Sunday, July 19, 2009

When Winning Isn't Enough

We in New Zealand take our rugby rather seriously. Probably too seriously.

When we lose it's a catastrophe and the coaches should swing from the nearest gibbet.

When we lose we don't celebrate. There's more a sense of relief.

And then there's this reaction:
I get an awful feeling deep down inside that all Deans is doing is laying traps not designed to go off until 2011.

Pardon? Can't we just accept we won a tough game against a useful Australian side? I'm pretty sure Deans wanted desperately to win.

And forget 2011. We all know what happens when we think too far ahead of ourselves. Let's worry about the World Cup in, say, 2011.

1 comment:

  1. Hear, hear! That was a substantial win where we were expected to, and did, struggle. But we showed enough courage and skill to implement a structure upon the game that gave us the result we wanted.

    Worrying about what games we might lose is stupid.

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