“This game was so annoying I started writing the match report in the 2nd turn of OT. I started with 10 players due to handicaps; that was hardly the annoying part. Jinxed starting whining after two turns of the match when my luck was 100% after I had made 2 whole blocks and 3 2+ dodges. I heard about more "luck" in my favor despite pointing out that I felt he was discrediting my coaching. To be honest, I had some good plays, but they could have been easily avoided had my opponent caged better. Finally after 12 turns of complaining about every instance of “luck” I explicitly stated that he was sounding like a really poor sport considering I had 6 players left and he was only down 2-1 with 4 turns to go. So finally he stayed quiet and of course scored to even up the match. He made another minor complaint in OT after he made another placement error that allowed me a 1d pow that resulted in a stun. I effectively had only 5 players left at this point because my tree had taken root again. Oh, by the way he took root on 4/6 rolls and failed ¾ stand ups, none of which I pointed out in the game. Nor did I point out his multiple dodge through a TZ and 2 gfi blitz on his turn 7 of the second half resulted in a pushout niggling injury to my best catcher and the ball scattered out of bounds and was thrown in and caught by one of his players 4 paces for the tying score. And why? Because luck changes throughout the game and complaining about it the whole way through and ignoring your own errors can accomplish only a few things:

1) Discrediting the other coach’s ability to capitilize
2) Encourage your opponent to whine and point out every instance of luck on your part (which I did not do)
3) Make you look like a whiner

Jinxed, you are obviously a decent coach, but please, spare your opponent the gripes about luck.

Edit: Do you feel any better pointing out every instance of bad luck? Even in your initial comments, you list out 3 good points that you effectively cancel out by referring to more bad luck. My point is simple, nobody feels good when there are complaints about luck. Especially when there are no acknowledgements to a coach that makes a nice play. You choose a coach name with a self-fulfilling prophesy attached it; not that you *will* have bad luck, because *everyone* has bad luck, but instead that you will always feel jinxed when you *do* have bad luck.

As far as nobody complaining about it...I did the first time these same two teams played. Despite my "nice" match report, I did remember telling you that you seemed to complain a lot despite the fact that you were winning at the time. I can't speak for everyone else. I find it hard to believe that I am the first coach in over 1,000 matches to mention that you whined a bit, but I will take your word for it. Oh, and by the way, you did not mention how lucky you were on the pushout, niggle, throw-in, catch, and resulting tie play. You only mentioned that the niggle was harsh after I said "ouch". Heck, you even complained when a 6-orc gangfoul resulted in a KILL to my ST 4 dodger bc my apoth worked and you only wanted a BH. You can't win when you judge each individual situation on luck or try to rate it on critical plays. To me, a critical play was not putting your guarders in a good cage, not my 1d blocks with strip ball to get possession. I think we can go back and forth on these points. Write more if you feel the need, but unless you make an insult deserving of a Zinedine Zidane head-butt, I won't feel the need to comment again.

EDIT: Oops, perhaps there was a mistake due to a language difference. I did not think you insulted me at all. I only meant that you would have to give me a big insult (trying to make a joke too) to make me want to reply again. But I guess I lied, because here I am replying again ;-)

I agree that we agree to disagree.
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