Wednesday, March 21, 2007
volleyball disappointment
this is annoying: my volleyball team here has got the link to my blog, so they might actually read this, so i have to thinkl twice about the way i put things so as not to insult them too much... ;-)
we lost last night. the atmosphere on court was just not right. honestly, you can't say it was great just because when it was going well and we were winning everyone was upbeat and making a noise. that's natural! but the moment anyone made a mistake they'd start beating themselves up and it really made a difference. i couldn't believe the timeouts: everyone was going on about how they were doing really badly, they couldn't do this, that wasn't working and how we were playing really badly. BOLLOCKS! we didn't play really badly. yes, we could've done quite a bit better and yes, we did play badly some of the time, but the game was not such that we should be utterly ashamed of ourselves as some people proclaimed we should... and the whole thing where they go on and on (and on...) about certain people who decided not to turn up cause there were six of us which is theoretically enough, but if we could only have made substitutions it would have gone so much better... also, they said 'if only we had had a substitute we could have taken christine off in the first set, it wasn't fair to her, she was so unlucky (read 'she wasn't playing very well'), it would have been much less traumatic for her if she could have gone off...' again: CRAP! she played fine. so what if some things went wrong, no-one gets it right everytime and the rest of us didn't play any better than she did anyway... it was her first full game. i think she did great :-)
oops, i guess i've ranted a bit. hope i don't get kicked out for criticising ;-) aw crap, it's annoying knowing they might read this, i can't write half the stuff i want to... meh
we lost last night. the atmosphere on court was just not right. honestly, you can't say it was great just because when it was going well and we were winning everyone was upbeat and making a noise. that's natural! but the moment anyone made a mistake they'd start beating themselves up and it really made a difference. i couldn't believe the timeouts: everyone was going on about how they were doing really badly, they couldn't do this, that wasn't working and how we were playing really badly. BOLLOCKS! we didn't play really badly. yes, we could've done quite a bit better and yes, we did play badly some of the time, but the game was not such that we should be utterly ashamed of ourselves as some people proclaimed we should... and the whole thing where they go on and on (and on...) about certain people who decided not to turn up cause there were six of us which is theoretically enough, but if we could only have made substitutions it would have gone so much better... also, they said 'if only we had had a substitute we could have taken christine off in the first set, it wasn't fair to her, she was so unlucky (read 'she wasn't playing very well'), it would have been much less traumatic for her if she could have gone off...' again: CRAP! she played fine. so what if some things went wrong, no-one gets it right everytime and the rest of us didn't play any better than she did anyway... it was her first full game. i think she did great :-)
oops, i guess i've ranted a bit. hope i don't get kicked out for criticising ;-) aw crap, it's annoying knowing they might read this, i can't write half the stuff i want to... meh
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