St Kilda veteran Bradley Hill has provided his perspective on the "slip-up" comment made at training by coach Ross Lyon that prompted a meeting by Indigenous players.
Lyon conceded he made an error when he discussed the "brother boy connection" during a session in April.
Hill contacted his coach the following day and hashed it out.
"At first I was a little bit flat how it all got out," Hill said on the Young Guns Inside the System podcast.
"We had a catch up and I just wanted to touch base on how we felt about it and just had a conversation with Ross and cleared the air. He learned a little bit from it and it was a little bit of education for him.
"All us boys hugged it out at the end. We've got a lot of respect for Ross, we all love Ross and he's done so much for all us boys.
"He does a lot for the Indigenous boys and if we ever have any issues or anyone's got anything they need to go home for, he understands the family stuff. It was a little bit of a slip up, but we have a lot of respect for Ross."
Lyon moved to clarify his comment regarding his openness to resign at the time of the incident.
"All relationships are built on trust ... so the context of that was, 'If you don't think I can rebuild the trust, I would consider my position'," Lyon said a fortnight ago.
"It wasn't a 'take it' (offer of resignation) ... so that was the nuance to it. I think that's really important."
