Originally Posted by
UNCLE BOOG
I'll blindly cheer the Wallabies.
Like the small fat kid up the back of the Uruguay fan club. Because regardless of >what I assume< of the Wallabies, I pay for tickets, I buy a jumper, but they owe me far less than I owe them.
there are many things we hang as responsibilities these days. And it appears, the Wallabies MUST perform before we can have any national pride or display any gratitude. (and good Lord I should use the term national pride without being sledged for being inconsiderate) ... But we won't buck up, it's about THEM appeasing us.
That's Shit.
Being there, cheering on, being proud (like our parents cheered when we lost 40 nil in the rain as kids) and respecting the effort and saying: "mate, I'm still proud of you, look at that cracking bruise, you did some good stuff today"
that's not good enough these days, not for the fans who "bought a ticket".
"But, they're professional athletes..." bah fucking humbug.
They're a paddock full of lost little boys hoping that someone will wipe the mud from their chin, tell them to ignore the blood in their teeth and to go out and play with pride. Thats what WE owe them.
They owe us less.