It will turn, stick fat

[gerry101101]

I’m sure there’s other old farts on here like me who’ve seen this story before. Sometimes it’s been us, sometimes other clubs. It feels like there’s no way out. If feels like everything that can go wrong will go or has gone wrong. It feels like an endless pit and we’re just in free fall without any mechanism to go back up. And it keeps feeling like that.

And it seems impossible now. But eventually, gradually, and almost imperceptibly, it turns. It always does.

It’s not a matter of having faith, it’s a matter of recognising that the wheel is forever turning. It can turn quickly. or turn slowly. For us it’s incredibly slowly. But it will keep turning.

And eventually it moves us on from here.

It will come.

 

[Makeshift Park]

I love this club but it makes me depressed

Yeah that's the word. I wouldn't even care that much about getting flogged but I just couldn't sit there after what happened to Chom. It ******* hurts. I might just be in a particularly emotionally vulnerable place rn for unrelated reasons but I couldn't just be there listening to everyone ******* cheering and having fun while feeling like I was at a funeral. First time in my life I've left a game early.

You both seem like top notch individuals and I'm glad I support the same team as you both.

The road might be long and bumpy, but we'll get to where we should be one day, I'm sure of it.

 

[NMFC49]

I've been considering this for a while.
3 game m'ship next year + Kayo. Save myself $400 and it's 10 metres to the fridge, dunny and bed.

Loved you North for 60 + years, but l'm broken.

same, 60 years. think i'm done. A long long time ago we were ordinary, but we always went down fighting. This club has changed.

 

[Firebat]

Must admit I turned it off after the Chom injury, that was just devastating to see. The non-effort on display and flat footed bullshit was tough to witness and I have better things to do than watch our 28+ year olds waltz around doing f all.

Can’t wait for next week!!

 

[TheKanga]

When will it turn?
I've been patient for years now...

 

[My Left Foote]

I'm trying! It's tough when you live in FNQ and the Roos get only 5 or 6 live games on the tv a year. ALL their cousins live in Melbourne and go for the lions. And every lions game is televised live in Queensland. Their grandpa has been working on them...

Grandpa needs to mind his own business or he won’t get to see his grandkids ever again

 

[Flawed Genius]

Excited to watch the boys next week!

 

[Nylex]

You don’t give up on those you care about

 

[Hearts to hearts]

Yeah that's the word. I wouldn't even care that much about getting flogged but I just couldn't sit there after what happened to Chom. It ******* hurts. I might just be in a particularly emotionally vulnerable place rn for unrelated reasons but I couldn't just be there listening to everyone ******* cheering and having fun while feeling like I was at a funeral. First time in my life I've left a game early.

I left at half time, wasn‘t even embarrassed about it. I’m tired and life is too short. I made the effort to go and I wasn’t up for the rest in person. Watched the third quarter on Kayo on my phone on the train. By the last quarter I was home in my pjs eating chocolate in front of the tv. Mind you, 10 minutes of Hamish and Darcy and Jobe and I wasn’t sure I’d made the right decision, at least at the game I missed that dumb****ery.

I’ll stay a member and I’ll keep going to games and I’ll buy and wear the gear, so I guess that’s sticking fat. I have just got past letting my emotional state be ruled by how a bunch of kids perform at a game of footy each week.

I am confident it will turn around, at least to the extent I won’t expect every week to be a loss. And the good times will mean more for having been through all this.

 

[Mathiasp]

Yeah that's the word. I wouldn't even care that much about getting flogged but I just couldn't sit there after what happened to Chom. It ******* hurts. I might just be in a particularly emotionally vulnerable place rn for unrelated reasons but I couldn't just be there listening to everyone ******* cheering and having fun while feeling like I was at a funeral. First time in my life I've left a game early.

Same. IF you are down for any reason unrelated to football, as I have been, times like tonight are just a killer. And what happened to Chom is devastating

 

[Ligma]

I could literally go and buy a Collingwood membership but I care about this club too much to just turn my back on them in one of their lowest points.

IT WILL TURN

 

[gerry101101]

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts

 

[Orange Peanut]

this is 96 fitzroy type stuff our playing group is broken they do not play for each other or the jumper and sadly one of the few that does have a go is currently in the back of an ambulance

Highlight of the night was Lingy advising that the ambulance with Chom on board would now "take him to the hospital".

 

[amaz199]

Senior players on this list that don't know elite standards.

That's where we're at. Gonna be a rough ride until our kids take over.

 

[Passmore]

Giving up is not a ****ing option. Yeah take a break, distance yourself a bit if you need to. Don’t think you need to sit through every minute of every flogging. That’s just self torture.

After a freshen up , you’ll miss it and come back.

 

[Gasometer]

I can handle where we are at but it’s the implication on a Monday that somehow you as a fan contributed to the belting

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

I’ll be there next week. That Korean chicken place on ground level is


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[Ligma]

I’ll be there next week. That Korean chicken place on ground level is


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Gami is soooo good

 

[Uncle_Leo]

This is the first time I am starting to think it won’t turn.

I’m so sick of losing

 

[SheezNuts]

It’s actually bizarre how much a football club can affect your mental health

 

[Scallop Industry Thug]

It’s actually bizarre how much a football club can affect your mental health

You aren’t numb yet?


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[Ischenko]

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

 

[Spud11]

“It will turn”. So it’s inevitable like a goose banging it’s head on a typewriter eventually coming up with Shakespeare?
That’s heartening.
Because we have a lot of geese on our list who have NFI when it comes to playing football. But I guess if we just keep picking them, eventually they’ll be good? Sweet.

You don’t need pride, or standards, or ability. Nah. You just need time. Because “xxxx was bad and then good, yyyy will be bad then good”.

Meanwhile literally every other team who started behind us this year look better than us. You can’t tell me if we were playing the Dogs tonight, we wouldn’t have completely rolled over - which is what we’ve been famous for in recent times. The Hawks have less experience, but more ticker than us and probably even more upside.

We’ve got the most successful coach in recent times and he gets afforded time to fix it. But fixing it means enforcing standards and rewarding form. Not picking f…….. Kayne Turner

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Kayne Turner

Age

29

Ht

180cm

Wt

71kg

Pos.

D/F

Career

Season

Last 5

D

11.3

3star

K

5.6

2star

HB

5.7

4star

M

2.6

3star

T

3.5

5star

MG

150.3

2star

No current season stats available

D

11.0

3star

K

6.8

3star

HB

4.2

4star

M

3.2

4star

T

4.8

5star

every week and punishing Hugh Greenwood

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Hugh Greenwood

Age

32

Ht

190cm

Wt

92kg

Pos.

Mid

Career

Season

Last 5

D

16.9

4star

K

8.8

3star

HB

8.1

5star

M

2.3

2star

T

6.8

5star

CL

4.6

5star

D

17.4

4star

K

10.4

4star

HB

7.0

4star

M

1.5

2star

T

8.9

5star

CL

5.6

5star

D

16.4

4star

K

8.6

4star

HB

7.8

5star

M

2.2

3star

T

7.6

5star

CL

4.4

5star

. We’ve got him for 5 years and this had better not be a Terry Wallet venture.

But nah, hang tough because one day it will turn.

Whatever happened to trying to win every game? You get what you put in. You reap what you sow.

This club is disgraceful.

 

[Makeshift Park]

I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

Ah, Waiting for Clarko, one of Beckett's finest works.

 

[Engimal v3]

I've sat through a hundred floggings, and I'm sure I'll sit through 100 more. Kangas 2023 premiers, doubters can queue behind the Port fans to hum on my sack