St Kilda chief executive Archie Fraser says it is time for the club to move on from the bitter public feud between president Rod Butterss and former coach Grant Thomas.

Butterss last week accused Thomas, who he sacked last year, of attempting to undermine the club.

Thomas responded by saying there appeared to be "a degree of paranoia" from within the club that he did not understand and that Butterss had refused to meet privately with him to discuss the issue.

The pair are also involved in a legal wrangle over a $1 million loan.

Fraser today backed Butterss' right to comment publicly about Thomas, but added that enough had now been said.

"I said through the week those things probably needed to be said," Fraser told Southern Cross radio.

"Moving forward, everybody involved in this stoush is completely and utterly 100 per cent saying that they want the best for the St Kilda Football Club and that's what football clubs are all about.

"Everybody involved wants the right outcome.

"Could it have been done differently? Possibly.

"But I think moving forward we just need to move past what's taken place this week with Grant and Rod and get on and focus on the things we're doing as a football club.

"We still have to run the football club and it's in good shape in a lot of ways."

Meanwhile, Butterss said negotiations to keep star players Nick Riewoldt and Nick Dal Santo at the club beyond this season were progressing well.

"We've had two discussions, formal meetings with (player agent) Ricky Nixon, those discussions have gone along very well, very positively," Fraser said.

"We expect we'll communicate with Ricky again early to mid this week and I don't see any reason why Nick Riewoldt and Nick Dal Santo won't be St Kilda players for a long time."

AAP