Good sign for Saints game

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Saints boss calls for Lyon to coach for next 10 years

This usually means that the team in question will flop miserably. On the other hand, if they sacked him this week, we'de be flogged.

[Yze_Magic 3]

Ouch.

Ross Lyon for 10 years. That would be the ultimate nightmare.

I will remember that next time I question the MFC. Things could always be a lot worse.

[Timmuns 16]

yeah, Ross Lyon does absolutely nothing to 'wow' me. Maybe that's just cos I've never really liked St Kilda...

[Demon Rob 2]

it does sound like a 'we have full confidence in the coach' presacking speech doesn't it.

So who is the worst coach - Lyon for wasting st kilda's supposed talent with backwards footy, or Knights with kimikaze defenceless footy?

[MrMoose 316]

Ross Lyon for 10 years - that's nearly as bad as Collingfilth supporters finding out there's another Cloke or Rocca brother!

Moose

[Demon4Life 603]

I wouldn't be too cocky. After Lyon calling a large part of the team soft, every man out there will have something to prove - to his teammates, coach, captain, the media and every saints member. I expect them to hit us hard.

[Dappa Dan 2,188]

Either they'll come out breathing fire and have a character building win, or this week will prove that they ARE soft in season 2008. When the coach makes that kind of call it goes one way or the other, never anything in between. Either it'll be an AWFUL ay for the dees, or it'll be an awful day for the Saints. Whoever wins will be immaterial...

[Hards 2]

Saints will come out very tough this week, nothing short of the effort we started with against Hawthorn will do.

I don't believe they are that good, and their coach is trying to enforce a style foreign to the players they have drafted for, traded for and moulded over the past six or seven years. Even with Schneider and Dempster as ex Swans players in the Saints system unless you have a whole team built to play that style it doesn't work. Sydney's hard in and under guys Bolton and Kirk are miles ahead of the Saints equivilants. So where a Schneider and a Dempster can work off that in Sydney they can't for the Saints. And Sydney wouldn't trade for guys like Fiora and wouldn't draft guys like the Clarke brothers because it doesn't fit their style and work ethic.

Unfortunately for St.Kilda (and fortunately for those of us who hate that footy club) they'll never be bad enough to bottom out but never good enough to win anything.

[jikajika 0]

Either they'll come out breathing fire and have a character building win, or this week will prove that they ARE soft in season 2008. When the coach makes that kind of call it goes one way or the other, never anything in between. Either it'll be an AWFUL ay for the dees, or it'll be an awful day for the Saints. Whoever wins will be immaterial...

Bit like when we beat em in the final in 06 and Thomas was consequently sacked, eh?

Wouldn't mind if the Dees could bury another Saints coach.

[jikajika 0]

Saints will come out very tough this week, nothing short of the effort we started with against Hawthorn will do.

I don't believe they are that good, and their coach is trying to enforce a style foreign to the players they have drafted for, traded for and moulded over the past six or seven years. Even with Schneider and Dempster as ex Swans players in the Saints system unless you have a whole team built to play that style it doesn't work. Sydney's hard in and under guys Bolton and Kirk are miles ahead of the Saints equivilants. So where a Schneider and a Dempster can work off that in Sydney they can't for the Saints. And Sydney wouldn't trade for guys like Fiora and wouldn't draft guys like the Clarke brothers because it doesn't fit their style and work ethic.

Unfortunately for St.Kilda (and fortunately for those of us who hate that footy club) they'll never be bad enough to bottom out but never good enough to win anything.

Yes, I must confess my feeling is that St. Kilda do not have the emotional maturity (and never will with the current crop of players) to get themselves out of a jam with hard football. They've got some great players, but the partyboy/prettyboy culture at St.Kilda seems far different to the grunt'n'slog of Sydney. The bloods eke out hard-fought victories for a living, the Saints are much less reliable.

It would be better for the Saints to grind out a victory against us than to thump us out of the Dome.

[Tassie Devil 28]

They smashed us round 1 last year using intimidation and toughness. We were overwhelmed and gave in without a whimper.

If we can bring the same attitude we did vs Tassie Poo and Wees last week we should be able to match them and grind their noses into the Dome turf.

[Sir Why You Little 37,245]

Bit like when we beat em in the final in 06 and Thomas was consequently sacked, eh?

Wouldn't mind if the Dees could bury another Saints coach.

The Dmons Have buried 3 Saint coaches so far Blight, Alves and Thomas-who is next

The Saints are going to come out so hard this Weekend. Big test for DB after the Hawthorn Game. We will learn a lot about our coach i believe. C'mon Dean!

[Demon4Life 603]

The Saints are going to come out so hard this Weekend. Big test for DB after the Hawthorn Game. We will learn a lot about our coach i believe. C'mon Dean!

If we want to match their physicality then Bode and CJ shouldn't play. But if we want to expose their pace then by all means bring them in, although if this is the case then Davey's absence will hurt.

[Yze_Magic 3]

We can easily match the Saints physically.

Midfield is where the heat will be on.

Hayes, Ball, Dal Santo, Harvey, Montagna, Goddard

VS

McLean, Jones, Moloney, McDonald, Green, Sylvia

We will pulverise them.

[Mono 455]

I wouldn't be too cocky. After Lyon calling a large part of the team soft, every man out there will have something to prove - to his teammates, coach, captain, the media and every saints member. I expect them to hit us hard.

Pressure's really on them. In the press, they have talked the talk - now they have to walk the walk.

Happily, we are not in that situation; our boys have been quiet, and I like it. I have shivered everytime one of us gets in the press with the 'we have to win respect' stuff.