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but a certain amount of brain science is required to understand
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Education is Important, but Rugby is Importanter!
Benny - In a game of Rugby there is only ever a winner and a loser. unless its a draw- and they suck even more.
Please forgive me. I am not questioning your passion for our team nor do I want you to sit quietly at home and be quiet here on the TWF Forums.
We collectively as fans of the Western Force seem to have great expectations and I am beginning to think that as the years go by our expectations rise higher and higher.
The Western Force are a team competing in one of the greatest, and hardest provincial competitions in the world. We have had to do so by recruiting the off cuts of the other 3 Provinces (now 4) in this wide brown land of ours without any flexibility or assistance from the ARU. We have done it without any support from the local rugby community(I bet I get yelled at for that one).
We have had to suffer through a media spotlight that reported every burp and fart and made it front page news. We have also had to suffer through some brain explosions from players. We have had to suffer through the trials and tribulations of one of the biggest egos in the game as well as a sponsor that wrote a couple of cheques that couldn't be cashed as well as some business practices that were questionable. We have gone through 4 CEO's and 2 Chairmans. All of this would cripple other teams. But we are still here.
On the field I personally believe we have been seriously unlucky with the bounce of the ball or the referees whistle. The draw against the crusaders with the video referee ruling that the player had gone in to touch in our first year. Or the quick lineout that resulted in the try that came directly from a ballboy passing it to the hooker in our second or third year. Last year against the Warratahs with the penalty kick that bounced back in to the field of play directly in to the arms of the Tahs player that dived over for a try, last week were Alfi got wrong footed by the bouncing ball that again dropped in to the Hurricanes player waiting hands for the try.
There has been one thing that the Western Force has had that has been constant and kept the team going when in any other team in any other competition would have gone and quit ages ago. And its world famous. Us, the supporters, the Sea of Blue.
Sure we need some work on our chants and our cheering. Foo-orce clap clap clap really does bite the big one. But From Subiaco to nib stadium watching on TV the Sea of Blue is something to behold. And that is you guys. Us. The fans who buy the season tickets. The vocal fans on the TWF Forums The glue that holds our team together.
Benny I can understand that you are getting annoyed that you sit in the terraces week in and week out and you watch on occasion a below standard performance from our team. But I am still very jealous of you. You are part of the Sea of Blue. You are the glue that keeps our team together. 3 times I have been apart of the Sea of Blue in seven years. You get to do that every week. Don't give up on the Force, or TWF for that matter. It may take till next year or 20 years. But the pain and the heartache now will make it all so much better when we kick every ones butts.
Exile
Port Macquarie
"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that!" - Rocky Balboa
Yeah gigsy, 3 runs in 3 games not bad..... Only shit stirring... Just want more out of him, a bit like all 22 players we have.
If we lose to the tahs by 1 point or 100 if we put in for the full 80 mins that's all I care about at the moment, and you won't here my whinge. PROMISE.
Sorry TWF family thought we signed him on. A short term contract.. Maybe it was me in the sheets during the off season...apologizes all
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/spo...e-s-spotlight/
Mafi has form at fullback right now! That's why the 22 was such a shock and everyone who read it had a stroke and no one survived - not even me!
Graham is falling into the same trap as Dingo, he's picking players based on potential and what they can do but not what they're actually doing. Of all our backs so far this year I'd say Mafi has been the best, even if he's playing out of position you keep him there when he's playing that good!
Sharpe struggled to make the wallabies, so we won't use them as a yardstick because as I said earlier, Dingo picks on potential, not form.By the way last 3/4 years besides Gits/ Mitchell and JOC not many made the Wallabies so our backline while better in the past was not the best in the land and at that stage forwards were weaker and we have worked on that.