What was Ross Lyon saying to the Saints players at the end of the game?

[KeithBlight]

Sorry mate. Hopefully he sends you an apology. What an ordeal you went through - seeing a picture of him on the ground on your tv.

 

[LordLucifer]

I'm sure he was giving out Kim Duthie's mobile phone number to each and every player, and advising them to have fun during the off-season.

Actually, he was asking for one of them to give him her number but they all refused. He just kept begging saying stuff like "c'mon fellas, all for one and one for all, give'us the number please".

 

[David the Cat]

How does it seem that way? Because a few "journalists" claim so? There's been nothing but dribble reported about it.

I highly doubt he'd walk away from the Saints now to coach Melbourne, it'd be a gutless and spineless act if he were to do so IMO.

Should fit in well at Melbourne then

 

[vonn]

Don't know if his post match was covered but he more or less said "end of an era".

Would be contradictory to telling them to look for next year if that's what he said.

 

[Lemma]

Seriously, are McEvoy and Steven the only two players in the side drafted in the last 5 years?

When was Armitage drafted?

 

[GoTheSwannies]

It's hard to bag Lyon's recruitment policy over the last few years, it's been a fine line between success and failure. Saints came close to winning 2 flags, they just fell short.

In hindsight, I think Lyon didn't place enough importance on the energy youth can bring to a team. A mix of experience & youth would've probably rejuvinated their list, while ensuring they didn't fall off the edge of a cliff. However I believe his strategy of recruiting mature aged players was aimed to combat Geelong's mature team, however in the last 3 years, teams like Hawthorn & Collingwood showed that the injection of youth can provide another element, rather than being a liability to the team.

Coaches are going to look at what Roos has done with mature rectuits, what Lyon has done, what Malthouse has done by injecting youth to replace some players, what Thompson did at Geelong with pods, & Harvey with Barlow. Coaches are going to have to be creative and look at all available options, it's obvious any one recruiting strategy will only get you so far.

 

[Doctor Feel]

I get the feeling it may have been along the lines of "we are going to blood kids next year, have a hard think about where you think you are at. If you wish to leave, we're happy to accomodate those wishes and no one will think any less of you. We are heading down the road of a rebuild." etc etc. Just conjecture.

An interesting question in all seriousness, do the saints trade Goddard for some good picks in the draft?

 

[JUBJUB]

"On Mad Monday please don't let Gilbo bring his camera"

 

[Rod Stroker]

Don't know if his post match was covered but he more or less said "end of an era".

Would be contradictory to telling them to look for next year if that's what he said.

If that's the case then there will be a fair clean out in the coming weeks and at the trade table.

Unless the Saints board decide to chop him (like they did with Thomas after they lost their Elim final), Lyon won't walk. He doesn't strike me as a bloke who would leave while still under contract to take another contract. I believe the last bloke to do that was Ayres.

 

[Tatts22]

At his post match when asked what was said out on the ground he said "some things are meant to be private, so I really don't want to share what I said with my player group"

Why then would you keep them all out there knowing that the cameras were on them & all the journos & commentators are going to be talking about it & asking questions about it? Maybe so they ask about that & it becomes the main focus rather than how sh!t they were?

 

[Zagg]

When was Armitage drafted?

2006.

Our drafting in 2008/2009 looks pretty awful - especially considering how good those drafts appears to be!

How much of that is Ross' fault is hard to ascertain.

We've already had 4 retirements announced - I expect quite a turnover to happen this off season.

 

[Andrew Mc]

Why then would you keep them all out there knowing that the cameras were on them & all the journos & commentators are going to be talking about it & asking questions about it?

I guess he may just have wanted to get it done quickly, and it would save time later clearing the rooms out of any hangers-on.

 

[Dez!]

Should fit in well at Melbourne then

By that logic so should the spineless, gutless thug Darren Milburn.



Go to the bay.

 

[Lemma]

Do people still call Milburn a thug for the Silvagni hit, or is there something else? Because it's been 10 years. Get over it.

 

[Terex8]

He would have been speaking in corporate cliche & the players would have been thinking, we've copped this all year, can't you let us get off the ground.

 

[bigrob]

It took him a while as he had a lot of failure to catalogue.

But I'm more interested in the group farewell to the departing players back in the rooms. Gig was being televised, with blokes standing around in suits, but Riewoldt in the middle of them - still nude. Will he ever learn?

 

[Demon 86]

Lyon won't walk. He doesn't strike me as a bloke who would leave while still under contract to take another contract. I believe the last bloke to do that was Ayres.

And the one before Mick Malthouse- won't make him any less a coach if he does.

 

[JapanFootball]

How can anyone be critical when no one here could have any idea what he was saying? He could have been reflecting on a very long and tough season. To be honest I reckon he'd have been praising their efforts. Great work getting into the top 8. But they ruined it with their childish off-season behavior.

I can be critical... Did anyone else see Ross Lyon in the coaches box cover up his Stkilda embelem? On his way to Melbourne.

 

[mysainters]

Original thought, but I reckon a coach has the right to talk to his players, when, how and about whatever he wants.

 

[redmonkeyman]

Original thought, but I reckon a coach has the right to talk to his players, when, how and about whatever he wants.

Spot on! original address and good on him for doing geez its sparked pages of crap speculation on it anyway!

 

[sainter12riewoldt]

maybe because we played in three grand final, and this was his fourth year in the finals, he was trying to make sure they dont beat themselves up too much

 

[Tex200]

Probably trying to make players feel better by informing they will no longer have to bore the shit out their supporters as well as others subjected to their games. Melbourne players get that privilege from next year.

 

[Lockyer24]

If I was Lyon, I'd tell the players I was sorry I was sucked in by the same old failures and battlers. He has wasted a year not persisting with younger players, even if it meant finishing lower down/missing finals. In the end he went back to Plan A after they got him a few wins back in the 2nd half of the season and a team which changed gameplan and replenished their young stocks (Swans) has gone whizzing past them.

It is absolutely frightening that a team which finished 2nd, dropped to 7th/8th yet only introduced one half decent player to the regular side, Steven.

Lyon seems a reasonable matchday and day to day coach, but desperately needs some improved recruiting and development staff and a good football manager to help him make some hard calls as Grant Thomas has alluded to.

 

[sainter12riewoldt]

im am telling you here first lyon is coaching the saints in 2012 told the players in the rooms after the game

 

[sainter12riewoldt]

If I was Lyon, I'd tell the players I was sorry I was sucked in by the same old failures and battlers. He has wasted a year not persisting with younger players, even if it meant finishing lower down/missing finals. In the end he went back to Plan A after they got him a few wins back in the 2nd half of the season and a team which changed gameplan and replenished their young stocks (Swans) has gone whizzing past them.

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Siposs injuried, Cripps injuried Crocker injuried Stanley off and on injuried Geary started the year with a broken leg, Cahill has been injuried thats all i can think of for now, but you dont play injuried youngsters