Harvey Sacked EDIT: Age Newspaper- "Ross Lyon to coach Freo"

[gadj1976]

Karl Langdon said that the club and Harvey had differing ideas on getting Mitch Clark to the club, vs that 17yo WA lad who's supposed to be a superstar. He thought (30mins ago) that Eade would be the man. Now it seems it's pretty obvious..... but I'll wait for the announcement before making further comment.

Why?

cos I'll look like a right d*ck if it's not the guy we think it is! And I can claim to be right no matter who gets appointed

[valleys07]

According to AFL teams....the announcement of Ross Lyon as coach of freo will come tonight!

[saintal]

According to AFL teams....the announcement of Ross Lyon as coach of freo will come tonight!

FFS

[gadj1976]

Yep, I just heard from a source that Lyon is on a plane over to WA right now.

That source mentioned that Caro & Hutchy, who know everything before it happens, were clueless in regard to the entire debacle.

[valleys07]

Fox sports have announced that ross lyon will not see out his existing contract and will not accept st.kilda's 4 year offer.

Robert Harvey will take over on an interim basis. No announcement of his predicted appointment as freo coach as yet.

[gadj1976]

Fox sports have announced that ross lyon will not see out his existing contract and will not accept st.kilda's 4 year offer.

Robert Harvey will take over on an interim basis. No announcement of his predicted appointment as freo coach as yet.

Take over what? Player cleanout, trades etc... that's a tough call for an 'interim' coach.

[valleys07]

Fox sports have announced that ross lyon will not see out his existing contract and will not accept st.kilda's 4 year offer.

Robert Harvey will take over on an interim basis. No announcement of his predicted appointment as freo coach as yet.

Take over what? Player cleanout, trades etc... that's a tough call for an 'interim' coach.

You tell me.....I would imagine the saints will take a heavy recruiting process before the players take part in pre-season.

[Media Park]

http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-sp ... 1kbmp.html

[clanger]

from the saints website

http://www.saints.com.au/news/newsartic ... fault.aspx

[Booney]

Have I woken up in some parallel universe?

[Mr Beefy]

Have I woken up in some parallel universe?

When I first read that Robert Harvey was taking over as interim coach, I read it as Mark Harvey

[GWW]

I remember something similar happening around 15 years ago when quite a bit of coaching movement happened on the one day, I reckon it was around 1995.

From memory it involved Richmond and Brisbane, may have been a swap of coaches - with Walls to Richmond and Northey to Brisbane. I'm not sure Mark Harvey will end up at the Saints on this occasion though.

[saintal]

Fortius Quo Fidelius Rossco.

(Loyalty is long dead I know )

[Tassie Blues]

makes the footy show worth watching tonight garry will have his angry pants on

[hottie]

Heard during the week on radio that Ross Lyon had a couple of investment deals that have gone horribly wrong,St.Kilda had offered a reasonably good deal but financially Freemantles must be massive.Watching AFL teams on Fox,the way Mark Harvey was sacked was strange.

[saintal]

At least we can hand the title of the league's most boring team to watch onto Freo.

Seriously though, pretty annoyed about how this has transpired. I wonder how long Freo and RL have been in talks?

Some figures thrown up on another forum were $3.5M for year 1, and then $1M for remaining 3 years. Take that as you will.

[Columbo]

What a big few hours its been in football!!!

Footy show saying Ross Lyon's managers at ESP had no idea.....think with a company name like that would have had some idea

[NFC]

Woah!!! Just saw this news.

Harvey very, very harshly done by, didn't think he'd done a whole lot wrong since taking over at Freo. Injuries virtually ruined any hope they had this season.

[Mr66]

...and people castigated me for my 'disloyalty' when I dumped this lot five years.
Hmmmm, so this is what vindication tastes like.

[westozfalcon]

I'm sure the Freo management would have sought extensive player feedback on Harvey before making this decision. The news of his sacking indicates that the players didn't have confidence in him and his methods.

Securing Ross Lyon is a massive coup for the club. He brought about huge improvement at St Kilda and I reckon he'll do the same at the Dockers.