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Mark Harvey Sacked- Official
- Thread starter Punxsutawney Phil
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From the front page of PRE equivalent dockerland.com
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Even by the low standard of competency Steve Harris has set himself, Fremantle members and football followers alike have been shocked by his latest buffoonery, sacking Mark Harvey as coach of the Fremantle Football Club. Mark Harvey, who took over the job after Chris Connolly stepped aside in 2007 still had a year to run on his contract but was given the Freo Steve-Ho after an injury plagued season saw the Dockers miss the finals. Ross Lyon is tipped to take up the job, after his sudden departure from St Kilda today, with the Fremantle administration getting around to fronting the media sometime on Friday, presumably after they run out of Crayfish tails at the Atrium buffet table. More to come.
http://www.dockerland.com/
Even by the low standard of competency Steve Harris has set himself, Fremantle members and football followers alike have been shocked by his latest buffoonery, sacking Mark Harvey as coach of the Fremantle Football Club. Mark Harvey, who took over the job after Chris Connolly stepped aside in 2007 still had a year to run on his contract but was given the Freo Steve-Ho after an injury plagued season saw the Dockers miss the finals. Ross Lyon is tipped to take up the job, after his sudden departure from St Kilda today, with the Fremantle administration getting around to fronting the media sometime on Friday, presumably after they run out of Crayfish tails at the Atrium buffet table. More to come.
Wow. 14 pages about some *smile* involving two sh!tty non-entities in the Aints and the Shockers.
Not Richmond. Who the *smile* cares.
Not Richmond. Who the *smile* cares.
Very overrared coach is Lyon, Melbourne have dodged a bullet I reckon but it remains to be seen who the Dees pick up. Normally I'd say time to feast on the St Kilda carcus but there's little gold amongst the retreads and ageing champions. Something tells me Ross simply didn't want to endure the pain of a rebuild and bailed before things became ugly. The Saints are my tip for bottom 4 next year and I suspect there will be a period of tanking and end of era clearance sales as the enormity of the task sets in. Goddard will probably end up at GWS and players like Fisher, Gilbert and Milne will be shopped around. It wouldn't surprise me if one of their other big names became available at the right price. Amazing to think that 12 months ago they almost snatched an improbable premiership.
The more leysy thinks about it the more he thinks the Lyon contract could go down as one of the worst handed out to a coach in the history of the game.
Only time will tell but surely this kind of thing doesn't breed confidence for a playing group?
Leysy Days said:
So did he quit in protest?
If so, that will cause more damage to Freo at this time of the year than changing coaches.
Wonder how Chris Bond feels about this if Lloyd feels so strongly. Surely the GM of Footy would be involved?
If Chris wasn't involved I'd say he would be gutted with all the work they were doing to improve their systems.
Note from the following article that Lloyd was Melbourne based and came from ESP who have just dumped Lyon as a client.
http://www.fremantlefc.com.au/Default.aspx?tabid=7009&newsId=55446
Nothing like it! our board voted to keep Tommy on--with one glaring exception-Graeme Richmond. Tommy wanted his support and when it was not given-he left!TigerForce said:
Some over the top reactions to Ross Lyon here.
Took the Saints to 3 grand finals and missed the finals just once under his guidance. A lot better than some others in the past.
He got offered a better job with better money and took it. If most of us were offered a 20% - 30% pay increase with longer security I bet we would take it.
The AFL is just starting to catch up to the ruthless nature of other competitions around the world. And with free agency coming in next year we all should start getting use to it.
Took the Saints to 3 grand finals and missed the finals just once under his guidance. A lot better than some others in the past.
He got offered a better job with better money and took it. If most of us were offered a 20% - 30% pay increase with longer security I bet we would take it.
The AFL is just starting to catch up to the ruthless nature of other competitions around the world. And with free agency coming in next year we all should start getting use to it.
Smoking Aces said:
Its not that simple, there's the matter that he essentially got Harvey sacked. A lot of coaches refuse to deal with clubs until they make arrangements with the incumbent because its the right thing to do, its a matter of integrity.
Then there's the deceitful aspect of it just like with Bomber Thompson.
Thanks to the recruiting and list management of previous coaches. Lyon has failed to improve that list. In fact, his list management can only be described as diabolical. IMO Lyon is an overated coach. Has taken a job with a decent list built by Harvey. He could have taken the Melbourne job for just as much money and time, doesn't take it because a premiership is too far away and there is too many holes in the list. Lyon is a downhill skier, looking for an easy premiership cup.Smoking Aces said:
