I'm going to give the arsewipes a miss today, can imagine all the pompous prancing and pretentious backslapping that normally follows a weekend of upsets, suffice it to say we should be glad for small mercies. Simple arithmetic and a love for the game is all that is needed for all of us to rejoice in a season threatened by peripheral damage.
Nine, the ARLC and the scourge of the game, the bookies, will have collectively sighed relief and so should we all, even the 3 teams still on 2 points won't be hanging their heads, each with a different reason to expect brighter things ahead. Icing on the cake would be a Tigers victory tonight, highly unlikely until you grasp what's happened this weekend.
When I read Parish's column about teams being made up of 17 not 13 I thought it a bit elementary school, I didn't connect that it was aimed at his players who no doubt received a double dose by his partner Sticky before the Mannah Cup. The Warriors are now apparently believing in Elliott and Furner has seen the last of Dugan, physically and mentally. Price another big winner considering his roster and fingers crossed the cellar dwellers may taste more good wine before the season ends.
Don't forget to watch the press conferences on Fox website, they are much more interesting than the arsewipes, especially if you can read between lines . . . Bennett saying they missed Buderus with Gidley sitting next to him is tense.
