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Coming by round 5 - the Roos blueprint


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Say red and blue print 10 times quick enough and it sounds like Roos-print.

It will be nice to see a team playing together in a simple and unified plan. But winning would be nice as well.

That may well be the understatement of 2014 so far tm.

I dream about it.

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Say red and blue print 10 times quick enough and it sounds like Roos-print.

It will be nice to see a team playing together in a simple and unified plan. But winning would be nice as well.

The red and blueprint had winning at its ultimate end as well. Sadly, we fell down badly on the footy side but the cynics are having their day anyway.

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How nice will it be to know a game plan by round 5, usually we know there is no game plan after 5 minutes in round 1

We all knew by round one 2012 what Neeld's game plan was. Kick long around the boundary, bomb it into the fifty upon which Mitch Clark would mark it or crash the pack and allow a crumber to get the spoils.

Problem was... It was a horrible game plan that was picked to pieces by Brisbane within 3 quarters.

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We all knew by round one 2012 what Neeld's game plan was. Kick long around the boundary, bomb it into the fifty upon which Mitch Clark would mark it or crash the pack and allow a crumber to get the spoils.

Problem was... It was a horrible game plan that was picked to pieces by Brisbane within 3 quarters.

It is also a good idea to have the players capable of implementing your plan.

I doubt the players available in 2012 /3 were capable of implementing any plan against an AFL standard team.

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it has to be by Rnd 5.

Round 6 Saturday, April 26
MELB v SYD
Melbourne Sydney Swans
MCG 7:40pm Host TV Network: SEVEN

if we could dare to dream that we go into that match 3-4 wins out of 5 and some hype around us, that will be a very rare instance of us being on 'the big stage'.. saturday night at the G, Roos' new salvage project vs his old mob... many people tuning in.. ahh daring to dream.. it's dangerous

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if we could dare to dream that we go into that match 3-4 wins out of 5 and some hype around us, that will be a very rare instance of us being on 'the big stage'.. saturday night at the G, Roos' new salvage project vs his old mob... many people tuning in.. ahh daring to dream.. it's dangerous

Dreaming sure is dangerous C and B but what do we have left.

I am dreaming !

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if we could dare to dream that we go into that match 3-4 wins out of 5 and some hype around us, that will be a very rare instance of us being on 'the big stage'.. saturday night at the G, Roos' new salvage project vs his old mob... many people tuning in.. ahh daring to dream.. it's dangerous

nothin like gelding the Lilly, ah, horse.

when we're finished with 'em, we can gild the lilly.... ours

^_^

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I'm setting myself up for a slow first half of the year with 2 or 3 wins followed by progressive improvement, some close losses and 4 to 5 good wins in the second half.

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didnt Barassi have a round 5 plan ? or was it a 5 year plan? :)

I just discussed this with someone yesterday. He was the last great coach to come in to the Club before Roos and set about rebuilding the Club from its basic roots all the way through. It didn't take the 5 yrs he planned, it took 7 to get to the finals and 8 to a GF. But it was the list he built from U19's up. Roosy already has a much better list to work with.

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I just discussed this with someone yesterday. He was the last great coach to come in to the Club before Roos and set about rebuilding the Club from its basic roots all the way through. It didn't take the 5 yrs he planned, it took 7 to get to the finals and 8 to a GF. But it was the list he built from U19's up. Roosy already has a much better list to work with.

At this point we don't know that, we will get a better idea by the end of tonight.

Please don't forget how poor we were the last two years.

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I just discussed this with someone yesterday. He was the last great coach to come in to the Club before Roos and set about rebuilding the Club from its basic roots all the way through. It didn't take the 5 yrs he planned, it took 7 to get to the finals and 8 to a GF. But it was the list he built from U19's up. Roosy already has a much better list to work with.

exactly.

It was so tough to fix, he burnt some bridges trying to force change. the MCC refused to give us other rooms for a decent Gymnasium, & for social areas.

many players ended up playing inspite, but others were right behind him.

..... he stepped down to let the team flourish. to allow the passion to fire backup, & confidence to return

Ron ended up going to right the Swans boat, & set them up off-field as well. he may have recruited Roos to them? Ron resurrected the Swans & made them Professional as well.

Roos may now be trying to return that favour.

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