Mickstar wrote:
BluesRockMyWorld wrote:
IMO, thank God Lyon was not picked as our coach for a million reasons, but the key one is, Lyon felt "entitled" to us gifting him the role without a transparent, process driven approach.
I have to say, my heart stopped during the "horrific long stretch of losses last season". Rightly, it was viewed by most hardened supporters who have seen this soooo many times in our past history. It was like here we go again, right? We must change our coach AGAIN, right?
In retrospect, thank God the club held firm and gave Vossy the chance. They backed him. That was not without high risk given previous situations. Then the "streak" happened. One, two, three, four, five, six..... wins in a row and a prelim final from literally nowhere!
Of course, we should not sit on our laurels as a club and assume the path is set. But seriously Vossy and co, including perhaps getting the buy in back after that horror stretch from the playing group and the club as a whole, could not have done anything more.
I think he deserves the contract extension. IMO, He has done everything any reasonable person would think it justified.
IF that means waiting a little, then so be it, but I'm far more comfortable than ever, this club, its executive and its super on-board members and supporters, continue to ride the wave, and will not make stupid, non-considered, knee jerk decisions.
GO BLUES!
Like that a lot . Very good BRock .
i’ll pat myself on the back for saying, mid season when we needed to win most of our remaining games to make finals, “season looks shot, very hard to make finals now, esp given lack of form”, “it’s got nothing to do with Voss, or Cripps, Blues are exceptionally lucky to have both of them”.
also said ‘for sure, try some new things, give more of the kids a run. rest young players who look exhausted and have waned from the early impact they showed’. (Motlop, Hollands come to mind).
also said keep important players for structure in the starting 22, even when we’d like to see them involved in more chains of possession leading to goal scored (H obviously who some nuffies wanted dropped every week when his confidence was shot, i said impose new kick selection rules on him, that’s it. Owies is the main one who comes to mind up forward, lots of blues i spoke to even during finals seemed to want him dropped every week, presumably in the hope or expectation that we’d discover a new 50 goal a year third marking forward option on our list, a very unrealistic hope mid season IMhO, and that’s definitely not how we play when were playing “our way” up forward.
i think Owies was super important for our transition play with his running and positioning, admitly he was less effective in heavy traffic last season as he has been in the past. i expect his role changes game to game. with Elijah Hollands, potentially the irish ☘️ and Jack Martin starting to find his slot in the forward puzzle in finals especially, pressure on the Carneys to get selected, and potentially some wing depth in Binns and others then things are looking very bright.
in the end club culture, players’ psychological maturity and humility — which Voss continually emphasises in interviews and we hear is emphasisied between the four walls of the club — is the most important thing to dévelop with a list as good as ours. it’s the edge we need over at least eight other very impressive player lists in the AFL. there’s also some very canny coaching teams managing those eight other lists. trust in the process and there’s no window at all, it comes down to good work and good karma (which again is about player maturity and even club offical maturity and ethics, which raises questions about Sayers past life in the big four consultancies who are well known by their own nonexecutive staff to be corrupt as sin, or read some of the many books like “When Mcakinsey Came to Town”)
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