I have to say, it's pretty satisfying finally getting to read good press about your football team. In a petty stupid way it's an endorsement of your own beliefs, much in the same way talkback radio hosts berate their callers just for having a slightly different opinion, or how religious zealots keep insisting we non believers are all going to hell so that they feel better about their own conflicted existence. Okay, that may have been off topic somewhat but the feeling still stands. To an extent you could argue supporting a sporting team is a lot like choosing a religion - it feels pretty good for the most part but in the end it probably counts for very little. Collingwood supporters are certainly not the chosen ones, that's for sure. Heaven for one thing would certainly have more stringent dental and personal hygiene requirements, that's all I'm trying to say. Here endeth the lesson.
Regardless, all blasphemy aside this bout of press is quite fun to read and reread. While I certainly know how much maligned people see our chances in September and how we're just making up the numbers, this is all old hat material I have come to expect to read in the media. At least with this Monday's post mortem editorials the bigwigs Sheahan and Connelly have taken a small portion of their spiels to let everyone know that we're not as bad as we used to be, certainly better than last year at the very least. Though really everyone knows that at the end of September chances are one team of a felinesque moniker will hold that flag up high, no one really seems to mind as they go about preparing for their own finals campaigns. Having said that, I'm not sure how much finals experience we need to make more than two weeks of finals. Clearly the year before we were outclassed by sides more experienced at this kind of action. Hopefully we can go a bit further this time round.
In other football related news, I was watching Seven News for some reason and heard that Nathan Buckley's tips for the year to date totalled 101 or so. Well I am pleased to say I am tipping better than Nathan-freaking-Buckley right now on 109, so where's my personal football tipping segment on the evening news? Introducing Justin's tips for the round... "Who?"
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