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Just took a little gloss of what was a fantastic rugby fest for me this weekend.
I was at Bath to see us beat Newcastle Falcons (Matt Burke was outstanding), then watched Ireland show tremendous teamwork to grind a result at the last Lansdowne Road game, sobered up sufficiently to see England get their sorry asses kicked by the French and settled down to watch the torrent download of the Reds v Force (thanks SpankytheKing).
I had managed to avoid the score and so you can imagine the buzz I was feeling mid-way through the first half, the second row gets binned and the Force put 13 points on the board without reply. trouble was they probably listened to those two clowns in the commentary box and forgot there was a second half to complete against a team that were getting terrible "support" from their home crowd (Burgs, the camera's showed quite a few blue jerseys).
Needless to say and history will show that the team who played for 80 minutes deserved the win. I am a firm believer that good supporter's need to experience the bad times to be able to enjoy the good ones, of course it would be nice to have some good now but hey that's life and sport guys.
Don't panic things could be worse, and in response to your post Burgs:
a) Western Force isn't such a bad name - it could have been England
b) I think the jersey is ok(ish) - at least there isn't a red rose anywhere in sight
c) Subiaco is all about the crowd and atmosphere, even I see that on TV.
d) Surely it's "our" team - that is as long as you don't mind an outsider supporting the Force!
Heads up and move on.