Firstly happy rugby league to you and your family. I feel it’s just a part of competition. There has to be a first and a last place. That’s the beauty of sport. It is real, unadulterated competition where only the best succeed.
I think even the wooden spooners should have a sense of having been there and tried. Of course, they shouldn’t be proud, they should be embarrassed and deservedly ridiculed by their fans. But the important thing is they were there. Someone has to come bottom and although it is a humiliation, it is also an opportunity for growth. I mean you can’t get any worse, unless of course your team is completely wiped out of the competition. In rugby league, we try not to let that happen and we want the wooden spooners to learn something.
I think it’s a good idea for the team that runs last to do some extra work in the community. Tackle problems which need addressing. A kind of community service. Punishment but also providing invaluable help to the community. Perhaps a player from the losing squad could spend the off season filling in for workers who might want to chuck a sickie or do the shopping for the elderly. Perhaps even internationally. It would be good for the sport too, especially if it was rugby league. For example, while unblocking a toilet in a share house in India, a wooden spooner might be asked what they do when they’re not elbow deep in human excrement and they’d proudly say, “well I play rugby league”. “What’s that?” The bewildered Indian might ask and then they can be educated on rugby league!
I was on our school football team that came last 3 years running, we were fairly dire. Last deserves the spoon, it’s that tradition and embarrassing thing that makes everyone remember how crap you were.
I really hate to think how it will be for the team members walking into their local pub.
I always feel disappointed being last. It's just do infuriating that the effort you pit into all that preparatu on didn't pay off as you wanted IT to.
My mom used to give me the end of a wooden spoon across my behind when I was a kid. I didn't like winning that at all.
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The team that wins has a hard act to follow. In the next game, everyone wants to knock them off. The advantage of finishing last is that the pressure is off... you can only improve, get better, and pull off the next upset.
Still finished ahead of all of those who didn't have the guts to show up. Hell yeah raise that spoon with pride.
Reminds me how much I love Alan Rickman
Failure is never fun. It is always better to be a winner. I guess if I had to go up in front of a crowd to get ridiculed by getting a last place trophy it would make me want to do better next year.
Looks pretty cool. I’ve never heard of this event though.
I've never heard about winning a wooden spoon in a competition. I've been hit with it as a kid but I've never won one
I would imagine it's better than winning the clay spoon, right?
Well if you're not first you might as well be last
u I don’t want wooden spoons
it too big
never heard of it
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