Yes Purch, The Claret has made a bit of a discussion point there.
As a radio listener rooting for the other side I fully understand the sentiment "North lost it". From my perspective, listening in, the game seemed to have "another one of those days" stamped all over it. The commentators were often confused over the umpiring, both ways, but very often it screwed us at crucial times, our discipline robbed us of a more than a couple of opportunities and then the timing of the injury to MacIntyre was commented to have deprived us of a forward target after yet another forward foray went astray. It sounded as though if we weren't screwing ourselves with our bad kicking and wrong options when going forward then other forces were going to screw it when we got it sort of half right.
In short it was looking like yet another follow up to an impressive win where nothing was going to go right. Goals were scarce, and although North failed to capitalize on most of their good work in the first quarter, it was shaping up like we were going to convert even fewer goals from perhaps more wasted oportunities.
Then suddenly we get gifted two goals because of bad discipline in short time.
We continued to waste chances and North scored another goal to break up the momentum after that, but it surely must have been a heavy thump in the wrong side of the Rooster sails. Entering the final quarter I had this thing called hope real close by, usually the three quarter time script of a losing game has that hope concept jammed up some fat lady's clacker as she starts warming the vocal chords. The perception for me listening on the radio was that we stood a very good chance, but how far those two acts of ill discipline contributed to that situation is debatable.It could have been that we would have converted at least one of those goals regardless, because we were certainly making enough opportunities.
The final quarter romp was pure bliss. But how much of that could be contributed to a lift in spirit and would it have occurred had the Roosters not commited the acts of ill discipline?
It is not often I'll give much of an opinion on a game being a mere "radio listener" and therefore relying on other people's interpretations from the outset, but I ahve just drunk a bottle of "Cotes de Provence" Rose, and it went down like lolly water and gives a good buzz. Very happy to have won two in a row for the first time this year.
Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2010 6:04 pm
