RTB 200 Coached on Saturday

[salim malik]

Surely this will be incentive for the boys against Essendon.Hope the banner guys celebrate it on the banner.

 

[clivenator26]

I dare a journo to ask him about this giving players incentive at the next press conference. PLEASE!

 

[Kram]

I dare a journo to ask him about this giving players incentive at the next press conference. PLEASE!

 

[PapaJ]

http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/news/2015-05-06/respect-for-ross

BTW: You have to go to the end of Mundy's interview to get to his thoughts on Ross, not much, obviously it's very low key within the club, he didn't even know about it.

 

[Moo]

Best decision in our clubs history.

Better than recruiting Pav or even attracting me as a supporter.

 

[Lost_Deputy]

Awww! How stoked is our Barra right now. Happy camper!!

Yeah, onya RTB! Just love the bloke. While our performance and professionalism has improved under him, what has impressed me most is that he has improved our brand.
He clearly thinks about his messaging to the media. "Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime" wasn't any empty catchphrase but something our club is now known for. He never did that with the Saints. We have a genuine culture now.

We haven't won a premiership yet, but even if we don't with RTB I'm greatful that he came on board and showed what it means for a club to stand for something.

Onya Ross!

 

[MadDocker]

199 behind him and the most important ones yet still to come.

Bring us home the Premiership Ross. Write your name in the history books and in all of our hearts forever.

Seeing Ross and Pav up on the stage at the MCG, holding the cup aloft with purple and white flying around everywhere... It's the stuff dreams are made of.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

199 behind him and the most important ones yet still to come.

Bring us home the Premiership Ross. Write your name in the history books and in all of our hearts forever.

Seeing Ross and Pav up on the stage at the MCG, holding the cup aloft with purple and white flying around everywhere... It's the stuff dreams are made of.

That would probably see Ross at Fremantle for the next ten years. I am convinced he loves it here.

 

[VolgaBoatman]

Awww! How stoked is our Barra right now. Happy camper!!

Yeah, onya RTB! Just love the bloke. While our performance and professionalism has improved under him, what has impressed me most is that he has improved our brand.
He clearly thinks about his messaging to the media. "Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime" wasn't any empty catchphrase but something our club is now known for. He never did that with the Saints. We have a genuine culture now.

We haven't won a premiership yet, but even if we don't with RTB I'm greatful that he came on board and showed what it means for a club to stand for something.

Onya Ross!

They did have a catch phrase when he was at the Saints - "Saints Footy"

 

[Pusswah]

Look, if I can be quite frank, it's irrelevant.

 

[greatgatsby]

"Ross, what do you think about the focus on your 200th in the lead up to a big match for the club this weekend?" "Look, it's not ideal is it."

 

[Lost_Deputy]

They did have a catch phrase when he was at the Saints - "Saints Footy"

Did he make one?

 

[Fat Nyfe]

Respect, Ross

I hope the team are dog hungry for him

 

[Sully90]

Domain should play a "Greatest Hits of Ross" on the big screen before the game. The video is just a montage of him shooting down stupid questions from journos.

 

[jedi mind tricks]

Domain should play a "Greatest Hits of Ross" on the big screen before the game. The video is just a montage of him shooting down stupid questions from journos.

Would Basil feature in it?

 

[Crippa]

They did have a catch phrase when he was at the Saints - "Saints Footy"

How right you are! "Saints Footy" was the catch-phrase used to launch the Forward Press (as the media called it) invented by Lyon in 2009 to overcome Geelong, then copied lock stock & barrel by Malthouse in 2010 - courtesy of a book of hand-written notes compiled in team meetings by Luke Ball (as shown in a video released the following year) no doubt on Eddie's instructions, once Eddie got into Ball's ear about eventually moving to the Pies.

Malthouse has always pretended that that game plan was his own, not Lyon's. He said it was based on the Roman Box Formation, which was vomit-inducing for its pretentiousness & dishonesty. At least Chris Dawes had the decency to be honest about it when he spoke here (after a minute or two on Jesse Hogan):

listen to this on Audioboo

 

[Yodo]

Looking back, recruiting Ross was somewhat of a risky decision, but it was a significant turning point in the club's history. Ross Lyon has had a greatly positive influence on the culture of the Fremantle Football Club.

Congrats RTB! - Now get us our first flag!

been waiting a while to post that gif

 

[Borry]

Domain should play a "Greatest Hits of Ross" on the big screen before the game. The video is just a montage of him shooting down stupid questions from journos.

I wonder I one of them is one of the major posters on Bay 13?

 

[Pusswah]

Domain should play a "Greatest Hits of Ross" on the big screen before the game. The video is just a montage of him shooting down stupid questions from journos.

Is that a cistern?

Looking back, recruiting Ross was somewhat of a risky decision, but it was a significant turning point in the club's history. Ross Lyon has had a greatly positive influence on the culture of the Fremantle Football Club.

Congrats RTB! - Now get us our first flag!

been waiting a while to post that gif

I don't know about it being risky. Getting rid of Harvey took more courage than I thought we had - i'd been hoping for it for a while. Lyon was a very good coach, Harvey was very average.

 

[Yeti]

Domain should play a "Greatest Hits of Ross" on the big screen before the game. The video is just a montage of him shooting down stupid questions from journos.

I would love it if there was a video of his Ross Lyonisms....... Starting from his first press conference. I remember watching that as it happened and coming to the realisation the club had changed significantly for the better. He was cool, calm and collected and had a clear message for the media, the players and the fans.

Another highlight was when we beat Geelong in Geelong during the finals....... "Was that a cistern?"

He suffers no fools in the media. I still cringe at the way some previous coaches interacted with the media.

 

[basashi]

I like Ross and he is probably the best thing to ever happen to our club.

But one area is annoying me. I am getting a bit over the cranky, accusative responses to journalists.

All the criticism of the questioners is getting old. Needs to move on and just accept that journalists in this country are semi literate know nothings who get paid stuff all and just need a few quotes to add to their report. Ross keeps going out of his way to interpret offense out of even the most innocuous questions and it is getting tiresome.

It also bores me that he calls them out over poor analysis and reiterates that he has more access to data and vision than they do. Isn't that the whole #&$%^ point of the press conferences? So that the news process can leverage the coach's superior analysis, access to data and vision.... while maintaining an independent sceptical mindset?

He has 15 guys in the box and about 5 on the bench - plus more technology. The journalist is watching the game by himself, trying to take notes on a laptop while eating through 7 or 8 dinner rolls and party pies he pocketed when no one was looking at the pre match function he was also "covering" in order to find an interesting quote from some fat washed up player who was relaying his drinking anecdotes to a room full of business people.

I know the journalists of WA gave him a bad reception. A bad, indefensible, unprofessional reception that spoke volumes about the insular, pig ignorant, myopic, vacuous, eagles allegiant, dull journalism in Perth. And Ross is probably justified in not feeling too obligated to throw these dogs a bone after an intense three hours of coaching. But the fact is that the press conference has to happen. And the paying Fremantle faithful watch it. He should just see the journalistic rabble as the imperfect information filter they are and do his best to speak THROUGH them to the demographic that support him and pay his wages. We get that they are dunces... he doesn't have to point it out every single time.

 

[PapaJ]

That would probably see Ross at Fremantle for the next ten years. I am convinced he loves it here.

I think he loves it here too, but I think differently myself. I reckon he will leave here in a few years whether we win a flag or not. He's always given me the impression that he is a Melbourne boy at heart and he'll want to head back there at some point, and it's not like there aren't going to be club presidents lining up with their cheque books open wanting him over there. I just hope it's later rather than sooner, and for whatever time he is here, well I'm just grateful as anything. He's probably the best thing to have happened to this club AFAIC.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

"Ross, what do you think about the focus on your 200th in the lead up to a big match for the club this weekend?" "Look, it's not ideal is it."

I feel I've already answered that.

 

[Fred Ziffel]

I like Ross and he is probably the best thing to ever happen to our club.

But one area is annoying me. I am getting a bit over the cranky, accusative responses to journalists.

All the criticism of the questioners is getting old. Needs to move on and just accept that journalists in this country are semi literate know nothings who get paid stuff all and just need a few quotes to add to their report. Ross keeps going out of his way to interpret offense out of even the most innocuous questions and it is getting tiresome.

It also bores me that he calls them out over poor analysis and reiterates that he has more access to data and vision than they do. Isn't that the whole #&$%^ point of the press conferences? So that the news process can leverage the coach's superior analysis, access to data and vision.... while maintaining an independent sceptical mindset?

He has 15 guys in the box and about 5 on the bench - plus more technology. The journalist is watching the game by himself, trying to take notes on a laptop while eating through 7 or 8 dinner rolls and party pies he pocketed when no one was looking at the pre match function he was also "covering" in order to find an interesting quote from some fat washed up player who was relaying his drinking anecdotes to a room full of business people.

I know the journalists of WA gave him a bad reception. A bad, indefensible, unprofessional reception that spoke volumes about the insular, pig ignorant, myopic, vacuous, eagles allegiant, dull journalism in Perth. And Ross is probably justified in not feeling too obligated to throw these dogs a bone after an intense three hours of coaching. But the fact is that the press conference has to happen. And the paying Fremantle faithful watch it. He should just see the journalistic rabble as the imperfect information filter they are and do his best to speak THROUGH them to the demographic that support him and pay his wages. We get that they are dunces... he doesn't have to point it out every single time.

That is all well and good but Ross, simply doesn't suffer fools gladly. Take for example Shane's question at Geelong which was entirely provocative and loaded with bias.

 

[PapaJ]

I like Ross and he is probably the best thing to ever happen to our club.

But one area is annoying me. I am getting a bit over the cranky, accusative responses to journalists.

All the criticism of the questioners is getting old. Needs to move on and just accept that journalists in this country are semi literate know nothings who get paid stuff all and just need a few quotes to add to their report. Ross keeps going out of his way to interpret offense out of even the most innocuous questions and it is getting tiresome.

It also bores me that he calls them out over poor analysis and reiterates that he has more access to data and vision than they do. Isn't that the whole #&$%^ point of the press conferences? So that the news process can leverage the coach's superior analysis, access to data and vision.... while maintaining an independent sceptical mindset?

He has 15 guys in the box and about 5 on the bench - plus more technology. The journalist is watching the game by himself, trying to take notes on a laptop while eating through 7 or 8 dinner rolls and party pies he pocketed when no one was looking at the pre match function he was also "covering" in order to find an interesting quote from some fat washed up player who was relaying his drinking anecdotes to a room full of business people.

I know the journalists of WA gave him a bad reception. A bad, indefensible, unprofessional reception that spoke volumes about the insular, pig ignorant, myopic, vacuous, eagles allegiant, dull journalism in Perth. And Ross is probably justified in not feeling too obligated to throw these dogs a bone after an intense three hours of coaching. But the fact is that the press conference has to happen. And the paying Fremantle faithful watch it. He should just see the journalistic rabble as the imperfect information filter they are and do his best to speak THROUGH them to the demographic that support him and pay his wages. We get that they are dunces... he doesn't have to point it out every single time.

This is kind of a toast thread, so not sure if your post is appropriate as such, but otherwise I completely agree. I too lament the quality of our sports journalists (generally speaking), but in the post game pressers it does, at times, seem to go at journo's more than is really warranted. Not saying all the time, sometimes their sprooking of a certain angle or agenda does need to be put in it's place.

Having said that, it generally is the post-game presser where he is most prickly. In the more organised interview based situation, though he keeps his cards close to his chest (which I don't mind for the sake of my team's success), he's as good as any coach to listen to. The post-game press conference is a very tough thing for coaches, it's not surprising that is where they tend to be most prickliest. Though some do handle it better than others of course.