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| You sure spend a lot of time in the Lions boards richo. Just an observation. :) that's the beauty of these forums, they're archived and they can, and do, get dredged up the next time you're proven wrong and have whatever mistake you made drilled into you for weeks and weeks. on the flip side of course, you'll find these little or hollow victories fade very quickly... especially if one day, its found out that you're wrong on anything. |
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| was this part of "THE PLAN"..............LMAO | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Yes good luck to matthews,im sure he wont need it.He doesnt need to prove himself no more. But now that voss is the coach,good luck,he will need it. Rumour hasd it that matthews is going over to g17 |
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| You helped give this old Fitzroy fan some of the best (football) years of his life, thanks for the memories Leigh. He'll get a regular media gig on one of the channels (probably FOX or TEN they'll throw some heavy money at him) I can just about guarentee it And good on him. |
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| After ten years and 237 games coaching the Brisbane Lions, AFL Legend Leigh Matthews has announced his retirement from the Club after resigning as Senior Coach. After a decade with the Club that delivered three consecutive premierships and four Grand Final appearances, Matthews felt the timing was right to finally depart his beloved Lions. Brisbane Lions Chairman Mr Tony Kelly accepted the Senior Coach's resignation with great disappointment and regret yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. Leigh Matthews departs the Club after guiding the Lions to the equal best single-season turnaround in AFL history - taking the team from 16th in 1998 to 4th in his first season as Senior Coach in 1999. During his tenth season at the helm, the 56 year-old Matthews also became the longest serving coach in the history of Fitzroy, the Bears and the merged Lions with 237 games. He surpassed former Fitzroy coach Bill Stephen's 214 matches in Round 22 last season before passing Robert Walls who coached a total of 224 games with both Fitzroy (1981-1985) and the Brisbane Bears (1991-1995). In all, Matthews was involved in a total of 793 VFL/AFL games - 332 as a player and 461 as Coach. His 461 games coached rank him 8th for most games coached in VFL/AFL history. However, he will be best remembered as the first coach to bring the premiership cup to the AFL's newest northern frontier when he led the Lions to a hat-trick of premierships from 2001-03 and the 2004 Grand Final. Matthews has remarkably led each of the three AFL Clubs he has been involved with to the ultimate success of a premiership flag. In fact, he has been involved in a total of eight premierships - four as a player and four as a coach and is an AFL Hall of Fame sporting legend. Such is his football legacy and prestige, that the AFL Players Association annually award the coveted Leigh Matthews Trophy to the player voted by his peers as the League's Most Valuable Player. Matthews will remain with the Club ... |
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