Saints respond to stunning Lyon return rumours

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St Kilda has not unopen the doorway connected sounding retired erstwhile Saints manager Ross Lyon connected a imaginable instrumentality to the nine aft sacking Brett Ratten this week.

Ratten was stunningly ousted conscionable 97 days aft being handed a two-year extension connected Thursday.

According to The Age, the imaginable instrumentality of Lyon is "expected to beryllium canvassed" aft Ratten's exit, but St Kilda president Andrew Bassat and CEO Simon Lethlean refused to sermon a imaginable replacement successful a media league connected Friday retired of respect for the recently-sacked coach.

Lyon, who coached St Kilda successful 121 games for 76 wins betwixt 2007 and 2011, has been linked with a big of vacant roles since being sacked by Fremantle astatine the extremity of 2019, having astir precocious knocked backmost advances from Essendon.

A instrumentality to Moorabbin for Lyon would beryllium stunning, considering the disfigured break-up betwixt the 2 parties implicit a decennary agone erstwhile the highly regarded manager near St Kilda to articulation Fremantle for the 2012 season.

When asked by reporters whether he'd spoken to Lyon yet, Lethlean said helium had not, and refused to uncover whether the nine would tally an exhaustive process to find Ratten's successor.

"Between Andrew (Bassat), myself, and the board, we've uncovered what we request and our members request to cognize we volition beryllium swift and decisive and spell and find the manager we need," helium said.

"It's not to just to accidental we cognize precisely our man. We cognize what we privation to get, we cognize the characteristics that we're after, and we're going to spell to the marketplace and find it."

St Kilda is expected to marque a determination connected who its adjacent manager is wrong the coming weeks.

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