Chooseday night Football
Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:23 am
On now, Dons V. Weagles circa 2007. Really interesting to compare the then to the now. Notables missing from that side now are Lloyd, Lucas, my old namesake Pev and of course the great one. The massive holes left in this side by their absence cannot be over-emphasised. Scotty's just kicked his 5th. It's funny in life how we often don't fully appreciate someone until after they've gone...Would have to go down as one of this club's all time great CHF'ds. Pev, (Gees I had a lot of man love for him) like pepper and salt he was...in everything, (like he always was) even when we were being thumped early in the game. Hirdy of course was our absolute lifeline in this game, as he was Sooo many times. Like a Coleman... will never be replaced. Another one playing and starring that night who we are really missing now is Winderlich. Absolutely running his guts out he is...making the whole side look quick even though there aint all that many speedsters out there. We win it by a point...another grreat game between these two sides.
On the other hand there are the usual suspects...and I DO mean SUSPECTS out there playing exactly the same sort of football then as they still do today... I wont mention their names, I think you would all know who I might be talking about...There's a gifted but lazy ruckman swanning about doing SFA. There's a very limited tagger, trying hard and doing an OK job on Kerr but making the same basic skill errors and worrying the daylights out of me every time he gets the ball then like he still does today. There's a couple of other Duds out there as well...one of them has returned to the club we originally got him from making the same horrible mistakes that he's still making now at said team. No loss there to be sure.
But it's like I mentioned in my post about this being the worst side I've ever seen...looking back at that 07 side you can clearly see the decline under way and with those aforementioned, once in a lifetime, champs gone, the interminable injures that we still continue to suffer every F****n year and the crap drafting decisions we've made year in and year out, it's no surprise that we are now in the shit we are in.
On the other hand there are the usual suspects...and I DO mean SUSPECTS out there playing exactly the same sort of football then as they still do today... I wont mention their names, I think you would all know who I might be talking about...There's a gifted but lazy ruckman swanning about doing SFA. There's a very limited tagger, trying hard and doing an OK job on Kerr but making the same basic skill errors and worrying the daylights out of me every time he gets the ball then like he still does today. There's a couple of other Duds out there as well...one of them has returned to the club we originally got him from making the same horrible mistakes that he's still making now at said team. No loss there to be sure.
But it's like I mentioned in my post about this being the worst side I've ever seen...looking back at that 07 side you can clearly see the decline under way and with those aforementioned, once in a lifetime, champs gone, the interminable injures that we still continue to suffer every F****n year and the crap drafting decisions we've made year in and year out, it's no surprise that we are now in the shit we are in.