Ross Lyon issue to ‘slowly disappear’: West Australian Football Commission chairman
A SENIOR football official says the sexual harassment scandal embroiling Dockers coach Ross Lyon will “slowly disappear” despite criticism of how the AFL and club have handled the matter.
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A SENIOR football official says the sexual harassment scandal embroiling Dockers coach Ross Lyon will “slowly disappear” despite criticism of how the AFL and club have handled the matter.
Lyon was nowhere to be seen yesterday ahead of today’s clash against Richmond at the MCG.
Fremantle and the AFL stonewalled requests for a response to new details of the incident that were reported in the Herald Sun.
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The West Australian Football Commission maintained it was satisfied with the outcome of an AFL investigation that exonerated Lyon and found no sanctions were necessary, with chairman Murray McHenry saying the matter “should slowly disappear”.
Mr McHenry said the WAFC was “aware of the circumstances but not all the details” and that he trusted the AFL integrity unit and Fremantle board had handled the matter appropriately.
“The highly principled people on the board of Fremantle are making the calls and we would rely on them in a sensitive matter like this,” he said.
“We don’t believe further investigations are necessary but if the club felt they were, that would be up to the club.
“We have to rely on the board, they’re charged with that responsibility.”
Fremantle president Dale Alcock and board members Peter Bell, Stephen O’Reilly and Peter Mann — all former players — did not return calls.
Two of the three women on the Dockers’ board — Water Corporation chief Sue Murphy and indigenous affairs campaigner and university professor Colleen Hayward — declined to respond to whether Lyon still had their full support as coach and whether there was a cultural problem at the club when it came to women.
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