04-25-2023, 02:54 AM
(04-25-2023, 02:46 AM)shawny link Wrote:Spot on. Yep and as usual with our club another dumb decision in passing on Lyon who while he may coach a non exciting game plan did get 2 separate lists into GFs and if not for a cruel bounce would be a premiership coach and yet we decided to run with a champion player but a man that failed miserably the last time he was head coach.
Typical.
Strictly speaking, that's not quite right. Lyon was only prepared to go through an interview process against the likes of Clarkson and Brad Scott. He basically pulled out when he realised he would have to compete for the job against assistants, something which he clearly viewed as beneath him. Folks will have to make up their own minds about the merits of his position. The club did not pass on him as such.
https://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/teams/c...97b0b003f2
It came after Lyon told Triple M on the weekend: “The one thing I felt sick about … I was like ‘Yep I’m in, yeah I’m keen, I’m happy to go through a process. But this is what I said: ‘I don’t want to go through a process against other assistants’. I’ll go through a process against Brad Scott, Clarko, that’s fair enough. But assistants? I was like eh.”
Also, as I suggested earlier, his last 4 years at Fremantle were very average - it's not unreasonable to speculate that he was burnt out or washed up.