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As three Indigenous Saints players were in a chain taking part in a drill, Lyon made the comment: \u201cI love the brother boy connection, but we all have to remember we are part of a bigger team here\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis comment didn\u2019t sit well with Brad Hill, or Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera, or any of the other Indigenous players who heard the comment,\u201d Wilson said on Seven\u2019s The Agenda Setters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was on Friday. On Saturday night Brad Hill, who is probably the leader of St Kilda\u2019s Indigenous cohort \u2026 called Ross and communicated his displeasure to Ross.<\/p>\n
\u201cLyon, who had been feeling uncomfortable knowing that something was not right since the previous day, wanted the players to have a day off because they were on a bye. (But) gathered them all at the club on the Monday at their request and his request.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe became very emotional, and offered to consider his position of senior coach.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement given to Wilson, Lyon said his comment \u201cdidn\u2019t land where it should have landed\u201d and asked whether he was being casually racist.<\/p>\n
Ross Lyon, Senior Coach of the Saints speaks to Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera of the Saints during a St Kilda Saints AFL training session at RSEA Park. (Photo by Quinn Rooney\/Getty Images)Source: Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not here to justify or try to rationalise what I said. We are all only as good as our next moment and it was a moment I understand I misjudged,\u201d Lyon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas I being flippant? Could it be described as casual racism? I learned a lot out of what happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t land where it should have landed and I have to wear that, and I take full responsibility for what I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very emotional at the meeting, and I offered to consider my position.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wilson said Hill was \u201cnot happy\u201d the story had been made public.<\/p>\n
Hill did not contradict that when he posted a photo of himself, Lyon and Wanganeen-Milera celebrating on his Instagram story with the text: \u201cSorry Caro but we love Ross\u201d.<\/p>\n
Wilson had made it clear in her report the players were backing Lyon after the meeting.<\/p>\n
Brad Hill’s Instagram story after Caroline Wilson reported on Ross Lyon’s comment.Source: FOX SPORTS<\/p>\n
\u201cBut my understanding is that Hill and all of his teammates, including Nasiah who were not happy, were satisfied and absolutely accepted that Ross has said the wrong thing – but in no way meant to be racist,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Brad Hill made the point to Ross on the Saturday night, he wouldn\u2019t have said that if it was three white players, so you shouldn\u2019t have said it to us.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added: \u201cHe\u2019s (Lyon) almost relieved that we\u2019re going to report it because he believes the truth in some weird way will set him free.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t think he\u2019s racist, and he certainly was horrified at how much he had hurt those players.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda coach Ross Lyon offered to consider quitting his job earlier this month after offending several Indigenous…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,63,55,639,85],"class_list":["post-634010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634010","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=634010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}