I knew a loss was the most likely outcome I knew we needed to be on our game to have a chance.
We were out played by a better team but more then out played they were destroyed and embrassed.
It's the hope that kills you..
This loss hit me hard my little bloke 7years old was in tears I held it together till we got home.
Hope everyone else is doing better and getting through it.
Anyway it's just footy just a game a cruel cruel game.
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Sorry that your little one was so upset. Hopefully next year will be better
I hear you brother my youngest bloke is 17 and he was shattered. Even worse we had tickets in the panthers supporters bay and they were relentless, not a good experience at all. I love this club and have my whole life but fuck I hate this club too sometimes, if you have followed them for as long as I have you will know what I mean by that. Again, I'm sick of saying this, we will dust ourselves off and get ready to be built up with hope..
Hear you mate, for very similar reasons. I am devastated. I didn't anticipate such a complete and utter dominance by the Panthers over us.
Yep, my young bloke too. 8 year old. Took himself to bed with about 10 mins to go at 28-0. Sobbing and hiding under Doona. Not even interested in the 2 late Eels tries. Didn't want me near him. Just told him that sometimes you can be disappointed with things that happen in life and this will be a good learning experience. He just kept saying "... leave me alone..." .
I was in 2 minds at this point. Part of me hoped he would fall asleep quickly to put his emotions to rest. On the other hand, I wanted to see that he was ok. I just told him I wanted him to listen and he didn't have to respond now. Told him that no matter what, we love him and that when he wants to talk to me/us - to come and get me. Told him it doesn't matter if that's in 5 minutes time or in 5 hours in the middle of the night and he has to wake us up. I asked if he understood that and he said yes. He came to sit with me half an hour later for a chat which was pleasing. He asked about the old saying about having to lose a GF to learn how to win one. He asked about what if the Eels never get another chance to win a GF. I told him they will. I hope that I am right!!
The whole lose a grand final to win one mantra is a good one to hold onto. A lot of learning happened last night for our team - they learnt what it will take to win a premiership, and how it comes down to all the little things.
Penrith are the fittest team in the comp, they demand excellence and effort, they hold themselves accountable. When they play lower sides they're not content with a win, they want to hold the opposition to zero. That's the culture we are up against.
Next year is a new year, if we can learn from this loss and come into next year hungrier than ever to be excellent then maybe this learning will have all been worth it.
We have to hope!
Or we can expect to believe our own hype again and be inconsistent and go nowhere.
Last night was our shot we get the same opportunity again soon
Nice post Old School Learning how to be a parent to teach kids how to accept the down side of life and learn something from that experience is not easy.It is part of all of our journey through life. It is important to put these things into some kind of perspective and develop other interests to move to get some balance between disappointments , success and pleasure.
Agreed Tad. Thanks for the words of advice. Toughest job there is, being a parent, if you chose to care about trying your best at it that is. Too easy to take the simple way out too, if that way inclined. We all know how that usually turns out for everyone in the long run if the easy options are favoured.
Yep the hope certainly is a killer, and we rightly believed we could do it. In the end, this Penrith team is a juggernaut - the new Storm. We can have a season so topsy turkey like we did this season and still expect to take out the big prize.
We pick ourselves up again next year much richer for the GF experience. We strive for consistency and precision in everything we do, we have players stepping in who know what their role in and are able to execute. We have a juniors base that is developing the next great NRL players. These things are what we should be looking to do over the next few years. If we aim to make GFs consistently, we will win one before long. Most teams who make their first GFs lose, but the great team come back again and again and win it after a couple of losses. We can do this.
yes a very disappointing finish to the season, being beaten is bad but we were completely outclassed which makes it worse. Thought this was our year but not to be and unless we get a couple of quality signings it won't be our year for a long time to come. A lot of people blame the ref but if they take their glasses of we had our chances and had a few things go our way a well, it seems to me that BA went in with the same plan when we beat the Panthers but Cleary is a thinker and went in with a different plan and we had no answers. Really proud of the boys and just gutted.
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