Ross Lyon Quotes

Ross Lyon: Matthew is a little like the champion racehorse Might and Power - you just need to give him a niggle in the ribs every now and then and away he goes.

Ross represented the last piece of the puzzle in our quest to become a truly elite football club, a process that had started with Chris Bond’s arrival and continued with Jason Weber then Brad and Simon Lloyd, Steve Rosich’s appointment as CEO, and the 2008 and 2009 national drafts. Ross topped it all off.

That afternoon, Fremantle turned the football world on its head. Mark Harvey had been axed, to be replaced by Ross Lyon, a coach who had taken the Saints to four successive finals campaigns and three Grand Finals, and who was walking out of the final year of his contract. Forget the AFL finals were happening - this was the news of the week, if not the year!

Ross said that our preparation was ‘normal and mediocre’, not extraordinary, when it needed to be the latter. He went on to name some individuals in particular who had been at the club for five or six years and who had been meandering along, not improving their time-trial times and general condition.

As hard as this is to take, I think this is a good outcome for the club. We may finally have a coach I’ve always wanted.