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Premiership coach Paul Roos has been questioned after making some strong comments about AFL struggler North Melbourne. Roos has called the Kangaroos’ winless start to the year “pathetic”, but that has ruffled the feathers of fans and at least one club great. The former coach and champion player is famous for taking the Sydney Swans to a drought-breaking flag in 2005, and he was also hailed for a brilliant succession plan where he handed the reins to the Swans’ current coach John Longmire.
is a four-time premiership coach, he’s done way better than me at coaching, but I look at their team and they had way more talent than Melbourne did when we first started. “I really don’t know what Clarko is doing because I’m not there, but 0-8 is pathetic. That is pathetic for the North Melbourne Football Club. “My second year at Melbourne, we won seven games with a far less talented team than what North Melbourne has.
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