Lyon outlines how beveridge can turn the bulldogs around

[Bulldog4life]

Former Melbourne captain Garry Lyon believes Western Bulldogs coach Luke Beveridge needs to win the hearts back of his players, after a tumultuous start to the 2018 season.

After losing to Greater Western Sydney by 82-points in Round 1, the Dogs failed to respond, falling to the West Coast Eagles by 51-points at Etihad Stadium on Sunday.

Beveridge acknowledged the Bulldogs’ 2016 premiership side, and the one playing now, are worlds apart, but Lyon thinks the coach needs to recapture the magic from the flag winning campaign.

“Win the hearts back,” he told SEN Breakfast.

“They’re not playing with any great heart.

“I’m not saying they’re scared, I’m saying that victory in 2016 was full of heart.

“They just went and played a way where we looked at them and said, look how much they love each other, look how much they brought into the coach, the coach has sold the plan and they’ve brought into it wholeheartedly.

“They sacrificed, they chased, they harassed, they were tough and they were ferocious.

“That’s heart. The last two weeks, they’ve had no heart.

“They’ve had no emotional investment in the way they played.

“They were witches hats in the first game and on the weekend, it was the same. There was no response.”

The Dogs are sitting last after the opening fortnight, and Lyon wants to see an aggressive bounce back this Sunday against Essendon.

“It isn’t even about them winning because I don’t think they’re that good and that’s ok because that’s the life cycle of football,” he said.

“In terms of having a crack, they gave no response. You can lose the ability to try hard. I put it more down to that than confidence.

“Their tackle and pressure numbers are down through the cellar.”

The Bulldogs laid just 42 tackles against the Eagles, and recorded a pressure rating of 166.

https://www.sen.com.au/news/2018/04/...lldogs-around/

[Topdog]

It is very annoying when Lyon is right about us

[Rocket Science]

"Win the hearts back"

Some 'outline', thanks supercoach.

There'd be nobody enjoying our current malaise more than that sneering turd.

[hujsh]

Supercoach Garry Lyon with all his years of experience coaching is weighing in guys. Better listen up.

[anfo27]

Not a huge Lyon fan either but you can't argue with what he said.

[chef]

"Win the hearts back"

Some 'outline', thanks supercoach.

There'd be nobody enjoying our current malaise more than that sneering turd.

He was pretty chuffed talking about us last night, couldn't keep the smirk off his face.

This us against them media thing we've created is going to really come home to roost with the season we are going yo have. Will be cut throat.

[ratsmac]

There you go, all better now! Thanks Garry!

So Luke, bring some flowers and chocolates to training and win back those hearts! Then the players will tackle and do lots of pressure acts.

[bornadog]

He was pretty chuffed talking about us last night, couldn't keep the smirk off his face.

This us against them media thing we've created is going to really come home to roost with the season we are going yo have. Will be cut throat.

Us versus them has always been there with the media. We can hire all the best in the world for communications manager, but they prefer to talk about Essendon, Collingwood, Carlton and Richmond.

[DragzLS1]

I like where this is going. Its creating a backs against the wall everyone is against us attitude and could possibly bring the team closer together then before. Hopefully it means we come out with 98 tackles this weekend and Stringer has 3 possessions for the game and we win by 56 points to show them we mean business.. Here's hoping

[BornInDroopSt'54]

Yep it was McCartney who got the boys fierce at the contest and Bevo inherited that. Remains to be seen if Bevo focuses on that specifically.

[Mantis]

I like where this is going. Its creating a backs against the wall everyone is against us attitude and could possibly bring the team closer together then before. Hopefully it means we come out with 98 tackles this weekend and Stringer has 3 possessions for the game and we win by 56 points to show them we mean business.. Here's hoping

We are averaging 60.5 pts per game across the first 2 rounds... are we keeping Essendon to 4 points?

I like your optimism, but it’s a hard sell at present.

[bornadog]

Yep it was McCartney who got the boys fierce at the contest and Bevo inherited that. Remains to be seen if Bevo focuses on that specifically.

I don't buy that.

Bevo's men of mayhem was different to B-Mac's philosophy

[Greystache]

Yep it was McCartney who got the boys fierce at the contest and Bevo inherited that. Remains to be seen if Bevo focuses on that specifically.

Agree, but I doubt you'll get much support on here. We built our game around dominating contested possession and repeat inside 50s. Bevo rounded out the game plan with better defensive set up and the quick handball method to work through congestion. The two pieces came together nicely. We now have a younger team that's not adept at winning the contested footy and it's making the rest of our system fall apart. Combined with appalling kicking skills and some of the worst goal kicking you'll ever see and we're averaging losses of greater than 10 goals so far this season.

[Rocket Science]

He was pretty chuffed talking about us last night, couldn't keep the smirk off his face.

This us against them media thing we've created is going to really come home to roost with the season we are going yo have. Will be cut throat.

Impossible to miss it really ... "We're gonna look at the Dogs too Roosy, don't worry about that, we're not lettin' them off the hook" he belches while mentally rubbing his hands together.

The loathsome knob dines out on soft targets with his harder-than-thou schtick that relies solely and purely on potting anyone deemed soft or struggling, as if calling out the bleeding obvious is some kind of fearless truth bomb, and does it all with the snarl of someone who postures like a coach but never had the plums for it.

And don't get me started on spelling Garry with two Rs either. Twat.

Can not COP the prick.

If the club's struggling to motivate the players they should make them watch a tape of his bile just prior to every game.

[Mantis]

Agree, but I doubt you'll get much support on here. We built our game around dominating contested possession and repeat inside 50s. Bevo rounded out the game plan with better defensive set up and the quick handball method to work through congestion. The two pieces came together nicely. We now have a younger team that's not adept at winning the contested footy and it's making the rest of our system fall apart. Combined with appalling kicking skills and some of the worst goal kicking you'll ever see and we're averaging losses of greater than 10 goals so far this season.

And now that our list profile has changed what core elements are we making a focus for the current game plan?