What do you guys think about him?
For me there's a couple of big question marks about him.
His handling of of Luke ball was shocking. How do you not give a player like ball more respect in a gf? He's a player with limitations, but plays to his strengths and imo is a player you want out there. To limit the game time of a big game player like ball was a huge Wtf moment imo. Ball's career obviously stalled under Lyons leadership and kudos to Collingwood for picking him up for next to nothing, and Lyon didn't deserve anything for ball, and how fitting that ball was able to get his revenge the following year. A player like ball was the difference in the end, considering the question marks over st kildas bottom 6, it wouldve essentially been a poor bottom 5 with ball.
Obviously the other questionable act was jumping ship. Lyon will be forever tainted for this act in my book. As a coach you don't turn your back on a side that's spilled blood for you. The captain goes down with the ship, he doesn't hitch a ride home and leave his passengers to drown. I think st kildas better off without him, I think he's overrated as a coach, he appears to be very rigid as a coach, which leads to the alienation of certain types of players. He's big on the whole buying into a culture, but at the end of the day, his culture failed to lead to the ultimate prize. His culture works well with mature players who know the end is close and will do anything to win a flag, but I don't think his.philosophy will work well with younger players. Both at Sydney & st Kilda, there was very little development of players, I don't think its a strength of Lyons and it'll he interesting to see how Freo do under him. I think his expectations lead to player burnout, we saw it at st Kilda, they couldn't keep the high pressure defensive game going. And I'll take it a step further and claim that all the at Kilda scandals were the result of a list of players who found it hard to cope with Lyons regimented coaching style. Particularly when they went home empty handed after buying into his culture.
I know its a bit of an old topic, but I just think he's a shit bloke and I hope Freo crack under his coaching tenure and Lyon is booted from the game once and.for all. Sorry Freo fans, I used to love freox but I just can't stand Lyon and wish that he does not taste success.
For me there's a couple of big question marks about him.
His handling of of Luke ball was shocking. How do you not give a player like ball more respect in a gf? He's a player with limitations, but plays to his strengths and imo is a player you want out there. To limit the game time of a big game player like ball was a huge Wtf moment imo. Ball's career obviously stalled under Lyons leadership and kudos to Collingwood for picking him up for next to nothing, and Lyon didn't deserve anything for ball, and how fitting that ball was able to get his revenge the following year. A player like ball was the difference in the end, considering the question marks over st kildas bottom 6, it wouldve essentially been a poor bottom 5 with ball.
Obviously the other questionable act was jumping ship. Lyon will be forever tainted for this act in my book. As a coach you don't turn your back on a side that's spilled blood for you. The captain goes down with the ship, he doesn't hitch a ride home and leave his passengers to drown. I think st kildas better off without him, I think he's overrated as a coach, he appears to be very rigid as a coach, which leads to the alienation of certain types of players. He's big on the whole buying into a culture, but at the end of the day, his culture failed to lead to the ultimate prize. His culture works well with mature players who know the end is close and will do anything to win a flag, but I don't think his.philosophy will work well with younger players. Both at Sydney & st Kilda, there was very little development of players, I don't think its a strength of Lyons and it'll he interesting to see how Freo do under him. I think his expectations lead to player burnout, we saw it at st Kilda, they couldn't keep the high pressure defensive game going. And I'll take it a step further and claim that all the at Kilda scandals were the result of a list of players who found it hard to cope with Lyons regimented coaching style. Particularly when they went home empty handed after buying into his culture.
I know its a bit of an old topic, but I just think he's a shit bloke and I hope Freo crack under his coaching tenure and Lyon is booted from the game once and.for all. Sorry Freo fans, I used to love freox but I just can't stand Lyon and wish that he does not taste success.
