An article by the aptlt named “The Eternal Optimist” who gives his take on the events of the past weeks.
Just back from Hospital and the wrists are healing nicely; neck’s still a bit sore from the rope marks. OMG! What’s the date? It’s the 19th!
We played Liverhampton 2 days ago. I’d better phone my mate.
Hi, mate, so hit me with it, 6, 7, 8, how many”
Hello, you ok? Well actually we just lost 2-1 and nearly had a draw.
Come on, I know I was depressed, but you don’t need to "buffalo-poo” me. I can take it.
It’s true, we played some good football, there were some pairs gelling really well and we actually stopped them playing. We had two defensive errors that gave them their goals. Our goal was a really good, inspirational one and our new CB wasn’t even playing. We had less than 40% possession; I think and nearly drew, finally putting to bed that Argie manager’s trouser pressing, possession hype.
So, you’re telling me, that I needn’t have kept wetting the bed, I needn’t have tried to slit my wrists, or tried to hang myself and I could have avoided jumping out of the window onto the greenhouse. All I had to do was just keep the faith.
Yes, but I think it would have helped if we had bought the players more quickly. We do have history on that subject. If Les Reed is still here after the window shuts, I would like a certain person to have a private meeting with him holding his favourite old Hockey stick.
I would like him to say something along the lines of, Les, do you want me to hit you with this? Les would say no. That certain person would then say if you don’t start buying players more quickly, I will!
Just joking, but you get the sentiment.
I feel much better now, after what you said, what about our next game, are we going to be ok?
To be honest, I didn’t enjoy lots of games last season with all that substance and no end product. I enjoyed last Sunday’s game, even though we lost. You might want check on how many possible new faces are in the starting 11 at the end of the window, could be up to 8.
This unique situation that has happened to Saints has coincidently given Ronnie K something towards his own team, which now seems to be better than that Argie’s very thin squad last year.
We are moving towards a situation where we will have much better depth and finally, cover (still one CB short) and for the first time for years, we could think about rotation! Well! Well! Well!
It pays to be an optimist.