sRs, seriously u r 100% right, but I'm afraid your intelligence is wasted on these nuffies and goofballs, they'll never wake up so why bother.saintsRrising wrote:
Why would I deny it??
Can you name one coach in the entire history of AFL/VFL that has not changed and evolved their gameplan as they have gone along???
Indeed one of my criticisms of GT was that he was too slow to change as the game changed around him.
Why is Lyon expected to have had everything locked in on his first day on the job?
I find it amusing that the Lyon knockers expect Lyon to not change things....and who for some strange reason see Lyon changing things as a weakness rather than as a strength.
For example had Clarkson perfected his rolling zone then? = no.
Have teams now worked out how to combat the rolling zone? = yes
2007 saw the Cats re-invent themselves with a new game style. Was Lyon meant to have had a crystal ball to have predicted this?
Lyon clearly had vision on how he wanted the team to play.
He said early on that he wanted :
* ruckman
* more run thru the middle
* more forward pressure.
* the team to be competent at all three phases of the game: ie when you have the ball, when the opposition have the ball (previously the Saints were poor in this regard) & when the ball is in dispute
He has clearly delivered on all of these.
That he has evolved this vision is to be expected. ie corralling being tried...but with the game having moved on it was found wanting, or even perhaps that it was always flawed.
But that is what a good coach does..has a vision, tries things, and then adapts, rejects and improves...and not just the gameplan but players too
That the GT bashers pain Lyon as incompetent in 2007 is farcical...
There were many flaws that needed to be rectified....in player personnel, player commitment, gameplan...player conditioning.
Lyon has patience too....you can look at the list and see players being developed for every niche....short-term and long-term.
You may remember that Misson stated when he started that he would take years to undo the damage that had been done. The Lyon bashers trotted this out as an excuse of Lyon's...but time has instead demonstrated the incompetence of player conditioning under GT and that the high incidence of soft tissue injuries under GT's "management" were not due to "bad luck" but rather was due to incompetence.
When Lyon arrived he read the riot at to the recruiting department and wanted to know who was responsible for the shambolic mess of recent times, of course this was Thomas and Rendell.
He also was also very annoyed and concerned in relation to how unfit and poorly conditioned our players were, again a direct result of Thomas who controlled the entire football department and in his own words Thomas said "fitness and conditioning staff are overrated".
This naive and incompetent approach to the fitness levels and conditioning of our players by Thomas who was ultimately responsible for this, probably cost us one if not two premierships!
Ross Lyon immediately set out to clean up this mess by raising our players fitness levels and bringing in Misson to address these areas of concern.
The players themselves said that their first pre season under Lyon was the toughest they'd experienced, as they'd never had proper conditioning prior to this.
2007 was a direct result of the mess that Lyon inherited and that we missed the finals had really not much to do with him, the decline had already set in,
What is truly remarkable is how quickly this has been turned around with astute recruiting, increased fitness and conditioning and a professionally run football department, not the dominion of one man.
Robert Harvey after one season when we'd finished 9th in 2007 said that Lyon is the best coach he's ever had!
Now this will be way too hard for the laterally challenged numbnuts on here to grasp, but Lyon was a brilliant coach from day one.
The only difference is now he's had a chance to clean up the mess he said at the time, would take at least two years to clean up!
Robert Harvey knows his football, the numbnuts on here know SFA!
sRs save your energy, what's the point?, the dumbed down dingbat drivel from these laterally challenged goofballs is way too nauseating, they'll never get it, wouldn't get the drum even with a brass band up them!
Any chance we can let this thread disappear so we can all focus on one of the most important games in our club's history.
This thread is a disgrace!
milt
