Green Club trumpeters, court reporters, and fans who had broken away from the mothership were recently immersed in fantasies and telling themselves stories.
On Monday evening, I noticed at Sammy Ofer Stadium, green fans wearing hats. A bit bizarre considering the darkness and the winter time. They too were probably dazzled by the wonderful start to the season and the rather dizzying pace of accumulating points. Just like the club's various trumpeters, court reporters and fans who had disconnected from the mothership, had recently been playing with fictions and telling themselves stories.
The humiliating defeat to Hapoel Beer Sheva this week, a kind of Haifa solidarity with the Reds, who also suffered like a diaper this week, brought the fantasy players back into proportion. The incredibly comfortable draw gave rise to illusions
Sweet, confusing those around them, and blowing up a balloon of expectations even before the Greens met high-profile opponents.
We have to admit, the renewed Maccabi Haifa is not yet built for the championship. There are signs of creativity, there is an impressive offensive part, but the squad as a whole is not of high quality and deep enough. Even if specific reinforcements are made in January, the realistic goal is not to settle in a penthouse. At most, to integrate into the upper apartments.
Maccabi Haifa is still not there to the same extent that the fans frustrated with Sammy Ofer were no longer there around the 70th minute.
Voting with your feet
Only 100 zealous Green fans bothered to go to the Sports Hall in Rome this week to watch their beloved team defeat Maccabi Hod Hasharon in the third league games in Tiva. With ticket prices ranging from 50 to 100 shekels, the fans are convinced that they are being "cheated on," regardless of the hot dog in the buffet, and continue to stay away from the Sports Hall in Rome.
In response, the team leaders chose to throw the ball at the fans, who they claim backed down from a popular price plan that was agreed upon with them, and therefore it was decided to return to the original plan in accordance with the expenses and costs.
involved.
Despite the desire to see the team quickly return to the forefront these days, many fans are not willing to come at any cost, even if it means playing blue-and-white basketball without foreign workers. No matter how you look at it, the situation is not encouraging and this story is causing damage to everyone who loves the team.
Decorated for publication
A small confession, I don't usually watch gymnastics competitions, because the tension kills me. On the other hand, it's impossible to ignore the fact that Artyom Dolgopyat, a celebrated Israeli gymnast with a complex name, has proven time and again that he is one of the greatest athletes in Israel of all time, if not the greatest and greatest.
Olympic champion Dolgopiat's coffin is full. This time he won a bronze medal in floor exercise at the World Championships, after previously winning two silver medals and a gold medal in the same event. The guy is decorated to the bone: Olympic gold in Tokyo, Olympic silver in Paris, four-time European champion. "I think I could have done a little better, but that's behind us," said the humble gymnast after the achievement, who continues to have his feet on the ground.
The writer: David Rat, a veteran Haifa journalist and former editor of the "Yediot Tikva" network, humorist, satirist, engaged in comic writing. Author of the books "Every unnecessary word", "With the tongue out" and "Making a joke.
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