HappilyManly
Journey Man
Why the defeatist attitude on the Forum?
1978 Spirit is to be resurrected by the Team that wears the great Manly Warringah Jersey from now on. 1978 Manly Team was discounted, decimated, injured and VICTORIOUS 16-0.
2008 Team of no-names set the new benchmark in NRL Grand Final results, the phenomenal 40-0 people!
All because they believed in themselves and ADAPTED to the conditions.
We should all look at this as a great challenge to be met in the Manly Warringah way.
Manly should simply focus on what they CAN control.
* Time to accentuate the great Dessie's tactical skills
* Time to accentuate the Manly Players' resolve and individual skills
* Time to accentuate the Manly Supporters' passion to the level that lifts the maligned Team
* Time to lift the 2011 NRL Premiership Trophy
I for one will be looking forward to Suncorp and beyond, expecting that no matter who pulls on the Manly Jersey, they will make me proud and happy to be a Manly Supporter.
Note to the 2011 Team of Brothers in Arms who care and protect each other:-
Rudyard Kipling's poem
IF
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!
Wolfie you are not forgotten - get over the reverse Planking Sunshine in full health
http://www.facebook.com/davidwolfmanwilliams @wolfmanwilliams
1978 Spirit is to be resurrected by the Team that wears the great Manly Warringah Jersey from now on. 1978 Manly Team was discounted, decimated, injured and VICTORIOUS 16-0.
2008 Team of no-names set the new benchmark in NRL Grand Final results, the phenomenal 40-0 people!
All because they believed in themselves and ADAPTED to the conditions.
We should all look at this as a great challenge to be met in the Manly Warringah way.
Manly should simply focus on what they CAN control.
* Time to accentuate the great Dessie's tactical skills
* Time to accentuate the Manly Players' resolve and individual skills
* Time to accentuate the Manly Supporters' passion to the level that lifts the maligned Team
* Time to lift the 2011 NRL Premiership Trophy
I for one will be looking forward to Suncorp and beyond, expecting that no matter who pulls on the Manly Jersey, they will make me proud and happy to be a Manly Supporter.
Note to the 2011 Team of Brothers in Arms who care and protect each other:-
Rudyard Kipling's poem
IF
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!
Wolfie you are not forgotten - get over the reverse Planking Sunshine in full health
http://www.facebook.com/davidwolfmanwilliams @wolfmanwilliams