Westaway showed plenty of solidarity with Lyon when the wolves were circling in mid 2008.

I don't think the board was the main factor here.

Hope the money's good. Reality is that for Lyon, it's a job, it's a career, and that's the prism through which things like morality and character are viewed when making these decisions. However, I can't help but recall that 18 months into his tenure, when Lyon was coaching a side which had gone from...

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Great stuff Zacm Good to se one of Robert Walls whipping boys get their own back... Even if only via twitter.

Oh it just gets better..martin Blake from the Age has just tweeted.. Any suggestions for a better Rising Star criteria, folks? Jack Steven is a 4th yr player. Good luck to him, but shouldn't be eligible... So what if 2 of those 4 years were spent battling chronic injury? The criterias worked ok for...

Seems to me a lot of people are making a lot of assumptions about what motivates, and free agency's coming impact. While personally I believe that handing over free agency in the way the AFL is creates unnecessary chaos, having observed MLB (no salary cap), NHL (hard salary cap), and to some extent ...

Seems odd to me that so many have gone off McEvoy. With the exception of the couple of games before he was dropped, I thought he's played really well. His tapwork is the part that's going to take years, but I'm pretty comfortable that if Zac Smith and Matty Leuenberger are headed for Cox & Sandi...

You're being ridiculous. You're comparing things that happened years ago to something that happened to Jack just a few months ago. I dare say they would have mentioned what happened to Didak for a while afterwards, but then again, he had a high profile, so most would have been already aware of it a...

Well said GT. Anderscum is a nobody. Clearly he pissed into Dimwit's pants long and hard enough to get the job. The sub rule isn't working. Admit you are wrong Monkey Boy!!! Can I ask why isnt it working. I didnt care one way or another about it but to be honest i think it adds to the game and what...

What a load of tosh. Cox, Kerr and Embley were non-existent last year. Natanui and Kennedy have another few ks on the clock. Nicoski is playing for his career. Darling is what we all hoped Kosi would be. It has nothing, nothing , to do with tanking or bottoming out. PS Shuey isn't a bad player eith...

Teams need set targets inside 50. Ideally you'll have a few, and be able to spread the load to make it harder for opposition defenses to set up, but key forwards are supposed to be regular targets. I don't agree at all. Kicking to a person, should be the last resort. Kicking to designated spots on ...

Teams need set targets inside 50.

Ideally you'll have a few, and be able to spread the load to make it harder for opposition defenses to set up, but key forwards are supposed to be regular targets.

So, even though the Cats are undefeated, we're still expecting them to fall? The Cats are proof that the Saints and Dogs are responsible for their own demise. They've tweaked their defensive zone to implement a full forward press, and rebuilt their offense to work the rebound, boundary and stoppages...

Where can I get those numbers?

He isn't that bad a kick, Ray who is usually reliable butchered two entries today. He kicks like the karate kid on a pole but it seems to get a result. It is a Cometti myth that he can't kick. Just an awful style. Sorry, CJ's a bad kick straight up. When you seperate the disposal efficiency into ki...

Armo our best for me - got in there and did the hard stuff a la Lenny Joey - great game, linking Gwilty - cool and calm at the back Roo, Bj, Dal all played well but I would still love to see BJ and Roo in the fwd line together, really putting pressure on the opposition defense. Didnt like Dal being...

How are we remaining competitive? Modern stats tell us, that if you lose contested footy and tackles - you get beaten. In most cases, you get beaten badly. But we've lost in these areas twice and still won. And also lost 3 close ones (I'm including the Draw) where we lost these stats. Careful - it'...

I am prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt. They could be structuring up exactly where they are supposed to, and being told by the ruckman that he is going to a certain set play. I can only go by what is reflected in the omissions and selections, it doesn't seem to point towards the mids. ...

The local Jeld Wen sponsor guy flew to LA last Friday for the meetings. Mick's job to secure our income stream for the down time ahead is far more important than winning or losing next week IMO. if he comes home with the bacon....i will forgive him.....funny thing though...it's always the guys or g...

I am prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt. They could be structuring up exactly where they are supposed to, and being told by the ruckman that he is going to a certain set play. I can only go by what is reflected in the omissions and selections, it doesn't seem to point towards the mids. ...

This is what happens when you get a journo on a show on a weekly basis and you pump up his tyres as the AFL's greatest newsbreaker. What happens if there's no real news in a particular week? Does Damien say I better not come on tonight as I don't have anything to report? No, I think we've just seen...

Spinner wrote:Every player on our list seems to have just needed more opportunity...

Ideally fielding a side of 38 would please everyone.

I think we're onto something here: If we could just go back in time, keep all the guys we delisted, and delist all the guys we kept...

Captain Fizz anyone?

It's more about Collingwood's ability to develop players so that they can come in to the senior side and seemlessly perform their role. This allows the "revolving door" approach to work becuase the coaches know that there is someone ready to step up at any time. The senior players, theref...

Jason Gram is the most outside player on the Saints, winning nearly 80% of his touches by recieving from other players. Which the coaching staff would probably forgive, if he hit targets, and was highly involved in the scoring chain. It may not be about how he gets the ball, more what he does with ...

In reference to Gram getting "hard balls", how many "hard balls" do Milne, Dempster and Dawson get? All quite similar actually. Milne tops those four, winning 40 contested possessions this season (10th at the club). But seeing as Dawson has missed a match, let's go by averages. ...

In reference to Gram getting "hard balls", how many "hard balls" do Milne, Dempster and Dawson get? Are you kidding? You're comparing 2 of the Saints most contested players to their least... Milne is a starvation forward, nearly 50% of his possessions are won in a contest... Wee...