Ross Lyon

One of Brett Ratten's staffers has claimed a decision to sack him was made prior to St Kilda's football re...

"It's quite incredible. "I was just ticking a box to check on my belief of his performance. "They say it's a results-driven business that we're in … "That's quite disgraceful really," Merrick said. It's a remarkable comeback, it really is," Nine's Tony Jones told Today of Lyon's potential return. "In this day and age it's a little unusual, but Ross Lyon took the club to three grand finals, and this is a club that's only won one premiership. "I was part of the review process the day before he was sacked, and I think the decision was already made. "But as soon as you lose a couple of games, no one wants to know you, you don't get the same characters supporting you and you can tell that some are ready to jump quickly." "I was so disappointed, whatever argument was presented to me for removing the coach I countered. [St Kilda](https://wwos.nine.com.au/afl/st-kilda-saints) coaching consultant Ernie Merrick has slammed the board's decision to make [Brett Ratten](https://wwos.nine.com.au/afl/brett-ratten) plead for his job after sacking him as "disgraceful" and "demeaning". "It's one of the worst (sackings) I've seen," Merrick told SEN. Merrick, the championship-winning former Melbourne Victory coach in the A-League, recently left the Saints to take up a role with Football Australia, but was a part of the Saints' football review that ultimately led to

The experienced former coach's sensational return to the Saints is almost complete after a key meeting.

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Ross Lyon will use his broadened experience away from day-to-day coaching to be a “fantastic” leader at St Kilda, according to media heavyweight Eddie ...

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Ross Lyon looks set to land the head coaching role at St Kilda after meeting with the club's board on Wednesday.

The recruiting has been pretty abysmal. He has just met the board in person at saints hq, for more than two hours. “One of the problems is you’ve got a guy who has come in as head of footy in Simon Lethlean who has had issues at the AFL as we know and had to leave the AFL when he was on a trajectory there, he’s come in as footy boss and he has made some bad calls as head of footy. The first one was getting Dan Hannebery from the Swans. Lyon was at the helm of one of the club’s most successful periods, as St Kilda made back-to-back grand finals in 2009 and 2010 in his 121 games in charge. The former Freo and St Kilda coach met with the board on Wednesday with Channel 7’s Tom Browne reporting the deal was all but done to install Lyon as the coach of the Saints once again.