People look at Saint Kilda's style under Lyon and then extrapolate that to mean he's a defensive coach.
He's not, he's a very very smart coach who understands that good defence is the basis of a winning football side, no RL coached side will ignore defence, however he is also on record as saying teams have to kick a score to win games of football and RL is adaptable. When at the Saints he looked at the players available and the ground they played most of their footy on and set about building a team that was virtually unbeatable at Etihad BUT he knew how to adapt the gameplan to go interstate and win on different grounds, they embarrassed us on Subi several times by exploiting the wide open spaces much better than we did. FFS Brett Peake was his secret weapon, he embarrassed us with Brett Peake!
Now that he's at Freo he's looked at where we play and he's building a side to win at Subi, to be unbeatable there. we play half our matches there so if we win them all we are pretty much playing finals BUT and again the but, he's also been able to transform us, in one year to a side that can win and win tough in Melbourne.
The man is a coaching genius and he's not a one trick pony. Whatever it takes, anywhere, anytime.
We are going to destroy teams at Subi with pace, hard running AND flair. Good times people.
He's not, he's a very very smart coach who understands that good defence is the basis of a winning football side, no RL coached side will ignore defence, however he is also on record as saying teams have to kick a score to win games of football and RL is adaptable. When at the Saints he looked at the players available and the ground they played most of their footy on and set about building a team that was virtually unbeatable at Etihad BUT he knew how to adapt the gameplan to go interstate and win on different grounds, they embarrassed us on Subi several times by exploiting the wide open spaces much better than we did. FFS Brett Peake was his secret weapon, he embarrassed us with Brett Peake!
Now that he's at Freo he's looked at where we play and he's building a side to win at Subi, to be unbeatable there. we play half our matches there so if we win them all we are pretty much playing finals BUT and again the but, he's also been able to transform us, in one year to a side that can win and win tough in Melbourne.
The man is a coaching genius and he's not a one trick pony. Whatever it takes, anywhere, anytime.
We are going to destroy teams at Subi with pace, hard running AND flair. Good times people.