Stripes, what you say makes sense but riddle me this - how is it that a coach of a team after 18 months can have a system that is so superior that another side who have had a coach for more than double that time are powerless to overcome it?
Given their injury list and our home ground advantage, this system sounds pretty damn good - maybe we should've hunted Ross Lyon ourselves?
It sounds like you think Lyon is a much better coach in which case the culture of failure continues to plague this club dragged down by low ambition and mediocrity!
I refuse to believe it, get the job done today Tigers!
I think the state the respective clubs were in when the coaches took over plays a big part.
Lyon took over a club where he was expected to take the next step.
Hardwick took over a club that that had to be stripped back bare and start again.
Two things stick in mind that highlight how far behind we were when he took over-
An early training report on a forum that mentioned that Hardwick had to stop training every 10 minutes or so and call them in just to get the basics right.
and Jack saying how it was like going from primary school to high school when hardwick took over.
We probably wont get a better opportunity to beat a top side this year, but freo will cover that sort of loss of personel better than we would at this point in time, just as we would cover it better now than last year and last year better than the year before......
If we bring our A game we should win, but it wont happen without a lot of hard work and discipline.
