Someone, somewhere, make it stop. The disingenuous droning of the coach. He was never a fit for Fremantle and it's worse now. Sides like the Tigers, the Bulldogs, and goddamit, West Coast have about 3 extra gears when compared to us. Any improvement is either imaginary or incremental, and certainly irrelevant- there will still be more than half of the other sides that are better than us next year. We are torching players careers and supporters remaining lifespans with meaningless football.
As a side note, imagine being a Brisbane supporter. You only had to watch their football last year, when they won only 5 games, finishing 15th, one position below us on the ladder, to know they were going places. I have seen one game like that for us in 2019, against GWS, but that win looks a bit pallid in the context of the season now. We're going nowhere with this direction. I'm over it. You could scream until you were blue in the face, but Lyon (and Steve, and perhaps Peter for that matter) would neither know nor care. He is the ultimate self-serving apologist-to-no-one. But he is wrong.