Better than missing the semis every year.
Is it ?
There's a comfort of sorts knowing that your team isn't making the semi's. Unless they are good enough to win the title, they are all not winners.
To see the acceptance of our lot on our poor, deranged supporters faces is one thing. We have accepted our lot, and it ain't pretty. We know where we are at.
On the other hand, I kind of feel sorry for supporters of a club like yours.
35 years since a title. 35 years.
14 wooden spoons. Honestly ? . . 14 ? !!! and you dare open your mouth at all ? !!!
A few years of making the finals and somehow planting a seed of hope and optimism in your fans.
For grown men, it doesn't matter. But when I see kids and youngsters . . . all decked out in their Parra merch . . . . faces beaming as you beat last place . . . it breaks my heart that these poor kids are brainwashed into thinking their Parra is a great team, Gutho does his stupid fkkn wanker wiggle, Moses pounds the logo on his chest as he runs towards the bottom of the slope . . . and these poor kids think they are morals to win the comp.
And then when the inevitable choke happens again and again, these poor kiddies are absolutely crestfallen.
They don't understand how their mighty Parra crumpled and folded again.
Luckily, they don't understand the embarrassment that goes with multiple wooden spoons.
Is that better than missing the semi's every year ? Dunno. But I do feel real bad for the false hope that these kids go through, I hope they R OK.
I've seen my team go through the finals with the most dominant f/a in memory, then saw them win a comp.
Unless you're over say 45, you've only got Rex Mossop replays, but enough wooden spoons to furnish all your neighbours and their families.
I'm OK with my lot, thanks.