The Kangaroos can be somewhat - er - schizophrenic at times. One week, they can beat the best teams in the world (despite finishing only sixth, they defeated every team in the top eight this season, and made it to the second to last week of the season...) or be bloody awful (...only to be annihilated by the Swans in a performance that left fans thinking (A) the Swans would win the Grand Final in a cakewalk - they didn't - and (B) who are these imposters in the Kangaroo uniforms, mate? The 'Roos also lost to many of the bottom of the ladder teams, sometimes badly.
With stars like Brent Harvey, North should never have those kind of lapses. So in looking for a counterpart, finding a team that does that sort of thing regularly is tough - the Kangaroos went a stretch of five consecutive games in the middle of the season when they defeated a "better" team, then lost to a "worse" one the next week. Hmmmm....
Their American counterpart: the Los Angeles Angels (of Anaheim)
(See? The Angels can't even decide where they live.)
The Angels are another team that will look like world beaters one week, and then like a farm team the next. With stars like Albert Pujols, Mike Trout, and so many others, you'd think they'd never get in such a large slump that they couldn't find someone to pick up the slack - and yet, we see it all the time with the LAAoA. All the talent money can buy...and yet it's the Kansas City Royals in the World Series. Must really sting, doesn't it, Angels fans?...
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