Lyon on the preparation for the game.
"Somewhere in our preparation, we didn't nail what we needed to nail - that's indisputable," Lyon said.
"Now is it me, is it our (strength and conditioning) team, is it the players, is it a collective? That's the debate.
"We won't linger on it but we'll have a bit of a look to make sure. You would think we would have to change things going forward.
"The results are telling you it's a challenge within the League - a team off the bye playing a team that's razor sharp, ready to go and dog hungry."
"Somewhere in our preparation" do you, Ross, admit that that somewhere is back in 2012? Our strength and conditioning team are regularly turning 1 - 2 week injuries into long term injuries, injuring players during training sessions and sending players out on the weekend looking like they have just run 3 or 4 consecutive marathons at "even time" during the week
Lyon also voiced the difficulty of communicating with his team during their week off.
"It's my job to see the bigger picture (and) try to prepare them for the bigger picture," he said.
"You're telling them about Brisbane - that they've got good levels of competency, they can score if you don't pressure
them, they've got good spread, they've beaten us last year so they come with a 'let's get this done (attitude)' (and) they're dog hungry to get a win.
Prepare them for the bigger picture then, don't run them into the ground over the bye. (see below)
"So you're sharing all that and you're working with your strength and conditioning team - they'll give you the kilometres and what we should do - and you've got to respect that, because they tend to get it right.
"At all times you're trying to needle to keep that edge on.
"It just highlights at a really high level of performance, a second of time in AFL footy of reaction and spread is eight metres and you're going to look at times how we look."
Ross, they have not been getting it right, this is, to my reading of it, an admission that the players were flattened on the track over the bye, and Sandi, Fyfe and Blakely, more than flattened. It also highlights how gobbledygook about reaction time, 8 meters of spread and high levels of performance are a smokescreen for I don't know what to do.
