If it's nothing to do with Lyon, why don't we sack him and save a few million $???
Of course it has to do with him. Starting the game with the intention of holding Richmond to as low a score possible, and if we can stop them scoring at all we will salvage a draw. That seemed to me to be the tactics.
Letting McCarthy continually stand and wrestle his opponent instead of telling him to lead to the footy. If he won't do it drop him. Cox showed in the third quarter that you have a far better chance of taking a mark if you run to the fall of the ball instead of forcing your mates to kick it on your head.
As posted by others, the holding the ball/illegal disposal rule does not get umpired fairly as far as Freo is concerned. That alone places inordinate pressure on our players disposal. The out of bounds line seems to shift as well, and as for the throws, what can you say. In the third quarter the rules seemed to be applied equally, and Ross decided to play a tall forward, and we actually beat Richmond. There must be a message there.
And for all you Balla's haters out there, he puts in effort every week, and not by running the outsides waiting for the easy kick either. If he gets dropped before Matera, we really are on the wrong track.
