{"id":388455,"date":"2024-04-27T03:38:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388455"},"modified":"2024-04-27T05:03:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T05:03:58","slug":"coach-plays-mind-games-in-awkward-presser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388455","title":{"rendered":"Coach plays mind games in awkward presser"},"content":{"rendered":"

St Kilda<\/a> coach Ross Lyon<\/a> is up to his old press conference tricks again.<\/p>\n

After his Saints 10-point loss at the hands of Port Adelaide<\/a>,\ufeff Lyon turned the questions on the journalists, who were pressing him on his side's inability to capitalise on the injured Power line-up.<\/p>\n

It came after Port Adelaide lost three players in a matter of minutes to a plethora of injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It started when key defender Aliir Aliir went down with concussion<\/a>, after a dangerous sling tackle from small Saints defender Jack Higgins in the second term.<\/p>\n

Then, Sam Powell-Pepper went down in the third term<\/a> after attempting to jump and mark a ball in the Power's forward 50.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

It was an innocuous incident that saw him fall to the ground and grab his right knee in agony.<\/p>\n

\ufeffPowell-Pepper was immediately rushed off to be treated by club doctors, helped off by two trainers to reach the bench.<\/p>\n

He was assessed but after a few minutes, was seen putting on his warm up jacket and applying ice to that knee.<\/p>\n

The carnage didn't stop their for the home side.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\"Aliir<\/p>\n

Just minutes later in front of Port Adelaide's bench\ufeff, Power captain Rozee jumped for a ball heading over the boundary line and landed awkwardly on his hamstring.<\/p>\n

He attempted to play on but looked extremely proppy, before being dragged at three-quarter time and officially put on ice.<\/p>\n

It was a chance for the Saints to exploit the home side, who were down to one on the bench and only trailing by 13 points at the final break.\ufeff<\/p>\n

When questioned as to why he side, with a full bench, weren't able to run over the depleted Power, Lyon snapped back at the journalist asking.<\/p>\n

\"Ross<\/p>\n

"Yeah, what did you observe?," Lyon said post match.<\/p>\n

"Yeah as I said we went to 'green' \u2026 Darcy Wilson went to the back pocket and played on.<\/p>\n

"I thought we were challenging and they were under a little bit of pressure. There was a big play on the far side where it looked like we were out and we tapped forward.<\/p>\n

"It was some marginal stuff."<\/p>\n

\"St<\/p>\n

After pressing the reporters for their thoughts on what went wrong for the Saints, Lyon asked where they rated Port Adelaide.<\/p>\n

"Yeah, I don't know, where do you put them (Port)? What are they, top what? You're local journos, where do you put them?" Lyon said.<\/p>\n

The Saints leader \ufeffsays despite the loss, he believes his side took steps in the right direction.<\/p>\n

"We sent a message 'take it (on)'. I thought we were daring. I thought with the entries we were playing up-tempo, we were taking it on," Lyon said.<\/p>\n

"That's just my opinion."<\/p>\n

The Saints\ufeff are 2-5 after seven rounds, now looking ahead to their clash against North Melbourne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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