03-18-2019, 06:46 AM
(This post was last modified: 03-18-2019, 07:01 AM by ElwoodBlues1.)
(03-18-2019, 05:32 AM)WASurfer link Wrote:I'm with you LP. Back in the season where Fremantle made the GF, it was on the back of manic pressure across the ground and restricting opponents to small scores and then scoring a bit more themselves to win. Everyone was complaining that it was Ross Lyon's tactics and it was making the game unwatchable....but talk to any Fremantle supporters and they weren't complaining ....they were winning games and made the GF. It was only in subsequent years where that style of play WASN'T winning them games and they didn't change their style that their fans got upset.
Lets focus on 2019....substantially different team this year and hopefully substantially better results.
Surfie...Dockers did well in those years under Lyon and had their own defensive style, they also proto-typed the big 4 mids with Barlow, Mundy, Fyfe and Crowley...the latter was the nemesis of all the star mids like Ablett, Judd etc until the umpires started to let other teams have a free hit and beat him up off the ball.
Lyon also failed to develop enough goal kicking power and his pressure strategy failed as the Dockers couldnt kick enough goals..... reckon they will be hard work at home to beat especially now they have Hogan and Lobb to help kick a winnings score but you have to wonder if Lyon will resort to his old negative self .