Changes

[On-Baller]

I've been wondering about this, it seemed add as one of his kids was due to do the HSC next year wasn't he?

And then when Roosy was "On the couch" I got the feeling something wasn't quite right betwwen him and the Swans: According to Gerard Healy in an 'Hun live chat today:

1:16 Comment From Scott
Gerard re your discussion with Roosy 'On the Couch' was there an inference there were problems at the Swans with Roosy?

1:17 Gerard Healy:
Mike raised an issue about Roosy and the academy, as in maybe they're looking at reevaluating how much money they spend on the academy. (That's my inference) I don't know the details of that, Roosy wasn't expansive on the show or after. The only problem Paul Roos has with the Swans is whether his statue out the front is going to be made of bronze, silver or gold!

I wonder if the Scott asking the question was "our" Scott?

Yeah alarm bells rang when i saw Roosy saying that,apparently he will tell all if he takes a coaching position,so sounds like he doesnt want to burn bridges until he absolutely has too. George Stone would be the biggest loss of those mentioned i think. Have heard Tadgh Kennelly mentioned as someone else who could join Roos at Melbourne.

[wearebloods]

Apparently the Swans have signed up Nathan Bassett (former Crow player, current Norwood coach) to replace Tudor.

Has a good rep for match day tactics & turning spuds into gold.

Turned down the Hawks last year.

Sounds like a worthy replacement.

[Ruck'n'Roll]

Apparently Ricky Barham will be his recruiter, thank goodness he's leaving us Kinnear

[Auntie.Gerald]

GUY McKenna has lifted the lid on former boss Mick Malthouse's master plan to attack Sydney's "Bloods" culture that has led to an era of Collingwood dominance over the Swans.


The Suns coach, who was an assistant to Malthouse when the run of 11 consecutive victories over the Swans began, said the master coach studied what made the Swans strong and turned it against them.

Under former coach Paul Roos, players like now-retired skippers Stuart Maxfield and Brett Kirk and current veterans Jude Bolton and Adam Goodes moulded a Swans team which became far more than the sum of its parts because every man stuck to his role.

"It was their instincts, that 'Bloods' culture was all about playing your role, no matter what," McKenna said.

"They wouldn't deviate from that, so that's where we attacked them."

Sydney were the reigning premiers when the streak began in 2006, the Magpies had finished the previous season in 15th, and Malthouse knew the Swans' frontliners were at the top of their game.

So he concocted a plan to take them away from the action.

Malthouse wanted his best midfielders - Nathan Buckley, Scott Burns and Paul Licuria - to drag Sydney's hard-bodied onballers Brett Kirk, Luke Ablett and Jude Bolton away from the stoppages where Sydney liked the game to be played.

His midfielders would line up in the centre, but a few minutes into the game he would start throwing his players around.

He knew the Swans would follow their man so he tried to take that match up to a part of the ground where it could become a win for the Pies.

His plan was to back his second tier, the likes of Brodie Holland and a young Dane Swan and Scott Pendlebury, to win the midfield battle against Sydney's second tier.

McKenna, who worked with Kirk at the Suns this year, said he had often told the former Swans skipper that Collingwood had attacked the Bloods' culture.

"We would pull their midfield apart just by playing guys out of position. If Kirk went to Burns, we'd send him to half back," he said.

"It might have been against Kirk's instincts as a footballer to follow him, but he knew it was what he should do as a Blood.

"He was a stoppage player and he'd be torn between getting back to there and staying with Burns, in the end it would get to the stage that Kirk would be stuck between Burns and the stoppage."

McKenna said Roos was such an astute coach that he would pick up on the tactic during the game and make changes that would bring the Swans storming back into the contest, which is why the games were always so close.

But sure enough, next time they played each other Sydney would fall into the trap again.

"Their great strength because of their massive predictability became their great weakness," McKenna said.

[Zlatorog]

This is very interesting. It talks heaps about coaches and how they can be out-coached by the opposition.