Aberrations my arse! I proudly wear my heart on my sleeve and use Nicks to express my unbridled and completely irrational and obsessive love of Collingwood. My professional life, as an academic, is devoted to calm, careful and balanced research, always grounded on sound theory and evidenced based data. However, when it comes to all things Collingwood, I have to jettison this approach completely. I embrace Collingwood wholeheartedly, without question and am proudly obsessive, emotional, and single-mindedly loyal to the black and white cause. So when I post on Nicks, I don't do this from the perspective of an objective, rational and logical commentator, I do so as a one-eyed servant to the cause of Collingwood. Does this mean that I am sometimes/often way off the mark in my analysis/pronouncements? You bet it does. Does this mean that the mood of my postings swing up and down with Collingwood's fortunes on the field? You bet it does.John Wren wrote:it's not like rudie to be obsessive about anything. so out of character. schazza's re-signing, cloke's re-signing and the trading of cloke are just examples of aberrations.roar wrote:But that's just it, Rudi, it's gone beyond that to something obsessive, bordering psychotic.
Ok, maybe psychotic is overplaying it a touch.
Finally, there are a couple of regular Nicksters whose commentary is almost always sober, measured, rational and objective. I feel sorry for them. If I want to be really objective, rational and sober in my feelings about Collingwood, I wouldn't even follow the Pies. After all, all football clubs, including Collingwood, are now corporate/franchise entities, run by men in grey suits, for the purpose of building their own empires. Even the players are mainly doing it for the money. So if I was to be really honest with myself, I'd probably give up following collingwood completely, knowing that it now has no real connection to its working class roots, where generations of my family came from. However, I choose to ignore these facts. I choose to be deluded and swept along by the romance of Collingwood. I know it's superficial and the 'opiate of the masses', but nevertheless I embrace it 100 per cent. So feel free to disagree with my opinions or pronouncements, after all, I often do so myself, shortly after posting them. But do not dare to attack me for being overly emotional, irrational or lacking in objectivity. Those who do can stick their unemotional, rational, sober and objective analysis up their arse. I'm a Collingwood man and proud of it.