Yegads people, it’s Thursday already! Luckily it’s not Thursday night yet though which means I won’t repeat the same mistake as the last two weeks and actually put in a fully functional Supercoach team in this week.
Or as close I can humanly get to one with this lot really..
So there I was, just walking down the hallways of Feed The Machine stadium when I bumped into Hunter.
‘Hey mate, did you know you look like our coach? I wonder where he is at the moment?’
‘But…I am your coach!’ I stammered, finally after he’d already walked on, too little, too late.
Interestingly while I’ve been M.I.A as coach for the last two rounds (and phoned in the one before that), it’s actually gone better than I’ve thought. If you count a 50% success rate in this Supercoach game something to brag about after clean forgetting the footy was on..
Ugh, another bye round in the AFL that’s caused merry hell for team Feed the Machine. And come the Thursday just gone, I could either plan diligently or phone it in.
No money on which option I took. Although strangely that turned out to be the correct one..
Glory be, it’s the 3rd week of the AFL bye round and it’s a big one: Adelaide out, Collingwood out, not to mention Essendon, Melbourne, West Coast and Hawthorne also having a break this round, possibly off to sun themselves somewhere nicer than wintery Australia.
Which while nice for all the players and coaching staff involved in reality, you can imagine the merry hell this causes for anyone playing AFL Supercoach at the moment, possibly wondering what to do with the gaping big holes suddenly formed in this week’s line up..
Well I was until I started to shuffle the deck chairs around on the titanic..
I’m a day early for my usual ‘Oh god the footy starts again tonight, better hash together a semblance of a team’ usual Friday because for the next four weeks the AFL are doing Thursday night games again. Thanks to Ross Noble, I’ve got the brain power of a gutted slug – but luckily I made some sweeping changes across the week early that’ll hopefully will come good over the weekend.
And yes anytime I’ve emphasised hope before, it’s backfired spectacularly. So on that note, let’s continue to drive this team into the ground then!
Oh good, it’s Supercoach bye round again. Which means the degree of difficultly in terms of me actually winning a round in this fantasy footy comp has climbed from ‘Monsterous’ to ‘Ha ha fat chance you unlucky idiot..’
In my fruitless quest for Supercoach points so far, I feel this classic Rocky quote is well overdue: But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!
11 rounds in and I’ve taken enough hits already, is it time to win again? To rack up some decent scores without anyone falling over? Please?