Big mistake on my part. Worst night of 'Wallaby-watching" in my 66-year life! To compound the problem, it involved my son and the family of Brisbane Broncos-lovers that he married into. I have no problem with Kiwis supporting the All Blacks, but the level and frequency of denigrating comments about the Wallabies as a team, and about individual players, and about Link, was relentless, and hurtful, and given their knowledge of the fact that Mrs Doug and I are such passionate Wallabies fans, made for a miserable night. The "saddest" scenario, was that our Son, a former Rugby player of ability, whom Mrs D and I had invested years of our time and money in, was barracking for the ABs after having a $10 online bet @ $1-91 for the Blacks to win by more than 6.5 points!
I told him that he had "sold his soul for 30 pieces of silver"!!
After all that crap, the score was almost inconsequential! I was so proud of our players, digging in after all the "garbage" that had been heaped on 'The Group' over the last two weeks.
I got home (after only consuming 3 x half glasses of wine over 24 hours, and driving 50 kms), to discover (via ABC radio news), that Ewen had resigned that morning, and once I 'signed in' to G&GR, couldn't post, scroll, or sign off, as everything was 'jammed', (so I haven't read any posts from the match, after the match, or regarding the loss of Link).
So, did the sun shine more brightly this morning? No, because Mrs D and I are fighting over what happened last night, and my future relationship with our son! (I did tell him last night, that I won't be changing my Will tomorrow, to exclude him), but he knows that things aren't "good" between us at the moment!
I'm sorry to 'heap' my problems on you good folk (my "fair dinkum" Rugby family), but I feel that I just need some "Wallabies Love"!!