6-6-1-2

Announcing the departure of Flight 6612 to the Pan Pacific region. All passengers are asked to check in at Gate U21 and await further instructions before boarding.

"U gonna write something tonight?" That was the question asked of me when I was leaving the netball stadium tonight ( 12-02-09). I didn't immediately answer because I knew that whatever I wrote, no matter how analytical it was,my critics will be up in arms. However, in all fairness to the person who asked the question, her friend and others I will try.

In the initial stages of this blog, I wrote about the excess amount of running the national U-21 squad was doing at that time.I was criticised and even the team I am affiliated to was thrown in the ballpark. The truth has finally been told!

Last week the margin of victory against the national U-16 team/squad and a BWU team not in training should've been noteworthy. Persons involved were on a high.Tonight Flight 6612 from BAR U21 crashed all over Waterford!

The senior national squad outsprinted,outshot,outjumped and outpassed what was truly a lacklustre squad in training for arguably the biggest moment for all concerned.

In the year of a major competition and what will obviously be the only one for most of the squad, nothing seemed right and everything went wrong. Poor passes, strange combinations,the inability to mark properly,poor footwork and lack of knowledge of the game/rules made it easier for the senior squad.The lone bright spark was in the shooting circle with Shaniece Banfield, catching afire and trying her hardest to do what twenty-odd others couldn't.

The U-21 squad has played and is playing netball because of what they have brought with them to this level thus far. That they have not been instructed on how to PLAY the game is another topic worthy of a discussion.

How can we justify scoring less than thirty goals against a team that can't get seven players to attend training? One blog critic made this statement. How was it possible that arguably the best U-21 team ever ( I didn't say that ) can score 6-6-1-2 in four FIFTEEN minute quarters? Sure it is still a squad, but class is class and what is form????

Q: Would it be fair to blame the players for everything that happened? Do you remember the ginger-bread man?
RUN,RUN,RUN, you can't catch me I'm the ginger-bread man. HAHA, he was caught and chewed FIFTEEN times before he was swallowed.