"I am utterly devestated by that result, but more importantly by the performance. Emphasis was placed on how important the trophy was but nothing on this."
I picked up on this as well, in the days before the game Dino was extremely outspoken in how important he viewed the match was for Vics Supporters and how he was strategically planning on beating Alty etc! Is there a coincidence between this focus and importance that he clearly placed on the match and the way we were convincingly outplayed and outfought yesterday???
I had a feeling in my stomach that we were going to lose yesterday when I saw the Vics players in a huddle before the game, I know you can easily say "so what?" and "that doesn't mean anything", but I usually take this to be a sign of a strong team spirit and preparation, was no suprise to me then to see them running harder and working more than us.