Senior Coach Ross Lyon wants to add more unpredictability to St Kilda’s game style in 2023.

The Saints were a ‘control and shape’ team in 2022, ranking in the top two for uncontested marks in the back half and around the ground.

Lyon said he was ready to lead a side that "goes forward quickly” in his return to the coaches’ box.

“You need more than one gear, certainly,” Lyon told SEN’s Sportsday.

“I think the trend now has been to go forward more quickly. The uncontested and control game is disappearing.

“There’s times you need it – either through injury or time of the game or you’re under pressure, but fundamentally that shape and control and uncontested mark game is (disappearing).

“We like to be a go-forward team, use our run, be a pressure team.

“I’ve never coached perfection; we like a bit of chaos and I think it will suit us, so I’m pretty excited about it.”

While helming a new-look coaching panel, Lyon said a lot of responsibility had been handed to assistants Corey Enright, Robert Harvey, Lenny Hayes and Brendon Goddard to shape the game-plan.

“I stuck to my word, I threw the whiteboard to the coaches and said ‘you guys come up with what you think and then we’ll just fine tune it together’,” he said.

“To be honest I thought there might have been an 80-20 – they do 80 per cent - but Corey Enright has been really impressive on the team defence side, Lenny Hayes on stoppages, Robert Harvey on the ball-use.

“I’ve hardly tweaked anything. I really liked what they’ve come up with. We were a stoppage dependent team. We want to improve our turnover use because you can’t live on stoppage.

“I’ve coached teams (reliant on stoppage) and it’s too easy to negate in the big games.”

The Saints wrapped up the first half of their pre-season training on Saturday and will resume on 9 January following the Christmas break.