Our form since the opening rounds has made a lot of us restless and the result is - it’s been open season on Blitz. Guys starting up all sorts of bogus negative threads, keyboard warrior coaches are out in force, heck even Blitzer’s have turned on their own. You know times are bad when Mr Lid Off himself has deserted the lid off stratosphere and starts up a thread all about mediocrity!
I thought I’d start up a thread searching for the love and in this search, bringing the love back to Blitz.
Let’s start by NOT discussing the physical deficiencies of our list but more the mental and emotional. Like an itch that needs to be scratched I know we all want to contribute with;
- “Dysfunctional forward line”
- “Carlisle back, Hurley Forward”
- “Vanilla panic merchants out, excitement machines in!”
- “Midfield full of one-paced plodders”
- “Aging bunch of list cloggers taking games off the youth”
- “1 quarter pea hearted efforts”
Last year Bomber talked about “searching for the key” to get in and change the mindset and attitude of our players as we struggled to put in four consistent quarters of football. Brilliant for one quarter, deplorable the next two. This year, Hirdy seems to be faced with the same dilemma. I believe Hirdy, Bomber and most at E.F.C have diagnosed the problem hampering our boys however, like cancer I’m not too sure there’s a remedy in the near future.
Season 12’ and early 13’ proved good signs our list is heading in the right direction and the brand of football we want to execute. Late 13’ and 14’ really stunted that momentum with events both on and off field and season 2015 is unfortunately, evidently the by-product.
Our team the employees if you will, have been tremendously let down by the lack of governance and poor management by our club,the employer as we are all aware. Now most of us have been let down by our employer’s at one stage in our lives (if not by all our past employers) but how did it result? More often than not it’s discussed, negotiated and resolved, ‘forgive and forget’ and move on. But what happens when this process becomes a lengthy, political, exhaustingly corrupt and biased conflict that’s played out in the public domain? What happens when during this process, it turns out the enemy is not your employer but the industry itself in which you work! What happens when the industry you’ve grown up loving and dedicating most of your life thus far proves to be a self-serving, greedy and corrupt entity whom you now have lost all your faith in? You’ve given blood, sweat and tears, sacrificed your weekends and social life as a young man for this game only for it to spit right back into your face.
I believe here lies the biggest concern with our current team. They have simply fallen out of love with football due to the damned saga and the results on field is the writing on the wall. It’s claimed it’s fair share of scalps; Finals in 2013, Hirdy in 2014, Bomber (as assistant) in 2015, Crameri and Ryder to name a few. It’s the result of the poor form from some of our proven performers in Watson, Pig, Carlisle etc whom are literally mentally and emotionally spent.
I’m not sure if the traumatic events of the last 3 years will ever allow for our boys to fall back in love with football again but as shareholders of this great club, perhaps another #BackOurBoys and #StandByHirdy campaign may be a good place to start!
We should remind the footy world why exactly the EFC is far ahead of all the others and remind our boys why they’re playing for the sash!
I’m sure our recently acquired board member who is an expert in communications would have some great ideas too!
Lots of love,
DannyD