Quote Pat Bateman="Pat Bateman"Imagine if everyone on this forum rocked up to work tomorrow and were as bad at their jobs as them numpties tonight. Do we have any self employed tradesman?…. Wouldn’t be getting paid for doing a rubbish job would they?? ……. Nurses/paramedics/ Dr’s etc…… yes some poor patient would be getting some very poor care …….
These lads need to take a look at themselves and realise they live in a bubble where they can play inconsistent and rubbish yet still get paid and just roll onto next week. They want to spend a week in the shoes of the spectators who properly have to graft to earn day in day out and pay a lot of money and give up a lot of time to go watch them put in performances like that, the bunch of wage stealers.'"
There’s a decent point in here somewhere… but I don’t think the analogy works totally… teachers doctors and nurses are not in a gladiatorial profession … where where they are judged by beating other teachers doctors and nurses… there’s a physical and mental side to professional team sport which means if either of those aspects is off.. then the opposition will prosper…
I’ve worked in environments where people have not tried… been incompetent and even deliberately sabotaged the work… and because of the others in their team and that there is no opposition to take advantage of this, their efforts (or lack) have been hidden, obscured in the overall ethos of doing a good job.
I can be disappointed or even angry when things don’t work out… at work at home and in sport…
… but my overall feeling watching the score develop on Twitter was disappointed… but I’ve been subject to the vagaries of being a Rugby League fan for long enough to know that the good bits are worth suffering the bad bits!
But that’s a personal choice and ultimately if that’s the criteria by which you spend money for entertainment… maybe competitive team sport is not for you!