Winmar7Fan wrote:Shaggy wrote:I must be missing some thing but this thread is absolute nonsense.
It is ludicrous to suggest that players don't want to win as much supporters.
But just because they have the desire to win doesn't give them an advantage because every team and player wants to win.
Unlike us the players are at a disadvantage to show how much the loss /or their game may have upset them because they cannot go into melt down for the next week like we do
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Im sorry but i think you just want to believe that . How many players that have retired that have played for us at any length are still as fanatical as us? I know of lots of retired players who really couldnt give a rats arse what happens now . Anyone have Tony Locketts ph number to get the figures started ?
I have never discovered anything that robs the passion from something like making it a job. It becomes the day to day reality, the thing that's going on whether things are good or bad, the status quo. In the case of pro sports, I believe every player who makes it as far as the top league plays to win, because it's a team game, and regardless of who you barracked for as a kid, wearing those colours, singing that song, and playing with that team
will convert you. Do you think Gary Ablett wasn't a Cats fan in the end, regardless of his public persona?
Do they feel a loss for a week like their die hard supporters? Often not I'd guess... but by the same token, there would be occasions where they'd feel them worse, or remember the wins better. TS40 was delisted, who thinks he won't remember his long goal against Brisbane in the dying minutes long after the rest of us have moved on? I wouldn't be surprised to hear that Banger has had nightmares about handballing to a voice in the dying minutes of the '04 prelim, looking up and seeing the Power's colours.
For them it's not the week-to-week prospect it is for fans. It's day-to-day. After a loss, they get one night to fit in as much dissapointment as I feel in a week, then they have to get up and train for next week. If they can temper that dissapointment, good for them, because I never learned to when I played sport.
And by the end of it, at the end of all the blood, sweat and tears, highs and low's, frustrations and joys - who can blame them if they don't find themselves with the same kind of emotional commitment to watching the next batch of guys to run around in the jumper... because for the players there's more to it then that.
Besides which, we're all a little nuts... I'm not going to hold it against them if they aren't too.
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