08-19-2021, 05:59 AM
(08-19-2021, 05:46 AM)PaulP link Wrote:One has to wonder, with this newfound emphasis on (wait for it).............winning games of football, how does this affect the new coach ? It seems clear to me that the club is expecting results instantly, so if it's Lyon, he will want to remake the team in his image, as all coaches do. How long will it take him to take the boys from attack to defence, bigger, stronger bodies, more tackling, more stoppages, etc. ? Can you do that in 1 pre season ? It seems highly likely that there will be a down period while he tinkers to get things on his terms. What if he misses finals next season ?Agree, no quick fix and I think most would expect Lyon to want the best of what he had at Freo and Stkilda, we have the heavy artillery up forward but have a lot of smaller bodies and lack of the physicality he will want to bring to games to employ his game plans. Maybe his plans are outdated but no doubt if he gets the job it will be on the basis to improve the defensive effort from all players and play a stronger more physically demanding game which will mean changing the list and that will take time.
Surely the quickest way forward is to stick with Teague and iron out the kinks, rather than yet another dramatic change ?
I think he will get a bit more time than Teague has had presuming he is sacked but it all comes down to win loss ratios, but Lyon will be hammered in the media if he goes back to the Freo ultra close checking gameplan with 5 man forward lines and still loses games. Can you still have players like Baker, Crowley and turn games into low scoring slug fests?