BULL DUST!

A part of me says that we are moving in the right direction:
Current top 5 teams:
StKilda: we pushed and definitely not out of our depth
Geelong: have not played
Bulldogs: we smashed
Collingwood: we smashed
Brisbane: Beat them twice.

A part of me says we are not:
Fev will always be a time bomb
Too much reliance on Judd
Too much of a gap between the good performances and poor performances of about 10 players in our team. Inconsistency.
We still have not beaten one of the teams that has given us trouble in the past.
Some players have improved, some have stalled and some have gone backwards.

That's where I'm at woof.

I can see both our positives, and our negatives.

I believe that anyone who says things like "we're !@#$%&, we're going backwards, DOOM!, GLOOM!" is wrong.

Just as I believe that anyone who says things like "all is well, we're rocketing to the top, don't criticise", is also wrong.

The truth lies somewhere in the middle.

It is truely unbeliveable reading some of the stuff on here and listening to talkback this week. Talk about throwing the bath, the water and baby out of a ten story window. While I fully support freedom of speech and independent thought, my late lamented father used say "Think before putting mouth into gear" Sage advice.

Just think about things for the moment.

We are ahead of where we were last year
We have for the first time in seven years a sniff of the finals and a heady smell it is indeed.
We have several young exciting players and a player who is amongst the best three in the competition on any day.
The club is now financially secure.
We will have world standard facilities at Visy Park, hell we might, if the cards fall the right way get to play some games at the old Fortress.

And best of all for we old timers John has been banished.

But finally, sport is about winning and losing, learning how to lose without losing the plot is a key element of that. Winning is about taking all of your learning and skill and succeeding when others say you can't. Are we winners, by all the performance indicators, we are. As a club including supporters we have to satrt believing we are WINNERS and not the rabble we have been for far to long. Once we start doing that we will suceed.

Cheers

BM.

well said BM. For a week I thought I was on the Punt road website.

as I posted in another thread, did the Bulldogs go into a panic when we flogged them? Were they calling for Eade to be sacked?

If you have watched Geelong and Hawthorn progress, they have had there backward steps. Look at the saints. Many wanted Lyon's head.

Yeah lets pretend everything is all rosy and we're gonna be all fine.

That's the attitude that got us into this mess in the early part of this century, or have you forgotten already?

Questions constantly needs to be asked and the club needs to be challenged and not allowed to rest on its laurels, or others will (and already have) go flying past us.

But hey, everything is all fine just because we are ahead of where were in our dark years (lets not mention that you can't sink any lower than where were anyway, shhhh everything is just fine!!).

That's a stupid, and deliberately provocative statement, budzy. you know that's not true.

Never let truth get in the way of a good rant.