Get your first month for just $1. Limited-time offer.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWhat\u2019s casual talks mean? The only thing they got right there is \u2018Simmo\u2019. I haven\u2019t spoken to anyone. I haven\u2019t moved to Melbourne. It must\u2019ve been a slow news day,\u201d Simpson began.<\/p>\n
But Lyon wasn\u2019t going to stop there, probing further for more from the legendary coach.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Gerard was here you might be able to push him around\u2026,\u201d Lyon interjected.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing to probe,\u201d Simpson rebutted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m going to probe. Have you been in casual talks with one Victorian (club) or more?\u201d Lyon pressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI haven\u2019t. Unfortunately there\u2019s not a lot of fact to that. What I have learned with that paper, if you respond, there\u2019ll be another one,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t need to pick a fight with them but it is that time of the year when your name and others will be bandied around. Is there any interest whatsoever?\u201d Lyon continued<\/p>\n
\u201cNo at the moment,\u201d Simpson said.<\/p>\n
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Lyon was quick to pick up on Simpson\u2019s comments, but Simpson instead said he was fully focussed on his new role in the media.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s qualified – at the moment – which is fair,\u201d Lyon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still learning a lot of this stuff, to be honest. It feels pretty soon to be out of the game and \u2018Horse\u2019 (John Longmire) is even later. I\u2019m enjoying this year for what it is and that\u2019ll end in a few weeks and I\u2019ll look towards next year when the time is right,\u201d Simpson replied.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no jobs available for a start and there\u2019s no real desire to jump straight back in at the moment either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyon probed again, pointing out Simpson wasn\u2019t definitive in his defence.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI\u2019m not trying to trip you up or anything, but it does sound to me like you haven\u2019t absolutely put it definitively to bed. Which is not to say you\u2019ve been having casual talks with one Victorian club,\u201d Lyon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to put things to bed like that because it\u2019s a bit raw, it\u2019s still a bit early. Anyone who\u2019s got out of the game from a coaching point of view, I always wondered why they say it like I\u2019m saying it now. You don\u2019t want to completely rule things out, but at the moment I\u2019m really happy with what I\u2019m doing,\u201d Simpson added.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd respect those that are in the job currently. The names that are bandied around, you\u2019ve been in that position yourself,\u201d Lyon quipped.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely. That\u2019s all part of it, I get all of that but trying to be respectful as much as you can. It is a fraternity, they\u2019re still connected to a lot of those senior coaches and dealing with what they\u2019re dealing with at the moment, I understand what they\u2019re going through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former West Coast Eagles coach Adam Simpson has quashed rumours a return to coaching could be on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[1146,638,64,63,689,55,639,30904,30903,30901,10145,30905,647,677,30405,30401,30907,30902,30906,85,1122,660,7067],"class_list":["post-33588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-adam-simpson","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-breakdown-momentum","tag-coaching-point","tag-coaching-ranks","tag-garry-lyon","tag-justin-longmire","tag-melbourne","tag-oceania","tag-quarter-comeback","tag-real-desire","tag-senior-coaches","tag-simmo-ampampamp-horse","tag-slow-news-day","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-victoria","tag-west-coast-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}