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Sauce Part of what he says is true. Part of it confused. I thought Roos put Goodes in the ruck, from where he won his first Brownlow? Didin't Eade move Leo into the backline? Did Richards play finals football in 2005? This is the man that claimed, during the Davis saga last season, that he was all but part of Roos' match day team.
The piece is a lame attempt to laud the greatness of Roos in a cruel season. Injuries have played a part this season, but the little football I have seen has been very ordinary, from players that are apparently fit as well as the lame and feeble. We are very slow and not applying pressure like before. We have not been able to pressure sides down to our skill level. Hall's absence has been huge, as has the lack of Kennelly - though an absence of midfield pressure has made it hard for all of the backs and I am not sure Tadhg would have had much of an opportunity to have a great year anyway.
The hype of the Blooods code and leadership group has evaporated. Form the outside looking in it seems that the hunger of the leadership group has passed, and that it stifles enthusiasm throughout the rest. The club seems to have no heart at the moment, no drive. It is a model of complacency. We do not have a list that can play with any complacency.
The Jolly situation seems symptomatic of the current club culture - been there, done that, time to get other things sorted out. While the "there's more important things that football" approach might reflect a cool, calm, balanced culture, it does not win premierships. There is no way that comment would have ever been uttered if Davis' final snap hit the post at the SCG in September 05, or if Leo had have spilled that mark and one of Judd, Cousins, Kerr etc had have collected the crumbs and put it through. Kirk said "this one's for the Bloods". Pity that there was not one for the fans (I still think that a lack of urgency lost the GF last year, that it was not until the Swans thought they could not win that it occurred to them that they might not win and switched themselves on).
Hinds is right, Roos has an enormous challenge ahead of him. It will be very interesting to see what approach is taken at the end of the season (and I suppose it depends a lot on how we go into September - I have not written us off yet but I do think that it seems very unlikely that anything will come of 07). Will Roos look to rebuild, for the benefit of his successor and the club, or will he have another tilt with the same "core" group of (increasingly) senior players. If so it will be a measure of his genius if he can devise a game plan to win a GF from outside the top eight.
The piece is a lame attempt to laud the greatness of Roos in a cruel season. Injuries have played a part this season, but the little football I have seen has been very ordinary, from players that are apparently fit as well as the lame and feeble. We are very slow and not applying pressure like before. We have not been able to pressure sides down to our skill level. Hall's absence has been huge, as has the lack of Kennelly - though an absence of midfield pressure has made it hard for all of the backs and I am not sure Tadhg would have had much of an opportunity to have a great year anyway.
The hype of the Blooods code and leadership group has evaporated. Form the outside looking in it seems that the hunger of the leadership group has passed, and that it stifles enthusiasm throughout the rest. The club seems to have no heart at the moment, no drive. It is a model of complacency. We do not have a list that can play with any complacency.
The Jolly situation seems symptomatic of the current club culture - been there, done that, time to get other things sorted out. While the "there's more important things that football" approach might reflect a cool, calm, balanced culture, it does not win premierships. There is no way that comment would have ever been uttered if Davis' final snap hit the post at the SCG in September 05, or if Leo had have spilled that mark and one of Judd, Cousins, Kerr etc had have collected the crumbs and put it through. Kirk said "this one's for the Bloods". Pity that there was not one for the fans (I still think that a lack of urgency lost the GF last year, that it was not until the Swans thought they could not win that it occurred to them that they might not win and switched themselves on).
Hinds is right, Roos has an enormous challenge ahead of him. It will be very interesting to see what approach is taken at the end of the season (and I suppose it depends a lot on how we go into September - I have not written us off yet but I do think that it seems very unlikely that anything will come of 07). Will Roos look to rebuild, for the benefit of his successor and the club, or will he have another tilt with the same "core" group of (increasingly) senior players. If so it will be a measure of his genius if he can devise a game plan to win a GF from outside the top eight.
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