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  • voodooguru
    Self-lubricating
    • Apr 2007
    • 421

    Roos Smiling?

    Won't get to see the game on BigPon until tommorow. On SEN, Dhuddo said there was footage of Roos smiling, there towards the end of the game? Is that right?

    With Barry just back and Mal, Leo, Micky O, Amon, Kickfair and, effectively, Goodes out; if 3 or 4 of the points we kicked tonight were goals, maybe we're all smiling. I mean, if just 2 of the posters snake through and Adelaide starts looking over their shoulders and the supporters get into it? Maybe we're all smiling.

    With The Big O out to begin with, we lose Henry and, effectively, Goodsey - yet if we'd kicked 2 goals in a row at any point in the second half, only the Shadow really knows what that would have meant to the ebb and flow. Moore, Grundy, Bird, Jack and MO played another senior game.

    Thanks to the ineptitudes of those teams behind us on the ladder, undeservedly, we're Top 4. Amon will be back but you'd expect him to lack match fitness. If theres more to Mal's maladies than Roosy is letting on, I'll be disappointed in him for the first time. That'd be more than, say, Collingwood's supporters could say.

    To get Hall back and lose Goodes is more damaging than getting Hall back and losing The O. To lose them both and Henry but still have the game against the Crowbots, to an extent, on our own boots was encouraging.

    Worst(ish) case scenario begins with Goodes coming back diminished after missing 2 or 3. Goodes missing the rest of the season is the worst case.Micky O and Mal miss next week as well. No (itmo, improving) Henry available next week and beyond.

    If we haven't got a settled, healed lineup by Round 20 the worst thing that could happen, in this manboob's opinion, is that we scrape into the Finals and expose 7 or 8 of our young players to postseason football.

    The best case scenario would have seen the boys kick (just) a few more goals tonight. A 10 point break on the pack would be a lot "healthier" than a 6point break.

    OT, after the game he had last week and the improvement hes shown over the year, it's a bit harsh to call the guy McHack. In this manboob's opinion, he'd be under consideration for Most Improved at the club and in the competition. Needs to play well in 3 of the 5 games remaining, which may be a challenge given the players we have out or hobbled. In any case, I don't think it's beyond him, and I certainly expect him to be stronger and more consistent player next year.
    Last edited by voodooguru; 27 July 2008, 12:42 AM.
    I was wrong about Gerard and his hair.

  • Swansinger
    Senior Player
    • Mar 2003
    • 1099

    #2
    Why shouldn't he smile ?
    What they did last night had me in hysterics.

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    • sprite
      Regular in the Side
      • Jan 2003
      • 813

      #3
      Perhaps he was thinking "Oh crap - RWO will be in melt down about Benny, why oh why did I not listen to them this week when selecting the side?"
      sprite

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      • Rob-bloods
        What a year 2005 SSFC/CFC
        • Aug 2003
        • 931

        #4
        Originally posted by sprite
        Perhaps he was thinking "Oh crap - RWO will be in melt down about Benny, why oh why did I not listen to them this week when selecting the side?"
        perhaps he was bemoaning a lack of top draft picks, considering the recent cold weather......thinking Gold Coast Sun, hundreds of draft picks, alternative medicine and meditation at the foot of Mt Tambourine....is Tammi from california?
        Sports do not build character. They reveal it....Heywood Broun

        I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures......Earl Warren

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        • goswannie14
          Leadership Group
          • Sep 2005
          • 11166

          #5
          Perhaps he was thinking what we all know and he has said before, "There is more to life than football."

          "Thank goodness", would be my addendum after last night.
          Does God believe in Atheists?

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          • Nico
            Veterans List
            • Jan 2003
            • 11336

            #6
            I reckon that was a wry smile when someone made yet another stupid mistake. I think to Roos, that essentially summed up the night.
            http://www.nostalgiamusic.co.uk/secu...res/srh806.jpg

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            • ROK Lobster
              RWO Life Member
              • Aug 2004
              • 8658

              #7
              Maybe he's just smug.

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              • voodooguru
                Self-lubricating
                • Apr 2007
                • 421

                #8
                At the start of this thread I mistakenly called Mark "Catch" Doran, "Dhuddo", or Anthony "Ants Huddo" Hudson. They both leave me cold but Catch is no Dhuddo.
                I was wrong about Gerard and his hair.

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                • voodooguru
                  Self-lubricating
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 421

                  #9
                  Originally posted by sprite
                  Perhaps he was thinking "Oh crap - RWO will be in melt down about Benny, why oh why did I not listen to them this week when selecting the side?"
                  "Wait until I bring Crouchy back."
                  I was wrong about Gerard and his hair.

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                  • JF_Bay22_SCG
                    expat Sydneysider
                    • Jan 2003
                    • 3978

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Swansinger
                    Why shouldn't he smile ?
                    What they did last night had me in hysterics.
                    When you hit the post like what was it, 6 times, I think you can ruefully chuckle about it not being your night.

                    What I cannot excuse with Roos is the fact that he appears to have NO plan B when playing well coached teams who go the flood and strangle both our handball based build-up out of defence as well as our ball into the forward line. Just telling players to bomb it willy nilly to beat the flood is just unacceptable to be honest.

                    The fact that ordinary teams without decent forward lines were able to keep us to 1 & 4 goal 1st halves is proof that we are very much one trick ponies & are way too reliant on Goodes Malceski & Tagdh to get the ball out of defence .

                    JF
                    "Never ever ever state that Sydney is gone.They are like cockroaches in the aftermath of a nuclear war"
                    (Forum poster 'Change', Big Footy 04Apr09)

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                    • TheMase
                      Senior Player
                      • Jan 2003
                      • 1207

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Nico
                      I reckon that was a wry smile when someone made yet another stupid mistake. I think to Roos, that essentially summed up the night.
                      Thats what I thought too.

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                      • voodooguru
                        Self-lubricating
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 421

                        #12
                        I think our big problem was having Henry go down, with The Big O o-u-t. No Mal, Amon, Leo, O, Kickfair or Goodes. With 1 and 3/4s players missing from our rotation, if we'd only kicked two consecutive goals at some reasonable point in the second half Roos' rueful grin might have been coming from the other side of his face.

                        Hopefully the goal kicking will get better 'cause we have a lot of players, seniors and seconds, out or lacking match fitness. Micky and Mal back for the Scray Dogs would be nice, but probably not the tipping point.

                        Hope we can beat Freo.
                        I was wrong about Gerard and his hair.

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                        • robamiee
                          Regular in the Side
                          • Sep 2005
                          • 688

                          #13
                          I think when he smiled and i maybe mistaken was when the umpire awarded a ridiculous free kick..
                          as i said i maybe be mistaken, but i am pretty sure they panned to him after it.

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                          • AnnieH
                            RWOs Black Sheep
                            • Aug 2006
                            • 11332

                            #14
                            If you don't laugh, you'll cry.
                            Wild speculation, unsubstantiated rumours, silly jokes and opposition delight in another's failures is what makes an internet forum fun.
                            Blessed are the cracked for they are the ones who let in the light.

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