Don't want to sound like I'm picking over the carcass, but would you guys recommend Harvs as our next coach over this way?
No chance. In a two team town he was able to get by but the Bulldogs need a coach who can string a sentence together.
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Don't want to sound like I'm picking over the carcass, but would you guys recommend Harvs as our next coach over this way?
I'll give you Ballantyne, Pavlich and Hill, had niggling injuries that required time. Conolly was the worst for this though, he ruined many of our players.
The others were clearly game day mishaps that was out of his control.
Clearly people who know more about football than I do have made the decision, so we need faith.
However if I see our first draft pick traded and or our club start playing football like the Saints have in recent history I'll be furious.
At the kind of money they're throwing at him, surely a crack at Malthouse may have been worth a shot as well.
Ha ha ha...Caro confirming it's Eade according to AFL Teams.
What do other Freo supporters think of the way the Saints have played footy? Would they like to see Freo play like that?
Regards
DTF
I'll give you Ballantyne, Pavlich and Hill, had niggling injuries that required time. Conolly was the worst for this though, he ruined many of our players.
The others were clearly game day mishaps that was out of his control.
Clearly people who know more about football than I do have made the decision, so we need faith.
However if I see our first draft pick traded and or our club start playing football like the Saints have in recent history I'll be furious.
At the kind of money they're throwing at him, surely a crack at Malthouse may have been worth a shot as well.
What do other Freo supporters think of the way the Saints have played footy? Would they like to see Freo play like that?
Regards
DTF
Are we masochists? Seriously are we suckers for pain? I don't think I've ever been so f***ing angry with a decision this club has made before (I was in primary school when the Damien Drum mid-season sacking occured so I wasn't as livid).
And now it's between Eade, Craig and Lyon? The Iron Fist future killer, the sports science 'always a bridesmaid, never a grand final' freak or the bloke who looks the other way whilst the culture of the club (which had just been raised to premiership level and that who expects consistent success) gets pissed up against the wall?
If it's any of those three, well, I'd probably just lose all faith in our club if I haven't already. I'd find it hard if not impossible to care. This is just shattering.
What the **** just happened between the time I left work and the time I got home!!?!?
I'm numb, is this real life!!?!?
This is like some sort of whacked out WWE storyline or something. Was someone screwing someone elses wife or something!?!?!
When will people get it through their thick skulls,
Malthouse went back to Melbourne for family reasons, no way on this earth will he leave Vic to coach.
The money we pay players/coaches does not come out of your pocket, so stop the jelly over who gets paid what.
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Yeah, if we play like the Saints and " God forbid " get to dance at the G, then i'll be livid too.
Absolute rubbish. If you go over our injury list, a large % (much larger than other clubs) were very much preventable. The amount of groin/foot/leg injuries is staggering. Whether that was Harvey's fault or the medical team's fault (which is what I naturally thought), who knows? But people who keep thinking our injury list is "bad luck" really have their head in the sand. Someone is to blame, and it seems like our club might be putting a fair amount of blame with Harvey.
I agree with what you say about throwing money at Malthouse, but to get him would have been close to impossible. Maybe we did try and predictably were knocked back?
My question to you is this.
Why is the coach suddenly responsible for injuries but not for draft, surely they go hand in hand as the coach has the ultimate decision?
I'm not against Lyon, I am just pointing out that Harvey put in place much of the processes that has turned our club around, for this I thought he deserved another season at least.
Time will tell obviously, I've said this a few time. Trade table will set the tone.
Ha ha ha...
Just goes to show she guesses most of the time.
Obviously the Saints Swans game didn't make it to air in Fremantle on the weekend. Not sure if the Freo hierarchy would have been so adventurous after seeing the rubbish the Lyons coached Saints rolled out against Sydney on Saturday night.
I was at that match and was very dissapointed that the Saints didn't make a better fist of it. Except for 15 minutes in the third quarter St Kilda were outclassed and out coached.
Why is the coach suddenly responsible for injuries but not for draft, surely they go hand in hand as the coach has the ultimate decision?
I'm not against Lyon, I am just pointing out that Harvey put in place much of the processes that has turned our club around, for this I thought he deserved another season at least.
As this is the Harvey thread ... while I feel sorry for the guy, he is still going to get paid out for next year. He might have been sacked after 2012 anyway, so he might not be any worse off. Leaving like this might actually leave him better off and with a better chance of getting a good assistant job than being a failure in 2012 and destroying his reputation. Plus he can make two salaries in 2012.
I appreciate what he has done on many levels and while we have seemingly knifed him, once the shock has gone, I don't think it is so bad for Harvey. I think there were serious doubts that he could take us anywhere beyond 2012.
Massive understatement. I don't think even the most diehard footy follower has a problem with Freo looking for a new coach but it cannot be denied that the treatment that Harvey has received at the hands of the club is nothing short of disgraceful and I think it would go a long way to restoring the damage if the club actually had the balls to acknowledge that and issue him with a full apology.
Freo are fast becoming the new Richmond