Roos: Hypocrite

[Shan Xie]

From: http://www.smh.com.au/news/afl/the-players-coach/2005/07/29/1122144022106.html

for those times when he might forget what it is like to be a player, Roos will pull out his list: the 25 points he wrote down at the end of his career. "One of them is to be as positive as you can because players don't go out to make mistakes deliberately," he says. "When you lose three in a row, you pull it out and project yourself back to playing."

So why punish Davis?

Roos does not need the media spotlight. He says he could not coach in Melbourne, where an AFL identity can't walk through a restaurant without being assailed by coat-tuggers. Yet he plays the media like a violin. He tells them nothing in 200 words and everything in two. Then he flashes that "Aw shucks, me?" smile. "It is meant to be fun, isn't it?" he says

So why can't Davis have fun?

And not a quote, but something for the "Roos won us a Premiership" crowd:

Yet Roos not merely tolerates, but encourages, individuality. He does not expect the "alternative" Brett Kirk to be like the stockbroker Jason Ball to be like the German-speaking Andrew Schauble. Yet, because he has allowed them to be themselves, they have come together.

Well, those days are gone. 2006 isn't like 2005. Roos is coaching differently and the rejection of individuality has already cost the Swans a win.

 

[skipper kelly]

Hope Roos gets sacked

 

[timthefish]

... the rejection of individuality has already cost the Swans a win.

and it might pick us up one or two in september.

 

[timthefish]

Hope Roos gets sacked

i don't.

 

[Shan Xie]

Davis in the reserves during the finals would be a master stroke.

 

[ROK of Gibraltar]

Davis in the reserves during the finals would be a master stroke.

Well I don't think we will go back to back in the big league, but we might in Canberra.

 

[Tuco]

Hope Roos gets sacked

Erm. You are joking right?

 

[skipper kelly]

Erm. You are joking right?

Just keeping in line with the thread

 

[skipper kelly]

i don't.

Neither do I tim. It was in jest.

 

[TheBloods]

I hope Roos gets crucifed and his head is delivered to the cheer squad on a platter...

 

[Shan Xie]

Herod/Herodias?!?

 

[timthefish]

Neither do I tim. It was in jest.

i was hoping ...

 

[Informer]

I hope Roos gets crucifed and his head is delivered to the cheer squad on a platter...

Whats happen to you blokes??? Didnt we win a premiership last year and Roosy took us there????

I think a little harsh. Davis I think has got a head the size of Eddie McGuires (probably not that big but close) and Roosy just wanted to bring it down a notch especially as Davis has been down of late.

He is a real talent aqnd the more he gets pushed I think the better player he will be.

 

[TheBloods]

Whats happen to you blokes???

I wonder what happened to you blokes to make you take everything so seriously...

 

[grimlock]

I wonder what happened to you blokes to make you take everything so seriously...

Bit rich coming from the likes of yourself.

 

[TheBloods]

Bit rich coming from the likes of yourself.

You don't think I ever have a bit of fun...? Or you don't think I can tell when people aren't being serious...?

 

[robbieando]

So why punish Davis?

Davis wasn't/isn't being punished for mistakes he made on the field. HUGE difference.

So why can't Davis have fun?

No reason why he can't have fun playing in the two's.

Well, those days are gone. 2006 isn't like 2005. Roos is coaching differently and the rejection of individuality has already cost the Swans a win.

That's a huge "what if". You can't base fact on a "what if"

 

[Shan Xie]

1. Oh, so the players who don't make mistakes deliberately on-field deliberately make mistakes off field? Sure.

2. It's a tiny what if. Mathews was useless last weekend while Davis kicked 6 in the ressies.