Is the ladder Lyon? Why St Kilda Saints might take the fifth

Saints coach Ross Lyon could see the humour in the assumption that the Saints were tumbling down the ladder like they had landed on a snake in the board game, telling Fox Footy after defeating North Melbourne: “You hear the narrative and then I click on [to look at the ladder] and think ‘oh, we are sixth, how does that happen?’,” Lyon said. “Everyone tells me the ladder doesn’t lie. Does it lie?”

The Bulldogs claimed fifth after round 18, just ahead of St Kilda, but this mob…