saintsRrising wrote:1/ Well we would have actually have finished outside the 8....but lets supsend belief and assume we were playing the Pies still.
What is that statement based on?
saintsRrising wrote:2/ No Milne. He was to be offloaded to Essendon. Milne was the game breaker late in the second who opponed the floogates.
Milne would be gone.
saintsRrising wrote:3/ No King. King dominated and not just the ruck, but his around the ground leadership. Kosi and Rix sharing the ruck would not have had anywhere near the impact.
I didn't realise Geelong offered St Kilda King for a pick they did not need when GT was there. He did try to recruit Brogan, Cox, Lade etc.
saintsRrising wrote:4/ Lyons zoned defence worked a treat. Have never seen Malthouse so outcoached....
GT's pre-game advice was all out attack (he cannot move on from his outmoded cloned Brisbane Lions model). Malthouse would have loved it.
I think you want to go and have a look at the players C'wood had on the park. I'm pretty sure we would have coped with that team at most points since 2004. Except RLs forst 18 months. See results.
Remember Voss leaving the backline to play a defensive forward role on C.Cornes in the 2004 prelim? C.Cornes had carved teams up all year. Who was the first coach to play a defensive forward on him? How many times had it been done prior to that game?
saintsRrising wrote:5/ No CJ to limit Leon.
CJ. AFL's only tagger.
saintsRrising wrote:6/ Most likely more injuries than we had.....
Agree
saintsRrising wrote:7/ Banger exited out already...
This is why you get called a liar. You live in Melbourne and so would have heard GT making that statement in it's full context. He said that he would look to 'exit harvey out rather than exit him in'. He would make sure that Harvey's decision was best for Harvey and the club.
saintsRrising wrote:8/ No Schneider...
How do you know that? Is that based on GT's refusal to trade for players?
saintsRrising wrote:9/ No Casey playing finals as the bad blood would still be there = that our players would not have been developed as well as they have been.
You know that Casey would not have played finals if GT was still there?
saintsRrising wrote:Lyon is is still building and tinkering..and more improvement will come yet
He is putting all the piece of the jig-saw together.
Lyon is starting to get the best from the list. That's his job.
It's the posters who argued that for the first 18 months of his tenure that RL was achieving nearly all that was possible with the on-field and off-field resources at his disposal whos initial premise was incorrect.
You were the ones who were satisfied for this club to be out of finals contention.