Be a man, fellow Blades

[Champagneblade]

Disappointing result today but very difficult without 5 strikers, our marquee centre half and last year's first choice keeper.

I admire Wilder. A big deal was made of them being without their striker yet Chris made nothing of his woes, so be like Chris:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

 

[BigBed]

Right......

 

[Roygbiv]

Don't think you'll find too many overeacting after that. Was a game that could have gone either way and would have gone ours if we had any of our first choice strikers playing

 

[Bladeinleeds]

We'd have got a point with our first choice strikers at least imo.

Unfortunate but a good second half performance and on another day we'd have converted - played better final balls

Norwich defended well tho giving them credit

 

[Cerberus Blade]

Disappointing result today but very difficult without 5 strikers, our marquee centre half and last year's first choice keeper.

I admire Wilder. A big deal was made of them being without their striker yet Chris made nothing of his woes, so be like Chris:

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Cheers Rudyard!

 

[Cerberus Blade]

We'd have got a point with our first choice strikers at least imo.

Unfortunate but a good second half performance and on another day we'd have converted - played better final balls

Norwich defended well tho giving them credit

Yes. All 10 of them.