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Can only hope it was just time and it's the best for all involved... and we find a way forward from this... will be bloody p!ssed off if it's because the club played hardball and drove him away.
Hard Ball ??????? Offered a three year extension - The St Kilda Football Club is bigger than any player or coach so back the Club not the Freemantle Coach
plugger66 wrote:Rl has gone. Well goodbye and thank you. Now we get another coach. Well done Ross. You were great for the club now hopefully we can find someone even better. I refuse to knock you and I also refuse to beleive there isnt better out there. By the way where are all these people who said he will sign for next season. Hiding I suppose. Also where are the knockers of the media who said he will go. Hiding in the same spot.
Yeah exactly. It's sad that he left, but he took the team to three Grand Finals and for that we should be pretty grateful.
plugger66 wrote:Rl has gone. Well goodbye and thank you. Now we get another coach. Well done Ross. You were great for the club now hopefully we can find someone even better. I refuse to knock you and I also refuse to beleive there isnt better out there. By the way where are all these people who said he will sign for next season. Hiding I suppose. Also where are the knockers of the media who said he will go. Hiding in the same spot.
This may explain his less than stellar coaching performance against Sydney on the weekend. Mind well and truly elsewhere. Look forward to getting someone even better for us.
SirDog wrote:The news here state that the Dockers are holding a press conference tommorow morning - and St.Kilda to make an announcement shortly (whenever that is).
This is contrary to Lyon is required: Nettlefold article on the saints website. I wonder wtf happened because Harvey's sacking came out from left field - and then they sign Lyon. Either this was very quick planning or has been in the pipeworks for a while and one of the best kept secrets. Even blindsided the media.
im guessing pipeworks for a while...
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plugger66 wrote:Rl has gone. Well goodbye and thank you. Now we get another coach. Well done Ross. You were great for the club now hopefully we can find someone even better. I refuse to knock you and I also refuse to beleive there isnt better out there. By the way where are all these people who said he will sign for next season. Hiding I suppose. Also where are the knockers of the media who said he will go. Hiding in the same spot.
Yep agree with this. And yes, far too many 'I have it on good authority.......'
I don't give a shyster, if he wants to go - Go
I wonder whether the Saints did offer 3 years in addition to 2012 - and Lyon rejected it ?
I am personally glad that he went to Freo rather than melbourne. At least i won't have to look at his face every week! Or else i would spit on him!!!
at least we can't blame the board!
must have been money and opportunity to be in finals. He must think that thesaints players are going downhill and won't be in finals for the next few years!!!
I wonder how bitter the players will be? and how much they now will think the coach is honest!!!!???
PakenhamSaint wrote:I'm sorry....WHAT?!!?!?!
What on earth triggered Ross to bugger off?
here is my guess:
The rape charges
the nude photos
the NZ trip
3 chances at a premiership in 2 years and fcuked them all
that all happened in the space of like 2 years.
"Another storied win in Robert Harvey's career. They say he is the embodiment of their motto of strength through loyalty, and on the day he became just the tenth man to play 350 league games the saints reward him with a seemingly impossible victory."
Good luck Ross. You tried your best and got us so close. I'm still a fan.
ROBERT HARVEY A.K.A The Great Man, Banger, Harves, Ol' Man River...
384 games, 4 B&F's, 3 EJ Whitten Medals, St.Kilda Captain, 2 Time Brownlow Medalist, 8 Time All Australian, 2nd Highest Brownlow votes poller.... The greatest of ALL TIME!!
Can only hope it was just time and it's the best for all involved... and we find a way forward from this... will be bloody p!ssed off if it's because the club played hardball and drove him away.
Not really apparenty they gave him the 1 year + 3 that was asked for financially....
so they gave him what he asked for, and he had already contacted freo 6 weeks ago. who is playing games here????
sounds to me like Ross even after all his honesty etc was playing games! Feel sorry for the players as they would have trusted him. that is now all gone down the tubes
mullet wrote:OK so armo's brother who posts on here said this would happen something along the lines of letting the door hit him in the arse on the way out. Also said we would love who we were getting.
Ross Lyon is definitely one of the best coaches in the business but only a shell of a man. He might be going West so he can get himself a fist full of dollars but he won't come out of this with his integrity intact.
Not only has he elected not to fulfil his obligations to the Saints but he's responsible for another coach being shafted.
Get ready for the anti Ross Lyon barrage in the media, he's going to get what he deserves.
P&*# off Ross, we need someone with integrity. You've undone all of the good work you've done for the Saints over the last few years. I loved you mate but now I just despise you.....
You'll find out soon enough that money's not everything.
Am I allowed to call him a two-faced cuunt? My apologies to the ladies on here, but I am disappointed in his actions completely. Won''t it be lovely in Perth now? Fancy joining a mob of no-hopes like Freo?
