hi dudes
they always say that seniors should set examples for their juniors. they say seniors should be a role model for their juniors. they say juniors should learn from their seniors. sad to say, this is totally non-existant in CHS floorball.
Today we had our match against Swiss Cottage. Everyone was hyped before the match, including me. The prospect of qualifying fo the second round, thought of scoring many goals and having an enjoyable game was in all our minds. Then we left off and as we were early as usual, we had time to play around in the court downstairs. I remember Ryan saying "We can easily beat them, they totally suck." and Ms Adeline Krishnan said "With your standard you should thrash them." I agreed with the latter and told Ryan off for being complacent. But secretly in my heart, i was eager to prove my worth and repeat my performance as against argonauts just 2 days ago.
The pre-match warm up began and after a few drills mr han called us in for the usual team talk. He gave us our lines, the usual line 2, line 1 with derek billy ryan and crenshawn. and i was in line 3, along with min hao dion dickson and wee kiat. I thought: Hey, this aint so bad. I remembered i could get along somewhat with min hao's playing style and was comfortable with dickson as my partner forward. The whistle went off, samuel put us ahead within 14 seconds and then someone else scored for a 2 - 0 lead. Then it was our line's first and last time to play on court. To be honest, i felt that we were okay. A long ranged ball flew toward goal took a wicked deflection off min hao to wrong foot Lander. No one to be blamed. Then shortly after the resultant face-off, they were on the attack once again. At the corner, i noticed a free forward right in front of our goal and no one was going to mark him. Panicking i rushed forward to try and cut him out. Just as i reached him, the exact thing i was dreading happened. A simple double pass somehow got to him and i could only reach my stick out to block half the shot which still ended up in the goal.... After our disastrous entry, we no longer played. It was just a rotation between line 1 and line 2.
After thinking thorugh today's match, i cannot help but feel that we, the seniors, have really let our juniors down. I think its safe to say that without any sec 4 in the team of B division, relying alone on our sec 3s, they would have made it this far and maybe have even better results. What have we contributed?
I would like to apologise to all the secondary 3s of floorball, on behalf of any other sec 4 that feels sorry too, for we have let you down. You guys trained very hard and put in alot of effort, in and out of the court, just for this competition. I really hope that none of us would prove to be a hindrance to your performance and that we will still be a team after all. I promise i would put in my 100%, hoping it would be enough.
