St Kilda coach Ross Lyon divides with ‘smart alec' response to journalist
Grumpy Ross Lyon re-emerged on the weekend to mixed reviews.
St Kilda's master coach was in a foul mood during his team's disappointing loss to Brisbane on Saturday, and he was seen on several occasions serving it up to his players.
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Vision emerged of Lyon giving his players a bake on the bench, and he made headlines for his quick decision to sub out Hugo Garcia early in the game.
'Cuddly Ross was good while it lasted but the old Ross was back a little bit on the weekend,' Agenda Setters host Craig Hutchison said on Monday night.
'(Cuddly Ross) came to a crashing halt at quarter time or thereabouts on the weekend, when he really got after his players on the boundary line. And then there's some vision from behind the bench of him blowing a gasket.
'By his own words, that's the most demonstrative he has been ... (since been back at St Kilda).'
Expert commentator Kane Cornes said he was all for it.
'The criticism I had over him was that he had lost this (aggressive approach),' Cornes said on The Agenda Setters.
'So he's been a bit cuddly, he's been delegating, letting assistants do the work, letting others appoint assistant coaches around him, which probably wouldn't have happened 10 years ago, and (I was wondering) had he lost his edge for that.
'So personally, I love seeing that hard edge back.'
Lyon also had a run in with a journalist after the game which reminded many of his infamous 2013 feud with 3AW journalist Shane McInnes.
'OK, that's the best question you can come up with after two hours of footy. You're quite brilliant Shane, yeah, terrific,' Lyon said back then after McInnes hinted that Freo players deliberately targeted Geelong players off-the-ball during a qualifying final at Kardinia Park.
Veteran AFL journalist Caroline Wilson was unimpressed as Lyon quizzed an AFL media journalist about her question.
'We all saw it. What did you think?' Lyon said and clapped his hands. 'Specifically, what do you see? Q1.'
The reporter, Gemma Bastiani, responded with aplomb, despite the coach seemingly trying to make her stumble4.
'Nah, sorry, smart alec Ross. I don't like that,' Wilson said.
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'She asked the question, does she need to explain blow by blow what was going on on the footy ground?'
Cornes: 'I thought (Bastiani) handled herself really well ... (but) Ross was well within his rights to answer that question back.'
Riewoldt wondered if Wilson was taking sides with Bastiani because Bastiani is a female journalist.
'Do you think that's like too aggressive, or what? Is it 'smart alec' to any journalist,' Riewoldt askd Wilson.
Wilson: 'Not because Gemma is a woman, no, nothing to do with that. I thought what he did to Shane McInnes was dreadful.
'I didn't I didn't like it.'
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