S2050, you may recall I took a similarly hopeful line for a Reds win driven by 'pride, passion and despair' vs the Blues. I really thought a 'senior players firing up to revive the long lost 'best of the Reds' ' type recovery was probable, it just had to happen didn't it?
With the awful train wreck of a loss vs the Blues I then realised: the team's coherence, confidence, esprit de corps, capacity to hold or execute a game plan, trust in each other, all this was totally and utterly shot. The team was in fact in true mental state and skills state disarray. The degradation of the 2011 Reds was near total. Yet even worse was to come in 2H vs Cru.
I have to say I came home on Sunday night from Suncorp somehow shattered, if one can ever be made that by being a fan of a team, and I now suppose one can.
Something that once had given my young son and me so much enjoyment, fun, real fascination in its building, and great entertainment and local pride had been reduced to something weak and lost that I could barely recognise in the shadowlands of it all. Something I had come to love, become a real part of, had died and a little corner of my everyday happiness had now gone too. Very sad, as much as shattered.
