Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nLyon was repeatedly asked about King\u2019s physical and then mental health in a tense exchange.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s got a tight hamstring, this is really specific, this is the exact conversation and I actually want to move onto the rest of the game,\u201d Lyon said in part after earlier questions.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had a tight hamstring, he\u2019ll be having a scan tomorrow and I will be updated tomorrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know (there\u2019s interest), but I\u2019m giving you everything I\u2019ve got, I feel like \u2014 I\u2019ll say it again \u2014 I\u2019ll say it with a smile which is a difficult situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came off, tight hamstring, going to scan it tomorrow to see what that is, then he\u2019ll know, our medical team will know.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt might surprise you but I don\u2019t dive into it, I didn\u2019t not speak to Rowan Marshall when he had the back spasm.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt may surprise you but AFL senior coaches don\u2019t dive into the medical space\u2026 if we lean in and try to exert or even just check, it\u2019s misinterpreted that you\u2019re exerting and putting undue pressure.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor all of you, it\u2019s not an opaque process, it\u2019s very transparent and professional. Let the cobblers do the cobbling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyon panned the room asking reporters if they were satisfied with how he had answered the questions after one particular exchange.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve told you four times, what haven\u2019t I told you? Can I just ask, how many times have I answered that question?\u201d Lyon said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t understand why you\u2019re raising your voice and why I am getting pushed back on. Hang on, have I pushed back on you doing your job?<\/p>\n
\u201cI am happy to dive in and put a pin in it, I like what Chris (Scott) said, if we put a pin in it, I feel like I\u2019ve answered it directly with no shying away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know how I am becoming the bad guy here, does anyone think I haven\u2019t answered the question?<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I\u2019ve answered it three times, when I was a young coach, I used to get upset but then I just say I feel like I\u2019ve answered the question three times.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no angst from me guys, I get the interest, but I have no information\u2026 there\u2019s no angst.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyon earlier said he and the club would standby the decision to reintroduce King through the senior side instead of a VFL hitout.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe update I had is they\u2019ll investigate and have a scan, I haven\u2019t spoken to him,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I don\u2019t even know the outcome yet, so how can it be an error? But we stand by his decision to play him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have high-performance experts, we have (training) load, we have conditioning, no, we were really quite confident. It would be remiss of me to be as impulsive as I usually am.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course we stand by it, hindsight is 20-20, isn\u2019t it? We can\u2019t be timid souls sitting on the sidelines, we\u2019re in the arena making decisions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve done it before, we did it in 2023 and played him, GWS, we got all the metrics\u2026 you do the work, it is what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St Kilda coach Ross Lyon pushed back at probing journalists after Max King\u2019s return game ended prematurely. King\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[560],"tags":[398455,393685,398470,398475,93752,398435,398474,398439,396185,376435,398466,398457,398464,398459,398471,638,398448,398454,380334,398460,398462,64,63,55,639,16806,398458,130507,19385,398445,385681,377159,398444,1127,22718,398449,137,398472,388332,383904,393735,3208,398442,62756,377208,7145,39035,48147,3502,398446,13052,398438,398441,398465,398451,398453,387896,6622,38633,398432,398447,135021,26888,129167,9660,85,1122,398469,389980,385670,348169,398456,398467,398430,382205,398450,398468,378533,398443,74713,393129,398463,386766,376847,394985,378229,383300,398436,383329,398434,398461,398476,381772,398433,394691,398440,398452,7570,39,398473,398431,377211,379404,398437],"class_list":["post-825048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-afl","tag-s-latest-injury-setback","tag-s-return","tag-s-return-game","tag-20-20","tag-93752","tag-a-dark-turn","tag-a-difficult-situation","tag-a-pin","tag-a-scan","tag-a-series","tag-a-smile","tag-a-tense-exchange","tag-a-tight-hamstring","tag-a-vfl-hitout","tag-a-young-coach","tag-afl","tag-afl-senior-coaches","tag-all-the-metrics","tag-an-error","tag-an-opaque-process","tag-any-muscle-damage-watch","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-football-league","tag-australianfootballleague","tag-chris","tag-coach-ross-lyon","tag-conditioning","tag-decisions","tag-earlier-questions","tag-every-match","tag-every-round","tag-four-times","tag-fox-footy","tag-gws","tag-hamstring-tightness-the-key","tag-health","tag-high-performance-experts","tag-hindsight","tag-his-decision","tag-how-many-times","tag-interest","tag-just-1-lyon","tag-kayo","tag-kayo-sports-new","tag-king","tag-load","tag-lyon","tag-max-king","tag-me-guys","tag-monday","tag-no-angst","tag-no-information","tag-no-shying","tag-one-particular-exchange","tag-or-even-just","tag-our-medical-team","tag-part","tag-play","tag-pointed-questions","tag-probing-journalists","tag-reporters","tag-rowan-marshall","tag-scans","tag-scott","tag-sports","tag-st-kilda","tag-st-kilda-coach-ross-lyon","tag-that-question","tag-the-afl-premiership-season-live","tag-the-arena","tag-the-back-spasm","tag-the-bad-guy","tag-the-brutal-exchange","tag-the-club","tag-the-cobblers","tag-the-cobbling","tag-the-decision","tag-the-exact-conversation","tag-the-game","tag-the-interest","tag-the-medical-space","tag-the-outcome","tag-the-question","tag-the-questions","tag-the-rest","tag-the-room","tag-the-senior-side","tag-the-sidelines","tag-the-team-song","tag-the-third-quarter","tag-the-update","tag-the-work","tag-their-repeated-queries","tag-three-times","tag-tight-hamstring","tag-timid-souls","tag-tomorrow","tag-top-stories","tag-two-seasons","tag-undue-pressure","tag-your-first-month","tag-your-job","tag-your-voice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825048","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=825048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}