Roos: "Boys... I'm lost for words.  I've held aloft premiership cups, I've had the glory of building coaches and players and..."

Hogan (to Viney): "Here we go."

Viney: Shhh!  I need to concentrate on every word he says so it makes sense in my head.

Roos (getting teary): ... I've...I've travelled the States, seen the beauty of the Hawaiian coasts...

Pederson (standing in the back in a  suit): I hope I get a mention in this speech.

Roos (climbing onto a cross Simon Goodwin rolls in with Nathan Jones)... But today... Today I discovered what it is to truly be the messiah of a football club.

Watts (to Harmes): I can't look...

Harmes: F&@$ing private schoolboys...

Roos (now assuming the J-pose): Today... Watching my proud boys, who have come so far and have earned the respect of David King and Fox Footy, take that oh-so-Melbourne one step forward, two-steps back...

Gawn: Someone get this guy on a plane to Honalulu, stat.

Roos (looking to the heavens): ...roller coaster, it's time to finally say farewell and goodnight.  And remember... AAAAAlways look oooon the briiiight side of life... Do do... Do do do do do do...

To be continued?

Dare I say, you nailed it.

 

 

Edited August 27, 20169 yr by The Song Formerly Known As

[Scene: the roof of the members grandstand at Kardinia Park. It is night, and raining. The battered and bloody MFC playing group lie in various poses of distress and fear. Roos, naked except for a pair of bike shorts, approaches them and sits down cross legged.]

Roos: Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a Melbourne player.

[The Melbourne Football Club sits trembling waiting to be excoriated]

Roos: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Ruck-rovers on fire on the wing at Victoria Park. I watched full-forwards glitter in the darkness at the old Adelaide oval. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain ... Time ... to retire.

[Roos flies away on a magic surfboard]

Melbourne players: I don't know why he saved our lives. Maybe in those last moments he loved football more than he ever had before. Not just his football, anybody's football, my football. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? Is Grimes in our best 22? All I could do was sit there and watch him  retire.

Poetry, Ted

He looked like a very tired man. Melbourne will do that to you. 

Amazing Ted.

1 minute ago, Mr Steve said:

He looked like a very tired man. Melbourne will do that to you. 

Or worse

He only mentioned the Swans 658 times in his final post game speech for the MFC, amazing, there was a period there where people seriously doubted he could get it under 1000, he's come a long way, much like the club.