rodgerfox wrote:Spinner wrote:rodgerfox wrote:
Lyon scored the best, most professional and 'mature for their ages' list in the league. He's been very fortunate to inherit what he has - cause what he's brought since he's arrived hasn't been much at all.
Riewoldt may as well be Captain/Coach for us - such is the reliance on his leadership (on and off the field) and ability.
Turn it up mate.
I like to respect a lot of your posts, but when deliver comments like that its incredibly hard to.
Apart from our injury list, what has improved at the club in the past 3 years?
The same guys go missing in big games.
We've recruited rejects who couldn't perform when it mattered.
We've relied on Riewoldt to win games.
We're mentally fragile on the field.
We have a Plan A (bomb it to Riewoldt) and when that doesn't work, we're rooted.
The fact aside that we had pretty much a full list on the park every time we needed it, what's different to previous years?
Riewoldt's contributions on the field kept us in the hunt in 2009, and his leadership off the field has created the incredibly professional culture that currently exists.
Lyon is riding his coat tails - sadly quite a few are. Most are infact.
You really need to get a life and to stop flogging this 'Lyon is a dud' campaign, because frankly you've become nothing more but the biggest and most predictable bore on this forum.
You criticise Lyon's playing group as being self-coached, yet when the same criticism of Thomas is applied, you immediately dismiss it as 'rubbish'. You say that Lyon's influence on the team is minimal and full-credit has to be given to the playing squad, but when we lose, you hold Lyon completely accountable.
What is it you ever contribute to this forum, apart from hurling cheap shots at the current coach?
I'll tell you what Lyon first inherited at St Kilda, a boy's club. A team programmed to the most one-dimensional game plan possible, injured player's on over-inflated contracts and high-profile recruits who were nothing more than flat-track bullies.
I guess credit must be given, because you've clearly put yourself in a win-win situation, because if Lyon coaches the Saints to premiership, you'll argue that the players were self-coached and that Lyon's influence was trivial at best. But if he doesn't ever coach the Saints to a flag, you can be the first person to say 'I told you so'.
