Season over!

[sharpie]

Originally posted by monopoly19
Sunday's game was the first time I've left before the end, and I don't regret doing it one bit. I'm not going to waste my time for a team who didn't seem to care enough to put it all on the line for the club.

I wasn't doing it to prove a point. I don't think they players would really give a @@@@ whether I stayed or left.

I love this footy club as much as anyone, and will support them to the death, but that does not mean supporting half-efforts. It's not about winning games, it's about the effort behind it. It's not about this culture difference that you always refer to between Melbourne and Sydney, it's about me being pretty disgusted with the efforts I saw yesterday.

You hear it so often but the reality is many people would love the opportunity that those guys have been given - there are young kids playing Aussie Rules all over Sydney that would do anything to play for the Bloods. Just like Cressa did to the very end last year. If the guys out there don't care, well then p*ss off and give me some players who will.

Great comment. I've always said that all I want to see each week from the team is 100% commitment. If we lose, but we have tried our best, so be it, what more can you ask. If we win playing less than our best, goodo, but in reality, that isnt what we need. The boys have to show commitment to the cause and that commitment will then be reciprocated by the fans. Respect will be won. Results will take care of themselves.

[anne]

Unfortunately most players don't really care about the club anywhere near as much as we do. As long as they get their big salaries they don't suffer as we do. Players who loved the club like Kelly and Creswell are exceptions.

[Go Swannies]

Originally posted by anne
Unfortunately most players don't really care about the club anywhere near as much as we do. As long as they get their big salaries they don't suffer as we do. Players who loved the club like Kelly and Creswell are exceptions.

You don't think that might be a bit of an exaggeration? At the B&F dinner last year I talked to Ryan O'Keefe and he was really upset that fans kept talking about how he might be traded. (Thank goodness he wasn't - it's nice to have two players on the ground trying hard.)

Four losses (five if you include the Brisbane PF) and the Swans have gone from "a band of brothers" to a bunch of mercenaries?

[NMWBloods]

I won't leave a game early (in fact for the game on the weekend, I stayed to the end, but I was off my seat and fairly halfway to the carpark before the end of the Richmond song.

I see nothing wrong with leaving a game early when the result is a foregone conclusion.

[Mike_B]

Originally posted by sharpie
Great comment. I've always said that all I want to see each week from the team is 100% commitment. If we lose, but we have tried our best, so be it, what more can you ask. If we win playing less than our best, goodo, but in reality, that isnt what we need. The boys have to show commitment to the cause and that commitment will then be reciprocated by the fans. Respect will be won. Results will take care of themselves.

Ditto for me. I've always taken the attitude myself that if I can come off the field having given 100% nobody can accuse me of anything, and the same goes for them. When the effort just isn't there, well, that's quite simply unacceptable.