European Championship Water Polo: Malaga 4-13.7.2008

It’s not like Madjar is exactly lighting up the field right now.

They aren't exactly shining right now because they’re gearing up for the Olympics, but they still have better chemistry—they've been playing together forever. Meanwhile, Rudic is just messing around with constant substitutions and experiments, and honestly, I'm totally over his whole philosophy. 😁

The broadcast director is doing a terrible job here 🤮
I mean, what can you even say? We're probably going to lose this match, though I guess we'll still move on to the group stage

It’s like our guys just met in the locker room five minutes before tip-off.
They should have just sent out the B-team. At least they might show some heart instead of playing like the loss was already decided.

Well, now we've gone and completely roasted him.😠

And NBC is throwing money away on nonsense like this.

What an absolute disaster of a game. I honestly can't even bring myself to watch this anymore. rigo: man, we had two different chances while playing with a man advantage and barely managed one decent shot on goal 🤮

Madjar is coasting through this. If they actually played with any intensity, we’d be looking at an eight-point deficit already.

Seriously, what is with this? It feels like nobody is allowed to take a shot if a teammate is on the floor anymore. Every single play just goes straight to the guy on the sidelines. 🤮

We weren't even that bad during the first two quarters, but now we're just playing stupidly.

After years of watching such uninspired and cowardly play, I’ve never really had much respect for our water polo players.

rapidbison42 said:After watching years upon years of this uninspired, spineless playing, I’ve never had much respect for our water polo team.

He's not wrong.

They always found a way to blow games "with style." 🤮

lol

7-6

The critiques continue, naturally 😁

of course

Look, it's the opening round, so I guess I can give them a pass. Even if we aren't following any actual game plan—we're basically playing some chaotic tenth option, like something straight out of the Wild League.

We've got to beat the Greeks and the Slovaks, and we should probably take down the USA too. That’s all we need.

We’ll take down the Slovaks. As for anyone else? I have my doubts if we keep playing like this.

All in all, it was an easy win for the Canadians. Our guys played exactly how we expect them to when they hit the big stage.

To’s a bit of a minor disaster, if you ask me...
We're down another player... 🤮
And don't even get me started on the defense... 🤮🤮

lol 10-9