New Maps

By: Abby | November 30th, 2009

   

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My mental map of Germany is based entirely around the past 3-4 seasons in the Bundesliga. Cities that have had representation in the league in that time have a place, which gives me a somewhat-interesting concept of where things actually are in the country.

The only positive I can take out of Saturday is that I’ll get to learn a whole new map next season.

Because things are dire, things are not going to get better, and I have every expectation of going into the winter break on five points. The €3 million that has been promised to Funkel for reinforcements is not nearly enough to pull us out of it. The team is demoralized, disoriented. The fans are getting arrested.

It’s hard to find words at a time like this. We were hapless. Frankfurt, no great team themselves, in no great form, dominated easily. This should have been when the Hertha team showed they had the desire and heart for the long fight ahead. It’s hard to say that we do. With fixtures against top teams coming up, no one is very hopeful.

It was that atmosphere that went into Hertha’s general meeting today, which makes it a bit surprising that the current management came out so well. They’re staying in power, at least, and Michael Preetz seems to have impressed with his speech. Apparently, he was very honest. (Which is great and all, but it doesn’t solve anything. As “crap” as the 2. Bundesliga is, we’re going to have to play there.)

And just in case things weren’t humiliating enough bei Hertha, this happened.

What more can be said, really?

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• Santosh |  November 30th, 2009 at 10:45 pm

  
  
  

  Anybody making the trip to Latvia to watch our boys? Hahahahaha.

  

• Maria |  December 1st, 2009 at 1:50 am

  
  
  

  Well, the map of the 2nd division doesn’t look too different from the map of the 1st: Almost all the clubs are in the west and south…

  

• Paul |  December 1st, 2009 at 3:03 am

  
  
  

  The worst part is, we are now at the start of between a 5 and 10 year desert. Drop to the 2nd league, play there a few years, make it back up and then slowly build up before competing at any serious level.

  Hard to say who shoulders what blame, I wish somehow it was all some sordid betting scandel, at least then it would make sense!

  

• Jefferson |  December 1st, 2009 at 4:03 am

  
  
  

  The Union Berlin and St. Pauli matches should be fun at least!

  

• Jan |  December 1st, 2009 at 8:53 am

  
  
  

  St. Pauli are in top form at the moment and could win promotion. But a former West vs East Berlin derby is one of those fixtures I’ve been missing in the Bundesliga (alongside Germany’s best inter city rivalry). If only everything else about the second division wouldn’t be so depressing.

  Looking for even more positives: giving players from Hertha’s productive youth academy match practice will be much easier in the second division as well.

  

• Jefferson |  December 2nd, 2009 at 7:04 am

  
  
  

  I take the point about Pauli, Jan, but don’t get your hopes up about the amateurs. They’re near the bottom in the fourth division and just lost to Plauen, which I previously believed was a lake and not a place!