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As I said in the podcast thread, we all got it wrong when Lyon / Tonga left is back in 2004 or so.
Lyon walked out on Smith and we lost Tonga to the Dogs a few months earlier. We all said that Lyon was a merkin and that if it wasn't for him we would have kept Tonga.
As it turns out, it was allegedly an unhealthy workplace. Tonga could not wait to get out of the joint and Lyon walked in Rnd 1 or 2.
More to come from this and I may even have to indeed apologise to Judas Lyon.
Maybe Smith was more hard on him because he could see his potential but he was trying to get him to come out of his shell more. If Smith didn't push him, he may not have turned into the player he did. Not defending Smith but im sure he had his reasons. It was a shame how it ended up, We also lost Vaealiki mid season to his Achilles injury and he never played for us again.