Ross Lyon concedes St Kilda failed to deal with the “extreme” bodily calls for of a tricky latest schedule and has challenged his gamers to show their 60-point thrashing from the Western Bulldogs was an aberration.
After two interstate fixtures, the Saints fronted up for a 3rd sport in 11 days at Marvel Stadium on Thursday night time and had been run off their toes by the Bulldogs in a 19.10 (124) to 9.10 (64) defeat.
Coach Lyon admitted the testing run of matches had been a priority heading into the round-six contest however stopped wanting declaring it unreasonable.
“It’s interesting. There’s always commercial aspirations of your club and who represents you at that time, and then there’s the footy agenda,” Lyon stated post-match.
“It’s the demands of the game … and we’re a really honest team that’s trying to improve capability, like the Bulldogs are, to chase the ones that have established themselves.
“It’s not an excuse … however we’ll discover out. We have to regenerate and get going as a result of we’re not taking part in the best way we wish to.”
St Kilda were saved from their heaviest defeat under Lyon – in either of his two stints at the helm – by a Cooper Sharman goal after the siren.
But it was still their worst loss of the season by some margin, after three previous defeats by a total of 13 points.
It left the Saints with a 2-4 record ahead of a daunting interstate assignment against Port Adelaide in round seven.
“I do not wish to make excuses, as a result of I wish to give credit score to the Bulldogs, however actually with my group there was no angst after the sport,” Lyon stated.
“But we have to show it is an aberration and that there have been quite a lot of mitigating circumstances that actually challenged us.
“We’ll look to respond, we’ll lick our wounds tonight.”
St Kilda coughed up seven first-quarter objectives to 1 towards the Bulldogs and by no means acquired again inside 30 factors because the deficit swelled to as a lot as 78 through the third time period.
Saints followers headed for the Marvel Stadium exits of their droves lengthy earlier than the ultimate siren.
“I feel for our fans and our members because all they see is the performance, and ultimately that’s all we’re judged on,” Lyon stated.
St Kilda spearhead Max King is about to return towards Port Adelaide after he missed the Bulldogs conflict with a knee damage.
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