Jack Steele has backed in St Kilda coach Ross Lyon’s scathing evaluation of his facet, agreeing they do not need to play finals based mostly on their poor current type.
Saints captain Steele was at a loss for what’s gone fallacious of their final 5 weeks of soccer, dropping 4 occasions and scraping throughout the road to beat lowly West Coast.
They’re nonetheless sixth on the AFL ladder and properly positioned if they’ll flip round their dismal type, however want to make things better rapidly to keep away from falling out of the highest eight altogether.
Lyon publicly roasted his troops following an embarrassing 26-point loss to Gold Coast, suggesting they have been a “stumbling, fumbling mess” whereas labelling their offence “confused and unpredictable”.
“He was brutally honest, and he sort of needed to be I think,” Steele stated.
“Probably a number of things (went wrong), it’s hard to put your thumb on what exactly went wrong, but I think that ball movement wasn’t great, which we’ll obviously look to train a little bit this week heading to North Melbourne.
“I can not pinpoint precisely what that could be, however I suppose all through the entire AFL season groups ebb and stream, you win a couple of video games on the trot and also you lose a couple of and on the finish of the day, we’re nonetheless in an excellent place with six video games left.”
Steele denied their form slump had coincided with the side running out of legs after a gruelling pre-season, pointing to a spirited effort against Melbourne a fortnight back despite being players down on the bench.
He did back in Lyon’s call the team was too top-heavy, with the workload left to too few individuals who can’t afford to have bad days.
“It’s in all probability honest sufficient,” Steele stated.
“Our greatest performers in all probability want to only hold issues going, hold driving the requirements, however we additionally want that second tier and third tier to carry much more and we in all probability have not had that within the final possibly six or seven weeks of soccer.
“We saw it earlier in the year, everyone was evenly contributing to our performances.
“It’s positively tapered off within the final couple of months of footy, we have simply bought to discover a method to get that again.”
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