Sunday, May 3, 2009
Bugger,bugger,bugger,bugger,bugger,bugger......
Im still too distraught to give an objective post match analysis. In a nutshell Uni created 3 chances and acored 3 goals. The whites created 12 chances and scored 3 goals. 2-0 up at half time, 3-1 up with 20 minutes to go and we still managed to snatch a draw from the jaws of victory. I'll leave the detailed description to captain Les. Next week is the frontrunning Old Boys away, a match where if we play like we did against Shellharbour City (was that the same team yesterday?) it will be a long afternoon.
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Took a wonder goal to do it though and from the man I pointed out to Less as being their major threat (feel no satisfaction in being proven right). And while I feel your pain I do also recall goalie Glenn making a fantastic save in the first half. Hope Les updates us on his office goalscoring battle with "Anonymous".
ReplyDeleteChin up Andrew,
ReplyDeletewe all played well and should have easlily finished it off...however luck was against us, Tony was right, we should have marked that bloody number 10...and we also should have been 6:0 by half time. We should lock the game down at 3:2 with 10 defenders, we should make every pass count and not panic in front of goal. We should ride bikes to work and leave the car at home.
What made it all worth it was watching Michael Charles pump his fist like Hewitt after scoring a cracker of a goal. The joy was felt for mile around. "C'MON....." Yeah!
Great game.
I feel better today I was watching Didier Drogba yesterday arvo he done the same thing as me, couldnt beat the goalie one on one. He did it twice. I was including the great save by Glenn as one of their 3 chances, you couldnt call their last goal a shot, but from what Ive been told that bloke does it on a regular basis.
ReplyDeleteAfter our little team bonding session saturday night (which was great by the way for those that didnt attend) I was flabbergasted to hear some of the ages being bandied about of our team. Grant 50 no way! Trev the same age as my dad! I have a whole new respect for some blokes.
Its not the age that counts mate, but what you do with it.
ReplyDeleteDont forget that we will play the "Old Boys" next week. They are top of the table are'nt they?
And from what I saw of the Old Boys when they played the maroons they also have a number 10 midfielder that has a shot on him. Sorry could not make Sat night ....we old blokes need our rest.
ReplyDeleteWhat is it with the powerful number 10?
ReplyDeleteMaroons 10 Tony Harper
Whites 10 Steve Bynon
England 10 Downing Street
The Film '10'
Mitre 10
10 fingers an toes
10 commandments and 10 plagues in Egypt
Football legends to have worn the number 10: Michel Platini, Diego Maradona, Ferenc Puskás, Zico, Pele, Lothar Matthäus, Gary Lineker, Roberto Baggio, Zinedine Zidane, Rivaldo, Ronaldinho, Dennis Bergkamp, Michael Owen, Juan Román Riquelme, Rui Costa, Francesco Totti, Denis Law, Gheorghe Hagi, Zvonimir Boban, Alessandro Del Piero, Michelle Akers, and Lionel Messi.
Michelle Akers fair enough, but Michael Owen a legend? Maybe at a club that hasn't won the league for almost 20 years...
ReplyDeleteI guess we have to define 'legend', but for me being a short guy, Michael Owen was a bit of a short hero at Liverpool. He is proof that you can do well at a top level and not have to be over 6 foot and athletic. Maradonna and Robbie Fowler also fit this bill.
ReplyDeleteI guess Owen just forgot to retire when he was at his peak. Sort of like Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd ... and TH10
ReplyDeleteStevie H your argument lost all credibility when you said the maroons number 10 ..... please
ReplyDeleteI guess we have to define 'Power'. Tolstoy commented on Napolean by saying that the higher a person's position the less power they actually have. By this he refers to power of being free to decide on one's actions...therefore a soldier at the front line can make one of a hundred decisions in order to survive. Due to the size and impact of his decision, Napolean had just a few choices.
ReplyDeleteWhen the french invaded russia in 1812 napoleon and tsar alexander had ample opportunities to avoid war but their egos got in the way causing the deaths of close to 2 million soldiers and civilians. Sounds like a mighty big choice to me.
ReplyDeleteOther number 10's, Bo Derek, Stephen Larkham, Anil Kumble 10 wickets in an innings...
So how do these examples of personal and positional power relate to the Maroons number 10?
ReplyDeleteClearly AB12 is suggesting that the Maroons number 10 is a heartless tyrant, with an over inflated ego and only cares about his own goal scoring glory at the expense of the team! He exploits his positional power as the president and tries to retain personal power at all costs. Simple.
ReplyDeleteHmmm...arent these the qualities of every class striker. Ruthless in front of goal, ability to dribble and personally take on the defence and the ability to influence the overall outcome of the game.
ReplyDeleteIn this case, I would declare the maroons number 10 to be 'powerful' and therfore my original arguement about powerful number 10s does have some credential.
Dearest Anonymous
ReplyDeleteDo not hide behind the veil of secrecy. Be bold. Athough I have been a thorn (prick!) in the side of TH10 and his inner circle for the past two years I do not fear the retribution - because I live in the shadows.
TH10 (and his inner circle - you know who you are boys) are the worst kind of people involved in sport. Promoting their own needs above the others (how many games have you seen TH10 run the line in this season?). To borrow one of his dull phrases the man is all tinsel no tree, or as I, a classicly trained musician, prefer to say "all wind, no wood". This club is a vanity project - once Th10 (and his inner circle) have been kicked down the back and some of the more deserving players have come out of, say, sweeper, to take their place in the forwards, this will be a better, more harmonious club.
Ben10
ReplyDeleteTo Whom it May Concern
ReplyDeleteI am writing to your publication in response to recent criticism of TH10. As president of his fan club (Australian branch) I find this criticism reprehensible, motivated by jealousy and only mostly accurate.
We at FOTH10 are sick of the accepted portrait of our favourite player as a Stalinist dictator motivated solely by satisfying his lust for power.
In contrast, the player we fondly call Macca (short and fat like Scott McDonald, he also bangs in plenty of goals in a pissweak league but has never got on the scoresheet for Australia) is the model team man, believing football be to be a game where each has his role. That is, he takes the ball from you and shoots it towards the posts and you other blokes run around a lot and make tackles.
He has done much for his current club, including his 120 goals in 22 games (give or take 100), and has never put the needs and desires of one team over the other. Except of course when he tried to poach the mythical character Alex (short bloke, can play, lives on a boat).
Aside from the ground (where he spends most of his weekend because he has no friends), Th10 is a loving family man who once managed to go five minutes of So You Think You Can Dance? without slagging anyone off.
He is, in football if not in bed, a tactical genius. In fact this week his savvy summation that "If Arsenal had scored two more goals and United two fewer over the two legs then the Gunners would have gone through" marked him as a future coach of Sydney FC.
In conclusion, I would ask that you tone down the personal invective or next season he might sign one of the teams into open age first division and stick you in it. Without Alex.
I wonder if TH10 is the lovechild of Bo Dereck and Napoleon?
ReplyDeleteI wish I was doing fines again this season ......
ReplyDeleteSounds like Ant has the genes of Napoleon not TH10
ReplyDeletehang on I just realised I might be part of TH10's inner circle .... I'm offended!
ReplyDeletebring in the fines!!!!!
ReplyDeleteDid I miss something...What are the fines for?
ReplyDeleteI get it now. The 'inner circle' is like the DaVinci Code secret society...keepers of the TH10 Grail. Ants comment about fines is a decoy to throw us off the track. Maybe we were getting too close to the secrets of the TH10 Inner Circle.
ReplyDeleteOur game on the 23rd is going to be interesting.
ReplyDeleteUm, hi
ReplyDeleteI'd just like to point out that the group calling itself "Friends of TH10" is in fact an unofficial splinter group and not endorsed in anyway by TH10 or his acquaintances. In fact so far off the ball are they that in the midst of their missive they say that TH10 spends all his time at the ground "because he has no friends" and then claim themselves to be friends.
Frankly we at AOTH10 are getting tired of this endless debate and wish it would end forthwith.
We would, in closing, like to thank TH10 for maintaining a dignified silence in what must be a difficult time of innuendo and smear.