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Paul Roos Steps Away from Fox Footy

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Demonland   74,163

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Massive news and massive loss for Fox Footy.

AFL Hall of Famer Paul Roos will step away from his full-time role at Fox Footy and its iconic program On The Couch as he looks to expand his business and travel interests this year.

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33 minutes ago, Bring-Back-Powell said:

Talk of Nick Reiwoldt taking his position in "On the Couch".

They need an ex coach who hasn't checked out to take the position if they are serious...can't be just an ex players view as they don't have the whole picture.

Wallace would be my first choice but I think he's headed towards retirement.

Please not Nick...

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14 minutes ago, rjay said:

They need an ex coach who hasn't checked out to take the position if they are serious...can't be just an ex players view as they don't have the whole picture.

Wallace would be my first choice but I think he's headed towards retirement.

Please not Nick...

Oh, Simon will be up for the gig by early April then.....

 

 

 

:roos::goody:

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To be perfectly honest i don't think roos leaving is much loss. i rarely found his comments interesting or particularly insightful. And he often had biases that he struggled to hide.

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Roos offered so little OTC he made Brown and Lyon sound interesting. Sadly nothing could save Healy.

At some stage to get paid to talk about football you should probably offer more than defend, defend harder and have good culture. 

 

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2 minutes ago, rjay said:

That's the one they should get.

Lyon, Ross

Announced today he's joining a Wednesday night footy classified with Eddie. 

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Biffen Legend

Biffen   12,949

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Donvales greatest son.

Doesn't say much for Donvale.

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nosoupforme   3,085

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Paul Roos  insight on our game is second to none and is  hard  to replace  someone of his caliber. He is the thought before the talk. 

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, DeeSpencer said:

Announced today he's joining a Wednesday night footy classified with Eddie. 

Just noticed you wrote Eddie, I thought it was Eade when I read it before.

I guess that was wishful thinking, it would have made interesting viewing.

Dumb down Eddie, not so interesting...in fact not interesting at all.

 

 

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9 hours ago, rjay said:

That's the one they should get.

Lyon, Ross

Yeah, don't know about that one.

I'm sure he'd offer some great insights, but think he'd put me to sleep with his monotone slow drawl going of the clipits of his press conferences that I recall, although he does also have that bit of a tendency to err on the whacky side of the ledger at times too, so could work.

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Eade would be a good one.

For entertainment value only I’d give Grant Thomas or Malthouse a go, but then you might as well go the whole hog and drag in Ricky Nixon.

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On 1/30/2020 at 9:16 AM, Mach5 said:

Eade would be a good one.

For entertainment value only I’d give Grant Thomas or Malthouse a go, but then you might as well go the whole hog and drag in Ricky Nixon.

........and the schoolgirl...

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On 1/30/2020 at 9:16 AM, Mach5 said:

Eade would be a good one.

For entertainment value only I’d give Grant Thomas or Malthouse a go, but then you might as well go the whole hog and drag in Ricky Nixon.

Congatulations on the layers of meaning in the bolded phrase. Pig allusion, Ru Paul possibilities and RN dragged through the muck

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On 1/29/2020 at 2:13 PM, DeeSpencer said:

Roos offered so little OTC he made Brown and Lyon sound interesting. Sadly nothing could save Healy.

At some stage to get paid to talk about football you should probably offer more than defend, defend harder and have good culture. 

 

Roos will be judged on his coaching successes rather than his  TV conversations......If the networks want to pay him for his opinion, then good luck to him.

Still remains as one of the most revered coaches of the modern era & his contribution to the MFC was significant.

 

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In other important news, my skid marks are a darker shade of brown during the heatwave. 

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It's a bit of a loss, definitely gave a good side to a discussion, would like to see another ex coach in there. I'd suggest Ross Lyon but I'd also assume watching paint dry would be a more pleasurable experience.

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6 hours ago, Biffen said:

In other important news, my skid marks are a darker shade of brown during the heatwave. 

have you tried a good flocculator, biffo?. Bunnings has a good one, even uncle bitters is impressed. by its effectiveness and that's saying something considering the regular state of his under garments

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