Yeah OK.
Looks like a pig with lipstick to me.
It's a fact. The majority of those defending Ross generally resort to it. Can't possibly be Lyon.
Blame the players. It lowers expectations and buys the rebuild more time and space. Then we get to feel comfortable about being belted and how long it's going to take to bounce back.
How could we possibly expect any results with this group of players?
Every presser, every week on here, it's how many players under x games. We are supposed to be a no excuses football club.
The majority of those questioning Lyon know the youth are going to take time. What's the point in bagging them?
The coach however, has no excuse. He should be at the top of his game right now.
There's no intensity to the way he goes about his work at the minute. I think the majority of supporters want to see more passion and intent.
We're strapped in, but where are we headed?
The gameplan itself is very concerning. Lyon can coach, and I'm sure he will get this group to finals. But I'm not seeing much in the way of evolution or growth in the way we play. Block the corridor and we're cooked.
3 years in, we look like we are simply developing another iteration of Lyonball. Low scoring, high pressure, physically demanding, effort based footy.
The list is taking time but IMO is coming along nicely, but if we don't find a way to consistently move the ball forward with purpose, and regularly apply scoreboard pressure, we will still be susceptible to the same issues and weaknesses we experienced with the 2012-2015 group.
As far as the overall football department is concerned, the support staff should regularly be reviewed and surely we should be scrutinising all aspects of the coaching group's performance and appetite for the task at hand, as we should with the footy manager.
If the Fremantle Football Club are not actively analysing, scrutinising and reviewing all of these aspects of the club, we are simply not serious about the sustained success we've been talking about for a decade.