Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cHow good Essendon legends game – looking for a Gary Moorcroft goal square (sic) hang. Oh no might be hard Marvel Stadium did not manage to close the roof before the rain came,\u201d Lyon wrote, before adding two laughing emojis.<\/p>\n
An Essendon legends game played as the night\u2019s curtain-raiser in Docklands, where Lyon observed the wetter-than-usual turf under roof.<\/p>\n
Hilariously, Lyon\u2019s post was just his seventh in 12 years, and his first on the platform for nearly three seasons.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s been four and a half millilitres of rain across the afternoon. It is a very slippery centre corridor, and I\u2019ve spoken to St Kilda who have elevated this to the AFL,\u201d Fox Footy reporter Jon Ralph told the broadcast pre-game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had to call the AFL at 2:20pm and say: \u201cWhy haven\u2019t you closed the roof?\u2019 At that stage, it took 20 minutes more for the roof to close.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not \u2018Death Valley\u2019 out there, it must be said. But certainly when you play a young, running side with some intercept defenders in there, I can understand why you\u2019d be aggrieved.<\/p>\n
Collingwood legend Nathan Buckley added: \u201cIt won\u2019t be the last we hear of it. Whatever the spectacle of this game is, if the skills aren\u2019t great \u2026 it will be a point of conversation post-match.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyon spoke with Fox Footy an hour after his post, and responded to questioning over the tweet with a cheeky grin.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s out of my control. I think under protocols it should\u2019ve been shut, but we\u2019ll leave it with Marvel (Stadium),\u201d Lyon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think the problem here, is \u2026 this is like a car park \u2014 it\u2019s rock-hard. The degree of difficulty is quite difficult, (but) we\u2019re both playing under it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to have a platform, right … Seven times (in 12 years), keep the gun powder dry!\u201d<\/p>\n
Essendon made the most of the abnormal conditions early, leading Lyon\u2019s Saints by 11 points at quarter time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In hilarious fashion, St Kilda\u2019s veteran coach Ross Lyon has aired his frustrations with Marvel Stadium and its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[638,64,2347,63,689,55,639,55237,1127,55238,2105,55236,55242,681,55239,7198,26511,677,55241,85,1122,26889,22398,660,55240],"class_list":["post-69976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-afl","tag-au","tag-august","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-conversation-post-match","tag-fox-footy","tag-gary-moorcroft","tag-getty-images-inc","tag-hilarious-pre-game","tag-intercept-defenders","tag-jon-ralph","tag-legends-game","tag-michael-willson","tag-nathan-buckley","tag-oceania","tag-slippery-centre-corridor","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-st-kilda-saints","tag-veteran-coach","tag-victoria","tag-wetter-than-usual-turf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69976","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=69976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}