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Beg to differ as a breeder, his work with the pies was second to none

I don't like Roos' quick-fix mentality, pure and simple.

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..i don't like the fact that they're gonna pick the successor [or even the candidates] right from the get go.. ..Dee's need a lot of work, on and off field,, i would think everyone needs time in the gig, before organising the successor.. ..i think the idea is good, wanting to implement things right away a bit too early..

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Ross Lyon was a very experienced assistant coach before joining Roos at the Swans:

1996 - 1999 Assistant Coach at Richmond
2000 - 2003 Assistant Coach at Carlton


I would suggest that Lyon had more to do with making Roos as a coach than the other way around.

Yes, he would've learnt a lot from Richmond in the late 90s and Carlton in the early 2000s.

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He would have just sat in the stands and listened to his walkman in those years?

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This mentality is flawed unless you have a great system, list management and culture. If you do, then you have a huge advantage over the competition. Mid-level picks for the likes of J Kennedy, Mumford, McGlynn etc is an exceptional outcome. Plug and play rather than waiting 3 years to see if a kid can cut it, and keep first rounders for elite young talent is a big win.

He was an assistant to Walls at Richmond and Parkin at Carlton, i would suggest he would have learnt plenty from those two.

Roos's thinking at it's worst goes beyond a middling pick for the likes of Kennedy every now and then. At any rate, they obviously did their homework on that player and pretty much realised he could play as a starting midfielder if given the opportunity.

The Jury is still out whether Sydney have the balance right and Victorian clubs are not in a position to emulate Sydney's culture. Who is to say Roos would adjust his outlook to suit each club and different circumstances? You would have to treat everything as a 'case by case' scenario and not simply say 'we want to trade our second round pick for a player'. There is also a lot of difference between a wooden spooner's second round draft pick and a premiership sides one. I think the evidence suggests that Roos is of the old school, even if a superior example of that.

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Can you take an ordinary player, and make him excellent? Can you identify a particular role for a player that hasn't yet found a niche? If you can do those things, you can do what the Swans did.

Melbourne went for experience last year and it was a disaster, unsurprisingly. If Roos tried it next year it would probably have middling success. After years of building a club to a high level of competence, it can work brilliantly. Helps if you have an extra 10% in the cap though...

There is a theory that because Sydney was the only NSW club in a state dominated by rugby, the players are under less pressure. I'm not sure how true that might be, I haven't looked into it, but it's a possibility. As an outsider, I'm not convinced about the Sydney model suffice to say that the Kennedy example is the only one I'm really familiar with (given he has the same name as a former Blue) and you'd have to give them a tick there.

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