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Post: # 1136844Post Dr Spaceman »

markp wrote:This thread is the perfect example of why unsubstantiated crap gets reported and printed in the media in the first place.... "Lyon is believed to be preparing to tell his Saints players that he will most likely head to Melbourne."... they are just guessing, and you're all eating it up.
Yep, it’s right up there with Mike Sheahan’s piece today that the HS thought worthy of a back page:

Close observers suspect…

Lyon believed to be…

It is believed the Saints…

..apparently containing…

He is, though, believed to be…

He fuelled rumors of growing uncertainty…..

Melbourne would be tempting to him…..

The Demons are believed….

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/s ... 6135246826

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[quote="Dr Spaceman"]Melbourne is a club that has always struggled for members.

Melbourne is a club that almost merged and more recently had to hold an enormous fund drive to get itself out of massive debt.

Melbourne is a club that has a lot of talented kids but not so many older guns.

So why are the throwing a ridiculous amount of money, and it’s money they probably haven’t even got, at Ross?

According to many on here, the Ross Lyon game plan involves boring football. So boring that some even refuse to go and watch it. How will this help the Dee’s membership drive?

According to many on here, Ross does not have the ability to develop kids. If that’s the case, Melbourne appears a very strange destination.

Ross may indeed by a “big nameâ€


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Post: # 1136851Post matrix »

fox channel 513 just about to talk about where will ross be next year
prob nothing new that hasnt been read here.


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[quote="Dr Spaceman"]Melbourne is a club that has always struggled for members.

Melbourne is a club that almost merged and more recently had to hold an enormous fund drive to get itself out of massive debt.

Melbourne is a club that has a lot of talented kids but not so many older guns.

So why are the throwing a ridiculous amount of money, and it’s money they probably haven’t even got, at Ross?

According to many on here, the Ross Lyon game plan involves boring football. So boring that some even refuse to go and watch it. How will this help the Dee’s membership drive?

According to many on here, Ross does not have the ability to develop kids. If that’s the case, Melbourne appears a very strange destination.

Ross may indeed by a “big nameâ€


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Post: # 1136856Post Johnny Member »

dcstkfc wrote: Maybe because they realise that substance wins premierships.
Does it? Since when?


Plenty of pricks have won flags. Plenty of liars too.


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Post: # 1136857Post markp »

Dr Spaceman wrote:
markp wrote:This thread is the perfect example of why unsubstantiated crap gets reported and printed in the media in the first place.... "Lyon is believed to be preparing to tell his Saints players that he will most likely head to Melbourne."... they are just guessing, and you're all eating it up.
Yep, it’s right up there with Mike Sheahan’s piece today that the HS thought worthy of a back page:

Close observers suspect…

Lyon believed to be…

It is believed the Saints…

..apparently containing…

He is, though, believed to be…

He fuelled rumors of growing uncertainty…..

Melbourne would be tempting to him…..

The Demons are believed….

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/s ... 6135246826

:roll: :roll: :roll:
Yup, and when/if he re-signs with us, it'll be "it is believed frantic last minute behind the scenes negotiations lead to an 11th hour signing, sources indicate and close observers suspect.... yada yada yada"


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Post: # 1136859Post Dr Spaceman »

markp wrote:
Dr Spaceman wrote:
markp wrote:This thread is the perfect example of why unsubstantiated crap gets reported and printed in the media in the first place.... "Lyon is believed to be preparing to tell his Saints players that he will most likely head to Melbourne."... they are just guessing, and you're all eating it up.
Yep, it’s right up there with Mike Sheahan’s piece today that the HS thought worthy of a back page:

Close observers suspect…

Lyon believed to be…

It is believed the Saints…

..apparently containing…

He is, though, believed to be…

He fuelled rumors of growing uncertainty…..

Melbourne would be tempting to him…..

The Demons are believed….

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/s ... 6135246826

:roll: :roll: :roll:
Yup, and when/if he re-signs with us, it'll be "it is believed frantic last minute behind the scenes negotiations lead to an 11th hour signing, sources indicate and close observers suspect.... yada yada yada"
You left out the "as we predicted" :wink:


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Post: # 1136861Post Dr Spaceman »

matrix wrote:fox channel 513 just about to talk about where will ross be next year
Will it be an in depth analysis from AFL expert Matt Shirvington?


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Johnny Member wrote:
dcstkfc wrote: Maybe because they realise that substance wins premierships.
Does it? Since when?


Plenty of pricks have won flags. Plenty of liars too.
Football substance. Defence.


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dragit wrote:At some point you have to acknowledge that we don't have as many skillful players as the best few sides, you can change the game plan all you like, but when you are carrying 6 blokes that can't kick any better than me the coach can only do so much…
No coach or game plan was going to magically take us back to the top of the table - that is a fact…

Malthouse and the Pies are a good example of sticking by a coach, 2 grand final losses, but they showed faith even through 2 awful years, I couldn't give a rats tossbag what the 'genuine footy fans' think. I'm sure if we had a very even and skillful kicking team, Ross would design our game plan to suit…

We play dour footy at the moment because we don't have the skill to play like the Cats of the past 5 years, it's remarkable that we've made 2 GF's really with some of the players we've had… R Lyon = super footy brain, certainly not the best 'entertainer' coach…
Completely agree with the bold part.

Our gameplan has a bad rap by reputation mainly. I'm sure Ross isn't telling the players to always kick backwards and sideways and al that rubbish they do when they panic. If the players had a) a little more conifdence and b) better skills, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Basically, even under Malthouse or Bomber Thompson or the best bloody coach there ever was, we'd still be in the same problem.


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matrix wrote:how long has malthouse been at the pies??
reckon he was given that list?
prob had a big say in it i reckon

anyhoo
lets hope SEN is wrong and he doesnt come here...because ross will sign this week


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Post: # 1136868Post matrix »

well if youve heard gossip you better get on the other place and mention it 8-)


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dcstkfc wrote:
Johnny Member wrote:
dcstkfc wrote: Maybe because they realise that substance wins premierships.
Does it? Since when?


Plenty of pricks have won flags. Plenty of liars too.
Football substance. Defence.
Yeah, clearly. But name a coach who doesn't have defence as their number 1 priority?

They all do now. Malthouse started it at the Eagles, Roos took it to another level, then Geelong realised you needed incredible defence and awesome offence, then Lyon came along and upped the anti in regards to defence.

But now, all coaches focus on defence first. They all do, and pretty much have since day dot.

The difference is though, that to win the flag you need to be able to kick decent scores.


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Johnny Member wrote:
dcstkfc wrote:
Johnny Member wrote:
dcstkfc wrote: Maybe because they realise that substance wins premierships.
Does it? Since when?


Plenty of pricks have won flags. Plenty of liars too.
Football substance. Defence.
Yeah, clearly. But name a coach who doesn't have defence as their number 1 priority?

They all do now. Malthouse started it at the Eagles, Roos took it to another level, then Geelong realised you needed incredible defence and awesome offence, then Lyon came along and upped the anti in regards to defence.

But now, all coaches focus on defence first. They all do, and pretty much have since day dot.

The difference is though, that to win the flag you need to be able to kick decent scores.
We should have won it twice with scores of 74 and 73


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Post: # 1136875Post dragit »

Dust off the freakin' cheque book and give him the 3 extra years, if we sack him after 2 and have to pay him out, who cares, our recent (relevant) success demands that he be rewarded,

if he walks because of an extra year, no decent coach is going to want to touch us with a stick anyway… our history with coaches stands alone, time to correct the ship.

do the right thing ffs.

i can't believe this…


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dcstkfc wrote:
Johnny Member wrote:
dcstkfc wrote:
Johnny Member wrote:
dcstkfc wrote: Maybe because they realise that substance wins premierships.
Does it? Since when?


Plenty of pricks have won flags. Plenty of liars too.
Football substance. Defence.
Yeah, clearly. But name a coach who doesn't have defence as their number 1 priority?

They all do now. Malthouse started it at the Eagles, Roos took it to another level, then Geelong realised you needed incredible defence and awesome offence, then Lyon came along and upped the anti in regards to defence.

But now, all coaches focus on defence first. They all do, and pretty much have since day dot.

The difference is though, that to win the flag you need to be able to kick decent scores.
We should have won it twice with scores of 74 and 73
But we didn't. We didn't have that extra goal in us, when our opponents did!


Having said that, in 2009 we were fine. We had a freakishly good season from Roo so he was able to generate decent scores for us.
We'd caught the comp off guard and no one knew how to play us. We seemed to have the perfect balance.

I absolutely agree, in 2009 we should have won it. Great game plan, great team, terrible luck on the day!


But then last year we were a fair way off the mark. We were close obviously in GF1, but only because Collingwood didn't kick straight. But we still couldn't find that one last goal. Whereas Collingwood did the moment we got our noses in front.


And then obviously this year, the inability to score was disastrous. It was masked in 09, apparent last year, glaringly obvious this year!

And now that teams are able to defende as well as us, but still score in the top 4 of the comp, means we're nowhere near it really anymore.
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Post: # 1136877Post Dr Spaceman »

Maybe Garry’s just been spreading rumours to his media mates as a ruse to allow him to snare Malthouse.

Maybe Lyon’s lyin about Lyon :wink:


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someone bump the sock drawer thread....


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Dr Spaceman wrote:Maybe Garry’s just been spreading rumours to his media mates as a ruse to allow him to snare Malthouse.

Maybe Lyon’s lyin about Lyon :wink:
Don't think so. There ain't no way to hid those Lyon eyes.

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matrix wrote:someone bump the sock drawer thread....
Your suggestion reminds me of a scientific experiment about 3 second memories.


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Post: # 1136881Post matrix »

are we talking goldfish interrogation ?


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Post: # 1136882Post Junction Oval »

My question is - "If Hawthorn can tie down a contract with Clarkson right on their finals campaign, then why can't we get Ross signed up?"

I get the feeling that there is some form of disagreement on things within the Club about Ross. I think that Nettlefold's whimpy performance on Footy Classified last night, supports my view.


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Post: # 1136883Post Spinner »

Mike Sheahan on 'Live Mike' right now addressed the Lyon issue. Said there were a lot of conditions in the Saints contract... and he might be waivering.

Conditions and money are issues.


Didnt say it was done or 'certain' though.


Seems our admin might be actually stumbling here. Surely we just lock him away.


Give him 3 f****** years instead of two!!!! For f**** sake!


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cowboy18 wrote:
Don't think so. There ain't no way to hid those Lyon eyes.

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Stop Lyon eyesing him.


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My solution if we do lose Lyon

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/blog.php?b=1619


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