Mark Harvey sacked / Ross Lyon new Freo coach

[one-eyed]

Robbo_heraldsun Mark Robinson

"just spoke to st kilda. fair to say staggered by the decision. They say it happened within 24 hours..."

[tiger101]

craighutchy Craig Hutchison

"Watch the footy show tonight. Full details on how the dockers landed ross lyon at 930. #explosivecoup"

Wouldnt surprised me if he was hanging out at the airport on the chance to run into any coach or assistant coach heading over to W.A.

[mightytiges]

Just amazing in this day of wall to wall media coverage that not one journo in either Melbourne or Perth caught wind of this before the news broke.

[one-eyed]

5-year deal for Lyon

http://www.sportsnewsfirst.com.au/articles/2011/09/15/lyon-to-replace-harvey-at-fremantle/

[mightytiges]

This actually sounds a bit like what happened with us when KB was sacked as coach. We went after the more proven coach in Allan Jeans while KB was still our coach and once we got him it was thanks KB good-bye. Freo's Board must have been wooing Lyon for a while to convince him and now they've got their man it was good-bye Harvey.

Smart move by Lyon if he wants to be a career coach even though he'll be called disloyal. He knows like everyone else does that the Saints are gone and are going to need a full rebuild. It would only damage his coaching reputation if he remained with St Kilda.

[TigerLand]

Apparently deal done 5 weeks ago.

Lyon approached Fremantle and they jumped at him.

Ordinary from both Freo and Lyon.

[DCrane]

Just amazing in this day of wall to wall media coverage that not one journo in either Melbourne or Perth caught wind of this before the news broke.

True MT. It was interesting to see how it emerged on social media and telly between 7-8pm though.

craighutchy Craig Hutchison

"Watch the footy show tonight. Full details on how the dockers landed ross lyon at 930. #explosivecoup"

Too late Hutchy, it all unfolded live on AFL teams on Foxtel, it was good fresh telly too. It will be mouldy by the time you get your 10.15  slot on the footy show

[one-eyed]

St Kilda confirm.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/sport/afl/mark-harvey-sacked-from-fremantle/story-e6frf9jf-1226138146342

[Penelope]

LMAO.

This bloke would rather pack up his family and move to the other side of the country than coach Melbourne for big money.

If it smells like kaka, then stay away from it.

 

[Loui Tufga]

Another kick in guts for Melbourne! They were desperate to get Lyon and he has completely given them the cold shoulder

[tiger101]

Apparently deal done 5 weeks ago.

Lyon approached Fremantle and they jumped at him.

Ordinary from both Freo and Lyon.

I know Lyon has got runs on the board when it comes to getting a team into grand finals.
But its still poor form to ditch the man(Harvey) they've(fremantle board) backed to get the job done after just being approached by Lyon.

[TigerLand]

Fremantle have a top 6 list. They had the worst run of injury Ive ever seen in my time and the bloke gets the sack. What a joke.

Enjoy playing rubbish football Freo. Will take 2 seasons to adapt and by then the list will be too old.

Wrong move.

[tiger101]

Fremantle have a top 6 list. They had the worst run of injury Ive ever seen in my time and the bloke gets the sack. What a joke.

Enjoy playing rubbish football Freo. Will take 2 seasons to adapt and by then the list will be too old.

Wrong move.

  Totally agree. Very Very harsh on Harvey. Low act by the board just to sack him because a grand finalist coach has approached them.

[TigerLand]

Lyon did the deal behind his managements back, who also manage Harvey.

So Lyons management have sacked the snake Lyon for doing his won business.

Unbelievable.

[tiger101]

Be interesting to see how Ross coaches them. Does he put in a boring slow crowd the defence game plan that helped the saints cover there deficits in there list or does he allow Freo's list to play to there full potential and free them up more.