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MarkOlsen wrote: he is a good coach of a good team, until he gets a good team he will put up the rubbish he has put up this year.
he better hope his recruiters can find another Reiwoldt or Pavlich to help his game plan that has Ballantyne trying to beat 3 guys on the wing to get the ball inside 50 to nobody.
he only came to Freo as he lost a 7 figure sum in an investment disaster, no loyalty with him so will move on to his next deal when it suits him.

Really I reckon when we won five out six game early on the year we played good attacking footy doubling our win ratio in a rebuilding year looks pretty good to me, lol MO you would die for a coach like Lyon at the Pies.
Anyway it besides the point and goint off topic which you Swans guys cried about when Freezin,Tos and Bazza stunk up the Swans site.

Ross Lyon was the bloke who on one hand had his management negotiating a deal with St Kilda to extend his contract while at the same time he himself without his management knowing was dealing directly with Freo to get a bigger deal.
hardly the bloke to be the moral police on Brad Hardie.
would think he has bigger issues to worry about than Brad Hardie and was a nicely timed deflection from the weekend's result.

PN - I dont follow Collingwood, dont have an AFL team, just a WAFL team.

MarkOlsen wrote: Ross Lyon was the bloke who on one hand had his management negotiating a deal with St Kilda to extend his contract while at the same time he himself without his management knowing was dealing directly with Freo to get a bigger deal.
hardly the bloke to be the moral police on Brad Hardie.
would think he has bigger issues to worry about than Brad Hardie and was a nicely timed deflection from the weekend's result.

PN - I dont follow Collingwood, dont have an AFL team, just a WAFL team.

Interesting. So how do you rate Swans legend John Todd who had negotiated and verbally agreed to a deal to coach Perth in 1984 but asked the then Perth president George Spalding not to announce it until he told the Swans players of his decision, only to reneg on the deal and stay with Swans probably for more money? And what about Todd Curley exactly the same. You are saying coaches don't have the right to make the best financial decision for them and their family? If Fremantle were in the eight this topic would never have seen the light of day.

And when Ross has been asked a couple of times if he will serve out his contract he's given the same answer. I will keep coaching Fremantle as long as they want me.

I could be wrong but from memory Lyon wanted a 3 year extension and StK only offered 2...Freo came calling with a long term contract and given he had an out clause in his contract with StK took Freo's offer and ran. I personally don't blame him one little bit as there's only 2 types of coaches....one's that have been sacked and those who are about to.

he was contracted for 2012, the St Kilda board agreed to a 3 year extension to take him through to 2015.
Freo offered more money and he needed the money as was broke.

MarkOlsen wrote: he was contracted for 2012, the St Kilda board agreed to a 3 year extension to take him through to 2015.
Freo offered more money and he needed the money as was broke.

What the story about being broke?

BC wrote: I could be wrong but from memory Lyon wanted a 3 year extension and StK only offered 2...Freo came calling with a long term contract and given he had an out clause in his contract with StK took Freo's offer and ran. I personally don't blame him one little bit as there's only 2 types of coaches....one's that have been sacked and those who are about to.

yep, that's how I recall it and don't forget freo actually had a coach at the time who they arsed in dubious circumstances,,,but its business and as you say Lyon was all about the quids so he went for it.

Anchorman - this article outlines the offer was on the table from the Saints.
Freo knew his financial circumstances and offered the big bucks and Lyon took the offer from Freo which he was entitled to do but it only about money for him which is fine.

www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/lyons-fre...-20110915-1kc0u.html

Bazza wrote:

BC wrote: I could be wrong but from memory Lyon wanted a 3 year extension and StK only offered 2...Freo came calling with a long term contract and given he had an out clause in his contract with StK took Freo's offer and ran. I personally don't blame him one little bit as there's only 2 types of coaches....one's that have been sacked and those who are about to.

yep, that's how I recall it and don't forget freo actually had a coach at the time who they arsed in dubious circumstances,,,but its business and as you say Lyon was all about the quids so he went for it.

Coaches, including Mark Harvey, sack players they don't consider good enough so it follows that a footy board also reserves the right to sack the coach. Mark Harvey was Freo's coach when Luke Pratt was de-listed after only one year at Freo.

MarkOlsen wrote: Anchorman - this article outlines the offer was on the table from the Saints.
Freo knew his financial circumstances and offered the big bucks and Lyon took the offer from Freo which he was entitled to do but it only about money for him which is fine.

www.theage.com.au/afl/afl-news/lyons-fre...-20110915-1kc0u.html

Certainly about the money, they had to pay twice, pay out Harvey and chuck a ton at this bloke...

Whats the go with what you know about him being broke?

You can be assured he will have an "out" in his current contract as well.