oh... sorry.
There isn't one. I tend to be an introvert y'see although I can be an actuated extrovert if need be.
Whatever that means.
My takeaway from all that is tied in with my own recent experience. I had a job I loved and my shoulders gave out. After being on compo for a year there's no legal need to be kept on so they let me go, over the phone. 11 years service.
So to hear Fyfe talking about how unreal it all is and he and BOBTM talking about the grind of fronting up every day when it could be gone tomorrow rang a nice big fat bell in my loungeroom.
For most people these guys are a sort of accessory in their lives, something to get frenzied about in the stands or deeply wounded over come Monday morning. They aren't regarded as people, struggling with their own lives. For the players, life is a bizarre succession of events that you prepare for at peak intensity, week in, year out. How do you prepare yourself for losing it? If you've never lived life outside of the comfortable conformity that is going to work on Monday and having weekends off you'd have no reason to think it can be completely different, less secure... a whole list of cliches that struggle to come close.
I found their chat to be a refreshing break from the usual formulaic clap trap and an insight into Dealing With ***
There is no punchline. It just happens.
