Paul Roos
Paul Roos
Former center half back who was a seven-time All-Australian team selection during his career with Fitzeroy and Sydney. In 2005, he became a member of the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2005.
ProfessionRugby Player
Date of Birth27 June 1963
bit change coming cover game ground hard kicking means mistake plan stands
What it means is you have to cover a bit more ground with your kicking and the ones that make a mistake coming to the (small) SCG try to change their game plan. It is very hard to change your game plan in a week. We think we've got a game plan that stands up on all grounds.
crack opposition respect
We respect them as an opposition and they are going to have a real crack and so we need to as well.
finals
We are still in the finals so we are still a chance.
today work
Today that didn't happen, we've got to work out why?
believe changed evidence game makers rule suggest umpires
There hasn't been any evidence to suggest the umpires believe the game should be changed the way the rule makers think it should be.
bit
There may be a little bit of interest, but I don't think it will be too great.
chance ground prepare saturday sure work
There's a lot of work still to go on the ground and you want to make sure that they've got a chance to prepare it for Saturday night.
bit fellow game good heard japanese players running senior worried
It's interesting, I haven't heard a lot about the Japanese fellow but it's good for the game that he can actually get a game, I'm a bit more worried about the other 24 senior players he's got running around.
ability couple last steady
It was probably a couple of turnovers contributing to Carlton getting back into the game, but our ability to steady like we have done over the last couple of years got us over the line.
enthusiasm genuine hope opening team week
I hope that we come out this week and play with that genuine enthusiasm and play for the team and if we do that we are going to be a lot more competitive that we have been in the opening two weeks.
case fans final game grand last particular rules stick three umpires
I look at the grand final last year: the three umpires that umpired that game were outstanding. I think on that particular day, it was a case of, 'we know what the rules are, we know what the fans want to see, we know how we want to umpire it, let's just stick to those three principles'.
affect clearly prefer question reason run saturday train venue
Clearly we would prefer to train here, there is no question about that. That is the reason we have the sessions booked. You like to train on the venue you will play at and have a run around, but it won't affect how we play on Saturday night.