He's giving players the opportunity to play themselves in and out of the football club, not the 22.
He is giving the fringe players the sniff if he doesn't like what they offer they'll be gone, expect the final purge and stage 2 of the rebuild to take place at the end of the year. Expect a lot of activity come trade period/ND/PSD.
No point rushing our future best 22 talent when we have list cloggers on the payroll that need to be replaced at seasons end, the lower we finish the better our position in the draft.
Those hoping for a Geelong/Scott style scenario are dreamers. Yes it's open this year but not to us.
We are recovering from last year and (yawn) still developing. It may be hard to see but a powerful Fremantle team is in it's infancy, a helpless whelp now, but we need patience and no knee jerk reactions (we don't want a flash in the pan Macaulay Culkin list, we want the Clint Eastwood of football teams).
What we are seeing, if I may presume, is a sound model. Get your head around the fact that Fyfe, Hill, Mora, Neale, Sheridan, will be mid 20's and in their prime before we have a real go.
Lyon talks like we need to win now and are in a rush, rightly so, the only excuse we have for losing games is natural talent differential, he understands that, he is instilling a work ethic which, unlike its expectation, doesn't come over night.
We have a smart man at the helm, expect his needs to be respected come draft time. Coaches, all of them, still learning the list and each other.
We've waited eighteen years, we've had excuses for eighteen years and guess what? We've still got them.
Please continue to melt down after every game, it's fun for me to watch.
P.S. Threaded as per request.
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