That's a pretty convenient argument, so essentially all future successes can be attributed else where, whereas all failure attributed directly to Lyon so your precognitions can remain safely unchallenged regardless of outcome. It seemed pretty obvious to me at the time that carrying a hampered Darcy who was not playing his best in what was already a fairly tall and immobile team allowed GC to outrun us at the end. I think we've learned from that and dropped Cox for McCarthey for sake of balance. With so many good talls we want to play, we'll sometimes run into the danger of being tempted to play too many.
And it may even be possible that Lyon is a hack coach where the rule changes and our new forward line simply makes who the coach is inconsequential, we seem to have such a strongly positioned team where failure seems like a very hard thing to do. But it would be disingenuous to make this type of argument and then not also apply the same logic to when Lyon was in charge of a fairly uncompetitive list in 2018 still young and developing.
How do you dismiss playing 8 men in the backline ? We were 19 points up in that final quarter and the coach resorted to his default option.
I’m happy to cop that loss if it was the price for what we are now seeing.
I wrote on my disappointment of the coach’s plan of using an undermanned forward line. He has been doing it since 2016 and I am ******* sick of it. So too, has Ross’ new boss . That is my essentially my argument.
I don’t bag anyone involved with Freo including coaches, managers and especially players.
However , that does not diminish my feeling of helplessness with what I have seen from Ross since 2015.
I like Ross for the change in our professionalism. Ross has clearly had a positive impact on this club.
That does not mean his intransigence is acceptable.
That is my argument. His new boss has intervened.
Ross will now get the credit ; I am happy for that to happen.
I have been disappointed with him over the past 3 years but I have never said that on this site although I could have.
From now on I will attribute wins to Ross. I had the right to blame him for losses because of what I wrote about above; it was my prerogative and I chose to be silent.