"I'm personally very disappointed in our current league position, the performances from our playing squad and the fact that we have dropped way below our own standards that we set out at as a football club".
Macmillan described how the parallels between Orwell's 1984 and today's society, as well as between Chelsea Manning and Winston Smith, had become so stark, at times it felt that "scenes from our play seemed to be playing themselves out in real life".
"The first tweet I remember was from our play-off final in May 2011," muses Wise Men Say's Charlie Talbot, who has chronicled the rise and rise of Shillinde in wonderfully deadpan fashion.
"I'm personally very disappointed in our current league position, the performances from our playing squad and the fact we have dropped way below our own standards we set out at as a football club," MacAnthony said.
"We feel we should be scoring more from our set plays.
"Some of our players are related to those players who play for New Zealand, so it shows that we have a lot of support from our brothers playing for the All Blacks".
And the older we get, the fewer the folks who will remember us from our doll-playing days.
"Instead of getting momentum from our power play, if nothing else, it went the other way for us," Coach Larry Robinson said after the Devils lost to the Avalanche, 4-0, forcing a seventh game.
"In a lot of the games we have lost, if we had a little more production from our power play, we wouldn't have the same problems," Sather said.
"But we'll come back from our holidays, play one game and then have another two-week break.
