Sydney have had a great culture no doubt and I like the tough football they play. They have had a COLA that has allowed to have Buddy & Tippett on their list and academies that produced Heeney. (I know there was talk of the COLA disappearing, not sure if it has happened or not.) I'm sure we could get stewie maxfield back and get some bloods-type spirit injected into our playing group but you're not going to have the Buddy/Tippett icing.They should have won it in 2014 with Buddy, but everything went wrong on Grand Final day. Last year and (13 from memory too) they were killed by injuries, last year they lost Jack, Parker and Buddy heading into finals off the top of my head.
But what I love about them is the way they find and make hard footballers, Hannebery, Parker, Kennedy, Jack and Jones. Add in a bit of luck with 3 more hard tough guys in Mitchell, Heeney and Mills. But you can see the system works to produce these types and they value hard and tough mids with big bash and crash Ruckmen.
Roo's has brought the same philosophy to Melbourne, with some hand outs from the AFL, and got Oliver, Viney, Petracca, Tyson, Vince, Hogan and Brayshaw. Add in the Gawn as a huge bash and crash ruckmen and they have quickly gone past us.
On the other hand we have Dimma who has turned our best inside mid Dusty into an outside mid, Vlastuin into a half back flanker, ignored tuck for half a season in 2011, ignore Miles for half a season, continually given inside mid roles to average players like Thomas, Petterd, Grigg, Lonergan etc... Not to mention Dimma's aversion to Ruckman. Yes we got Maric which was great but our lack of a developing ruck 100% stems from Dimma's attitude towards them.
TL;DR
Sydney have a great philosophy for building a club, Dimma doesn't.
So I hate Roos but respect his coaching style, I wouldn't be against Stewie Dew except for the Port Adelaide baggage.