Cats make call on Lyon after sounding out coach

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Geelong main enforcement Steve Hocking has confirmed Ross Lyon won't beryllium portion of Chris Scott's coaching unit adjacent season.

Reports earlier this period suggested the Cats had sounded retired Lyon's availability.

Hocking, who was antecedently the AFL's wide manager of football, revealed Lyon was "one of a fig of people" the nine had spoken with.

"Chris (Scott) and Ross (Lyon) spell backmost a agelong way," Hocking told SEN.

"I really had a just spot to bash with Ross astatine the AFL. I was large connected making definite we were talking to radical astir the game. I don't deliberation 1 idiosyncratic has each the answers, I've ne'er believed that.

"You get retired and you scope what is available. Ross was 1 of a fig of radical we've spoken to.

"One of the large things astir Ross which Chris and I some enjoyed was helium gave america an outer presumption of what helium sees of our shot club.

"The imaginable opportunities that mightiness beryllium successful beforehand of us, and wherever the crippled is going. I'm precise appreciative of the clip helium gave america and the insights helium provided us."

But arsenic it stands, Lyon isn't being pursued by the club.

"No, it's not," Hocking said erstwhile asked if the erstwhile Fremantle and St Kilda manager was an option.

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"We conscionable talked done a full big of things, including what he's done successful different programs.

"He's been a precise palmy coach, he's 1 of a fig of radical we've spoken to."

It's understood Scott is successful the process of committing to Geelong connected a caller deal that volition instrumentality him done to 2024.

But that declaration inactive hasn't been signed.

Ever since the Cats were bounced retired of the finals bid astatine the hands of the eventual premiers, the Demons, adjunct coaches Matthew Knights, Matthew Scarlett and Corey Enright person each departed the club.

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