saintsRrising wrote:You know full well that Lyon did not hire Misson. You are again just playing your petter RF/VS games...........................Misson was appointed after the then Board had Ross Smith (who is you know a sport scientist) & others review what was required for our player Conditioning Department.....No doubt that Misson knew he could work well with Lyon was factor as well.
According to the media at the time, the main recommendation of the Ross Smith review was to increase the size of the unit to ten staff.
I haven't seen the review report - have you - but I would be surprised if includied among its recommendations was anything like "the club must recruit Dave Misson".
It is a known fact that Misson came to Victoria after his wife won a job as principal of a school. A possible interpretation is that Lyon wanted to bring Misson with him right from the outset and it took the Missons about a year to organise their lives - including her finding a job she was happy with - before this could happen.
However it turned out, the idea that Lyon was not primarily responsible for the decision to recruit Misson seems to me to be pretty naive. Which, in my view, puts him on a par with GT in terms of choosing the head of his fitness department.
Personally, I don't have any problem with Lyon personally choosing his fitness coach, but then I haven't constructed a totally imaginary version of history in which GT got sacked because he insisted on having sole control over issues like appointing the fitness coach.
BTW, having just trawled through all of the articles available online about Misson, I do notice that the guy doesn't hold back in telling everybody about what a total wizz he is, how wonderful his methods are, etc, etc. I also note that the methods used sound like they would cost a fair bit of dosh, which raises plugger66's point about there being a much larger budget for this stuff now than in the GT era.
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