I can’t believe how many cliches are being trotted out come semi-finals time. Tooley is especially bad at this. He could write his column after a frontal lobotomy. As an experiment, League Blog underwent intense intracranial magnetic stimulation designed to shut down all but the most primitive, league-related parts of the brain. Although comprehensively soiled and twitching profusely, we emerged a few minutes later with this:
The Broncos have class players all over the park and have come good at the right time of year, pushing their worrying midseason form slump to the back of their minds with a string of top notch performances. The Titans are coming off a shaky last start loss to a rampaging Sea Eagles outfit, but have been strong all year, and will be boosted by a strong home crowd at Skilled Park, where they’ve won 11 of 12 this year. In the cauldron of semi-final football it’s likely the match will be won and lost by the team whose halfback cooks the best beef bourbignon. Scott Prince has an outstanding culinary repertoire, but Peter Wallace is known to cook a great range of comfort foods for his croaky-throated halves partner Darren Lockyer. It’s anyone’s game but as luck would have it bookmakers have this match at short odds to be decided by a midweek replay, with both coaches conceding their team cannot win the grand final in 2010.
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The winner will be the team that plays out the full 80 minutes. Forwards win big matches. Our opponents are strong right across the park. They are big match players. We are confident. Catches win matches. Loose lips sink ships. This is do or die as far as our season goes. I can't believe the game is professional but officialdom is not. We are not looking that far ahead. They are an awesome team. It is surreal. I am surreal. I can't believe it's not butter.
ReplyDeleteI see you've had some intracranial magnetic stimulation too. Htime
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