Keka slams Roos

[giantroo]

“I ended up abusing Paul Roos. I understand what he is trying to do but if he wants to oversee that crap, why not buy a chess board where he and Ross Lyon can bore each other to death?"

http://www.foxsports.com.au/afl/afl...hday-blockbuster/story-e6frf39c-1226949749620

NORTH Melbourne Team of the Century member Sam Kekovich has called on the AFL Commission to ensure games like Collingwood and Melbourne on Queen’s Birthday are never seen again.

Kekovich, 64, was incensed when watching Monday’s MCG clash that resulted in a total of just 11 goals, claiming the AFL is allowing “our great game to be prostituted”.

“You watch that and you wonder how long our product can stand up, how long spectators will continue to go to games? No wonder crowds are down,” said Kekovich, who played 124 games with North Melbourne between 1968-76.

“If the AFL Commission is truly committed to being the custodians of our game that they claim to be then they will address it immediately. Do they truly believe our game will endure those type of spectacles?

“AFL football was one of the last areas in this country where young people could express themselves with freedom in the knowledge they would be feted for taking a risk. Now they sh.t themselves, fearful of how their coach will react if they don’t kick the ball sideways or backwards.

“I ended up abusing (Melbourne coach) Paul Roos. I understand what he is trying to do but if he wants to oversee that crap, why not buy a chess board where he and Ross Lyon can bore each other to death?.

“They say they have a responsibility to win games. I say they have a responsibility to win games and entertain at the same time. What is happening now is foreign to the very essence of what our game was built upon.

“I know I’ll be passed off as just another ex-player who doesn’t understand modern football. Well I’m part of an ever-growing group because the rumblings are deafening if the Commission bothers to listen.”

Kekovich, an explosive player known for his matchwinning abilities and entertainment value, also took aim at the umpiring standards which he believes have slipped alarmingly.

“Have they heard of blowing the whistle when a pack forms, instead of allowing it to fester until it morphs into an orgy of bodies? Carlton has lost two games of late because of poor umpiring.

“That can cost people their jobs and isn’t acceptable. But we will see it again this weekend, the inconsistencies, the crooked bounces.

“I love our game and I love watching someone like Tom Hawkins go one-on-one as he did last Friday night. That’s what the game is about, not what was served up by Melbourne at the MCG.”,

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

I was hoping that's the case.

 

[Harris 10]

Every word is spot on, I'm sick of sides winning by kicking under 100 points a game. The amount of footy I watch now is about half of what i did in years gone by, outside of North games i can take it or leave it.

Its not just game style, its a combination of things eg: price ($60 to watch us play in Geelong), umpiring(incorrect disposal kills me), rule changes (hands in the back/sliding), scheduling (terrible timeslots), MRP(lost the plot).

The AFL has a lot of work to do to get fans back on side.

 

[Only Forwards]

Roos and Lyon play football to make your eyes bleed.

I don't get the veneration of Paul Roos.

"I will make Melbourne more defensive."

F*** me I could do what he has done. lets put 18 blokes behind the footy and clog up all the space, turn it into a scrum and grind every game so that we never get blown off the park.

 

[TooUglyForFugly]

And still lose more games than he wins ...

 

[CharlieMortdecai]

We've got to start using Mr Roos's given name in thread titles.

 

[King Corey]

We've got to start using Mr Roos's given name in thread titles.

Or an alias.

May I suggest "AFL funded self-absorbed ****wit"?

 

[Lavy_Panther]

Paul Roos is a blight on the game.

And not the type of blight that kicks goals from 95m.

 

[King Corey]

Paul Roos is a blight on the game.

And not the type of blight that kicks goals from 95m.

Show some respect. He invented club culture.

 

[Higgins2Waite]

But but but the media tells me he's the greatest Coach to have ever lived!!!

 

[ShinbonerBaz]

Whew, sig. can remain intact

 

[naturally north]

I jusy wanna punch Paul Roos, I have for years.

 

[Event Horizon]

Have you read their new President, who only started supporting them in 2008 when he moved to Melbourne, talking about them become like NY Yankees - the biggest show in town. He clearly doesn't know anything about his own club and the AFL landscape in this city, if he can even dream of this.

 

[GeordieRoo]

Have you read their new President, who only started supporting them in 2008 when he moved to Melbourne, talking about them become like NY Yankees - the biggest show in town. He clearly doesn't know anything about his own club and the AFL landscape in this city, if he can even dream of this.

I did hear this and it just seemed so Melbourne to me.

The misguided arrogance and swagger is returning.

 

[shinboner magic]

I jusy wanna punch Paul Roos, I have for years.

Just watch the '96 GF and that will help- seeing him getting handed a lesson in the big dance.

Keka is a legend and is spot on.
Will the AFL step in and save our game from the Boring Boys (Roos/Lyon)

 

[gokangas]

Keka slams Roos - either interpretation wouldn't have surprised me.

 

[Kimbo]

I did hear this and it just seemed so Melbourne to me.

The misguided arrogance and swagger is returning.

Justified though. They've been losing by far less this year. :stern look Percentage is up from 54.7% to 76.5%.

 

[JD-Roo]

How about he gets nicknamed Scrum after his favourite style of play?

 

[koshari]

Paul Roos is a blight on the game.

I hear he dont eat lamb as well keka.