fingers wrote:barks4eva wrote:The happiest players no doubt will be the ones that leave St kilda and go onto play in a premiership at another club!
I just hope they include a thank you to Footy First in their premiership medal winning acceptance speeches!
Do you ever have anything good to say?
Only if it's about the past...Hey man!!! I don't get you...Do you honestly think that the saints team post GF '09 and post GF '10 was improving? You talk about Lyon as if he is the messaih. He is no hero mate.
He did not land us any silverware. Ross can go and sell his snake oil elsewhere.
His mesage and
his game plan was appropriate with the right cattle out on the park, and boy was he handed a nice herd from his predecessors. The rat was handed a product that anyone could coach.
Lyon had at his disposal a fantastic leadership group of players who had served as captains in their own right and had bled for the club and were committed to doing whatever it took to try and make their own history. You can build premiership teams with half a dozen high draft picks and they were at their peak during this rats' coaching tenure.
He also had a fantastic
role model as captain. I remember how nervous I was that we'd lose Roo before he committed to the club around 2007 and when he signed on for a long term contract, he stated he wanted to be at the Saints for the remainder of his palying career. At the time he made me realise that we truly had a man of great character and a captain that would serve this club honourably and lead by example for all the youngsters coming into the team. This is another lost opportunity in my book, because instead of Lyon utilising the captain and the quality of Dal and BJ and Lenny and Banger to blood younsters he chose 'role players' instead.
This will all be written in the footy almanacs, and that's how it's going to be written. Ross Lyon will be forgotten. The footy writers won't be talking about the hours that the coach spent at his desk or in his office, they'll be writing about the deeds of the Saints players out on the park and the sacrafices they have made over the last five years.
Our blokes need some enthusiasm and some energy and they'll get that with a fresh new start nxt year. You mark my words, with the right bloke at the helm and with Roo, Lenny, Chips, BJ, Dal, Kozzi, Milne, Gwilt, Dempster, Blake, Schneider and Gilbo all fit and firing and the young blokes playing their part we will challenge agian very very soon.
to K).
