You’ll recall a few years back, the vogue phrase for coaches after everything from a gutting loss to an off-field atrocity to criticism from supporters was, “It is disappointing”. Not “I am disappointed”, for it was bigger than that.

It was not about me and my disappointment. It was so much bigger than that, don’t you see? It is disappointing. You know, the world has come to this. I have not let the side down, it is everything around me. And it is very disappointing.

But friends, that phrase might have had its day in sport.

In January, after a bad loss, Penn State basketballer Ace Baldwin jnr set the tone: “That’s not us. We let guys get wide-open shots, weren’t talking. We just weren’t being us.”

Yes, an untutored observer might think our play was stinking up the joint, but they can’t be expected to understand. That’s just not us.

In the NHL, Winnipeg Jets coach Rick Bowness felt the same in February.

Raiders coach Ricky Stuart.Credit: Getty

“That’s as soft a five-on-five game as we’ve played all year. That’s not us at all, so that didn’t even look like the Winnipeg Jets out there.”

Exactly. A bunch of impostors must have stolen their jerseys. Cos that’s just not us.

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05.04.2024

You’ll recall a few years back, the vogue phrase for coaches after everything from a gutting loss to an off-field atrocity to criticism from supporters was, “It is disappointing”. Not “I am disappointed”, for it was bigger than that.

It was not about me and my disappointment. It was so much bigger........

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