My mate has dropped by and offered his thoughts on my little blog between our two teams being Collingwood and West Coast in the Australian Football league.
His comments are in green and following are my replies.
Boy you must have been having kittens during that game mate!
I don’t have cats, I hate cats so no idea what he is on about!
You got a real good scare and if it wasn't for missing two sitters with 10 minutes to go we would have upset The Pies!
The funny thing is Collingwood also missed many opportunities during the game and it a the team of champions that can stand the pressure in the big games and pull through, some are just not made for that.
Considering that the betting was at $1.20 for your team and $5 for my team then you should have been confident as you were the raging favourites. Just imagine the fall out if we had beaten you across the line.
Yes, my team was the short priced favourites but bookmakers do this to make the uneducated mob in believing the handicap odds on offer are worth taking and then cry when the team doesn’t run away and win by a mile. There would have been no fallout as we Collingwood supporters have faith in our team and you cannot always be at your best every game and we understand that some days are just not going to go our way. But we know that we will prevail many times.
As for a tattoo? Only people with short memories need them. I can remember all the premierships the Eagles have won in my life time. 1992, 1994 and 2006. How many have the pies won in your lifetime? Remembering of course that you are almost 10 years older then me. What's that you say? Only 1990 and 2010? Just two yet you still need to ink them onto your skin so you can remember!!
Tattoos are for short memories. No, it is to show loyalty to a team, people jump on and off bandwagons but for some we are dedicated through good and bad times. The West Coast had so many concessions and extra money when they joined the AFL that of course they had to be successful. You only succeeded when a Victorian took over as coach. I also have tattoos of Peter Daicos, Nathan Buckley, Darren Millane, "Jock" McHale, Bob Rose and more. The jibe of being ten years older, I will not bite at as I still have all my hair.
Collingwood has been the minor premiers 19 times and this is a record, won the premiership 15 times and been the runner up 25 times sadly but this means we have been in the mix many times. I do wish we had won more premierships during my lifetime but I have been blessed in watching them play many finals, something many others don’t get the chance to do.
Still, we live to fight another day and I can think of nothing better than to see you mob on Grand Final day.
The sad part here is that his team will fight another day but will not make past next week, even though history shows his team should win I am confident this will not be the case. I think next week will be the end of their football year.
Hope you are having a good day mate, did you watch the Wallabies kick some Italian butt? Please make sure you remind Franco of the score next time you see him.
Yes, I did watch the Wallibies (Australian Rugby Union Team) kick the Italians’ backsides, but the first half was tight even though we had all of the ball. I will let Franco know but I do believe I already know his answer and would not be able to print it here.
Brunty
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For anyone who bothered to read this stupid post I thought I should provide an update.
You may have noticed that Brunty, the football expert said this last week.
"The sad part here is that his team will fight another day but will not make past next week, even though history shows his team should win I am confident this will not be the case. I think next week will be the end of their football year."
Well, the game he was waffling on about was today. At the beginning of the game he sent me this email:
"You will be in tears in just over a few hours from now :) There is always the next decade. You guys over achieved anyway."
The team he wanted to win got off to a good start kicking three straight goals in the first 5 or so minutes so he sent another email which said this:
The Subject heading was 'Bang bang' the message was "Yeah lets see more of them, not even a minute gone. You guys were $1.38 hahaha"
Now who do you think won? Of course, it was my team, the mighty West Coast Eagles.
I hope you pick horses better then you do footy teams!
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