well he'll get finals in the Bullies.
Walker - play him in the bullies - let him run free for a few weeks.
complain about the penalties, blame the AFL for the shit we're about to have. A record of losses coming up.
Bring in Digby, play Lance down back, drop Livo, bring in AB and get miles into Fish's & Chambers legs before next year. Play Carrots in the middle for a bit, have a look at him. Bring back Wiggo and make a decision on the boy.
But dangbat it
AB has a red hot dip.
Fish produces as good a form as anyone coming back from a 12 month layoff.
Lance produces down back.
Dangbat the tiges go all tigerish on us and start losing the plot. Give us an easy first term and the boys start to run hot.
Shit now Kade's running so hot we have to give him the rising star.
Shit AB just explodes in 3 weeks of super form - bugger another rising star.
Lance keeps playing well and now Campo down back is doing a job and his slackness isn't hurting and bugger me if Kouta don't get all excited by the kids and starts producing again.
And Stevo, well shit AB's banging the ball out to him and Carrots and Stevo is not going to play second fiddle to any dangbat kids so he explodes and Carrots just keeps getting the dang ball like Carrots does. Heaven's to Murgatroid bloody Wiggo takes a full on hit from Snikkety-Picket, gets up and bangs it through and 'bloomin' bloody pigs flying arse, hell and heavens and yin and yang, she'd blowin', the great white whale surfaces, no chance now to lampoon the bugger, we'd deadly serious mum, its wabbit season, she's a going, she's free, it's oil, son navy blue oil! we're outta Kansas and off to Kalafornication!'
So Pago Pago has a big problem, the banana republic done gone straightened itself out and went from a gooey kind of 'run over me yellow' to deep navy blue and white again.
So what can Pago Pago do?
Copes it sweet he does, on the chin preciousss 'cos there's some gold in them thar hills! can't drop AB, can't stuff around with his form. imagine him next year if he keeps playin the way he does now - imagine the bloody trianing he'll do over summer and the lesson for all his bullant mates too! Lessonsss preciouss, lessonssss.. Can't messsss around with that now - if he got injured after we drops him preciousss he may never bes the same. Ssssso we letsss him be preciousss, we lets him be.
Can't interefere with Sssssimmo the Sssssstreak. sssso we just cops him and Carrotssss in the dark blue.
Not only that sheebop bee bop a lula, the things a turning,, no wooden hearts here, the great white liner is a turning. Yes them picks oh them picks Pago Pago thinks, such beautiful picks but these boys is playin like red injuns after Custard! they singing the rain, running in the sun, they got the bejesus in their fingers and bells on their toes!
Aint no stoppin them now. Not without a real sort of thwacking down on their heads and then? I mean we are talking a seriously young list here. We may lose a few if we pull the plug and watch their confidence go gurgle gurgle gurlging down the plughole of opportunity into the sewer of regrets.
Some might never return to this, whereas if we let them ride into the sunset then they might just find this high noon is when they turn into men. Imagine the confidence they'll have knowing the club has entrusted them with the future.
So what does Pago Pago do? He gives Colo a call.
Denis.
Ian.
Ummm.
Spill it Denis.
Its the boys.
Yeah I know they are shit, don't panic though, we've agreed to your 3 more years, just roll over like a good dog, take the kicks and we'll be sweet a couple a picks, she's apples (Con the Fruiter voice for Collo) first in the preseason draft. beauuuutiful!
But
no buts Denis, you promised.
But
But what?
But the boys are playing well, they've sort of found spirit, and guts and recklessness play and, well shit they are kicking goals out of their collective arses!
So? We need those picks.
But I don't know how to stop it.
Knew we should have kept bloody Brittain! he'd have stopped it!
And Ian
And what?
And stopping it may do more damage than good. we're talking about sportsmen here, about confidence and desire and the thrill of the contests - intangibles.
Bloody intangibles, two picks Denis!!!!
Collo
Yes Denis
Its a freight train, a runaway freight train. I don't think I can stop it without a heavy cost.
Oh
yes Oh
Bloody hell.
I know.
Oh
Oh
.....one of them finally hangs up.
Denis stands for a moment wondering... takes a deep breath and shrugs...
what the hell, life's full of Gods pissing down your backs.
Go Blues whateverwhichway
Go Blues!
_________________ This type of slight is alien in the more cultured part of the world - Walsh. Its up there with mad dogs, Englishmen and the midday sun!
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