Tragic Lessons from Kangaroos Dressing Room
This is a comment posted by James Macpherson in response to my Lessons from the Lions Dressing Room. Made me laugh. At least he can salvage something worthwhile from that dismal football team he insists on supporting!
James writes: My beloved North Melbourne Kangaroos song provides insights into why, unlike Brisbane, we are NOT playing finals this September.
“OUT WE COME, OUT WE COME, OUT WE COME TO PLAY …”
Losers are always talking about what they are going to do rather than actually doing it. I wish they’d stop threatening and actually play!
“JUST FOR RECREATIONS SAKE TO PASS THE TIME AWAY …”
Just for what??!!
Losers fail to appreciate the significance of opportunities that come their way. It was said of the British that they liked to take weekends in the country whilst Hitler liked to take countries in the weekend.
“LOTS OF FUN, HEAPS OF FUN, ENJOY YOURSELVES TODAY …”
Losers enjoy losing. If you’re having fun losing, there’s no incentive to win.
“NORTH MELBOURNE BOYS ARE HARD TO BEAT WHEN THEY COME OUT TO PLAY SO …”
Well they might be hard to beat if they came out to play, but they’re still back in the sheds singing “out we come, out we come … ”
North Melbourne are coming and so is Christmas.
“JOIN IN THE CHORUS AND SING IT ONE AND ALL …”
Losers are leading choruses when they are meant to be smashing the opposition. Why is my footy team singing when they should be nailing the opposition.
“JOIN IN THE CHORUS NORTH MELBOURNE’S ON THE BALL …”
And there’s our problem. We’re on the ball when we are supposed to be kicking the wretched thing. Stop falling over fellas and try moving the piece of leather with some fluency through the middle of the ground toward the goals.
Losers miss the main point of the game and become preoccupied with silly games.
Losers boast about being on the ball whilst winners are kicking the thing through the goals.
“GOOD OLD NORTH MELBOURNE, WE’RE CHAMPIONS YOU’LL AGREE …”
Margaret Thatcher reckoned that “if you have to tell people you’re a lady, you’re probably not!”
Say no more.
“NORTH MELBOURNE WILL BE PREIMERS, JUST YOU WAIT AND SEE.”
And we continue to wait …
