I struggle to remember this debate around the suitability of Pavlich for our captaincy that you speak of. What I remember more during his tenure was the speculation that he may move club.
You may very well be right that Lyon is a terrible coach. I don’t subscribe to this viewpoint. My personal viewpoint is that Lyon has been a very good coach, I am undecided as to whether he remains a very good coach. The style of play that he used to attain that success would appear unlikely to succeed currently as teams have developed different strategies and the AFL has moved to legislate against it.
I am in the minority on this sight, in that I have seen a change in desire around our game plan to move the ball quicker and be more attacking. Granted this has been ineffective and ugly and actually resulted in some horrible scores against. Is this an indicator of an inability to coach or one part of the puzzle?
One of the big questions/criticisms leveled at Lyon is, he has been a good coach of, well developed experienced lists. If we assume that Lyon, played no role in the recruiting over the last three drafts (the time in which the re-build has actually been occurring), he now has assembled for him the building blocks of a competetive balanced team. If this team doesn’t deliver genuinely competitive football this year. I would have move him on. In fact I posted last year that we should have busted our nuts to get Luke Hodge as an assistant to have a position to fall back too.
All of this may sound like a defence of Lyon, I don’t mean it to be, as I have said I am undecided. I tire of every decision or slip up along the way being turned back to the same point.
I believe it is more complicated than that, and merely sacking Lyon won’t fix it all.
I also remember the rumours around discontent underneath Fyfe’s leadership in his first year. I think this position could be one of the factors contributing to our lack of cohesion on the ground. I think I have posted previously tha although I think Nic Nat is over rated as a player his team mates appear to love playing with him, I don’t get this sense at Freo with Fyfe.