by Corona Man » Mon Apr 18, 2016 9:51 am
Grahaml wrote:I think if a guy is good enough to keep getting teams into grand finals then he must be pretty darn good. On that day, it's always two darn good sides going at it and the result largely is just up to the players. Malcolm Blight had a reputation for not being good enough to win grand finals at one point. If his sides regularly coughed up finals where they finished higher I'd say there might be something in it.
Ultimately, Fremantle have Nat Fyfe. He's probably not yet reached his peak. Give a coach a midfielder like that to build around and there's always hope.
Ok so maybe I have marked Ross Lyon a little hard. There can only be one premiership coach per year, it's just not been his year....yet. For me the difference between Blight & Lyon is this. Blight would attack to kick a higher score than the opposition, Lyon defends to restrict the opposition to a lower score than his blokes can kick. Blight eventually got the attack/defense balance correct at the crows. Lyon (it appears) this season is trying to get that balance right. Either way, without the cattle, you can't win the big prize. So does the coach make the players, or do the players make the coach?
Question:- If you could replace your current coach with Ross Lyon
today, without any fall-out, do you do it?
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Corona Man on Mon Apr 18, 2016 10:00 am, edited 1 time in total.
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