(07-03-2019, 09:18 AM)Baggers link Wrote:IF Ed had hunted his own aggott and SOJ went straight to Fyfe from the start we'd have won by 5 goals... good old IF. And IF we'd sacked BB last year we might be top 4 now...
In the pre match chats everyone at ground level was talking about the rain and the effect it would have on skills.
And you missed the point. You're talking 'luck' and I'm talking about the effects that committed aggression have on attitude... which makes 'luck'.
I think "luck" in the generalised sense of team or individual sport is just a simpletons explanation for cause and effect.
There is luck like when a cricket ball hits a flying seagull and saves a final ball six for your team to win the match, and there is the luck that occurs in you doing the hard work to enable yourself to be in the right place at the right time and take full advantage of a circumstance.
The latter is the sMurph luck last weekend, running to the end of the game and executing with awareness a rehearsed skill under pressure in a crowded environment. As result of years of experience combined with fitness, skills and tactical training.
Murphy's luck was a direct result of Casboult's luck from pushing hard and taking on his opponents, a result of years of bench pressing and fitness regimes and lucky instructions from the coach to be the man pushing forward at that moment.
Finally, Fisher's luck of getting to the contest to execute a "lucky" tap on the end of Casboult's efforts, partly the result of years of ball handling and agility drills.
But then none of that is really a luck like the seagull is it, saying the weekend was luck is just a simpleton way of describing the beneficial results of work ethics they don't understand!
Great care has to be taken when reading too much or too little into a term like luck, it's underlying meaning can be so broad!
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"