dannyboy wrote:
Say farewell to Kouta folks, say farewell, his days are numbered as he grows old.
Say goodbye to Lappo too, he wants his three, can go barking for another tree, he'll not be here and that's fine cos he gave what he had and now he might just move on.
Say farewell to Whits, he that gives so many the shits. Whits and Pago Pago are simply a bad relationship. He might be good somewhere else but he is soft and lazy for us.
Say farewell to Campo. Don't think he has the stomach for the work we've got to do. Can't say as I blame him really must be hard to get to the end and find there is tonnes more work to do.
Say farewell to to about six others I reckon. Kids and battlers alike. They'll be set free from their obligations to sink or swim as they might.
Say hello to a brave new world; a world where we'll be playing kids, kids and more kids. A world where Walker, T-Bird and Waite will carry a lot of our experience.
Say hello to six new kids plus a couple of others if we're lucky and to three years of rebuilding still to go. This is AFL 2000 style, a yo yo of up then down and we are real down. So we start to rebuild and we'll have to be patient as kids like Russell and Hartlett and Raso and whoever we get new start their careers and build into the players we hope they might be.
Say hello to Pago Pago too as he ends his excuses at the end of this year. From next year we must see the signs or this club might just go into freefall. he doesn't have to make the finals but he has to show the seeds that will bear the fruit.
Say hello to the new supporters who want to lose to win and who expect 3rd quarters where those we play come out to play and the old dark navies stay indoors.
Say hello to the brave new world and say hello if you see me, I'll need a drink and I won't be smiling 'cos I really don't know if I''ve got the stomach for this. I'll be there and I'll be barracking but I may just look a little shell-shocked.
So here come this brave new world and with it I hope, a brave new team, a team of kids learning together to play this game in this jumper the way the song once demanded.
I'll be there, I'll be shaking and white and wondering, but I'll be there in that brave new world and I will not die wondering.
Yes and if you want to add a few.....
Houla
and everyone weariing a bullants gurnsey that isn't Irish , Fish, Betts or 18 yrs old!!