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Rather than spending an extra $400,000 on teh football department, why dont we get 3-4 out of there and put in 3-4 new faces with new ideas?Filthy wrote:Very true Windy hence my dismay Quinn is still at the EFC. I count overall about 7-8 soft tissue injury's at the joint atm, with Licha returning yesteday obviously underdone as you do with 3 weeks off thus further f***-ing up the structure as the guys rotate in and out.Windy_Hill wrote:As a student of modern warfare, I hear where you are coming from Filth. However, I think we have some structural issues with the team at the minute that has seriously unbalanced our war machine.
1. Lloyd's injury
2. Hille's injury
Perhaps all is not so equal
Having said that I am sure Sheeds is looking down the barrell of an honourable discharge
Why would you need to defend yourself, the previous thread was fair and well argumented.Filthy wrote:If you put your head up you gotta expect to get it kicked one or twice in my Goodbye Sheeds thread. So in my defence.....
Filthy wrote:If you put your head up you gotta expect to get it kicked one or twice in my Goodbye Sheeds thread. So in my defence.....
But Footy IMHO is the closest thing you come to War or battle outside of the real thing. It is a blood sport and ruthless in its execution and its results. It sorts the men out from the boys.
Yesterday the EFC was involved in a major battle and lossed with heavy casualties. Consider:
- Both Army's are of equal strength, have the same logistics, artillery and air support ie start with equal strength.
- Both fight on equal terms as far as ground is concerned. ie no side has an advantage on being on the high ground.
- Both have Generals and a General staff to direct them and work out strategic tactics. However one General is in his 50th battle and another is in his 800th odd. One is a grizzled veteren of the fighting and the generalship: the other a young up and comer with youth, enthusiasm and it would appear the confidence of his troops behind him.
And so to battle. The old general has a bold new plan that has won him 3 early victory's early in the campaign with a narrow loss due to an outflanking tactic by an equally wily old fox who has defeated him many times before with similar unorthodox but effective tactics the old general has no answer for. Inexplicably, in the last battle, the old general reverted to tactics in the disastrous 2006 campaign and was heavily defeated with heavy casualty's and mental scarring.
In yesterday's battle, the old general still hadn't learnt his lesson and stuck with his slow, older moving tanks against the more modern, quicker version of his enemy and was consequently smashed in the core mini battles in the centre forcing him to manouvre out wide and come slowly into the kill zone, meaning that the enemy had plenty of time to pour troops and material into the target area thus repelling these ineffectal attacks, time after time after time.
Inexplicably, the old general had no Plan B and consequently his army was again heavily defeated with morale of his troops at an all time low as they peer back and see 2006 all over again, despite being heavily reinforced with fresh troops and logistics over the summer. On paper, the Army was more experienced and more talented to its enemy except for one thing........
A tired old general who has lost his troops against a young enthusiastic general who's troops played for him and stuck to his plan.
