Dude, what are you on about?
If you don’t want to watch a movie and read 5 books or even read 2 years of pregame blog posts MPFC, then here is a key. Dude… me, you, everyone who tries to Be Cool, Not Cold. Walter… way to aggressive, aggro, loud, can be useful but probably stirring shit. Easy… unbothered, keep it simple, short pass, collapse on defence, awake, alert, supportive. No drama… this is us: let the ref make a call, hand up for appeal, integrity for lineouts, speak, talk, clarify, don’t accost the ref, no league bylaws, cards will happen, fouls will happen; respond and play. I will talk about flow, water, life, ladies, beauty and everything we want and hope for, but alas, this long-winded dude can ramble; coddiewhopple aimlessly wander, so enough. Let’s Roll
Why am I trying to be something else? I was raised as an extractive, raging capitalist f@$k. I am “the man”, the capital, the unseen villain in some stories. My formal training is as a healer; I still do that, steeped in science, math and Bayes’ Theorem. Now I know better; I want to do better, and you lot are along for the ride while I try to become a Stochastic Shaman… Enough of you encouraging my blathering; maybe me going Wú Wú Wú might go unnoticed. To sum up a 2,500-year-old philosophy (Daoism) modernised by a 25-year-old movie (The Big Lebowski, aka Dudeism) to a sentence. Thinking gives me stress, so I stopped doing that. Wú Wéi the path of ease. The point is not to become a raging a-hole, “a nihilist”, a sociopath.
The path is becoming unbothered, accepting or content a focused person. Be cool Dude, not cold. Take er easy. Today and most days, be a Slacker… Easy to say from a capitalist success, good parents, good education, portable career. Don’t worry, I have done decades of striving and slacking. Life isn’t a game. I hope and will help us all make it. Be a slacker, not a bum; the bums lost. Be a slacker; make space for yourself, for the turn for defence. You can’t be wound so tight you break. Everything you do in life on the pitch, except a margin of error, the easy pass is like a savings account there when you need it, and a default mode extra cash save; sudden bill savings pays off. Short, simple and repeatable. On this squad, you may get it right back, which pisses off opponents of running 8-meter shuttles. Barca passes 6-9 meters 90 % of the time; when you miss that pass, three teammates are in position on defence. You are a slacker; the team has space to absorb the error. Anti-fragile hype resilience training: it isn’t tumbleweed just moving along, not adding plot or drama.
Unbothered and maintained with a margin that is slack(er): a loose set of goals, physical, mental, together apart. This lot we face across the ranges; they are a good lot. They go hard sometimes, reckless, but more a drive and desire than malice. Concede the foul, keep the passes short, talk loud and play loose, easy and short.
Te Wero
Be a slacker: easy, loose, resilient…
Think of yourself and your play: a cycle, short, system, easy, repeatable systems. Save safe easy pass buffer a margin, there when you need it and repeatable.
Yo-Ho Let’s Roll
Come on You Plunderers