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Just mentioned on One Week At A Time that Lyon has been offered a 5 year contract. Apparently moving through the list of best as opposed to best available. Clarkson and Malthouse already declined.

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Just announced on 'one week at a time'!!

Bring Dal Santo & Sam Fisher & we might have a deal.

If we continue to offer these deals & get knocked back we will look stupid very quickly.

Not really sure how I feel about Ross Lyon

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Just mentioned on One Week At A Time that Lyon has been offered a 5 year contract. Apparently moving through the list of best as opposed to best available. Clarkson and Malthouse already declined.

Don't think they said Mick had declined, rather that they had hit some roadblocks with Clarkson, correct me if I'm wrong though!

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While I think the Saints play an ugly style of footy, I would be more than happy to put up with that style if it meant we were competitive week in week out unlike the last five years.

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Interesting response when questioned by Wallsy! Said he was contracted for 1 more year and committed to the club for this weekends match, he'd leave it up to His management to sort it out!He said it's the first he had heard about it but I got the feeling he was well aware of it!

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Ross was just asked by Rob Walls. Said that he learnt from Richard Colless not to use the media to basically grand stand and posture for position.

He has changed management recently Ross said and that he trusted his management do the right thing. Contracted to the Saints until the end of the 2012 season.

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Ross was just asked by Rob Walls. Said that he learnt from Richard Colless not to use the media to basically grand stand and posture for position.

He has changed management recently Ross said and that he trusted his management do the right thing. Contracted to the Saints until the end of the 2012 season.

I hope that doesnt mean we have to pay his contract out!

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I hope that doesnt mean we have to pay his contract out!

Let's do what we have to do. We need a tough, defensive-minded coach. There aren't many top coaches around and we're at a pivotal moment for the club. Go for broke Dees!

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I hope that doesnt mean we have to pay his contract out!

Why would we have to pay? We aren't breaking any contract. St Kilda will not sue him if he left, so no pay out required.

But on topic, I'm not sure I like the idea of Lyon.

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Why would we have to pay? We aren't breaking any contract. St Kilda will not sue him if he left, so no pay out required.

But on topic, I'm not sure I like the idea of Lyon.

Inducement to break contract? They may sue us.

Lyon is a good coach. I'M EXCITED.

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No thanks. If we played Saints Footy I doubt I would go most weeks. Winning is important but his style is a blight on the spectacle that is the game.

Gameplans are always evolving. What got them to 3 grand finals won't get them to another. He's smart enough to know that.

If he's good enough he's malleable and if he's malleable I think he's good enough.

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No thanks. If we played Saints Footy I doubt I would go most weeks. Winning is important but his style is a blight on the spectacle that is the game.

Red. I don't know about Ross Lyon because I haven't given him much thought as a possible coach but I know that if I go most weeks these days then a team coached by Lyon couldn't really dish up anything much more horrific that what I get to see ATM. After experiencing 2011, I would welcome watching them pick up the four points every week by playing ugly which just goes to show that ugly is in the eyes of the beholder.

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My mind keeps coming back to the game earlier this year when they played the cats, I swear that was the most disgusting "game" of football i've ever seen. I usual go for the saints when they face off with the cats, but I was so happy when the cats beat them because it was a disgusting negative game.

If he wants to bring that to the club then no thanks.

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I'm tired watching dishonest football..............Lyon would sort that out immediately!

Would be more than happy if he got the job.

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I'm tired watching dishonest football..............Lyon would sort that out immediately!

Would be more than happy if he got the job.

I agree - I am at the point where I think toughness is just about the sole criterion we need in a coach.

A bit of an exaggeration, perhaps,but not too far off the mark.

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Gee his body language when questioned on OWAAT was very telling.

I think an offer has been made.

I am certain it has, however Lyon was most professional clealy not specultaing through the media. The term he used on the show was 'posturing'. He doesnt do this and leaves this up to his management and believes they will handle it correctly.

Much has been said about 'Saints' footy on this thread, but from my memeory of the great John Northey- - the demons were never beaten till the final bell, snatching many a last minute victory and they were as every bit excting as free flowing game styles we see today sometimes.

The will not be a payout issue as he would not break a contract - simply agree to part company, hopefully accepted by the St.Kilda board. They can sue him for 'specific performance' , which simply means a legal manner to make him stay one more year, but in those circumstances would be unlikely to be invoked.

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On Footy Classified, one of the panelists (can't remember which, but not Garry) briefly mentioned that Ross Lyon has a get-out clause at the end of this year anyway.

Mixed feelings about Ross.

He has a good record, but damn it's ugly football.

One thing that excites me, is that maybe with a stronger list with more talent, his gameplan would be quite different.

We can hope.

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Ross Lyon would have Melbourne playing Honest & accountable football with a defensive edge..Imagine Aaron Davey being accountable..

I would go to watch that every week after the last 4 years...ABSOLUTELY.

Hard Tough wins...the way the MFC did it in the 50's.

Bring it on.

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