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The AFL Footy Show
MASSIVE Easter edition of The Sunday Footy Show this morning at 11am.
High flying Blue Andrew Walker joins us along with Saints coach Ross Lyon.
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On the money again saintbrat - 12.15 interview from Frankston (does he ever take a break).
Ross agrees that the 3 tall forwards approach may need reviewing. "Hints" that Will Johnson will be a definite consideration this week. General chat. Nothing said about Adelaide's good performance last night.
Interesting when he was asked about Gilbo, said that having so many lies told about you has to affect you. No one on the panel picked up on it, or they chose to ignore it !!
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Junction Oval wrote:On the money again saintbrat - 12.15 interview from Frankston (does he ever take a break).
Ross agrees that the 3 tall forwards approach may need reviewing. "Hints" that Will Johnson will be a definite consideration this week. General chat. Nothing said about Adelaide's good performance last night.
Rated the young forward options as Johnson, Siposs & Lynch - in that order.
Was pretty staggered to hear him say that Lynch was behind both Will Johnson and Siposs, in terms of current form. Not sure Siposs has had too many 33 possie and 13 mark BOG games of late.
AnythingsPossibleSaints wrote:Was pretty staggered to hear him say that Lynch was behind both Will Johnson and Siposs, in terms of current form. Not sure Siposs has had too many 33 possie and 13 mark BOG games of late.
The fact that Lynch has been playing a fair bit in defence shouldn't make that much difference.
But yeah Crawf asked him about Lynch and Ross clearly put him behind the other two kids.
Yeah it was very obvious that he didn't have anything positive to say about Lynch. Thought about it for a couple of seconds before answering, as Crawf was talking Lynch up and Ross clearly didn't want to agree with him.
There seems to be something that Ross seriously doesn't like about Tom.
AnythingsPossibleSaints wrote:Yeah it was very obvious that he didn't have anything positive to say about Lynch. Thought about it for a couple of seconds before answering, as Crawf was talking Lynch up and Ross clearly didn't want to agree with him.
There seems to be something that Ross seriously doesn't like about Tom.
I'm really curious about this. Lynch seems like a fairly humble, innocuous bloke who works hard.
Is he some kind of smartarse know it all behind the scenes or something?
Wonder of Zebraman has anything to say on the matter?
"The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break in the game. Every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when we add up all those inches that's gonna make the f***in' difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying!'
AnythingsPossibleSaints wrote:Yeah it was very obvious that he didn't have anything positive to say about Lynch. Thought about it for a couple of seconds before answering, as Crawf was talking Lynch up and Ross clearly didn't want to agree with him.
There seems to be something that Ross seriously doesn't like about Tom.
The context of the conversation was which fwd could come in.. I think he's probably right considering Lynch, whilst doing very well in defense lately has shown very little as a fwd and thus is unlucky to come into the team (as a fwd) before the other two boys.
Solar wrote:anyone got a run down on what was said, slept in and missed the shows...
and from a quick perusal Ch nine don't update much
given the interview was seemingly pretaped....photo above taken about 2 -3hours before interview shown..
he did say he was familiar with heavy dews from Sydney and what the ground staff there did was water the centre square only by hand- not the whole ground...
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Thinline wrote:
I'm really curious about this. Lynch seems like a fairly humble, innocuous bloke who works hard.
Is he some kind of smartarse know it all behind the scenes or something?
Agree with your first sentence and as for your question, I would very much doubt it. If you have the sort of character that leads to you captaining your state (Vic Metro- half the state) in the National Under 18 Championships, you surely have a good character and leadership qualities.
So I take it's something else. It was also reported that we put Tom through vigorous testing before we drafted him, so surely if he had some issues they'd have spotted them then. We were also apparently very impressed with the way he came back from a knee reco at 16, so I doubt he doesn't work hard enough.
SaintWodonga wrote:Sounds like he thinks Sipos is close.
I wonder which of the 4 young players drafted last year will debut first?
I reckon Cripps will be 1st cab off the rank. Some have said, and I agree that Sippos looks like a real find but isn't ready yet. What Ross said confuses this a bit.
From what I've read & heard Ledger is a fav of Ross and has only been held back by injury
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Solar wrote:anyone got a run down on what was said, slept in and missed the shows...
Lazy bastard!
Also handy for those of us in different time zones !!!
However an insider or two at Sandi that you read on Bigfooty have been stating since last year that there are some attitude issues that Lyon wants Lynch to work on as well as aspects of his game...and this was one reason why Lynch was left on Inspector Gadget so long against the Dons last year.
The vibe seems to be that he rates himself too highly, and in turn does not do some of the team things expected... That is the goss anyway...
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Solar wrote:anyone got a run down on what was said, slept in and missed the shows...
Lazy bastard!
Also handy for those of us in different time zones !!!
However an insider or two at Sandi that you read on Bigfooty have been stating since last year that there are some attitude issues that Lyon wants Lynch to work on as well as aspects of his game...and this was one reason why Lynch was left on Inspector Gadget so long against the Dons last year.
The vibe seems to be that he rates himself too highly, and in turn does not do some of the team things expected... That is the goss anyway...