Port Adelaide premiership winner Kane Cornes has turned a blowtorch onto St Kilda coach Ross Lyon.
After beginning the season with wins over Collingwood and Richmond, together with slim defeats to Geelong, Essendon and the Giants, the Saints’ kind has nosedived.
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St Kilda has misplaced three of its previous 4 video games to droop to 14th on the ladder, together with an 80-point hammering towards the Eleventh-ranked Bulldogs and Saturday’s upset 8.10 (58) to 7.11 (53) loss to battlers Hawthorn.
Coming off a sixth-place end in his first season again on the Saints, Lyon’s staff has a 3-6 report to date in 2024 and Cornes has zeroed in on a trait he has seen from the coach’s post-game press conferences.
“I simply assume he’s changed into an excuse machine,” Cornes stated on Channel 9’s Sunday Footy Present.
“After each loss I’m sitting there going which excuse will Ross give you after a loss.”
The present then replayed a collection of press conferences following St Kilda’s defeats to the Hawks, Bulldogs and Port Adelaide.
“It’s not an excuse, however we’ve had quite a lot of tight video games,” Lyon stated after the Hawks sport on Saturday.
“We get 4 messages 1 / 4 and with three minutes to go you possibly can’t ship the runner (out).
“In my earlier iterations you might use the runner nearly at will. You see stuff you need to repair and stuff you need to do and other people say kick extra objectives and also you get these alternatives but it surely’s nonetheless restricted.
“It’s not an excuse but when you concentrate on the stress (on coaches) that goes on, you possibly can decide up the cellphone, shift some stuff and possibly rating higher.
“It’s attention-grabbing. We’re like neutered canines proper, we are able to sit there and see stuff and you may’t repair it. It’s very troublesome, but it surely’s not an excuse.”
The next movies then confirmed Lyon complaining a few free kick depend towards his facet within the loss to the Energy after which the brief break the Saints confronted earlier than taking over the Canine.
“So kicked 53 factors yesterday and the runners was the excuse, the lack to make use of the runners,” Cornes stated.
“Towards Port Adelaide it was the free kick depend.
“And towards the Western Bulldogs it was a brief break.”
Cornes then acknowledged what he would like to see from Lyon in his messages to followers and the media.
“I believe the issue for Ross is he’s obtained to clarify what the sport plan is and the way they’re going to attain extra,” he stated.
“In order that they common 74 factors for the season, yesterday they took 117 marks and kicked seven objectives.
“Hawthorn had kicked eight objectives to three-quarter time, didn’t kick a aim within the final quarter, but the Saints weren’t capable of run over a bottom-four facet and get it completed.
“They‘ve obtained to give you a sport plan and he has to explain that.
“Don’t fear in regards to the excuses, simply inform us the way you’re going to regulate your sport plan to attempt to rating and problem the perfect sides.”
Subsequent up St Kilda host Fremantle on Saturday evening, earlier than clashes with the Demons, Eagles and Suns.
