The cruellest goodbye

AussieRulesBlog felt for Neil Craig last weekend. It really was the cruellest goodbye.

 

The team ran out for its first game under former assistant and now temporary head coach Mark Bickley and produced the sort of football that would have saved Craig’s job for him. Admittedly they were only up against the doormats of the competition in Port Adelaide, but it was still a Showdown.

 

If you fancy a bet — and AussieRulesBlog doesn’t — you could do a lot worse than covering the Demons to either beat the Blues or come within a whisker of it. But, you say, the Cats licked the Dees to the tune of 180-odd points just a few days ago. How can they possibly get up to compete against the Blues.

 

Well, of course, the answer is simple — the coach was sacked. And apparently the players think the world of him.

 

We haven’t worried about looking for statistics. It’s happened often enough. Coach sacked mid-season after players give nothing, players play out of their skins the next week.

 

Yeah, well thanks for that guys. Just a bit @^%$*#~ late!