Saints avoid scrutiny

Is there something in the water down at Linton Street?

 

Ross Lyon will be working with pretty much a completely new coaching team for the 2011 season.

 

Brian Royal is the latest to depart the Saints’ coaching team, following Leigh Tudor, Andy Lovell, Tony Elshaugh and Stephen Silvagni.

 

It’s understandable for a coaching group to break up when the senior coach moves on, but, on the back of three successful years and the senior coach remaining in charge, it seems strange to see such dramatic change.

 

Also strange is the lack of rumour and innuendo — although we’re here doing our best to ramp something up! — from the mainstream media soothsayers. Why don’t we have Mike Sheahan or Caroline Wilson or Patrick Smith waffling on about behind the scenes troubles? Or is it just that the five weren’t keen on travelling out to Casey?

 

And I suppose the Saints’ younger players will be a lot harder at the ball with Paul Hudson as new development coach. . .

 

Winter weather in Melbourne, but no football! It’s doing our minds in!