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Football => Richmond Rant => Topic started by: 🏅Dooks on June 09, 2014, 05:26:04 AM
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Havent been to as many games as previous years for a number of reasons but im done for the year. Anyone the same?
Gold memberships built up over years and years can lapse for all i care right now it just shows how much of a sucker i was for renewing
why should i make the effort.
this current group of players, football dept and co have lost me. to the point that i dont associate them with the club i love and ive began barracking for us to lose so we are properly exposed.
Stuff em
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Yes
I will go to every game
Why ?
I bleed yellow and black
Not like some here
Biggest issue is you cannot play like superstars in one half and be so poor the next
Club needs to sack Hardwick and let Choco coach the rest of the year
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I will still attend every game,and will still front up to watch the ressies..................Its my club
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I will still attend every game,and will still front up to watch the ressies..................Its my club
Likewise :thumbsup
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I won't go until Hardwick is gone. Doesn't know how to coach.
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Whilst I will keep going to the games, I'll do so a little disconnected, looking at it with open eyes as opposed to passionate blinkered ones.
At this point of the season I'm looking for little positives rather than wins.
Yesterday I was pretty happy with what I saw from Miles & Dea. That's at least a couple of new names to persevere with.
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Whilst I will keep going to the games, I'll do so a little disconnected, looking at it with open eyes as opposed to passionate blinkered ones.
At this point of the season I'm looking for little positives rather than wins.
Yesterday I was pretty happy with what I saw from Miles & Dea. That's at least a couple of new names to persevere with.
Yep
Though for me the disconnect happened weeks ago, after the Hawks game
Just don't care anymore
I will go to every remaining game except round 23 in Sydney
But will I fork out another $6k for memberships/coterie packages in 2015 - right now the answer is NO. Base membership for me
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Base membership is all they deserve right now.............money is hard earned by us,but not by the RFC it seems.
Oi Benny hows that Fighting Tiger fund looking now
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Why would you go to games if you're disconnected? Not a true supporter if you do that
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Not going to anymore this year. It takes me three hours to get there, I spend poo loads on tolls, food, parking and fuel. I don't get home until very late. I am prepared to do that to watch a good product, win or lose, but right now it is just not worth the hassle just to go through torment.
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But will I fork out another $6k for memberships/coterie packages in 2015 - right now the answer is NO. Base membership for me
I understand why you would do that but I don't think that it helps when supporters pull their coin out of the club.
We still need the cash to get better. Unfortunately AFL's a money game these days.
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Why would you go to games if you're disconnected? Not a true supporter if you do that
Hmmm
I won't go until Hardwick is gone. Doesn't know how to coach.
Disconnected with the coach or the club Phil? You aint a true supporter either. Troll.
FWIW good nights sleep still empty but will go to the games. My 3 year old drew me a picture of me with a smiley face wearing an RFC scarf. I wish I had her perspective on life.
As I said I'll be going to games but I'll be wearing generic clothes and not any RFC merchandise as a form of protest as I did last night. Only my old Tigers VFL scarf for me. She's seen as many hard times as I have over the years and she still deserves to come.
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Why would you go to games if you're disconnected? Not a true supporter if you do that
As opposed to not going until they sack the coach ::)
I also go to catch up with mates, will continue to do that
But will I fork out another $6k for memberships/coterie packages in 2015 - right now the answer is NO. Base membership for me
I understand why you would do that but I don't think that it helps when supporters pull their coin out of the club.
We still need the cash to get better. Unfortunately AFL's a money game these days.
Buts that part of the problem Mr Magic, the club has been able to rely on people like me to (for want of a better term) prop them up.
They haven't had to work hard to get my coin.
I've just done it, no questions ask like so many other people.
Well sorry at some point something has to give and right now the only thing that seems to register with them is $$$. So maybe it's time to hit them where it hurts
Maybe it is time for this club to actually have to work to get my loyalty and respect back and I'm not just talking about the on field debacle we have either.
This club is facing a crisis. ANd truth be known I doubt if they even have a clue about it and if they do would even bother acknowledging it.
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WP
On and Off the ground they have little idea
From leadership on and off the ground they struggle
On field last night they layed over and died
I am extremely disappointed with the so called on field leaders and coaches
They could of put everyone behind the bàll after North kicked the first 2 goals after hàlf time but no
Remember back 10 years ago when James Hird used to play behind the ball against Sheeds wishes as he was a leader as a player
We have nobody
Cotchin ain't a captain
We all dislike Maxwell from Collingwood .he ain't a captain anymore but still acts like one
We have no body
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We should demand more. Don't go to games until we have a proper coach at the helm
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But will I fork out another $6k for memberships/coterie packages in 2015 - right now the answer is NO. Base membership for me
I understand why you would do that but I don't think that it helps when supporters pull their coin out of the club.
We still need the cash to get better. Unfortunately AFL's a money game these days.
this just PR bulldust that our club puts out to suck in the supporters. As supporters we could give our club $100 million a year and they still wouldnt get any success. The current administration doesnt know ho to fix this club and make it successful. We paid (the membership) paid out their debt (again) we gave them money for their new facilities (again) we contributed to a fighting fund to bring in new players and what did they do - they went out and got dead set rejects from other clubs.
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I'll be there , like most around here, we re made of pretty stern stuff, this is just a blip , we ll be better for it :clapping
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A 32 year blip.
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If don't do something quick another wooden spoon is fast approaching
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If don't do something quick another wooden spoon is fast approaching
1st round draft pick in an uncompromised draft though ;D
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If don't do something quick another wooden spoon is fast approaching
1st round draft pick in an uncompromised draft though ;D
One pick isnt enough for us. We need 3 or 4 top 20 picks to get in some serious quality.
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Why would you go to games if you're disconnected? Not a true supporter if you do that
As opposed to not going until they sack the coach ::)
I also go to catch up with mates, will continue to do that
But will I fork out another $6k for memberships/coterie packages in 2015 - right now the answer is NO. Base membership for me
I understand why you would do that but I don't think that it helps when supporters pull their coin out of the club.
We still need the cash to get better. Unfortunately AFL's a money game these days.
Buts that part of the problem Mr Magic, the club has been able to rely on people like me to (for want of a better term) prop them up.
They haven't had to work hard to get my coin.
I've just done it, no questions ask like so many other people.
Well sorry at some point something has to give and right now the only thing that seems to register with them is $$$. So maybe it's time to hit them where it hurts
Maybe it is time for this club to actually have to work to get my loyalty and respect back and I'm not just talking about the on field debacle we have either.
This club is facing a crisis. ANd truth be known I doubt if they even have a clue about it and if they do would even bother acknowledging it.
TBH whilst I do think it's a money game I don't blame you.
The club's Fighting Tiger Fund was a bit of a last hurrah for many of the club's diehard supporters who've endured so much for so long.
We gave generously and with that we have rebuilt Punt Road, erased our debt and given the club it's own reserves team among many other benefits to those at the football club.
However if TFTF didn't work in 'making our club great again' then it would be a bit rich of the club to keep asking for financial support when they didn't hold up there end of the bargain.
You can only go to the well so often and for the RFC's sake this is one failure too many..
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Whilst I will keep going to the games, I'll do so a little disconnected, looking at it with open eyes as opposed to passionate blinkered ones.
At this point of the season I'm looking for little positives rather than wins.
Yesterday I was pretty happy with what I saw from Miles & Dea. That's at least a couple of new names to persevere with.
Yep
Though for me the disconnect happened weeks ago, after the Hawks game
Just don't care anymore
I will go to every remaining game except round 23 in Sydney
But will I fork out another $6k for memberships/coterie packages in 2015 - right now the answer is NO. Base membership for me
GROW UP WP!! ;D
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Don't agree that you need $$ in the AFL to succeed. How many premierships have Collingwood and West Coast (2 richest clubs) won in the last 30 years? 5? Certainly helps but isn't the number 1 catalyst for success.
How much richer are we than Sydney? Would rather have Sydney's success / structures / culture than our mob
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Every Victorian game. Yes. Always have probably always will until we merge, relocate or fold....so at least another 10 years.
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Don't agree that you need $$ in the AFL to succeed. How many premierships have Collingwood and West Coast (2 richest clubs) won in the last 30 years? 5? Certainly helps but isn't the number 1 catalyst for success.
How much richer are we than Sydney? Would rather have Sydney's success / structures / culture than our mob
I'm sick to death of hearing about Sydney's great culture. The AFL has propped them up for years: from getting Lockett up there when we were poised to sign him, to allowing Barry Hall to get off scot free to play in their drought breaking Grand Final after dead set snotting someone in the Prelim, to the cola RORT which has allowed them to secure Tippett and Buddy in successive years. Maybe if we were the AFL's pets like the Swans we could shake off the schizen culture that has attached itself to us like a barnacle over the last 30 odd years.
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A 32 year blip.
:clapping
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If don't do something quick another wooden spoon is fast approaching
1st round draft pick in an uncompromised draft though ;D
One pick isnt enough for us. We need 3 or 4 top 20 picks to get in some serious quality.
I don't know Ramps. We had 5 picks in the top 20 in 2004 and used them on Deledio, Tambling, Meyer, Pattison and Polo.
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If don't do something quick another wooden spoon is fast approaching
1st round draft pick in an uncompromised draft though ;D
One pick isnt enough for us. We need 3 or 4 top 20 picks to get in some serious quality.
I don't know Ramps. We had 5 picks in the top 20 in 2004 and used them on Deledio, Tambling, Meyer, Pattison and Polo.
Exactly we could have the first 10 and only one bloke will become a very good 200 game player. Its not just recruiting, its development and were are severely lacking in both.
Would like to see the invoicing on these areas from the club with regards to FTF donations. :help
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Waddya do, double header next week, BBQ at punt rd and Richmond can pay for my liver transplant :gotigers you basdards
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I will pop along next week, N7 as usual. But what to bring to pass the time? War and Peace, Pilgrim's Progress, Great Expectations? Any suggestions? Perhaps a text of great Russian poetry, in Russian.
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I will pop along next week, N7 as usual. But what to bring to pass the time? War and Peace, Pilgrim's Progress, Great Expectations? Any suggestions? Perhaps a text of great Russian poetry, in Russian.
How about 50 shades of grey. Get yourself into the mood for fornication whilst you read as Freo fornicates us on the ground. :thumbsup
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I will pop along next week, N7 as usual. But what to bring to pass the time? War and Peace, Pilgrim's Progress, Great Expectations? Any suggestions? Perhaps a text of great Russian poetry, in Russian.
I sit in N7 most weeks ;D
I'll be the one in a yellow & black straight jacket, laughing uncontrollably for no reason
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I will pop along next week, N7 as usual. But what to bring to pass the time? War and Peace, Pilgrim's Progress, Great Expectations? Any suggestions? Perhaps a text of great Russian poetry, in Russian.
I sit in N7 most weeks ;D
I'll be the one in a yellow & black straight jacket, laughing uncontrollably for no reason
Come to N51 WP. Best seats in the house and the coffee bar is just up a few steps from me. We can have a cry together! ;D
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I will pop along next week, N7 as usual. But what to bring to pass the time? War and Peace, Pilgrim's Progress, Great Expectations? Any suggestions? Perhaps a text of great Russian poetry, in Russian.
I sit in N7 most weeks ;D
I'll be the one in a yellow & black straight jacket, laughing uncontrollably for no reason
Come to N51 WP. Best seats in the house and the coffee bar is just up a few steps from me. We can have a cry together! ;D
See you on Sat Y&B I'm in N53. I'll have a large latte with two sugars. :thumbsup
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I'll be taking a few weeks off just for my mental health :P
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Struth.......I can't even watch it any more on the box....I act like a friggin lunatic watching it on the box a home........going to the game live is the only way I can watch it without losing it.........
:banghead :banghead
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I'll be taking a few weeks off just for my mental health :P
Just go to the toilet think of RFC and squeeze, you'll be right Stripes. :thumbsup
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I will pop along next week, N7 as usual. But what to bring to pass the time? War and Peace, Pilgrim's Progress, Great Expectations? Any suggestions? Perhaps a text of great Russian poetry, in Russian.
I sit in N7 most weeks ;D
I'll be the one in a yellow & black straight jacket, laughing uncontrollably for no reason
Come to N51 WP. Best seats in the house and the coffee bar is just up a few steps from me. We can have a cry together! ;D
See you on Sat Y&B I'm in N53. I'll have a large latte with two sugars. :thumbsup
Ok Don! My shout!
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I will pop along next week, N7 as usual. But what to bring to pass the time? War and Peace, Pilgrim's Progress, Great Expectations? Any suggestions? Perhaps a text of great Russian poetry, in Russian.
I sit in N7 most weeks ;D
I'll be the one in a yellow & black straight jacket, laughing uncontrollably for no reason
Come to N51 WP. Best seats in the house and the coffee bar is just up a few steps from me. We can have a cry together! ;D
See you on Sat Y&B I'm in N53. I'll have a large latte with two sugars. :thumbsup
Ok Don! My shout!
I'm there! :thumbsup
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Yep
Though for me the disconnect happened weeks ago, after the Hawks game
Because we lost to the reining prems? ::)
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I've missed the last 2 games. Biggest drought for some time, considering both were in Victoria.
I'll be going this weekend. Not looking forward to ugly Fremantle.
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I'll still go to our games, but geez it peees me off when we are down by 5-6 goals at a break and they play ads telling the supporters to give 110% :banghead
I haven't felt 'disconnected' the way I do now watching games ever in the past. I honestly don't care for the result anymore and thats pretty sad I reckon.
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There have been times that I've gone and feared the result but never did I not hope that we would not win. Part of me wanted to believe despite what had been dished up.
Now I have no pride in my side, that's gone I don't want to wear the merchandise, dished the jumper and the tracky jacket on Sunday and wore generic clothing. I am embarassed at the RFC and whilst I still will go because I want to just the trusty Tigers VFL scarf with come with me.
As I have mentioned I will still go but until things "genuinely" improve on and off field I'll just be an RFC follower not an RFC fan or supporter.
That way I don't lose my identity and my link to the club, but through my little protest I can remain focused and aloof from the bs and the spin of the club.
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Yep
Though for me the disconnect happened weeks ago, after the Hawks game
Because we lost to the reining prems? ::)
:facepalm
Err No
It wasn't just because we lost but because of how we lost
Lose having a dip, is bearable
Lose without offering a yelp is gutting
Throw in that it was also the week we got told "we're a better side than last year" by the Coach and then I sat through a pre-match function and got told the same thing by the GM of footy
So I reckon it's fair to say it had a bit more to do with it than getting smashed by Hawthorn
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Enjoy watching the twos at punt road.
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I will never go again until we start winning.
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I will never go again until we start winning.
Theoretically you are supposed to attend both winning/losing to be a good supporter
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I will never go again until we start winning.
Theoretically you are supposed to attend both winning/losing to be a good supporter
;D
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Yep
Though for me the disconnect happened weeks ago, after the Hawks game
Because we lost to the reining prems? ::)
:facepalm
Err No
It wasn't just because we lost but because of how we lost
Lose having a dip, is bearable
Lose without offering a yelp is gutting
Throw in that it was also the week we got told "we're a better side than last year" by the Coach and then I sat through a pre-match function and got told the same thing by the GM of footy
So I reckon it's fair to say it had a bit more to do with it than getting smashed by Hawthorn
But we've lost plenty of times without having a real dip, could even say we beat Brisbane without having a real dip. :lol That "we're a better side" comment still makes me laugh so I can't blame you on that one :thumbsup
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I will never go again until we start winning.
Theoretically you are supposed to attend both winning/losing to be a good supporter
See my previous post about the amount of money I have to spend to attend games!!! I have done that for 30 years, theoretically we should be in the top 4, theoretically we should of won more games than we have, theoretically we should not of lost to the Blues last year in the final...theoretically.. :whistle
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Weak bastards 8)
I'm happy with 3/4 of the list. The other quarter are top up players and old players who will be forced off the list in the next year or so and be replaced by young talent.
Some downhill ski supporters in here
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I will never go again until we start winning.
Theoretically you are supposed to attend both winning/losing to be a good supporter
Not if you wear a skirt
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I think the reason this year is hurting so much is because I felt we were gradually improving and had finally reached a point where we would consistently play finals. Ever since the administration and coaches finally unified and collectively followed the same long term vision I bought in. I could see the gradually improvement year by year in the players, our list and our game plan. I could take the disappointment of the frequent loses in the past because I could see we were building...
...but this year we have gone backwards :help. This is a watershed year for us. We will either change and adapt and rise again next year or fall away and return to ground zero once again.
At the moment though, I can't stomach the frustration and disappointment this year has created for me. Until I can understand why we have imploded this year I'll find it hard to motivate myself to attend games and set myself up for an emotional rodging :nopity
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I'll go and watch us lose, in fact, I prefer to watch games that I think we will lose. You don't have such high hopes and it is less stressful. However, I won't go again until I can watch some effort or some kids having a run.
Hopefully this week we see a turn around.
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I will never go again until we start winning.
Theoretically you are supposed to attend both winning/losing to be a good supporter
See my previous post about the amount of money I have to spend to attend games!!! I have done that for 30 years, theoretically we should be in the top 4, theoretically we should of won more games than we have, theoretically we should not of lost to the Blues last year in the final...theoretically.. :whistle
Just joshing ja jmate
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I think the reason this year is hurting so much is because I felt we were gradually improving and had finally reached a point where we would consistently play finals. Ever since the administration and coaches finally unified and collectively followed the same long term vision I bought in. I could see the gradually improvement year by year in the players, our list and our game plan. I could take the disappointment of the frequent loses in the past because I could see we were building...
...but this year we have gone backwards :help. This is a watershed year for us. We will either change and adapt and rise again next year or fall away and return to ground zero once again.
At the moment though, I can't stomach the frustration and disappointment this year has created for me. Until I can understand why we have imploded this year I'll find it hard to motivate myself to attend games and set myself up for an emotional rodging :nopity
Good post.
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I will never go again until we start winning.
Theoretically you are supposed to attend both winning/losing to be a good supporter
See my previous post about the amount of money I have to spend to attend games!!! I have done that for 30 years, theoretically we should be in the top 4, theoretically we should of won more games than we have, theoretically we should not of lost to the Blues last year in the final...theoretically.. :whistle
I personally think that any supporter who has stuck fat over the last 32, mostly miserable years, shouldn't have to justify their loyalty to anyone. We have more than paid our dues with years of membership, contributions to first the Jack Dyer foundation and now the FTF, and screaming ourselves hoarse on a weekly basis to lift the boys. If many of us are feeling disillusioned now, and feel like giving up in despair, it's only because the latest in a long, long line of rebuilds appears to have run aground AGAIN.
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I think the reason this year is hurting so much is because I felt we were gradually improving and had finally reached a point where we would consistently play finals. Ever since the administration and coaches finally unified and collectively followed the same long term vision I bought in. I could see the gradually improvement year by year in the players, our list and our game plan. I could take the disappointment of the frequent loses in the past because I could see we were building...
...but this year we have gone backwards :help. This is a watershed year for us. We will either change and adapt and rise again next year or fall away and return to ground zero once again.
At the moment though, I can't stomach the frustration and disappointment this year has created for me. Until I can understand why we have imploded this year I'll find it hard to motivate myself to attend games and set myself up for an emotional rodging :nopity
Good post.
:cheers
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I think the reason this year is hurting so much is because I felt we were gradually improving and had finally reached a point where we would consistently play finals. Ever since the administration and coaches finally unified and collectively followed the same long term vision I bought in. I could see the gradually improvement year by year in the players, our list and our game plan. I could take the disappointment of the frequent loses in the past because I could see we were building...
...but this year we have gone backwards :help. This is a watershed year for us. We will either change and adapt and rise again next year or fall away and return to ground zero once again.
At the moment though, I can't stomach the frustration and disappointment this year has created for me. Until I can understand why we have imploded this year I'll find it hard to motivate myself to attend games and set myself up for an emotional rodging :nopity
Bingo. A sense of expectation has led to bitter disappointment.