Content to Lose

"The second half was 7-6 (Passion). During the first half, we looked as if we were going through the motions, expecting to lose and content to lose" - Matt Boevink (rough quotation)

I hope I'm not the only one with insomnia on a Thursday night. The lineup tonight looked a little shakey, with no Myall, Paul or Dusty, Jangles threatening to stay home and Your Humble Narrator suffering from the flu. That said, I think I played fuckin' awesome tonight, kicking it off with some hussle in the midfield and a lovely outside in just over Gref's extended fingers to Gav in the endzone. Gav's game was also rather excellent tonight, being in beautiful position a number of times, showing a lot of speed in the midfield and combining with Bev and myself to run on for some lovely long play.

Heroes took the first point, but it Passion took the next 3 of the next 4. They got up to 5-2 and took the half at 8-4, due to some great overhead grabs from Alex and some strong D from Dan, also due to some crappy options from the Heroes. After half-time, we decided to play some Zone / Transition, which worked a charm. When we play hard defence, we can really fire up for O. We were hard with our force and marked the dump well. Passion were playing savage, so some of their players looked tired, and we could exploit this with some great deliveries to well timed cuts. George was relentless in defence, with some amazing layout D's, showing why he plays Firestorm D. Bev's presence in the endzone seems essential, especially with Myall absent. This switch made a lot of sense, and these things should be considered.

To close, we got it back to 10-8 but lost 10-15. If we played like we did in the second half all game we would have won for sure.