Optimists v pessimists. I don’t care which one you are. I think you need both to get a full picture although I’m glad I’m an optimist by nature.
I think it’s just as annoying someone telling you to just smile mate everything is honky dory, she’ll be right as it is someone catastrophising all the time. Some posters are over the top negative for sure, but I think these are balanced out by the optimists on the site.
I don’t like entitlement (Hawthorn fans the worst in this regard). We were never going to just turn up this year and win it. Too many good coaches and teams in this league to allow that to happen
The players are grinding and battling away. No lack of effort as far as I can tell. But our game plan is taxing. Very difficult to maintain the levels of energy and work rate required to execute it consistently. And we have forward issues. Blind Freddy can tell you that.
I’m just going to enjoy the ride from here on. Head to the games and support the team, take the good with the bad, the positive with the negative. And if we lose I might post a rant on demonland. I thought that was the point of the forum. Let off some steam, respectfully of course