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August 13, 2006
Born To Lose
Hands up if you honestly thought we could beat the Swans yesterday. To be frank after we'd kicked the first two goals I started to wonder whether we were actually a chance. As you may well know we were not. Class prevailed in the end and we got done like a dinner.
Personally I was as sick as a dog and sat there for four (well, three and a half) quarters looking emo, coughing my lungs out and trying not to throw up before dramatically storming out at the 10 minute mark of the last.
Crowd Watch
For the third consecutive week I suffered angst at being seated in the midst of complete morons. It doesn't matter where I go people annoy me. This is why, were I loaded, I'd buy my own Demonblog.com corporate box and remove myself from the bogans in the grandstand. For the rest of the year I'm going back to my old tactic of sitting in the back row of the entire place with nobody near me.
End Crowd Watch
Due to the fact that I am still completely rooted I'm OUT for writing a full report. All I will say is that I don't know why they persisted with Miller at CHF for so long and left Dunn on the bench or wandering around completely out of position. Miller is NEVER going to be a gun CHF - let it go.
2006 Allen Jakovich Medal Votes
5 - Jared Rivers (a couple of dodgy disposals aside the difference between a 6 and 15 goal loss)
4 - Matthew Bate (is scoring the points Sylvia did in the first three rounds for playing half decently in a rotten side)
3 - James McDonald
2 - Cameron Bruce
1 - David Neitz (four goals that kept us in it, but ranked down for a series of brain explosions)
Leaderboard
37 - Cameron Bruce
32 - James McDonald
30 - Brock McLean
20 - Brad Green
19 - Jared Rivers (Leader: 2006 Marcus Seecamp Medal for defender of the year)
19 - David Neitz
17 - Aaron Davey
16 - Byron Pickett
15 - Travis Johnstone
13 - Nathan Carroll
12 - Matthew Whelan
10 - Matthew Bate
9 - Colin Sylvia
6 - Russell Robertson
6 - Adem Yze
4 - Chris Johnson
4 - Daniel Ward
4 - Ben Holland
3 - Nathan Jones
2 - Brent Moloney
2 - Brad Miller
2 - Clint Bartram
2 - Jeff White
1 - Nathan Brown
Next week: North at the MCG. Players will return. No excuses. If we lose this it's over. If we win there's an ever so small light at the end of the tunnel. Instant blockbuster? Balls to that. For the first time this year I'm shafted from a game because of work so if you want to do the review and hand out the all-important votes let me know (supermercado AT demonblog.com).
And now I'm going back to bed. It's been lovely.
Posted by Supermercado in Match Reviews at August 13, 2006 10:30 AM
Comments
Until Saturday I didn't mind Swans fans, but made the mistake of moving to follow the sun at 3/4 time and spent the last quarter surrounded by a pack of chunts who:
- insisted on bagging Melbourne with such pseudo-footy-intellectual nonsense as "good hard running, Melbourne".
- referred to Adam Goodes as "Brownlow"
- kept calling their own team "Bloods" or "South" despite the fact that that particular club fell apart through lack of support 25 years ago
- loudly recalled some (probably fictional) day 10 years ago when Melbourne beat them by 100 points, there were 500 "South" supporters at the game and they stayed to the bitter end, in contrast to the Melbourne supporters who were making for the snowfields halfway through the last quarter of Saturday's debacle.
The sad thing was that there was no comeback, because Melbourne's only positive efforts in the last quarter came via dodgy square-up free kicks.
How I hate them. Can't believe I was actually barracking for them in the GF last year.
Posted by: knoxville at August 14, 2006 10:40 AM
I'll do the match report if you like. Be warned that Nathan Carroll is pretty much inked in for 5 votes unless Nathan Thompson carves us up again.
Posted by: Peter at August 14, 2006 01:38 PM
Would everyone please stop blaming Miller for every mistake this club makes - it is insane.
He was not that bad, true Dunn should have got more game time, but the delivery was awful and therefore no forward was great (Neitz aside).
The vitriol that Miller cops here and on other sites in offensive and embarrassing. He may not be a "gun CHF" but that does not mean he is a useless git either. He is capable, just down on form and confidence.
I don't understand why people hate him so much. Give the kid a break and show some repect. There were plenty out there on Saturday that deserve criticism before Brad Miller, but he is always the first and sometimes only (see this piece) to cop any.
Posted by: Clare at August 14, 2006 03:16 PM
Where's the hate? I don't rate him but I'm not insane against him either.
Posted by: Adam 1.0 at August 14, 2006 04:12 PM
Peter, mate,
I was big time on the Miller bandwagon two years ago. The bloke has everything it takes besides the ability to kick a goal and the willingness to do the hard stuff (the real hard stuff, not that shirtfront crap).
yesterday at the G he played a great game, presented well, even did some moderately hard work but he still squibbed it too much for a bloke thats only value is with assists.
He had two chances to kick a goal and should have done better on both occasions even if he didnt kick it. Once in the 1st quarter when he was 40 out , noone in front of him and he stood there like a 'peanut' (thanks clarko less the laptop) and then lame assed it to the top of the square for a turnover. Second attempt from a mark 25 out slight angle....the bloke has to kick these if he wants to get some supporters onside.
Anyone in the Gate 5 side top floor wing , apologies for my outburst when Miller screwed that first one.
No hate here, just an expectation that a talented bloke should do better. I was almost praying he kicked the second to give him some confidence.
Posted by: Mordja at August 21, 2006 11:35 AM