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I for one am really enjoying the positivity of the forum over the last few weeks. I am no holier than thou preacher, and I know this place is full of passionate fans, and we all wish the best for the team which gives us so much. We all look forward to the games, want to cheer our boys on, ride the rollercoaster with them, embrace the success and feel the failures. We get ribbed by our mates when we lose, and we give it all back when we win. It's a big part of our lives.
We all react differently to results and we are all human and sometimes it's natural to want to blame someone for ruining our day by stuffing up a play etc, but I always remember as a young boy in the early 60's walking home to our place in Norfolk Street from the Sports Ground , with my dad and uncle, and how they would talk about the game, the outstanding memory is that they always thought we were unlucky when we lost, they always talked about the good plays we put on, or the great tackles, and the near misses. I never heard them bag a player.
I think our club has done a great job of putting together a bunch of guys who create a TEAM, some established stars like Teddy, The Moz boys, Keary, JWH, TKO, Rads, Toups. Angus and Cords, plus some potential stars, like Manu, Sammy V, Sam Walker, Fletcher Baker, Sitili, Lindsay, Suaali and some hard working team players like Liu, Butch, Hutch,Lam and Iku. They can't all be stars, the salary cap just doesn't allow that, but they all contribute to the TEAM.
I think the first game I went to was inthe late 50's, when i was 7 years old, so have ridden the good and lean times, for over 60 years and the last 25 years, since Freddy joined the club have been the most consistently successful period during my lifetime. I fukking LOVE being a ROOSTERS fan. I don't know what's going to happen this year, it would be history making if we won the big dance with an 18 year old at halfback, anything above 4th would be a great result taking into account the loss of Friend, Keary and Cords for half a season.
All I'm trying to say is enjoy the ride, it will be bumpy, embrace the wins and wear the losses. They are YOUR team, you chose them, they didn't choose you.
We all react differently to results and we are all human and sometimes it's natural to want to blame someone for ruining our day by stuffing up a play etc, but I always remember as a young boy in the early 60's walking home to our place in Norfolk Street from the Sports Ground , with my dad and uncle, and how they would talk about the game, the outstanding memory is that they always thought we were unlucky when we lost, they always talked about the good plays we put on, or the great tackles, and the near misses. I never heard them bag a player.
I think our club has done a great job of putting together a bunch of guys who create a TEAM, some established stars like Teddy, The Moz boys, Keary, JWH, TKO, Rads, Toups. Angus and Cords, plus some potential stars, like Manu, Sammy V, Sam Walker, Fletcher Baker, Sitili, Lindsay, Suaali and some hard working team players like Liu, Butch, Hutch,Lam and Iku. They can't all be stars, the salary cap just doesn't allow that, but they all contribute to the TEAM.
I think the first game I went to was inthe late 50's, when i was 7 years old, so have ridden the good and lean times, for over 60 years and the last 25 years, since Freddy joined the club have been the most consistently successful period during my lifetime. I fukking LOVE being a ROOSTERS fan. I don't know what's going to happen this year, it would be history making if we won the big dance with an 18 year old at halfback, anything above 4th would be a great result taking into account the loss of Friend, Keary and Cords for half a season.
All I'm trying to say is enjoy the ride, it will be bumpy, embrace the wins and wear the losses. They are YOUR team, you chose them, they didn't choose you.
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