I guess we wouldn't be frustrated if we didn't care. Why would you walk away from something you care about? However sometimes it feels as though I'm watching just to have my anger and frustration as up to date as possible so that I can vent on point. The actual enjoyment finished a while ago.
Meh. I'll be back next year and probably be just as angry at us picking an ageing, s**t team week after week.
So much this. It's the fact that we care that makes seeing how we accept being mediocre hurt so much.
I stumbled across soccer (football) about 5 years ago late one night on Foxtel. Used to love playing it when I was younger but always though soccer was boring to watch and the first game I watched was 1-1 in the 80th minute and ended up 3-3 with the underdog home team scoring deep in stoppage time. I thought that was pretty exciting so watched a few games and ended up picking Liverpool as my team even thought they were trash at the time. Great fans, liked the story of how they formed (loosely similar to how the Crows were formed - out of a dispute) and have enjoyed the highs and lows ever since which ultimately lead to our first trophy this year. It's refreshing to watch a club have an absolute ruthlessness about how it goes about things and will drop anyone on a whim if you don't deserve your spot.
This year I found myself more interested in watching the ODI World Cup/Wimbledon compared to footy. I just have no interest in watching neutral games anymore and I'm not sure if that's just because I'm feeling disillusioned as a whole at AFL, if it's some of the new rules or (yes I know this is a cop out) the absolute embarrassing performances the umpires put in each week. How we don't have full time professionals doing this is still beyond me The excitement of walking into AO and seeing the ground is just gone. I don't feel like we'll win most of the time anymore and I miss the feeling of 2017 when it wasn't if we wom, it was by how much.
I'm sure these feelings will pass, but I was 9 when we won our first flag. I don't want to wait another 20 years to see my team win a flag.
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