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FortiusQuoFidelius wrote:Lyon must go.
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I'm sorry... I wasnt aware there was a rule that says I have to go on with sentence after sentence of mindless drivel like many posters here do.Middo wrote:FortiusQuoFidelius wrote:Lyon must go.
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Gary Lyon...?
438 posts and thats all you can come up with...?
Excellent post!St Igmata wrote:RL's list wasnt flash when he came in.
Years of poor llist management meant it just wasnt in a healthy state.
He was smart enough to understand the game was in transition and that if he can protect the lack od speed he wwould be competitive against teams less organised and set up.
So he used an extention of a gameplan he knew so well, which had delivered a flag to the Swans with an average list.
The gameplan worked and was a bees dick off 2 flags.
Unfortunately the list is even more underdeveloped now and other clubs have caught up.
So he needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
Not an easy task.
But he did well.
Very good point jiggster -we were observing today that RL seems to have learnt little from the past and will not budge from his plan.thejiggingsaint wrote:I'm reluctant to use the "sack the coach" strategy at this stage...BUT It has to be said that Essendon have beaten us regularly since round 20 2009, and it appears that our coach has learned sweet FA as to reversing the trend. maybe not a candidate for the sack just yet, but the signs are worrying that he does not seem to have any flair for doing the unexpected during games. we are SO predictable ATM!
Dont get me wrong... I'm not saying sack him, I'm saying he must go.thejiggingsaint wrote:I'm reluctant to use the "sack the coach" strategy at this stage...BUT It has to be said that Essendon have beaten us regularly since round 20 2009, and it appears that our coach has learned sweet FA as to reversing the trend. maybe not a candidate for the sack just yet, but the signs are worrying that he does not seem to have any flair for doing the unexpected during games. we are SO predictable ATM!
The list was pretty good when Lyon started: probably the best list ever inherited by a novice coach.St Igmata wrote:RL's list wasnt flash when he came in.
Years of poor llist management meant it just wasnt in a healthy state.
He was smart enough to understand the game was in transition and that if he can protect the lack od speed he wwould be competitive against teams less organised and set up.
So he used an extention of a gameplan he knew so well, which had delivered a flag to the Swans with an average list.
The gameplan worked and was a bees dick off 2 flags.
Unfortunately the list is even more underdeveloped now and other clubs have caught up.
So he needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
Not an easy task.
But he did well.
he did well - but a better coach would have a flag or two by now - as it is ross has overseen the most talented top ten we have ever had, topped them up with spuds, ignored some better, younger talent, drilled a boring game style suited to the spuds he recruited, drove away our second best hard ball getter, recruited a drunken woman basher as his replacement, left an inspirational fullback on the bench in his last game and gf, panicked when that final was in grasp, and got us to...second. twice!St Igmata wrote:RL's list wasnt flash when he came in.
Years of poor llist management meant it just wasnt in a healthy state.
He was smart enough to understand the game was in transition and that if he can protect the lack od speed he wwould be competitive against teams less organised and set up.
So he used an extention of a gameplan he knew so well, which had delivered a flag to the Swans with an average list.
The gameplan worked and was a bees dick off 2 flags.
Unfortunately the list is even more underdeveloped now and other clubs have caught up.
So he needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
Not an easy task.
But he did well.
RiewoldtSt Igmata wrote:How was the list great when he came along?
Get real!desertsaint wrote:he did well - but a better coach would have a flag or two by now - as it is ross has overseen the most talented top ten we have ever had, topped them up with spuds, ignored some better, younger talent, drilled a boring game style suited to the spuds he recruited, drove away our second best hard ball getter, recruited a drunken woman basher as his replacement, left an inspirational fullback on the bench in his last game and gf, panicked when that final was in grasp, and got us to...second. twice!St Igmata wrote:RL's list wasnt flash when he came in.
Years of poor llist management meant it just wasnt in a healthy state.
He was smart enough to understand the game was in transition and that if he can protect the lack od speed he wwould be competitive against teams less organised and set up.
So he used an extention of a gameplan he knew so well, which had delivered a flag to the Swans with an average list.
The gameplan worked and was a bees dick off 2 flags.
Unfortunately the list is even more underdeveloped now and other clubs have caught up.
So he needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
Not an easy task.
But he did well.
time to go. time for the boys to enjoy their footy again.
almost a legend - very unlucky - footy's a hard gig...
unless we believe he can develop a new game plan and develop the players capable of pulling it off - in the next two years.
I see it different. Tonight showed me just how good Lyon has been the last 4 years. He developed a game plan that took the entire competition unawares. Collingwood were the first to catch on. They recruited Hudghton, and I firmly believe he taught this game plan to the pies. Malthouse can bang on about how he was developing this game plan for 3 years but I don't buy it. His was essentially a man on man game plan. Lyon introduced the fwd press and basically took Clarkson's cluster to a new and better extreme.Sainternist wrote:Yeah, RL must go ...and buy some milk tonight before he gets home, so he can have a cup of coffee in the morning.
no - didn't think much of ross - he was better than i first thought. but i always thought this team had a premiership or two in them - not just a couple of close loses.St Igmata wrote:Get real!desertsaint wrote:he did well - but a better coach would have a flag or two by now - as it is ross has overseen the most talented top ten we have ever had, topped them up with spuds, ignored some better, younger talent, drilled a boring game style suited to the spuds he recruited, drove away our second best hard ball getter, recruited a drunken woman basher as his replacement, left an inspirational fullback on the bench in his last game and gf, panicked when that final was in grasp, and got us to...second. twice!St Igmata wrote:RL's list wasnt flash when he came in.
Years of poor llist management meant it just wasnt in a healthy state.
He was smart enough to understand the game was in transition and that if he can protect the lack od speed he wwould be competitive against teams less organised and set up.
So he used an extention of a gameplan he knew so well, which had delivered a flag to the Swans with an average list.
The gameplan worked and was a bees dick off 2 flags.
Unfortunately the list is even more underdeveloped now and other clubs have caught up.
So he needs to pull a rabbit out of the hat.
Not an easy task.
But he did well.
time to go. time for the boys to enjoy their footy again.
almost a legend - very unlucky - footy's a hard gig...
unless we believe he can develop a new game plan and develop the players capable of pulling it off - in the next two years.
If someone told u when Ross Lyon started he will lead Saints to 2 GFs that can go either way you wouldnt have believed it back then.
Alot of players were long in the tooth and nothing coming through.
If I had wanted Lyon to be sacked, my post would have said "SACK LYON"Moods wrote:I see it different. Tonight showed me just how good Lyon has been the last 4 years. He developed a game plan that took the entire competition unawares. Collingwood were the first to catch on. They recruited Hudghton, and I firmly believe he taught this game plan to the pies. Malthouse can bang on about how he was developing this game plan for 3 years but I don't buy it. His was essentially a man on man game plan. Lyon introduced the fwd press and basically took Clarkson's cluster to a new and better extreme.Sainternist wrote:Yeah, RL must go ...and buy some milk tonight before he gets home, so he can have a cup of coffee in the morning.
One on one the saints just aren't that good, particularly our backs. I noticed last year that when our backs didn't have that extra support they were often beaten. Tonight stood out like a sore thumb. For Lyon not only to design a game plan that has changed the entire way the game is played, but to come within a bees dick of 2 flags with a list with now obvious limitations is amazing.
Ppl can prattle on about certain players, but the truth is there is no-one better to replace them with. WE're just going to have to suck it up and hope like hell that Ledger, Winmar, Smith, Cripps and Walsh all turn out to be prodigy's.
To the original OP - if you don't want Lyon sacked then what did you mean? Sacking Lyon would be one of the biggest mistakes in our club's sad history, and there's been a few made.